In NOTORIOUS, Alfred Hitchcock executed one of the most ambitious shots in his filmography. Watch a play-by-play analysis of these thirty-plus seconds of virtuosic filmmaking 🔑

On this: there will be no "winning the AGI race" - it's just another tech wave. And OpenAI has a monopoly share of the industry and is poised to be the Google of the 2020s. WorldCoin is in a personal union with OpenAI, and thus for retail traders will represent exposure to

Breaking down the Crop Duster Scene. All 134 individual shots in Hitchcock's 1959 thriller.

embarrassing immigrant parents: Bimbo Ubermensch wrote a good piece on what it's like to introduce your PMC boyfriend to the family in a dark but relatable piece. Maybe you might discuss it on Red Scare? It's good. I promise. Anna Khachiyan dasha bimboubermensch.substack.com/p/why-i-want-t…

Speaking of movies. In The Last Samurai - Tom Cruise should have stayed with the hot Japanese woman who got him off booze, and then spent his life farming, stick fighting and laying pipe on that sweet thing. No need to charge American guns when you’ve got that in the forest.

Great news for 30-year-olds who live with three other underemployed male roommates and watched the The Super Mario Bros. Movie in theaters.

>Series K Your daily reminder that modern securities law is unconstitutional, and written to ensure normal people don't accidently get above-market returns

I think rich whites hate the white lower class, won’t show them sympathy, because it sends shock waves through them - what they could have been without privileged upbringings. It’s psychologically easier to like underclass ‘colored’ people - because they don’t see themselves.

I'm starting Absalom, Absalom! and am increasingly sure that Faulkner is autistic.

matthewgasda.substack.com/p/writers-diar… The best Substacker's best post. "My generation isn't ... having ... children, because… maybe there's not much to teach children. Why is it being passed down? Why is it special?"

Choy Moo Kheong, contemporary Singaporean artist

roselyddon.substack.com/p/the-woman-qu… An interesting insight into young, NYC-based, downtown women with by rose reviewing FLAT EARTH by anika

X and S*bstack have a symbiotic relationship. My favorite personalities thrive in both long-form blogs and short bursts, and I often discover someone that I like on one platform before following them on the other. In a fantasy world, all of X would merge into S*bstack Notes.

If you associate with, have any sympathies for, or even passively tolerate "groypers" and that whole Catholic antisemitic computer communism mess (which isn't real and which no one normal knows or cares about) please preemptively block and unfollow me, thanks, don't matter who

You don’t care about the birthrate, you just want to get laid and understand that if women are pressured to have kids, then they’ll be pressured to settle for you. Just be honest instead of couching it in this endless moralizing about babies who you couldn’t care less about

The world is much emptier without Philip Seymour Hoffman in it. "State and Main" and "Happiness" come to mind

Right: Who has been left behind by the new society Left: Who has yet to be elevated by the new society Merit: Who should be elevated

Todd Solondz is lower-middle class Mike White.

Replace marriage with 5 or 10-year renewable contracts; this fits a modern world where life is long and professionals stay in an adolescent mentality until 30. I remember a post from Marty Nemko's blog years ago where he briefly mentions this: martynemko.com/articles/whats…