“Every empire, however, tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires, that its mission is not to plunder and control but to educate and liberate." ― Edward W. Said

Nooooooooooo, not the proompterinos! You can't just steal the prompts I spent all day coming up with! It's okay if you want to scrape artwork and literature and feed them into the learning algorithm, but my hecking proompts are sacred and you can't touch them noooooooooooooooooo

“The only thing an old man can tell a young man is that it goes fast, real fast, and if you’re not careful it’s too late. Of course, the young man will never understand this truth.” — Norm Macdonald

Paintings by British artist John Harris

Same is happening in music. Melodies are getting measurably less complex and more homogeneous. Everything is converging to what is measurably most popular. Algorithmic recommendations are the final push down this death spiral. They tell you *precisely* what is the most popular

Zoomers don’t know the feeling of listening to a banger song on the radio, buying the CD and having to realize the rest of the album is entire garbage.

As a boy I always knew I wanted to grow up and use two factor authentication to access fast food reward points on an app

As you may have heard, “The Thing” has been added to the Library of Congress. We made the movie to push against the edges of what we could pull off, and it carries that strain in its bones. Seeing it now treated with the same care and reverence we had making it means a great deal

DD-MM-YYYY is the worst date format out there. The best is YYYY-MM-DD. You name files that way, they'll automatically be in order on the computer.

I AM CUBA might have the greatest "oner" in cinema. Magical stuff.

In Japanese, “tsundoku” means collecting books and letting them pile up - not for neglect, but for the joy of knowing they're there, full of untold stories. 📍Kinokuniya Book Store, Tokyo

Amazon MGM Studios which is valued at almost $10 billion is releasing a movie about He-Man this year which will easily make millions of dollars. Meanwhile, the literal creator of the character, who without him that movie wouldn’t even exist, has to rely on a GoFundMe for his

by far the most devastating in memoriam.

I worked on this!!! Art made by humans will always prevail 💕💕💕

Akira Kurosawa 4K UHD boxset coming in June

job market so bad I'm actually pursuing my dreams

We are overstimulated and we don't even notice. Netflix while eating. Reels in the bathroom. Music while cooking. Podcasts on walks. We consume by default, not by intention. You keep filling every gap, then wonder why you feel foggy and unmotivated. Boredom and silence are the

How seasons work in Canada Jan: Cold Feb: Freezing Mar: Potholes Apr: Cold-ish, rain May: Warm but snow May Long Jun : Two nice weeks Jul: Pouring rain Aug: Everything on fire Sep: Kind of nice Oct: I love it here Nov: Winter Preview Dec: Cold with decorations

Scientists put kids through 100 hours of reading, then scanned their brains. New wiring had physically grown inside the language regions. Communication between brain areas sped up by a factor of 10. Kids who didn't read showed zero change. That was a 2009 Carnegie Mellon study.