I bet Mark Zuckerberg has top men working on this right now.

Can’t say I agree too much about the Florence + The Machine snub for King.  It’s basically an oddity for the college radio crowd with a cringey video.

Russia isn’t going to use a nuke in Ukraine because Ukraine is west of Russia.  the resulting nuclear fallout/contamination would likely land back inside of Russia.  

I don’t want to go all factchecker here, but Hoover died in 1972, so I’m not sure he took any retaliation for something that happened in 1973.

Don’t disagree, just seemed like a set of detours to make that point.  

I really liked Nope as well and would turn out for a sequel. I do think the chimp parts of Nope were a diversion though.  For a pinch of backstory, too many minutes were dedicated to it.  It could be a story of its own, but it felt very much like a tangent to me.

Based on the linked article, there’s not much to go on there for anyone but Sanz.  

Also, for all of the “they rushed it!” takes. There’s only so much time and so much money. Those episodes in the final season took forever to film, and they cost a fortune. Actors have a tendency to want to act in more than one thing. And when you’re dealing with younger actors, they grow up.

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Joker is the kind of movie that critics will blush about years later when asked why they thought it was great at the time.  Sure, Joaquin Phoenix is going for it, but so what?  It’s equally derivative and nihilistic. 

Also, this is make believe.  It’s ok.

If it’s bad for Facebook, it’s good for humanity.

But it’s also cheaper to make a movie than ever before.  

“Certainly, a new generation of auteurs has been able to muscle their way in, like Jordan Peele, Greta Gerwig, Barry Jenkins, and the Safdie Brothers, to name just a few. But many potential auteurs–like Taika Waititi, Chloe Zhaó, Ryan Coogler, Destin Daniel Cretton, and Nia DaCosta–have been snapped up relatively…

Not exactly what I’d call an exciting literary month.

Google is not constrained by the First Amendment.  Governments are.

You should worry about the political side. You should worry very much.  We can’t afford to be above it all anymore.

“Free speech” doesn’t apply to private forums; it applies to governmental restraints on speech.  

And the NBA and NASCAR.

“Didn’t TBS start out showing sitcom reruns and Atlanta Braves baseball and that was it?”