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This newsletter is DENSE. AND LONG. So it’s like a book. And it made me think, for Christmas and New Years, it’s really enjoyable to read, and explore a universe that isn’t over-connected breaking news, or just trial after trial of existential existences.

WHY NOT SOME CURIOUS FUN?!?!

Books are a window into someone’s mind. It’s my favorite thing to do, in the years prior to virus-all-the-time and visiting stranger’s homes, is to act like a voyeur while inhaling the works people have elected to keep or showcase on their bookshelves.  It’s also so highly personal, truly a voyeur peering into an open mind.

Also…

HOW TO RESPOND TO OMICRON LIKE A RATIONAL, SMART, NON-HYSTERICAL ADULT “IT’S TOO SOON TO TELL” NEEDS TO BE A COMFORTING MANTRA, NOT A CAUSE FOR FREAKOUTS. https://futurism.com/neoscope/omicron-scary-dont-panic

 

Also, Trainspotting is totally socially distanced and safe, especially because almost no one does it. But taking a note from this guy, we might like it. LOL

 

  • AND WHEN YOU PUT IT LIKE THAT, SHEESH LADY.
@usa.mom.in.germany#stitch with @v.brittney Why I would never choose to go back to the USA. #germanyvsamerica #livingingermany? original sound – Aly (USA Mom in Germany)

 

 

Space

 

 

What it will see:

 

 

The Parker Solar Probe Just Dipped Into the Sun’s Corona The NASA spacecraft has made its first direct contact with the Sun’s atmosphere, a historic achievement. https://gizmodo.com/the-parker-solar-probe-just-dipped-into-the-sun-s-coron-1848219762

 

 

 

 

This illustration, updated as of March 2021, depicts NASA's Psyche spacecraft.

 

 

  • ROGUE PLANETS don’t play by the rules. These free floaters roam the universe on their own without being bound to a host star. Astronomers know very little about these rebellious worlds, but a recent discovery may help them learn more about free-floating planets. Using data from several telescopes worldwide, a team of astronomers discovered at least 70 rogue planets in the Milky Way, marking the largest group of rogue planets ever found. https://www.inverse.com/science/largest-group-of-rogue-planets

 

 

  • Dec 22 at 4:20a PST Dec 24th 6:00am EST, 3:00am PST, it’s the countdown to the Webb Space Telescope launch. Those that know…. are losing their minds that the most powerful telescope in human history will venture out to space for about a month of “unfurling” to become the most profoundly important exploration device in human history, which will tell us things about our solar system, galaxy, and cosmos than we ever thought possible. Super exciting! It’s about 100x more powerful than Hubble.

Join the Webb Space Telescope Global NASA Social! https://www.nasa.gov/feature/join-the-webb-space-telescope-global-nasa-social/

 

 

 

 

  • Considering people are finally beginning to understand the horrifying impact of Britain or USA’s past colonization, when society realizes we’re going to have to eventually colonize a bunch of other PLANETS, there’s gonna be some real ethical and moral ambivalence.

SJW BE LIKE:

I keep seeing the initials SJW, what exactly does that mean? - Quora

 

But when we colonize, we’re going to have to figure out how to build *REALLY* large things, like excavators and geo-engineering plants to alter the atmosphere. First, we’ll have to master 3D printing in zero gravity, and an experiment was conducted on ISS earlier this year:

An experiment in 3D printing in zero gravity https://makepartsfast.com/an-experiment-in-3d-printing-in-zero-gravity/ 

 

And in fact, people are already figuring out how to 3D print and build habitats for colonizing Mars:

 

The truth is, all of this will be precipitated on self-replicating robots and probes to do all the dangerous heavy lifting for possibly centuries before humans head over. But we’re already building infrastructure, and that is helping establish something called In-Situ Resource Utilization:

Overview: In-Situ Resource Utilization Using Space-Based Resources for Deep Space Exploration https://www.nasa.gov/isru/overview

 

 

 

 

  • I’ll put this here, because HELIOSPHERE EYE MASSAGES seem dangerous AND STUPID:

He apparently trained for this incredible feat for 25 years: Man Allegedly Stares Directly Into the Sun For an Hour Without Blinking https://www.odditycentral.com/news/man-allegedly-stares-directly-into-the-sun-for-an-hour-without-blinking.html

 

Donald Trump looked at the eclipse without glasses - Vox

 

 

  • A MASSIVE, ODD PLANET was just discovered orbiting around two bright stars in the southern sky. It’s so weird that it’s challenging scientists’ ideas about how planets form and evolve. b Centauri is a double star system that lies 325 light years away from Earth. The newly-discovered gas giant planet is 11 times as massive as Jupiter, with a vast orbit that’s 100 times wider than that of Jupiter’s — and strangely, it most likely formed there. https://www.inverse.com/science/b-centauri-planet

giant planet b cen ab b

 

 

 

 

 

  • Space haircut!

 

 

Sci and Tech and Nature

 

  • So do they taste like Snozberries, or is it a Brave New World of Smellovision?

A Japanese professor has developed a prototype lickable TV screen that can imitate food flavours, another step towards creating a multisensory viewing experience. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/23/taste-the-tv-japan-invents-lickable-screen-to-imitate-food-flavours

Yuki Hou, a student at Meiji University in Tokyo, demonstrates the Taste the TV lickable screen.

 

 

  • This is a wonderful story about Guerilla Winemakers in lost and dusty corners of Southern France that are fighting nearly 100 years of vapid traditionalism by using American vines that are more resistant to things like climate change, going against a government that has banned them, while proving these vines result in some tasty wine that can beat the traditional methods that are being lost to floods and frost:

For France, American Vines Still Mean Sour Grapes French authorities have tried to outlaw hardy American hybrids for 87 years. But climate change and the natural wine movement are giving renegade winemakers a lift. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/29/world/europe/france-wine-usa.html

 

 

  • BUT… it might be moot because the EU just made a earth shattering announcement in an effort to make it easier for vintners to combat climate change with a larger quiver of options.

EU grants member states the right to use resistant hybrid varieties in appellation wines The decision is part of a wider revision of previous regulations that established common quality schemes, organisation of the market, definitions, descriptions, presentations, and labelling of European agricultural products and foodstuffs. https://www.decanter.com/wine-news/eu-grants-member-states-the-right-to-use-resistant-hybrid-varieties-in-appellation-wines-470864/

 

 

  • I am 100% for drone shows instead of fireworks. 100%. You can add a soundtrack. You don’t deal with PTSD for people or animals. No mess, and especially NO FIRES. But, I will say one thing… the introduction of a GODDAMNED DMT TRIP INTO FIREWORKS may change my mind. If this is real, I would spend the money and shoot it off myself.
@pyro_hardyYT: hhhjjjjffff? WARNING_Algorithm_View_Boost_DO_NOT_SHARE – Tik Toker

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • Bye bye Uncanny Valley. This is truly jaw dropping.

 

 

  • I mean… After a jet engine eats a skinless simulated human, you know you gots to get down and boogy. That plane needed some cardboard.

 

 

  • Speaking of brutal death, just the word “Slaughterbots” immediately makes me think “Was that Sergeant Slaughter’s special G.I.Joe robot troop? But no it’s a real thing that’s gonna kill us. Like the swarm drones, we’re doomed.

‘Slaughterbots’ are a step away from your neighborhood — and we need a ban Lethal autonomous weapons are becoming a reality https://thenextweb.com/news/slaughterbots-are-a-step-away-from-your-neighborhood-and-we-need-a-ban

 

Actually, someone did an advocacy film as horror movie short:

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • When long form interactive journalism is impressive but really depressing, especially as CO2 sub-plate offgassing is a big theory of how ice age cycles start and end:

Rising From the Antarctic, a Climate Alarm Wilder winds are altering currents. The sea is releasing carbon dioxide. Ice is melting from below. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/12/13/climate/antarctic-climate-change.html

 

 

  • THIS LITTLE THING! African Desert Rain Frog:

 

 

 

  • Monterey Bay Area Research Institute, part of Monterey Bay Aquarium, does amazing work. Like catching this stunning and rare Giant Phantom Jelly!

 

 

  • This is the most bizarre fish I’ve ever seen. It’s eyes are two glowing barrels that stare upwards, hence “Barreleye Fish”. The black “eyes” at the front are actually olfactory. What a trip:

 

 

  • You know that thing when a Superhero jumps off a building and lands in that kneeling pose where you just feel your knees explode? It’s a famous trope, and done a lot. Spider-Man, Black Widow, Thor, and of course Deadpool lampoons it. It’s called “The Superhero Landing”, “Ground Break Landing”, or “The 3 Point landing”, and our mere mortal knees would EXPLODE. Well, now you don’t have to!

PUBLISHED JUNE 26, 2020 IN RESEARCH FROM THE LAB, THE FIRST CARTILAGE-MIMICKING GEL THAT’S STRONG ENOUGH FOR KNEES Cartilage provides a combination of cushiony-yet-strong that hydrogels haven’t been able to match, until now https://today.duke.edu/2020/06/lab-first-cartilage-mimicking-gel-strong-enough-knees

 

 

  • WEIRD CREEPY THING, but it will get through impassable terrain and can be used in rescue:  Jet-Powered Robot Prepares for Liftoff Four jet engines and fancy pants will allow iRonCub to take to the sky https://spectrum.ieee.org/flying-humanoid-robot

A small humanoid bipedal robot with a jetpack, jet arms, silvery flame-protective pants and many wires stands on two bathroom scales.

 

 

 

In this handout infrared photo from the U.S. Marine Corps, the USS Portland fires a laser weapon system at a target floating in the Gulf of Aden on Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2021. The U.S. Navy announced Wednesday it tested a laser weapon and destroyed a floating target in the Mideast, a system that could be used to counter bomb-laden drone boats deployed by Yemen's Houthi rebels in the Red Sea. (Staff Sgt. Donald Holbert/U.S. Marine Corps via AP)

 

 

 

 

  • This guy built a world wide map that allows you to see a view out of a window anywhere in the world, depending on where you drop the magnet on the map.

 

 

  • High School level reading comprehension. By AI. Deep Learning:

DeepMind debuts massive language A.I. that approaches human-level reading comprehension https://fortune.com/2021/12/08/deepmind-gopher-nlp-ultra-large-language-model-beats-gpt-3/

 

 

 

 

 

  • Test your logic: No twins, every bday is equally likely, and ignore leap years:

How many people do you need in a room for the statistical likelihood of two of those people share a birthday? The answer?

In a group of 23 people, there’s a 50.73% 2 people in that group share a birthday!!! But how? In a field of mathematics called “combinatorics”, we can figure this out!

 

 

Movies and TV

 

 

  • In the “I’m not linking the video of Willem dancing nude, but it’s obviously out there and you can see for yourself” files:

Lars von Trier Finds Willem Dafoe’s Penis Confusingly Large https://thephoenix.com/boston/movies/91504-interview-lars-von-trier-of-antichrist/

 

  • NEW CONTENT I HAVE WATCHED ALERT!!!:

Stand up: The new Jim Gaffigan is great. The new Jimmy Carr is superb, as always, and I love how dark he is.  Also, I don’t think I can celebrate Tim Heidecker enough. He did a performance art Andy Kaufman style stand up comedy bit that was an hour and just a fucking brilliant train wreck. For fans of Andy Kaufman or that sort of groundbreaking performance art, definitely check it out:

 

  • Gremlins 2 is a Hollywood executive coked-out fever dream and it’s glorious, but the original Gremlins is hit you in the face Christmas movie that’s just unreal. I don’t think it gets enough love, but Nicolas Cage and “The Family Man” with Tea “hubba” Leone is really a great Christmas film. It’s a riff on “A Wonderful Life” and may be better than the original, if you are into modern sensibilities. LOL
  • Children of men is a increasingly becoming a master stroke, and the time between release and present day is daylighting brilliance. Probably one of the greatest films ever made. Interestingly, with the absence of children, the background allegorical subtext about pet ownership is very interesting, and you only see it briefly from scene to scene on fliers, store fronts, and the TV in the background.

 

  • SPEAKING OF ANIMALS: All the Benji movies are glorious, but the remake is actually really amazing. Makes me feel like I’m closer to my dog.
  • I’ve never encountered more spoilers for a film, in broad daylight, than the new Spider Man: No Way Home. And yes, I won’t regale you with ruining the movie here, but honestly you do sort of need to see movies released opening weekend, or watch episodic releases of tv shows, because PEOPLE HAVE NO CHILL. But no spoilers… I rewatched “Spider-Man: Far from Home”, and it is not only absolutely amazing… from what I have heard from the new film, it’s possible Sony pulled off a crazy win by making the best Marvel films. And to my chagrin, Tom Rothman licensing Spider Man to Disney/Marvel for Captain America might have been the thing that made the most amazing Marvel films. It looked like total idiocy at the time. It’s almost impossible to avoid spoilers for no way home, but mixing Spider-Man with the multiverse is probably the most excited I’ve ever been and I can’t wait to watch it.
  • The new Matrix is fine. I do like it as a love story and standalone film. It’s far better than the original sequels. Keanu Reeves is a gem, and him doing his stunts at 57 after I threw my back out on Christmas by sitting legs crossed apple sauce? AMAZING. I do think this clip is John Wick 4. If they kill another Dog? Imma go ham.
  • 2013 Bo Burnham MTV series “Zack stone is going to be famous” is office like satire cringe comedy and really prescient and well done. 12qty 30 min eps: https://www.netflix.com/watch/81557700
  • I recently rewatched John Heard’s primal LSD fever dream “Altered States”. Wow. Just amazing surrealism and what an attempt at something edgy and broad in the early 80s.
  • Ryan Reynolds 2005 Amityville Horror remake. That is the entire point and line. Although, my wife was somewhat concerned with the fact that I could not stop talking about how hot Ryan was in this film. Ryan Reynolds will never be hotter in his whole life than chopping wood in this dumb remake.  Also I chose to mistakebly watch “RIPD”, which was SURREAL weird, and I cannot believe they greenlit such a bizarre demographic of a film. Ryan was vanilla and the two leads were in different movies. so odd.

 

ANYWAYS… this is the cutest interview in the history of time, and Jakey-Jake and Ry-Ry need to be a thing. From a film called “Life” which is basically a remake of Alien in a way, with a twist tricky ending derrrrrr derrrr

 

& HERE IS RYAN REYNOLDS CHOPPING WOOD:

Unclefishbits’ blog, giving the people what they want since like 2004.
  • Joe Pera is a gem, on HBO. If you like your comedy midwestern, sleepy, and calm.

This is not his show, but an animated clip that sorta greenlit it. I think. Joe Pera Talks You to Sleep is so charming and delightful, and it’s just full of love and sweetness.

 

Good intro:

  • David Lynch’s full “Rabbits”, a concept art of horror vignettes as discussion of typical network sitcoms and the yawning, meaningless, blathering and unyielding stupidity that they are.

 

 

 

  • YES, some sitcoms changed the game, like Arrested Development that went largely unknown until the format was ripped off countless times, to make some okay sitcoms like Modern Family and Black-ish. But the most offensive thing I’ve ever seen is Big Bang Theory. Scattering a listicle of pop culture nerd name brands is as egregious as Ready Player One’s nostalgia-porn keyword stuffing of 1980s toys and games.

THIS:

 

 

 

  • And just in case you don’t agree about Ready Player One, this is a real page, from a real book, that sold film rights prior to even being published, where the author spent his retainer on a damned Delorean. It’s just too perfect. I hope he wrote for Big Bang Theory.

Take some time to peruse this and get a steel brush to scrub your eyeballs and hopefully go blind:

 

I HATE READY PLAYER ONE

 

 

  • GOAT Denzel is a fascinating dude. His new Tragedy of Macbeth is the only film of his he has ever watched entirely. Anyhoo… always looking forward, he had a great quote:

“In my gym, we say, ‘stay ready so you don’t have to get ready.’ ” https://news.yahoo.com/denzel-washington-reveals-only-film-144000835.html

 

 

  • Alan Tudyk is back as the Alien doctor in a Colorado Mountain Town, Season 2 is getting a January 28th release date. You know what that’s awesome? BECAUSE THE SHOW IS SO FUN. Based on a Dark Horse comic of the same name, it’s a crash landed Alien who needs to blend in, loves pizza, and tries to not eat a child. It’s hilarious, heartfelt, and Tudyk could win an Emmy in this role that is Northern Exposure vs Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Please watch it, and let’s get to Season 3!!

‘Resident Alien’ Lands Season 2 Release Date! Harry is back for more Earthly journeys.

https://collider.com/resident-alien-season-2-release-date/

Resident Alien (TV Series 2021– ) - IMDb

 

 

1. Get Out (2017) Written by Jordan Peele

2. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) Written by Charlie Kaufman, Story by Charlie Kaufman & Michel Gondry & Pierre Bismuth

3. The Social Network (2010) Screenplay by Aaron Sorkin, Based Upon the Book The Accidental Billionaires by Ben Mezrich

4. Parasite (2019) Screenplay by Bong Joon Ho and Han Jin Won, Story by Bong Joon Ho

5. No Country for Old Men (2007) Written for the Screen by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen, Based on the Novel by Cormac McCarthy

6. Moonlight (2016) Screenplay by Barry Jenkins, Story by Tarell Alvin McCraney

7. There Will Be Blood (2007) Screenplay by Paul Thomas Anderson, Based on the Novel Oil! by Upton Sinclair

8. Inglourious Basterds (2009) Written by Quentin Tarantino

9. Almost Famous (2000) Written by Cameron Crowe

10. Memento (2000) Screenplay by Christopher Nolan, Based on the Short Story by Jonathan Nolan

 

 

  • I watched Benji the Hunted from 1987, yesterday. It’s like a meditative nature documentary with the cutest little pup ever, and guess what? I unconsciously was manifesting my little childhood love of Benji into adopting my Cairn Terriers. LOL Rescuing is sometimes “you aren’t sure what you’re going to get”, but being able to see the growth of a rescue is the most rewarding thing ever, from their former selves to the pup they’re supposed to be! Anyways, the fact Benji had such an impact on adopting rescues vs supporting backyard puppy mills is wonderful, and Joe Camp is just a gem of a human.

Why Benji Promotes Adoption https://joecamp.info/why-benji-promotes-adoption/

 

 

  • I spoke about Brandon Cronenberg, son to body horror maestro David Cronenberg of (Shivers, Scanners, The Fly, ExistenZ, History of Violence, Eastern Promises), and his recent “Possessor” as one of the most incredible but disturbing and difficult watches I’ve seen in years, both from a body horror, and existential horror, perspective. What a film. Well guess what? His sister now enters the mix. Caitlin is set to helm an interesting concept, “Humane”.

The thriller chronicles the events at a family dinner, held after an environmental collapse where the world lost 20 percent of its population, when a father’s plan to enlist in the government’s new euthanasia program goes horribly wrong. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/david-cronenberg-caitlin-cronenberg-directorial-debut-humane-1235060909/

 

 

  • The entire GOP adjacent to Trump vs the January 6th commission, and the GOP’s utter dismay and disbelief about just how much documentation there is? They needed Stringer Bell from The Wire:

 

 

 

  • The first use of computer animation in a film, 1958’s Vertigo and the opening titles!

 

 

  • The first use of *CGI* in film history, I give you… Yul Brenner and 1973’s Westworld. Also, Yul Brenner was an asshole. Ask Jeff B. Davis from Whose Line Is It Anyway and Harmontown and Highway to Heaven. On Harmontown, Jeff tells stories about working with Yul Brenner on The King and I on Broadway.

 

 

  • Per Don Knotts, his only, single dramatic role, ever:

 

 

  • What a beautifully timed, composed, and blocked shot from the movie “The Birdcage” with Nathan Lane and Robin Williams

 

Comedy, or DON’T FILL UP ON CHEESE

 

 

 

 

  • THE ALIENS WILL AGREE THIS IS PEAK SECRET HUMANITY

 

 

VIDEO GAMES

 

  • Among Us is coming to VR!! Looks polished:

 

 

 

  • Sony’s Silent Hill creator found a new game to make… Slitterhead. Creepy teaser:

 

 

 

  • Keanu is psyched people want to bang his avatar in Cyberpunk 2044, and is taken by the notion of teledildonics.

 

 

  • This is the truest of true true:

 

 

 

MUSIC & I am realizing people didn’t know Peter Gabriel was the frontman of Genesis til he left and people let Phil Collins sing, which I guess is fine but not really.

 

  • FANTASTIC:
@wollyhassonThat time super swing Kathy Voytko had 1 rehearsal and saved #TheMusicMan on Broadway! #broadway #hughjackman #hughjackmanlove #broadwayisback? original sound – Holly Wasson

 

 

  • This is nice:
@whatsmusic#whatsmusic #fyp Check our IG for all credits. Brought to you by WhatsMusic©? Originalton – WhatsMusic©

 

  • Vox does this “earworm” thing, and its superb. They do an excellent one on how “smooth jazz” took over in the 80s (Hi Kenny G!), and why you don’t have to judge your parents for being ambulatory vacuum tubes that could be marketed to and manipulated to. You can search that one up… but a recording error in a Genesis recording section created the sound of the 1980s. I mean, think of Peter Gabriel’s “Intruder” is fully vested in it, and it might bring the effect to mind. But really, I think “In the Air Tonight” is the starting point for you Peter Gabriel sacrilegious types.

 

 

  • JAI PAUL: Here’s one of my Top 10 musical humans… This is the entire complex and weird and wild and sad and CRAZY story about how he blew up around 2010, because of MySpace of all things LOL: https://youtu.be/R5KLGWFopTQ

I doubt I’ve ever spoken about him. Too long a story, but a bit of it is in the linked blog post below his music. This track was on his leaked album from 2013, and Imma go ahead and say it’s THE BANGER of the 2010’s.

 

 

So I wish I knew the $11 album I got in June of 2019 would become a $200 EP that literally only has two tracks. Wow.

Song of the Summer 2019. I personally feel it’s a direct callback to Peter Gabriel’s “Don’t Give Up” from his album So.

The B-Side “He” (WHICH ARE NECESSARY Mr. SAUER) used gated reverb perfectly. I thought it was Phil Collins all over again. But this is just amazing:

 

This was the song that introduced me to him. I was grieving my dog Pavlov. Why oh why do dogs require so much grieving? Anyway, story in the old post below, how the internet is wild, and like “Searching for Sugar Man” w/ Rodriguez being found in random ways by people that were not expecting it, so was I with Jai Paul, Khruangbin, and Sofi Tukker.

M. T. Hadley may have just written a few brilliant songs, or he may be one of our next great songwriters and singers.

 

  • More of my favorites? SURE WE CAN DO THAT!

 

  • I had drooled words about this guy, but basically it became a post (below video). He’s a breathtakingly talented song-writer, and his videos as multi-layered meta commentary on his own art are just stunning:

M. T. Hadley may have just written a few brilliant songs, or he may be one of our next great songwriters and singers.

 

 

@benbenabrahamDefinitely thought I was alone at 3am oops #singing #christmas? original sound – Ben Abraham

 

  • This disco floor ready version of Comfortably Numb is going to make some Pink Floyd fans angry. I find it both interesting, and weird. I love the idea of a cover adding to the conversation vs just “why aren’t I listening to the original?”. I thought I HATED this version when I first heard it, and it sort of grabbed hold of my head and motorboated me into its cleavage.

  • You know the CIA used music as a weapon?

So… Atlas Obscura is amazing. This article on Louis Armstrong in Ghana is great… “How Louis Armstrong Shaped the Sound of Ghana You can still hear echoes of the trumpeter’s 1956 visit in Accra’s clubs today. ” https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/louis-armstrong-jazz-highlife-ghana

**But**…. the idea the article didn’t bring up the CIA is bonkers. Whether you think the band “The Scorpions” were a CIA front or not, the CIA definitely used music “ambassadors” as people who might spread democracy and affect change.  The CIA were using people like Louis Armstrong, and Dizzy… AND Nina Simone who WOULD HAVE BEEN SO PISSED.  But that’s why people think the Scorpions were a CIA front. The podcast “Winds of Change” is excellent. 8 eps. https://crooked.com/podcast-series/wind-of-change/

More:

“Not just the Scorpions’ story but, I mean, the Nina Simone story. This guy Hugh Wilford, this academic, had gone into the files and discovered that Nina Simone basically got sent to Nigeria unbeknown to her by the CIA in 1961. That one may have hit me especially strongly, because I grew up listening to Nina Simone. Of all the artists we talk about in the show, she’s probably the one who has meant the most to me for the longest, and it’s hard to escape the conclusion that had she known, she would have been pretty furious.” https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/wind-of-change-cia-propaganda-cold-war-podcast-1027873/

 

 

  • BEN KHAN: People have opinions about this guy as being a creative vs follower and “copper”, namely overly loyal Jai Paul fans [points up] think he’s copping beats and concepts. But, you know why I don’t give A SHIT?

 

This is the sexiest song I’ve ever heard in my damned life. Let’s all have sex.

 

 

  • Remember PM Dawn?

 

PEOPLE, CULTURE, SOCIETY

 

 

 

 

  • The night Peter Dinklage met his wife is just beautiful!

 

 

  • Yes… we are dangerous here:
@traw_415???????????? #fyp? original sound – TRAW

 

 

 

 

@lowmaintenanceliberal2? original sound – Low Maintenance Liberal

 

 

 

 

  • Hitch was worth 2 articles, to say the least. I can’t believe it’s been 10 years.

The courage of Christopher Hitchens Ten years ago, I lost a friend and the world lost an intellectual giant. We miss him now more than ever https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/the-courage-of-christopher-hitchens-ten-year-tribute-politics-ideas

Christopher Hitchens Was Fearless The man I knew and adored wouldn’t be like the majority of us, huddling in our trembling silence, terrified of saying what we really think. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/12/christopher-hitchens-was-fearless/621020/

 

 

 

 

 

  • I always joked about not wanting a house so big you have to go into rooms just to dust them, because you’ve not been in so long. BUT… being scared? yeah, big houses are dumb.
@realityshowclip50 cent interview #fyp #realityshowclip #viral? original sound – realityshowclip

 

 

 

  • This cool Cher moment, talking about her sister:

 

 

 

 

  • This sassy obituary from one of her sons is THE GREATEST OBITUARY EVER:

Renay Mandel Corren https://www.fayobserver.com/obituaries/m0028451

Obituaries in Fayetteville, NC | Fayetteville Observer

 

 

  • In the “Squid Games is a remake of Running Man as a precursor to reality” category, JFC. Honestly, I thought we’d be using the destitute or prisoners first, but here we have ACTAULY SHOOL TEACHERS in a game known as “Late Stage Capitalism”, ie take the systemic manufactured hardship of exploited workers into a delightful spectacle and as entertainment for the rest of the population. I guess the new opiate is diversion.

 

 

 

  • I think about this daily. It’s so brutally weird what’s happening. But, “inflation”. But, “HIS POWERPOINT”.

 

 

 

 

  • When people are mad about inflation, but also won’t work… the entire state of our economy is so complex, and there’s not enough nuance when looking at the interrelated issues. This article does some heavy lifting:

This is a VERY interesting take on the nuance of “Staffing shortage” vs “it’s a wage problem”. Well, as a hiring person… it’s not a wage shortage. The wages are skyrocketing, and it’s also not the benefits. It’s likely the career / position / experience. It’s the dehumanizing aspect of entitled guests and bad management, but there’s still SO MUCH value in a career in hospitality or service. You just need to find the right group. That being said, “anti-work” people won’t be happy with this take, but it’s dealing with some of the back end issues

Wait for the “Big Backfire”: You’ve likely heard about the droves of people quitting jobs this year. Have you thought about what comes next? https://www.inc.com/michael-walters/employees-jobs-technology-automation.html What’s “As more people leave the workforce & as biz add more costs, it adds pressure to those who stay”

 

 

  • Anish Kapur’s 2014 Descension whirpool art installation. BTW, mesmerizing, meditative, and scares me to death as I have submechanophobia & thalassophobia, both. So super great here, but this is wild to watch:

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • There’s a phenomenon of “we want plates”… this is horrifying.

 

 

So trigger, I guess, in this day and age, because either everything is too real, or too harmful. I think what is harmful, especially for those of you meat eaters or pescatarians that might react to this is that we really don’t want to be connected to our food system or pathway, do we? I mean “BUY LOCAL” means as much as you want til you have to connect that your poke was a thing, or that a burger was a fluffy cow. I eat all the proteins, but I also get the compexity of our food delivery systems, and as they scale they become less humane. So, as they say… know your farmer, know where it comes from. Don’t use factory farms or support them, but being a smart, ethical consumer is also really difficult… and what’s more, if you can afford it, it is a privilege. Not everyone has the time or money to source back who made that packet of ramen, if the grain was raised and handled well, if the employees were paid well enough to live their lives…

But having been in kitchens and seeing animals go from “that’s cute” to “fully rendered and fully utilized” (there’s so little waste off a fish like this. You can cure the heart and shave it like a prosciutto onto a carbonara.  You can cook the spine like ribs and make it all zesty, so when you break it apart there’s an incredible bone marrow of sorts (cartilage).

 

@ersan_yilmaz85 million watched tuna ????????????????????? orijinal ses – @bordomavibalik

 

  • I know it’s privilege to vote with your cash, as many just need food on the table and don’t have the space to make food a moral commentary.  But, as  Wendell Berry stated, “eating is an agricultural act”. If you don’t “vote”, that’s fine… but there is no escaping that eating puts you in the crosshairs of a wildly complex economic, political, and social process, and it is happening whether you involve yourself or not.  Not all meat is inherently bad. And not all meat is simply “good”. It’s the source, it’s how they handle it. A butcher friend of mine intoned this famous phrase, recently:

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  • “Murdered by Words” comes to mind. Because Scalzi has a busy hobby, sure.

 

 

 

  • Robson Square was an elegant attempt at fusing design with pragmatism in 1970s Vancouver, British Columbia. The ADA ramp is now “ornamental” as there are some concerns about antiquated safety rules for ADA vs new ramping elevation and grading guidelines, but I think it’s a testament to architecture than form and function *CAN* be married:

 

 

 

 

 

  • Absolutely I would:
@canadianlassMy attempt at a handful of accents. #stayhydrated H20! (I also do a deadly Waterboy impression that I will have to broadcast one day) ???? #adhdaccents? original sound – Cassidy Lou

 

 

  • Here’s how design typically works, whether landscape architects or programmers for UI:

 

  • “The Framework of Capitalism is not Empathetic, just so you understand”:

Amazon warned workers that its busy season could make them feel suicidal “They talked about how a lot of workers feel this way.” https://www.engadget.com/amazon-suicide-peak-workplace-violence-leaked-email-165031915.html

 

VEHICLES

 

 

@georg68lo#busdriving #bussafety #bustesting #buschallenge #mercedesbenz #73? Alone Again Naturally – Gilbert O’ Sullivan

 

 

  • This dope little pragmatic vehicle for the south of France types, shuttling between the tight historic lanes of your village’s farmer’s market, making your way through the vines, or shuttling stuff around the winery or farm… sorta perfect.

La Citroën Ami “pour les agriculteurs TERROIR”

 

 

  • This is superb. Because look at that weird plane called a Vought-Sikorsky V-173:

Rare Photographs of NASA’s Massive Wind Tunnels Used to Test Aircraft, 1925-1990

https://www.flightjournal.com/the-pancake-lives-on/

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • Revisiting Bubb Rubb and the whistle tips:

 

 

  • VERY COOL RBG!

 

  • I love design flaws, but this is unbelievable:
@grandtourbestbits#topgear #fyp? original sound – grandtourbestbits

 

 

  • Long boi Supra?

Toyota Showed an Electric Lexus LFA Successor With Solid-State Batteries Expect it to have more than 435 miles of range to boot. https://www.thedrive.com/news/43508/toyota-showed-an-electric-lexus-lfa-successor-with-solid-state-batteries

 

 

  • Spendy Destroyer all rusty, heading into San Diego port. Social media took note:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • Instead of paying $22K to restore the battery cell, a dude blew up his Tesla. Money shot timing on this link, with replays du jour. =)

 

  • HUMANS: BUILD ANYTHING, RACE ALL THE THINGS:
@umhevlog#car #umhevlog #viral #rally? sonido original – Umhe Vlog

 

 

  • THIS FOR ME FOREVER AND ALWAYS

 

  • WAIT IS A GUNDHAM A VEHICLE OR A CULTURE/PERSON THING?

 

 

      • I LIIIIKE THAT BLOOOODY SHIRT, MATE!
@ozzymanreviews Me commentary on a snow-mo video????#ozzyman #ozzymanreviews #train #snow #fyp #foryoupage ? original sound – Ozzy Man Reviews

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