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Went to see a comedy show and Kylie Brakeman sat down in the row behind me, when I tell you I was starstruck

what if writing this screenplay was Noah Baumbach coming to terms with being Kenough

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Noah Baumbach went from being so insecure he wrote a movie where he gave a fictionalized version of himself a MacArthur (& cast Adam Driver as pretend him!!) to being The Guy Next to Greta Gerwig and I think that's beautiful

Hey, US folx? Here's where we're at.

Without IMMEDIATE repercussions, this pretty much puts paid to the idea of the political right and the rule of law. And yeah I know, "it was always blah blah" w/e NO.

What This is is literally an entire state opting out of the norms that keep our country even moderately functional. That is DIFFERENT.

Without even that thin veiled pretension to rule of law, most of you haven't seen the kind of thing that we're in for, in your politically cognizant lifetimes. Alabama republicans needs to be taken to task on this, and SWIFTLY.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/alabama-gop-refuses-draw-second-black-district-supreme-court-order-rcna94715

Barbie movie but instead of Allan the doll it's filmmaker and conceptual artist Allan Sekula

Episode 13 of Question Mark, Ohio: a fire, an ally, a crystal cave. Get caught up today. https://questionmarkohio.com/episodes/thirteen/

This has slid under the radar of mainstream news sites but Google Chrome now has a proposal for DRM for the web. It’s basically a way for a website to ask a browser it’s running on a trusted browser or device.

It will help detect & prevent bot traffic or scrapers. But will also enable sites to detect & block ad blockers as well. A final nail in the coffin of the Open Web that made Google a trillion dollar company.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36778999

This close to blogging about it but that might mean I have to see Oppenheimer

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Worried I'm being a crank for not really being interested in seeing Oppenheimer because it's (yet another) overwhelmingly white take on nuclear history but not worried enough to shut up about it

One guy in the theater yelling "LET'S FUCKING GODEL!!" when Godel shows up in Oppenheimer

"Britt Russert reformulates this as “fugitive science,” forms of apprehension that operate on lines of flight carried out by black and native practitioners to understand their place and future in the world outside the distorted view of empiricism."

https://datasociety.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/ii-web.pdf

via @ingrid

reading reviews of Oppenheimer has encouraged me to return to Lou Cornum's barnstormer essay The Irradiated International from 2018 datasociety.net/wp-content/upl

Hear me out, what if instead the double feature is the Barbie movie and then I go home and re watch Fury Road

there was just a baby in the late 19th century named Husband

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Google naming its AI for journalisms tool "Genesis" is a lot

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