Wonderful to read about Anthony Carrigan, (aka Victor Zsasz in Gotham and NoHo Hank in Barry) in the Times
Very Online
“Twitter isn’t dead. But it’s getting there.”
It certainly feels like the end of an era which, for me, began in 2008-2009
Pep is not taking any risk against Leicester lol: foxes are in trouble today! #MCILEI #CmonCity
My goodness what a goal from Brighton’s Enciso against Chelsea!
Happy #Metallica release day!
Bud Light has found itself in the eye of the anti-trans storm. Kid Rock is shooting cans of beer (…) [Conservatives] are calling for a boycott (…) If this all sounds ludicrous, it’s because it kind of is. It’s also indicative of where we are in the US today.
Artifact, the news app from the Instagram founders, is adding comments and upvotes/downvotes, thus looking a bit more like Reddit…
Spoiler warning but this is probably the best article you can read about this week’s episode of Succession
“That Netflix can predict what you want to watch, that Google knows which sites to serve you—these miracles are the result of tools developed by spies during the Cold War. Commerce in the twenty-first century is espionage for profit.”
My wife and I recently recorded a one-off podcast to discuss our perspective on our multicultural relationship.
Would love some feedback if y’all find it insightful! 😊 🎧
Reading about “Wavelengths” reminds me how, fundamentally, my friend groups are so segmented that social apps and group chats are not quite for me 😞
I dunno if this one is so bold to Orioles fans and anyone who’s been paying attention these past 18 months but…
“4. The Baltimore Orioles will make the playoffs”
.@FallOutBoy’s #FolieADeux is my favorite album of theirs so this new #SoMuchForStardust is a great discovery!
I haven’t seen enough people talk about how great of a show Shrinking is!
It’s got so much heart and great writing and actors so I am glad it got renewed over at @AppleTV
AO Scott on ending his career as a Film Critic
Monday, March 20, 2023
I’m not a fan of modern fandom. This isn’t only because I’ve been swarmed on Twitter by angry devotees of Marvel and DC and (more recently) “Top Gun: Maverick” and “Everything Everywhere All at Once.” It’s more that the behavior of these social media hordes represents an anti-democratic, …I swear John Mayer has looked 35 for the past 12 years!
If wine [in America] has an “old people problem” it’s simply because old people still buy the industry’s starter wines.
Let’s go #Birdland ⚾ 🐦
”The power of sport to lead while governments flounder. And no sport owes more to migration than football”
| “Gary Lineker won his battle with the BBC. Football’s protest era can now kick on” - British GQ
Elizabeth Warren on the Silicon Valley Bank shenanigans
So… Can we bring Everything Everywhere back in theaters worldwide pls?
Day 12 of the March Photoblogging Challenge: “shiny”.
Today, I’m choosing to share our Vietnamese Phin Coffee Filters from the lovely folks at Hanoi Corner
Memo to the BBC
Perhaps it would have been useful, in the case of Gary Lineker and Match of the Day, to look more closely at the writing on the side of your own building:
It is an old quote from George Orwell: “If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
Ngl: quite enjoying this new Miley Cirus album so far… 💃 🎤
Obviously whole heartedly agreeing with this take:
“Mass layoffs are due to hiring becoming a vanity metric in tech.”
Gowalla is back, y’all!
These data-hungry tech companies have compromised our security, eroded our privacy, tracked us, sold our data, lost our data, monopolized the competition, driven out small businesses and put entire populations at risk.
Watching Mulholland Drive for the very first time and happy that it’s the 4K remastered Criterion Collection :)