Wednesday, February 12, 2025 →
Finally took some time to update my /now page :)
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Wednesday, February 12, 2025 →
Good news for those of us using GenAI on the regular ⚡️🔌🔋
Kendrick’s set was My Super Bowl. Incredible set and performance with many clever layers! For anyone who’s curious or wanting to discover more about it, there’s (already) a Dissect podcast episode ready to go.
Following up on the previous post:
More and more, the notion of the classic American breakfast—bacon, eggs, toast, milk, coffee, and a glass of orange juice—is beginning to seem like a snapshot of a bygone era. Not only is the supply of orange juice becoming shaky, but so is that of eggs, milk, and coffee (not to mention other goods, such as chocolate and olive oil). None of this means that we’ll have to go without these foods anytime soon. But for everyday Americans, it will likely mean having less.
It’s hard not to look at this with a cynical “the writing has been on the wall, and you could have done something to prevent it but now all you can do is prepare yourselves for a different world you’ll have to adapt to because you’ve acted so unreasonably for so long as a country — and to some extent for at least 2 generations.”
😂 🍊🥤
Imported fruit can be costly, and its flavor varies because of differences in variety, growing conditions, and taste preferences. (European oranges skew tart because locals like their juice sour, while American varieties cater to the nation’s sweet tooth.)
The Last Days of American Orange Juice | The Atlantic
Meta employees have no scruples surrounding the privacy of internal communications because, by definition, they’re the sort of people who never saw any problem with Meta’s complete lack of regard for such things. So they don’t hesitate to leak what they don’t like. Zuck gets no loyalty because he hired an entire company of people with no convictions other than “winning” or whatever it really is that Meta sees as its central tenet.
Very excited for the return of the @sixnationsrugby tonight starting with my XV de France against Wales 🏉 🇫🇷🏴 #SixNations
🏀 We are so back!
Great night at the Paris Basketball game against Tony Parker’s ASVEL tonight!
100 agree with this take:
The whole tech world needs more projects that aren’t trying to become billion- (let alone trillion-) dollar ideas, but are happily shooting for success as million-dollar ideas (or less!).
Daring Fireball | Pebble Founder Eric Migicovsky Is Bringing It Back
PS: as an original Pebble backer on kickstarter, I’m very excited to see how this will go…
🍿 🎥 “The Substance” ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ …aka The Fountain of Youth
Also, as a side note: between Coralie Fargeat and Titane’s Julia Ducournau, the future of French filmmaking is bright, original, and female!
🤤 🏀 Inside the NBA’s growing talks to add a new league in Europe | The Athletic
The NBA asked the EuroLeague to partner together on a European basketball league
…(and as expected the Euroleague refused)
Diet Coke will kill you a lot faster than regular Coke will.
“The great majority of Americans are suspended between these opposing attitudes. They are uneasy with injustice but unwilling yet to pay a significant price to eradicate it.”
Man, Balatro is such a blast! Glad the ad-free version is available on Arcade 🕹️🤩
🍿 🎥 Nosferatu: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
In the end it was all about love!
Per my usual habit of watching shows one season at a time after all episodes are available, I can finally join the happy viewers of The Penguin.
What a great production, storyline, cast and execution!
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Been telling y’all to stay away from “zero” and “diet” soda. This shit does more harm than good:
Some of the artificial sweeteners in zero-calorie sodas (…) appear to shift the microbiome in ways that impair the body’s handling of sugar. (There has been) striking declines in microbial diversity. Some of our gut bacteria have disappeared altogether.
This man is my hero:
“The food here is different,” he said in a heavy French accent. “Bigger portions. Too much salt. Too much sugar.” He decided to enroll in a paid study at his wife’s new workplace. It was exploring why the American diet, compared with almost any other, causes people to gain weight and develop chronic diseases”
🍿 🎥 🎦: The Count of Monte Cristo ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
This was the best French movie I’ve seen in years! Great story, great execution, delightful set designs & costumes!
Finished reading: Batman/Catwoman by Tom King 📚
What an interesting storyline: didn’t think we’d get to see that perspective of past/present/future but it worked really well!
A few years after the facts I’m continuing to watch The Boys on Prime.
The fact that an actor who has no ties with France/French culture is playing a Frenchman (wrong accent and all) is rubbing me the wrong way… 📺
I started noticing more nitrous oxide packaging around the neighborhood and wanted to read up on it…
This article from New York Mag came at the right point and details the effect of this dangerous new drug that teens have been gravitating towards…
Heavy users report seizures, mouth lesions, paralysis, brain damage, psychosis, and spinal-cord degeneration.
Wicked ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️🎥🎞️ 🍿
Woah they really did it! Didn’t think I’d like it as much as I did!
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Wednesday, December 25, 2024 →
Not fully sure what to make of this or if it was even necessary
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Truly can’t wait to see Eggers’ take on Nosferatu — been years of excitement for this!
lol Wemby got Drummond ejected after he got pushed twice haha LFG #NBA 🏀
The new #Superman teaser has me interested in reading comics again, and (as a huge Batman fan) I’ve never spent too much time reading Superman but I kinda want to now…
Earlier this week, NBC News published a pretty wild take :
I ...what www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
— Carolyn Fiddler ([@cfidd.bsky.social](http://cfidd.bsky.social)) December 10, 2024 at 12:52 PM
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So with that insanity going on, I’m glad to see leading voices in the gaming industry take some time to respond, like this opinion piece by @Plante.bsky.social over on @polygon.com, for example:
“Reminder to the media: Research video games before reporting on them”
No, Among Us doesn’t turn someone into an assassin
Finished watching #Foundation season 2 last night. 📺
After another slow build to set everything up it turned into a really solid season filled with interesting concepts and storylines.
Highly recommend for Sci-Fi fans
And now to figure out what to watch next over the holidays…
One for the weekend:
Trump is a soft man obsessed with seeming tough; Le Pen is a tough woman forever trying to project a soft touch.
(“President Emmanuel Macron Has Plunged France into Chaos” | written by the always on-point Lauren Collins)
