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Been watching @LongWayTV as a wonderful escape, via @AppleTVPlus and it’s been wonderful!

Ever since hearing it on the opening track ('Invaincu') of his latest #Multitude album, this @Stromae line has been on my mind!

Happy to see that @DuckDuckGo is getting more traction, although a chunk of this is from these crazy fuckers

A really interesting read this morning about Millennials not buying enough wine and the US wine industry slowly freaking out about it…

Oh my! The new Ali Wong special was hilarious!!!

”Tumblr Is Everything”

_ The soft, sad freaks on an unprofitable website claimed victory in the battle for the internet’s soul and defined the worldview of a generation._

Can BTS… save the world?

Evening at the hotel, in good company

‘Nightmare Alley’

In case you needed a reminder that Guillermo Del Toro is a master director and storyteller, this is a movie for you! I highly recommend watching this in black and white, preferably in an art house cinema! Somehow I expected more fantastic/surreal elements but aside from that it was a fun and remarkable movie to watch! [≠]

“Getir”, “Gorilla”, etc. — come back to me when these groceries-delivery startups crash in <12 months because they thought we couldn’t go to the local butcher/grocer/supermarket by ourselves…

TIL: I have slightly abnormously small wrists

Prof G x Web3

I don’t necessarily agree with all the points made here, but some things are worth pointing out… ‘Every member of Forbes’s 2021 cryptobillionaires list is a man. A third of them attended Stanford or Harvard. Out of the 12 listed, only one isn’t white. The web3 narrative feels like a TEDx talk given to a survivalist group.’ [≠]

“How Colonialism Has Shaped the Design World”

Somedays you just have to get back to the basics, you know… #NowPlaying

New Book, picked up from the lovely @abbeybookshop #JapaneseBreakfast #CryingInHMart #MichelleZauner

This was so so so good and fun!

My Eternals Review

This is was long and had occasional pacing issues but I’m SO GLAD I finally got to see it and on the big screen! As someone who loves storytelling and world-building and who grew up as a HUGE mythology geek, I really liked this! Looking forward to seeing some of these characters again!!! boxd.it

This is… not great!

Ahead of the French Presidential Election next year (May 2022), this is THE English-newsletter to help you understand the landscape!

H/T to my friend @LindseyTramuta

“Web2 = login with Facebook or Google.
Web3 = log in with your Crypto wallet but don’t steal my data.”

👏🏼 👏🏼 👏🏼 @PetBerisha

Massive respect to my Point Guard Spencer Dinwiddie | @SDinwiddie_25

‘I like things that make sense’: Wizards’ Spencer Dinwiddie plays the cryptocurrency long game

Happy 10th Birthday to ‘The Verge’

Happy first decade to The Verge, arguably one of the most important tech media publication of the past decade! I remember how innovative they were from the very start! ”The Verge predates Alexa and the entire concept of Netflix original programming. We are older than Google Photos, Timehop, and Peloton; we launched with a glossy story on the first Nest thermostat. The very first Oculus VR prototype was shown to us in a Las Vegas parking lot.

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Respectfully, Facebook — now Meta— and Zuck can all fuck off, now!

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Candyman

New James Blake alert!

“For a nation that was begging international investors to take it seriously just a few years ago, the latest run would seem to validate how far France’s startup scene has come”

France sees biggest ever week for startup funding - Sifted

The Liberation of Paris From Cars Is Working

Keep calm and listen to @LilNasX’s wonderful debut studio album “Montero

Korean Movie night

One of the many perks living in Paris: I’ve got an all-you-can-eat pass to go to the cinema! This evening I was planning an outing to an art house theater which was planning to show a 35mm screening of Sympathy for Lady Vengeance however their 35mm projector is down. So as a backup they’re showing The Host — which was also in my list…