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!
<img src=“https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/441/2024/6e07d1a950.jpg" width=“400” height=“600” alt=“A scene featuring two characters from the movie “Wicked,” with one dressed as a witch reaching out to another dressed in pink, set against a backdrop of a fantastical landscape.">
Not fully sure what to make of this or if it was even necessary
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<img src=“https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/441/2024/ada62e2566.jpg" width=“400” height=“600” alt=“A stylized poster features fragmented images of two faces with clown makeup, bold colors, and text reading “Joker Folie à Deux 2024”.">
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)
Absolutely incredible game (and subsequent win) last night for my #ParisBasketball team away at Olympiacos Piraeus in the #Euroleague. 🏀
This marks the 10th win in a row, and improves the record to 11-3, sitting at the top of the standing in our rookie season in the Euroleague.
Stop using Chat-GPT and Gen AI as a search engine, says @lopatto.bsky.social rightfully🙇🏼♂️ 📣 🤖
My local football club @redstarfc.bsky.social has officially removed itself from Twitter and is one of the first football clubs to do so.
A question for my web browser nerds… Who’s abandoned Arc and made it back to Safari?
Thoughts? Pros & Cons?
11/29/24
📚 I met my friend @JamesMayes.bsky.social about a dozen years ago at a local chapter of TEDx in Brighton, where I used to reside during my university studies and the early stages of my career.
We quickly connected due to our shared heavy social media usage and mutual attraction towards good food & drinks, good people, and a passion for technology. Since then, we’ve been friends, and I’m grateful to have him as both a friend and a mentor in my professional life.
Over the past year, James has been battling brain cancer. On top of this life-altering diagnosis, he’s been incredibly busy. Since last year, he’s been involved in the following endeavors:
Needless to say, for community-oriented individuals like myself, this book is already a must-read. I was fortunate enough to read early chapters a while back and eagerly anticipate delving deeper into the book.
Setting up my #NFL playoff picks @nflfrance 🏈
Incredible Kith collab with Batman / Warner Bros. dropping tomorrow!
Too many great pieces to choose from as a streetwear aficionado and comic book nerd…
Wish me luck for tomorrow!
Gruber, about meeting Dr Oz (soon-to-be head of Medicare/Medicaid Services)
(…) a brilliant mind in the field of thoracic surgery, and yet dumb as a rock in everyday human interaction. I spent the first few minutes with him wondering if I should introduce myself. I spent the last few glad I hadn’t.
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