So I saw Megalopolis. You can read my review here: noescapevg.com/on-megalopol... I can't in good conscience call it a good movie but I do think it's a fascinating one. It's like the antithesis of Southland Tales
The empire must stand, but it can be led better. That’s it.
Apropos of this: TIL that they're trying to restart the Three Mile Island reactor in order to sell energy to Microsoft so the latter can meet its AI goals.
"There are good reasons to question both their choice of entertainment (lurid genocidal fantasies powered by odious and ancient bigotries and cable news) and entertainer (a prissy old golf creature who'd kill a million strangers to get wished happy birthday on Entertainment Tonight)..."
I was inspired to write this by the power of imagery. defector.com/check-out-th...
Last week, the Washington Post wrote about why so many of the people that wait in line for hours to get into Donald Trump’s political rallies wind up leaving before they’re over. The answers are not n...
doing a Durge playthrough for the first time in BG3 and the degree to which the party could not give a fuck about it is ludicrous. Even Wyll is like "ah, so you've bathed in the blood of an innocent? Ah, well, 'there but for the grace of god go I,' or somesuch. I do suggest you take it easy, though"
This is interesting, but I'm not so sure about some of the claims. "The additional layer of linguistic distance between [my students] and Shakespeare is comparable to my own struggles through Chaucer in the original Middle English -difficult and worthwhile, but truly a challenge."?
I saw that "why aren't the youths reading?" Atlantic article re-shared 8 gazillion times in the last week. Here's a response from the English teacher interviewed in the article: "The Atlantic Did Me Dirty." cmsthomas.substack.com/p/the-atlant...
Early this summer I was interviewed by Rose Horowitch, an editor for The Atlantic. She told me that she had heard from a university professor that incoming students were struggling to keep up with the...
Nobody Wants This is Love stolen valor
watched Inside Out 2, which I would recommend if you want the experience of saying "mmm, sure, that's a reasonably structured metaphor" a dozen times to yourself without intonation