It's wild to me that John Williams was a session musician, knocked around TV and movie production, put out some jazz albums, won an Oscar, was widowed and in his 40's with three teenage kids at home ... and only then wrote the score to Jaws.

One of the most hopeful stories of our times

I'm not a "film over digital" guy, but this showcase of Kodak's formats is damn gorgeous vimeo.com/860313165?fl...

Oh hell yes. Hyundai/Kia has been killing it. I hope and pray that the affordable EV revolution makes it here eventually.

A very interesting question to ponder!

Millennials if Sufjan had completed the 50 States Project

So easy to be spoken well of in death. If you spend your days treating people with respect and busying yourself with things you're good at that bring you joy, your legacy is secured. and if your death is filled with meta discourse calls to be nice and not speak ill, well, whose fault is that?

Solar's sharp rise continues. As of April 2026, global solar capacity now exceeds 3 terawatt. 1 gigawatt → 1 terawatt: 20+ years 1 terawatt → 2 terawatt: 33 months 2 terawatt → 3 terawatt: 19 months

A good hopecore thread

I'm telling future gens that this was Megalopolis youtu.be/GIa2QOTyJGw?...

I have a conspiracy theory that Meta's Threads boosts engagement by filling your feed with people who post about topics you're interested in, but are just a little dumber than you. It makes you feel superior to them, and you also feel like you need to correct them.

A $3 @mta.info subway fare and some good Q train timing can buy you one hell of a view of the July 4th fireworks and the Brooklyn Bridge light show! Huge shoutout to the train operator for slow rolling over the Manhattan Bridge and the conductor for announcing it.

A friend of mine was at the zoo yesterday when it was announced that the whole park would have to evacuate. I was disappointed to learn that it wasn't a 'Rise of the Apes' situation. youtu.be/JDbwEQG2cqI?...

one of those coincidences that seems too good to be true but it is!

A key to staying sane in trying times is to realize that your ability to create change, even in the best of times, is very limited, but your ability to make yourself feel bad about politics, or anything really, is basically unlimited and making yourself feel bad doesn’t make change more likely

I'm always baffled at what does and doesn't take on buy nothing groups. A bed frame that can also be used as firewood? 0-1 interested people over the course of a week. A $15 car sunshade? Like 7 people in as many minutes

🚨VICTORY: Supreme Court holds that federal Election Day statutes do not prevent Mississippi from counting absentee ballots postmarked by Election Day but received afterwards A huge victory for our clients and the Elias Law Group team. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

One of the cooler near-future ideas I love to chew on is: High Voltage DC Intercontinental Power Cables. Running power interconnections the same way we run gas pipelines and optical fiber. youtu.be/sHJQsSK7M_0?...

For most of my life, I thought "RSVP" was short for "Respond Very Soon Please". Yes, that abbreviation doesn't even work.

If you made American Graffiti today, it would be set in 2015. Dragging the main with less stylish Camrys and Priuses, joking about their bendy iPhone 6's, whip/nae nae on the radio, meandering conversation about The Force Awakens hype.

No less than 60 million stars in one image. It's possible thanks to ESA's Euclid mission. For just one day, Euclid turned its gaze to the crowded heart of the Milky Way and captured the largest, most detailed photo ever taken of our galaxy's centre in visible light. Let's dive deeper 👇 🔭 🧪 ☄️ 1/8

Today, Euclid revealed the largest, most detailed photo ever taken of our galaxy's centre in visible light 🙌 This video takes you on a journey across this region.  Turn up the volume and enjoy our galactic centre 🤩 🔭 🧪

Are you courageous enough to own the Aliexpress Gorilla Couch?

This is one of the most strange, fascinating, and unsettling stories — and one of the best pieces of reporting — I’ve read about American politics in my life. Tulsi Gabbard took orders for her stances and bills in Congress (+ since?) from a secretive Hawaiian cult leader who wants to rule the world

Everyone's wondering what to get their Millennial for Prime Day, but all we really really really want is a zig-a-zag ah

I just had a dream that JD Vance and I were roommates. Some domestic spat turned into me aggressively pushing him and yelling "you fucked up our tax policy!" (I guess he was somehow VP in this scenario). He retreated to his room for the night rather than argue back.

The Challengers director made this; the cast is a banger! Damn you, Amazon MGM!

One hell of an ad placement in today's NYT Daily Podcast about the Iran War: The American Petroleum Institute

You know it's bad when the National Review Editorial Board is calling out Trump on Iran www.nationalreview.com/2026/06/a-lo...

"75.9. Nice." - Guy who habitually exaggerates everything by 10%

We overestimate the importance of what we think, and underestimate the impact of what we do

Alright, let's see it (nature, that is). @maklelan.bsky.social

buh-NAHH-eRR - British person saying "banana"

One piece of lost (?) media I'd love to see is Spielberg's first alien movie, "Firelight", which he made as a teenager.

"Love feels like blasphemy when you worship power" is such a banger of a quote.

This graph from Australia shows how quickly the tide is turning.

Just don't do it. #streaming #netflix

Me learning that indie horror like Backrooms is doing big numbers in the box office:

I don't mean to be ghoulish about this, in case there's a difficult/tragic reason for the disappearance. But man, the ongoing Thomas Kean Jr. story is so weird! newrepublic.com/post/211435/...

Pelley’s full interview with Lulu Navarro is here: youtu.be/ePqdmbgQ4BI?...

Rad. This is the kind of tech genius I think will propel our society forward. youtu.be/FHzwXkP_ZKA?...

How can Scientology be all bad when their theme song is so damn catchy?

Facebook Memories continuing to attack me by taking memories from "about ten years ago" and telling me those were actually 20 years ago.

Plan 9 from Outer Space has long held the title of "worst movie ever made", but at least it's entertainingly bad. It's bad, but it's earnest and fun, with weird lore behind behind the making of it. There's tons of movies out there that are not just bad, but also painfully dull.

I can't think of a person whose opinion on moral integrity I care less about than Karl Rove

One "if I could make a change the world with the snap of my fingers" wish I have is that nearly all rooftops would have solar installed

Since Ötzi the Iceman is back in the news, I think it's time to address the elephant in the room: is he unc?

Am I “unc?” I don’t know, is it “unc” to relish a sunset? Is it “unc” to see the world renewed in the peal of a child’s laughter? To stand still in the ebb of a river of time and grin at the rushing parr with the wisdom of eternity? To rhyme a wilting flower with the universe? Is that “unc?”

Starting Star City, and this is gonna be ROUGH keeping names and faces apart. There's three (four?) similar but distinct brunette women characters

Still thinking of the time that the city of Toronto built Racoon proof garbage cans, and the racoons defeated them easily. youtu.be/J7Eh9Yd_fh8?...