I've learned enough about the Many-Worlds Interpretation to realize that the Probability Problem is a real issue without a satisfying solution. Still, the theory is not fringe. I'm cheering for Team MWI. Screw the boring Copenhagen interpretation. Anyhoo. We're literally star dust, man. ☮️✌️

I find it comforting to learn about quantum mechanics. It's real-life magic. They might be able to put an entire tardigrade in superposition, so that little bastard will be in two places at once. But the Big Bang mindfuck still gives me existential dread.

Steve from Stranger Things actually makes good music. Delete Ya, Basic Being Basic, Charlie's Garden, and End of Beginning are all catchy tracks. I'm a Djo fan now.

I read that Joe Keery from Stranger Things makes music. I thought it would be a small side project. No. He has about as many listeners on Spotify as The Rolling Stones and The Beatles combined. What the hell.

Industry is the best series nobody's watching. S4 is almost uncomfortably thrilling. 🙈 www.indiewire.com/features/int...

Rewatched The Batman. Wayne should watch this episode of John Oliver before the sequel. A pointless car chase that kills at least one innocent person (a truck explodes) and could've killed many more. He knows where the Penguin works, lives. Why endanger lives on the road? youtu.be/wVFXUkFx5Y8?...

Transgressions that would've been huge scandals in my country, with the politician immediately resigning, or being removed from office or getting prosecuted for corruption, hardly even become headlines in the US. Nothing happens. None of these openly corrupt criminal fucks are held accountable.

I saw a French documentary about David Lynch. Now I want to watch Blue Velvet. And Lost Highway. Mulholland Drive. Maybe Straight Story.

An English woman I knew in Spain once joked about men hiding their faces, apropos my big beard. I argued that it's shaving that hides the face. If men with beard growth didn't change the appearance of their faces, they'd all have big beards. Men constantly alter their faces because it's the norm.

I reluctantly subscribed to YouTube Premium. I still feel a Pavlovian dread when I press play. Then I'm relieved when there's no mind-numbing commercial. Been watching a lot of live music performances.

I just watched the Super Bowl Halftime Show. Are my eyes deceiving me, or is this Pedro Pascal? Cool little cameo.

This song was featured in the latest episode of Industry. Holy shit, that's a lot of 90s. I was mostly into grunge, alternative rock, Britpop, and skate punk back then. Now I think this sort of slaps? www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYVm...

A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms is heating up. ⚔️ I could easily have binged this show in one evening. I don't like the "you can only read one chapter a week" tactic.

Before a sound enters our ear canals and is transformed into electrical signals that our brain interprets, it's just a pressure wave with periods of compression and rarefaction. A pressure wave is not a sound until it's heard. It's nuts how the waves can be turned into a rich tapestry of sounds.

The propaganda doc about the wife of a fascist, directed by a scumbag and paid for by Amazon as a bribe, is getting rave reviews on IMDb. LMFAO. Lowest rating I've ever seen.

I've reached 4260 IMDb ratings. 3332 movies 564 series 235 mini series 581 documentaries Biggest genres: drama, thriller, comedy, crime Most common rating: 7 followed by 5 Love having a searchable archive of everything I've seen.

I enjoyed the first episode of this on HBO. 99 years old. Will turn 100 this summer. Remarkable. My favorite Mel Brooks movie is Blazing Saddles. Loved it as a kid. Then probably Young Frankenstein. He apparently was a producer on Eraserhead and The Fly. www.imdb.com/title/tt3303...

Never heard of this man or his books. Should I have? www.avclub.com/brandon-sand...

Instantly deleted my account. Fuck off. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

“Everyone should be allowed to carry a gun for their safety but the government can murder you in the street if you have a gun” is an incredible endpoint for the conservative moment

The drawback of watching A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms is that afterwards, you're abruptly thrown back into this sad world that currently seems to get a little worse every day.

Loved the first episode. Just the kind of escapism I needed. More humorous than GoT and House of the Dragon.

Industry might be the most well-written series since Succession. The last episode was high drama.

I love the first two Alien films. I actually enjoy the fourth. Never liked the third, although the extended version actually is an improvement. All the Alien films are on HBO now. Gave Covenant a second chance. I think the first act is fine. It goes downhill when they reach the planet.

I'm watching Misery (1990). Kathy Bates absolutely deserved her Oscar for her performance. She quickly switches between acting cordial, excited and delighted, goofy, melancholic, psychotic, and creepy as hell. What a great movie villain.

Best movies to watch when snowed in: The Hateful Eight The Shining Misery The Thing What else?

I loved snow as a kid. You could have so much fun with it. Snow was magical. We've had 40 cm of snow for about three weeks. I built a giant 2.2 meter snow man (snow monster) the first day. That's the only fun I've had with the snow. It's a beautiful, impractical nuisance.

January is hands down the worst month of the year in the Nordics. Good grief. * You're fully subdued after four months of cold and darkness * All the December festivities are over * 31 days * Spring is still but a dream * Cold and dark AF Death to January. 🫡

Strong start of Industry season 4. Very underrated HBO series. The show is so well-written and intriguing that it's captivating even when you don't care about the world of finance. www.imdb.com/title/tt7671...

I'm letting Aliens Special Edition bring in the new year.

I recommended The Holdovers to my sister since it's on Netflix now. Today she told me she watched it with my niece, and they loved the film. I decided to rewatch it. Paul Giamatti is a great actor. He can express so much just with his eyes and his face. Payne's best movie after Sideways.

This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)

I wish I could sway to music as smoothly as the Khruangbin bassist. The drummer is like a metronome. Love it. youtu.be/vWLJeqLPfSU?...

I love Tiny Desk. She sounds just like on the records. youtu.be/D0E5vMkDfOI?...

I watch YouTube and Twitch all the time without ever feeling that I need subtitles. But I need them for movies and series. Maybe it's partly psychological, but also this: youtu.be/VYJtb2YXae8?...

A few great songs on Rick Beato's top ten list. I love how enthusiastic he is about music. youtu.be/B_5JUKtRQx8?...

I'm rewatching Curb Your Enthusiasm and Leon Black is easily my favorite character in the whole series. Genius portrayal. Hilarious improvisations. Leon Black, and the feisty Susie Greene. Best sitcom without a laugh track ever.

One Battle After Another is on HBO Max now. Fantastic film!

Maybe it's right to rage against the algorithm. The art form of the album has basically been dead to me. I hardly ever listen to full albums anymore. On the other hand, there's no way I would've listened to 2663 artists in 11 months if I only had listened to full albums.

I found a Pixies album I'd missed: Head Carrier (2016). Great stuff! Felt a bit like vintage Pixies. The guitar sound in All I Think About Now reminded me of Surfer Rosa. Many classic loud/quiet dynamics. Favorite tracks: All I Think About Now Tenement Song Might as Well Be Gone Bel Esprit

Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild: Moose Fox Eurasian lynx Badger Wild boar

Don’t put Snus in your ass, especially at altitude

When I look back 10, 20, or even 35 years, I don't view that person as me, but rather a version of me that only existed at that point in time – which is technically true. It feels like a different life. Does everyone feel the same way? If the MWI is true, then things really get interesting.

Portrait of a Lady on Fire has a brilliant and heartbreaking scene, which requires the viewer to notice a detail and realize it refers to a pivotal scene earlier in the film. A cheap flashback would've ruined the moment and the impact.

You know when movies and series show a flashback to an earlier scene just to remind the audience, because the director thinks we're not smart or attentive enough to make the connection without it? I don't like that. It's cheap. Made me think of this. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Imagine waking up to this view every morning. Nanga Parbat. I miss mountains. I feel drawn to them. Just looking at mountains gives me comfort.

How come no one tried Stadia? I was using Twitter at the time and not even the gamers there gave it a chance. Stadia was bloody awesome. I'm sad that it ended up in the Google cemetery. I'm still using the Stadia controller with Windows.

Am I a bug magnet, or is the Bluesky app for Android barely functional? It logs me out every other day or so for no reason. It doesn't respect the system's dark/light theme. When writing direct messages, the keyboard blocks the entire text box so you can't see what you type. Etc, and so forth.

Hot glögg is so damn good. It's a Swedish mulled wine consumed around Christmas. I'm drinking the non-alcoholic version, so I guess it's more like a spicy squash. I think they put cloves, cinnamon, cardamom and ginger in it. Don't sleep on the glögg. Get yourself a bottle.