Mastermiles

[Keerthana. @populapette]

'Lag' is the most inane and lazy thing to say about a film as a form of criticism. Sadly, it's very telling of the future of cinema and art in general. No time for world-building, no time for whimsy, no time for anything.

[tallulah bankhead @diandrasdiandra]

will pta's pen ever reach these heights again?

[Soham @king26_sk]

eternal sunshine of the unemployed mind

[Rajiv @Rajiv1841]

Sex is great but have you ever scrolled your timeline when CSK lost?

[Krishna Lahoti @avgphoenixguy]

I love watching CSK lose. Watching them lose gives me satisfaction and my daily dose of energy. The only reason I am alive is to witness every defeat they achieve. Watching CSK lose is one of the best feelings in the world and a win for humanity.

[Mastermiles @Cozy_cinema]

@gradwolf Not even close to sentimental value tbh

[SheR•ALI @Sher__Ali]

Cricket Was born at lords and died at Ahmedabad

[vas @vasuman]

Claude Code when it has 3% context left and you ask it to refactor the codebase

[McRib @McR1B69]

People keep saying “well if it gets the kids to watch seven samurai” but what if it gets the kids to watch the seventh seal. That’d be a real win for society. That movie changed my brain when I was 18

[Andrew McCalip @andrewmccalip]

Data centers in orbit? Of course that’s your contention. Of course it is.

You just finished watching a Scott Manley video on radiative heat transfer and now you think you’re gonna disrupt AWS with a few solar panels and a rideshare slot.

You’re gonna believe that right up until next month when you crack open DeWitt and Incropera and start throwing around σT⁴ like you just invented radiation physics, quoting emissivity tables for polished aluminum like they’re forbidden knowledge.

Then you’ll finally open SMAD and realize your radiator isn’t some static plate glowing into the void. It’s a dynamic structure with a wicked case of thermal flutter reminiscent of Hubble’s arrays. You’ll be quoting beta angles and Earth albedo coefficients and wondering why your deployable array grenaded in vibe when the first bending mode clocked in at 38 Hz instead of the 50 Hz you promised in CDR.

After that you’ll get real ambitious, quoting Johnson and Fabisinski on inflatable polyimide PV structures, pretending you actually understand what happens when your 25-micron Kapton sail is tensioned off a Toray T1100G Cycom 5250-4 boom that has been sun-baked at 120 °C for six months in LEO. You’ll cite “areal density optimization” like gospel while your resin creeps, your modulus drops, and your perfectly flat film turns into a potato chip.

"Well, as a matter of fact, I won’t, because launch costs are about to fall another order of magnitude once Starship hits cadence. The cost per kilo will—"

Drop by tenfold and the economics flip.
Yeah, I’ve heard that one. The Wired 2012 quote, “You wouldn’t build a Boeing 747 and throw it away after one flight.” I remember. I even asked him about that over lunch once, whether the market was actually elastic enough to handle the supply increase from reusability.

Turns out it wasn’t. Non-Starlink launch mass in the United States grew at 13.7 percent CAGR from 2015 to 2023. Payload demand didn’t scale with flight cadence, so prices didn’t collapse, margins just swelled. That’s why they had to invent Starlink. When the market can’t absorb your rockets, you start building your own payloads.

Is that your thing? You read some Marc Andreessen “American Dynamism” manifesto and suddenly start ignoring the engineering realities?

You start throwing around a few buzzwords to impress the Twitter anons and earn some street cred for having a contrarian opinion?

One, don’t do that.
Two, you dropped a 500-thousand-dollar seed check on a concept that could have been debunked by a dollar-fifty worth of tokens from Grok.

"Well, at least I’m a capital allocator. We’ll be skiing in Hokkaido while you’re doing bolt preload calculations for some bridge somewhere."

Yeah, maybe. But at least I won’t be unoriginal or anonymous. I’m out here asking why the hell we’d melt the brains of a thousand aerospace engineers just to save four cents per kilowatt-hour on solar electricity.

First principles isn’t about getting nerd-sniped by a shiny-object problem. It’s about asking whether we should be solving that problem at all.

But hey, if you’ve got an issue with that, we can always take it up with E.

[luca @waynesfury]

phantom thread (2017) - dir. paul thomas anderson

[dinosaur @dinosaurs1969]

we live in the ruins of a greater civilization

[Cinema Tweets @CinemaTweets1]

Paul Thomas Anderson is back in theaters in 47 days. 47 days. That’s it. That’s how much time separates us from one of America’s greatest living directors. The man who shot this film is giving us something new. Get your PTA marathons, rewatches & rankings ready now. It’s time.

[Kautuk Srivastava @Cowtuk]

Cynicism let's you see life with clarity but that's no way to live.

[Janel Comeau 🍁 @VeryBadLlama]

can’t believe we opted for 1984 dystopia (surveillance and denial of historical fact) and Fahrenheit 451 dystopia (erosion of literacy) instead of Brave New World dystopia (everyone gets fucked up on government-sanctioned drugs and goes to the movies all the time)

[Juulius @SeizureJuulius]

I’ve had cigarettes that were better than entire years of my life

[M S Krishna Prateek @mskp_29]

"Including my films in consideration, the only two great films in the last 30 years are KOTTUKKAALI and KADAISI VIVASAYI." - Mysskin ❤️

[PaPa J 𝕏 @joshweltt]

Rewatching movies as you get older and gaining a better understanding of their details >>>>>>