DISTURBIA was released 19 years ago today.
Inspired by Rear Window by Alfred Hitchcock, the film updates the voyeuristic premise into a modern suburban setting, with Shia LaBeouf carrying the tension through observation and paranoia.
Christina Koch’s reflection on Artemis II crew:
“When we saw tiny Earth…what struck me wasn’t necessarily just Earth. It was all the blackness around it. Earth was just this lifeboat hanging undisturbingly in the universe…Planet Earth. You are a crew.”
Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen joined his Artemis II crewmates to address the public: "If you like what you see, then just look a little deeper. This is you."
https://t.co/36KxiWBydN
The President posting a Stake-sponsored photo is wild.
Casino takeover of culture is reaching end-game, where the only question left is how crypto, sportsbooks, and prediction markets will divide the pie.
The U.S. spends far more on healthcare than other rich countries. $15,000 per person (almost double), 18% of GDP (nearly twice as high), and healthcare inflation is 7% (roughly double others).
Yet outcomes are worse. Life expectancy is lower, infant & maternal mortality higher, and chronic disease like diabetes and heart disease higher. Canada with single payer has far lower costs than the US, and even than Germany & Switzerland, and provides better, universal coverage.
Most important, in an AI world, people's healthcare must not be dependent on their job.
Every doctor should be in network.
Medicare for All is needed for our time.
It is a moral and economic imperative.
Rep. @RoKhanna (D-CA) considering running for president in 2028: "I believe I offer two things…one is I represent the economic future…secondly, I fundamentally believe, because of my grandfather, that we need to move on from the colonial model of the world."
Joe Dante's Small Soldiers (1998) is criminally overlooked. It’s Toy Story’s unhinged sibling: the toys don’t play, they declare war. Brilliant Stan Winston effects, great cast, Tommy Lee Jones and Frank Langella voice work, biting satire and an edgy kids’ thriller. Magical stuff