Dom

I’ve seen sunny days that I thought would never end

[Dom @dzomp]

11/1/1950

[turbomander @turbomander]

no shade but personally after riding through the entire desert i would’ve given the horse a name

[swinky @swinkying]

you’re on Very thick ice with me . i love you

[Alex Stumpf @AlexJStumpf]

The Pirates scored 10 runs for Paul Skenes in the bottom of the sixth inning tonight.

The Pirates scored 11 runs for Paul Skenes in his 10 losses last season.

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Trump is seeking to pay for his new $1.5 trillion military budget by cutting the following:

$510 million - Grants for farmers and agricultural research
$82 million - Loans for rural small businesses (Fully eliminated)
$61 million - Support for farmers and food markets (Fully eliminated)
$240 million - School meals and food education for children abroad (Fully eliminated)
$659 million - Community building grants
$47 million - Support for minority-owned businesses (Fully eliminated)
$449 million - Economic development grants for communities
$1.6 billion - Weather forecasting, fisheries, and coastal protection (NOAA)
$993 million - Scientific research and technology standards
$150 million - Support for American exports and trade
$2.2 billion - Broadband and internet access programs
$8.5 billion - Funding for public schools
$1.5 billion - Vocational training and adult education (Fully eliminated)
$2.7 billion - College access and higher education support
$15.2 billion - Roads, bridges, and infrastructure projects
$1.1 billion - Home energy efficiency and clean energy programs (Fully eliminated)
$1.1 billion - Scientific research funding
$386 million - Environmental cleanup programs
$150 million - Cutting-edge clean energy research
$4 billion - Help paying home heating and cooling bills for low-income families (Fully eliminated)
$768 million - Refugee resettlement assistance
$819 million - Care and shelter for migrant children
$775 million - Local anti-poverty programs (Fully eliminated)
$5 billion - Public health programs, mental health services, and disease prevention
$5 billion - Medical research (NIH)
$129 million - Healthcare quality and safety research
$356 million - Emergency preparedness and disaster response
$1.3 billion - FEMA community disaster preparedness grants
$707 million - Cybersecurity protection for critical infrastructure
$52 million - Airport and transportation security
$40 million - Protection against chemical and biological weapons threats
$53 million - Funding for homeland security operations
$3.3 billion - Community development block grants for local neighborhoods (Fully eliminated)
$1.3 billion - Affordable housing construction grants (Fully eliminated)
$393 million - Programs to reduce homelessness
$529 million - Housing assistance for people living with HIV/AIDS (Fully eliminated)
$489 million - Housing and services for Native American communities
$50 million - Grants to help communities build more housing (Fully eliminated)
$60 million - Enforcement of fair housing and anti-discrimination laws
$58 million - Homebuyer and renter counseling services (Fully eliminated)
$45 million - Renewable energy development programs (Fully eliminated)
$1.7 billion - Grants for local law enforcement and public safety
$20 million - Civil rights mediation and legal access programs (Fully eliminated)
$1.6 billion - Job training for at-risk youth (Fully eliminated)
$395 million - Jobs program for low-income seniors (Fully eliminated)
$234 million - Worker safety and labor protection programs
$101 million - Enforcement of equal pay and workplace anti-discrimination laws
$46 million - Programs to combat child labor and forced labor abroad
$2 billion - International humanitarian aid
$1.2 billion - Food aid for hungry families abroad (Fully eliminated)
$4.3 billion - Global health and disease prevention programs
$2.7 billion - Funding for the United Nations and international partnerships
$642 million - International economic and treasury programs
$315 million - Democracy and anti-corruption programs abroad
$486 million - Grants for public transit projects
$4.2 billion - Electric vehicle charging infrastructure
$372 million - Airline service for rural and small communities
$145 million - Grants for sustainable and equitable infrastructure
$204 million - Loans and investment for underserved communities
$1.4 billion - IRS taxpayer services and enforcement
$100 million - Air pollution monitoring and reduction programs (Fully eliminated)
$1 billion - EPA grants to states for environmental protection
$2.5 billion - Clean drinking water and wastewater infrastructure funds
$90 million - Grants to reduce diesel pollution (Fully eliminated)
$3.4 billion - NASA space and earth science research
$297 million - NASA technology innovation programs
$1.1 billion - International Space Station operations
$143 million - STEM education programs
$309 million - Small business development and entrepreneurship programs
$170 million - Small Business Administration operations
$158 million - Loans for small businesses

[The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee]

Every Inning Of Baseball Game Aired On Different Streaming Service https://t.co/8JynJjLDrZ

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

$33.1M opening day with zero green screens. Read that again.

Project Hail Mary cost $200 million to make. Lord and Miller built the entire Hail Mary spacecraft as a practical set. Thousands of physical buttons, hundreds of real screens, a hatch modeled after ISS designs. The alien, Rocky, is a full animatronic puppet designed by Neal Scanlan, the creature shop legend behind the best Star Wars practical work. Ryan Gosling acted against a real puppet in every single scene.

The movie has 2,018 VFX shots. That sounds like a lot until you compare it to Avatar: Fire and Ash, which ran over 3,500. The difference: Avatar builds the world digitally and asks the audience to believe it. Project Hail Mary builds the world physically and uses VFX to clean up wires, remove puppeteers, and paint in space backgrounds. One approach creates spectacle. The other creates presence.

This is a $200 million bet against the last 15 years of Hollywood production logic.

After Avengers: Endgame, the industry standardized around green screen stages and digital environments because it was faster and cheaper per shot. Studios could reshoot entire sequences in post. The tradeoff was invisible until it wasn't: audiences started describing blockbusters as looking like "video games." Snow White's $42M opening. The Marvels at $46M. Quantumania. Ant-Man built on a soundstage that looked like it.

Lord and Miller went the opposite direction and spent more money on physical construction than most studios spend on entire VFX pipelines. Greig Fraser, the cinematographer who shot Dune, lit the Hail Mary with practical lights so the camera could move freely through real corridors. When Gosling floats in zero-g, that's wire work, not simulation. When he touches a panel, it's a real panel.

Guillermo del Toro saw the film and called the commitment to practical sets and puppets "a goal, an aspiration, and a commitment. Especially now."

The "especially now" is doing all the work in that sentence. He's talking about an industry where the default response to a $200M budget is to minimize physical production and maximize digital flexibility. Project Hail Mary did the opposite and just posted the biggest non-franchise opening day in domestic box office history.

The audience can tell. They've always been able to tell.

[Dom @dzomp]

Air Bud implies the existence of Earth Bud, Fire Bud, and Water Bud

[Dom @dzomp]

@Kurrco

[saila (in sf) @sailaunderscore]

Kids will never feel the gameday pressure of having to start an essay at 2am and finish it by 8am before the deadline. Totally lost. Absolutely no evolutionary pressure towards a clutch factor anymore.

[Pedro L. Gonzalez @emeriticus]

Amber Glenn and Alysa Liu are apparently big Magic The Gathering fans. Incredible PR for tabletops

[Dom @dzomp]

Me to the intern after letting him talk about what we did this week in the weekly huddle

[Reese Gorman @reesejgorman]

Les Wexner’s attorney did not like his answers to the questions during the House Oversight Committee deposition.

He told Wexner: “I’ll fucking kill you if you answer another question with more than five words, ok?”

[YFK 友 @YourFriendKyle_]

Holy shit the pitch clock really is the greatest thing ever brought to baseball

[Dom @dzomp]

@CapitanoJacko @Steelersdepot He walked up to the door and handed his resume in in person

[Dom @dzomp]

@AntiPar2ival @LukeDashjr @unusual_whales The right house can easily outperform the wrong security investments. Many people overcompensated in their 401ks and would rather reallocate to a house. You can’t raise a family inside a Google stock. What % of 401k people are emptying for a down payment is up to them.

[Dom @dzomp]

@joshuaguerci @BonesAndEllie @Holhorseemperor Right, OBAA trailer was shown before Oppenheimer.

[Dom @dzomp]

The Golden Globes showing Polymarket odds for the next category is super lame

[Dan Carlin @dccommonsense]

Anybody promising that ICE will go "door-to-door" searching for people to arrest does NOT believe in the U.S. Constitution. "Fishing expeditions" are prohibited. You need a warrant.

[Dom @dzomp]

@FilmUpdates

[Barstool Sports @barstoolsports]

Making sure my gate exists before going to get food at the airport

[Dom @dzomp]

Fleetwood Mac implies the existence of Fleetwood Cheese