It's just so crazy to think that about 10 years ago the internet felt gigantic: blogs, forums, hundreds of random sites, communities. Today it feels like we're stuck living on the same three sites, four apps, and AI. The internet got bigger, but somehow it feels smaller.
Just learned of the late March passing of the iconic Italian singer-songwriter, Gino Paoli (1934-2026). His songs (many arranged by Morricone) were emotional frankness that felt like dreams.
this was the most important Oscar speech of the night tbh
"Mr. Nobody Against Putin is about how you lose your country. What we saw when working with this footage is that you lose it through countless small, little acts of complicity: when we act complicit when a government murders people on the streets of our major cities, when we don't say anything when oligarchs take over the media and control how we can produce it and consume it, we all face a moral choice. But luckily even a nobody is more powerful than you think."
Casting directors are invisible architects of a finished character's foundation, and it's about time they got their recognition. https://t.co/OgT3tKUwIk
Unpopular opinion but I think childfree women have put way more thought and time into deciding NOT to have kids than most parents ever did about having them.
The Trump-Vance administration just used your taxes to pay for an ICE agent to do this to a 21-year-old kid, who was only protesting because another ICE agent killed a mother of three, who was only there because ICE agents are kidnapping your neighbors
a video taken by the eyewitness, Emily Heller, shows agents denying a self-identified physician access to the victim and telling bystanders to “just relax.”