Luis

I’m on the pavement thinkin’ about the government

[Richard Brody @tnyfrontrow]

Pains me to root against a player with James Harden's sense of style, but so it must be.

[Joe Weisenthal @TheStalwart]

Very interesting piece in The Baffler which offers up a Marxist history of literacy. Lots of Walter Ong Thought etc. https://t.co/WcYIivUtbb

[Jack Sapoch @JackSapoch]

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites

The style is unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war

[WH @hastifliche]

Impressive... the sophisticated television-addict children have abandoned the tyranny of specificity and verisimilitude, and attempt instead to render the figure qua Figure, the body 𝘪𝘯 𝘴𝘦.

[Joe Weisenthal @TheStalwart]

Can God create a central bank so independent that even he can not interfere with it?

[Carly @brunchproblems]

RIP to Brian Wilson, who said that Be My Baby by the Ronettes is as important as Einstein's theory of relativity (he was right).

[Ethan @ethantgibson]

I hope that the third season of The Rehearsal is about Shakespeare

[Neil Bahadur @NeilBahadur]

This is by far and away the only interesting thing happening in culture right now lol

[Alan Smithee @AlanSmithee1987]

An Alexander Kluge story about an employee of the State Bank of the GDR who, even decades after its dissolution, continues to work there, and now gleefully remarks that the GDR is exempt from Trump's tariffs (Photo: Anselm Graubner, 1990).

[Geoff Wilt @geoffwilt]

often think about how Joyce said the heroes of Finnegans Wake are time, the river, and the mountains.

[Conner O'Malley @conner_omalley]

Pipe rock theory

[💽 heather @C05M1C57R4N63R]

movie of the future

[The Moral Vision @ethanves]

President Xi Jinping greets Abel Ferrara at Shanghai International Film Festival Gala screening of Turn in the Wound

[Alex F 🇵🇸 @alexcfields]

John Ford, the Hegel of Hollywood

[extended clip @ExtendedClipPod]

on the occasion of 4/20, here is Robert Altman's weed movie, Pot au feu.

a faux-French short subject directed under the name Robert Vieux-homme about rolling and smoking joints. (9m)