Joe Lorenzini

A thing I think doesn't get internalized enough in the discourse of the European subjugation of the Americas is that there was no way for contact between Europe and those continents to not end in abject disaster for indigenous Americans because of disease burden.

Vote splitting is just a skill issue

*to the tune of Chappell Roan* make it like Manhattan

Feels like the authors tried to combine critical acclaim and mass appeal that ended up making nobody happy

No one (including Jepsen herself) thinks Call Me Maybe is her best song, but I guess it's on there because it was super popular at the time?

But for Tyler, The Creator they chose Yonkers?

"Just 3% of flights generate 80% of the warming."

An eye-opening read about how we can dramatically reduce global warming from requiring a very small detour on a super minority of flights. The proposed detours typically increases flight time by only 1%.

This U.S. region map is the most accurate one I've seen because it gets many details correct:

Missouri is divided between the Midwest and South

Buffalo, as a Rust Belt city, is part of the Midwest

Pennsylvania is split between the Midwest, Appalachia and Northeast

The South begins after the DMV

I'm increasingly convinced that the future of the GOP are people like Marjorie Taylor Greene and Josh Hawley who are pro-welfare and anti-corporate power yet also nativist and culturally conservative

It'll be interesting to see what the corporate class does when their party is taken over

Anything I don't like is colonization; anything I do like is decolonization

The idea that One Battle After Another is the best movie of the decade is one that's going to drive me crazy because it's not even the best PTA movie this decade

But anyways, here's my two cents

A ★★★★ review of One Battle After Another (2025) [Ed. Note: I had to rewrite this entire review because when I briefly left the Letterboxd app to respond to a message, it completely deleted my review. Letterboxd, add a draft function!] I'll begin wi...

After reflecting on it for a week, I'm left disappointed by One Battle After Another, which is still a pretty good movie. My expectations were sky high, but nothing captivated me like the Magnolia pharmacy scene, The Master processing scene, or even Phantom Thread's toast scene

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Google Gemini telling me the weather for Grand Rapids, Michigan, a place I've never been to

My Google Pixel replacing the Google virtual assistant with AI has been a worse experience in every conceivable manner. It can't even tell me the weather right anymore

This map could end up as a great visual of why certain states vote the way they do

Ohio would still be a swing state if its rural areas voted like Michigan's

Pennsylvania might be a safe blue state if it had New York's rurals

And Sen. Collins has been saved by Maine's voters of the vast expanse

I need to think on it more before I say something controversial, but I am surprised how politically bold and unapologetic this story was. A direct answer to the chaos of the second Trump administration

a man wearing sunglasses and a beanie talking on a phone with the caption " you know i don t remember that part Alt: Leonardo DiCaprio: "You know i don t remember that part"

ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER, to me, felt like the first hour was shoved in there to explain everything to the normies, and the rest of the film PTA got to unleash his signature style and dialogue

Jealous

It annoyed me to no end how Hyde Park has no bike lanes when I would try to bike to class

Some more pictures just because I can't choose my favorites

The museum is a delight, as it's just a much ila work of art as the sculptures themselves. It was fascinating to see how the art interacting with the space and with the people admiring it

Visited the newly opened Calder Gardens in Philly today, or as I like to call it, hard mode of the game "Kiki or Bouba?"

Given the shocking allegations published today in the New York Times against Elon's father, the most obvious line of attack for the Dems is "Keep Musk out of kids' locker rooms"

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I'm definitely interested, but I'm worried I'll be disappointed because it's so hard to match Mare in quality

How does it compare to Mare of Easttown?

I am somehow, contrary to my understanding at all, approaching 1,000 followers

If I do reach 1,000, I promise my followers I will move back to Chicago

After reading The Interbellum Constitution (which Bougie recommended), I learned how pivotal The Fugitive Slave Act was to rallying Northeners to the anti-slavery cause. Before that Act, many were ambivalent about slavery or fine to keep it in the South, but the Act made Slavery everyone's priority

Disney is at a crossroads here. Clearly they tipped their hand in favor of Trump from government pressure and from a TV station monopoly. But traditional TV is dying, and Disney is a worldwide company. They face backlash not just from Americans but from consumers around the globe

Thank God my job ends this week so I can try to see the earliest showing in theaters next week

RIP any other movie's chance of winning Best Picture

The overwhelmingly glowing reactions to Paul Thomas Anderson's new film portend an Oppenheimer-level sweep for awards season

Could not be more well deserved for my favorite working director

Such a laudatory review from Josh can only mean great things!

Some further insights on this inequality. Seems like we're in a k-shaped economy that's good for the rich and bad for everyone else

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