Sean Coughlan

This excellent Sally Rooney piece on Ronnie O’Sullivan touches on some important questions about the mysterious, miraculous things that people can do and machines cannot.

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There are currently only 22 films streaming on Netflix made before 1980 and not a single one made before 1960, with the oldest film on the platform currently being PSYCHO. I know I’m a broken record but: buy physical media, support your local library, etc etc

I love that Pharrell Williams more or less quotes this in the final scene of his new Lego doc, PIECE BY PIECE.

Every day is a school day….and I’m sitting at the front of class, always eager for more 🤓

Yesterday I learned that the average sheep can produce 5,000m of yarn from its wool……and that Calatrava’s opera house in Valencia was designed and built on foundations already laid for a 370m communications tower that was swiftly cancelled after a change of government in 1996.

Now finally time for this on the big screen.

I feel like the best thing about this place right now is the slightly-walled-garden vibe it currently has going on……but that obviously can’t last.

I keep hovering between “social media is dead and we’ll all be better off for it” and “if we can just replicate 2010-era-Tumblr everything will be ok”.