This excellent Sally Rooney piece on Ronnie OβSullivan 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 Iβm a broken record but: buy physical media, support your local library, etc etc
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I love that Pharrell Williams more or less quotes this in the final scene of his new Lego doc, PIECE BY PIECE.
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Every day is a school dayβ¦.and Iβm sitting at the front of class, always eager for more π€
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Yesterday I learned that the average sheep can produce 5,000m of yarn from its woolβ¦β¦and that Calatravaβs 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.
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Now finally time for this on the big screen.
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I feel like the best thing about this place right now is the slightly-walled-garden vibe it currently has going onβ¦β¦but that obviously canβt last.
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I keep hovering between βsocial media is dead and weβll all be better off for itβ and βif we can just replicate 2010-era-Tumblr everything will be okβ.
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