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Before it's too late. Fix your grave mistake. We're all tired of this shit. The US administration is speedrunning a game called Making the World Worse.

Brazil had a slightly more unhinged version of T****: Bolsonaro. He did the same thing and attempted an autocoup. They sentenced that fucker to 27 years.

Yoon Suk Yeol's self-coup attempt in South Korea resulted in a life sentence. It's not that hard, America. Do something. Protect your democracy.

I'm all for it!

Steve from Stranger Things actually makes good music. Delete Ya, Basic Being Basic, Charlie's Garden, and End of Beginning are all catchy tracks. I'm a Djo fan now.

So we liked the same song. I had no idea he makes music until the other day. I saw him in a Pavement movie that's part documentary, part fiction. He pretended to play the lead singer in a Pavement biopic (that doesn't actually exist).

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Cool. Which song was it? I've only heard End of Beginning, which I liked.

Jason Schwartzman is another actor who has made good music.

open.spotify.com/track/2nvZv4...

I've also seen him in interviews, and in a strange Pavement "documentary." I agree on both accounts. I've only heard the song End of Beginning, but I liked that one.

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It researched for about 10 minutes, wrote an extensive report with source references, and came up with a number: 25–35%.

We'll be gone long before the sun makes the planet uninhabitable. 🫡

I told Gemini's research tool Deep Research to estimate the risk of humanity being decimated within 150 years.

Climate change, pandemics, conflicts, nuclear wars, ecosystem collapses, food and water shortages, synthetic pathogens, AGI, population collapses, and so forth.

We no longer have shared cultural moments that define decades. Everyone knew The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Bob Dylan, The Who, R.E.M., Nirvana and so on.

Today, someone most people have never even heard of can have more listeners than all the old musical legends.

I read that Joe Keery from Stranger Things makes music. I thought it would be a small side project. No.

He has about as many listeners on Spotify as The Rolling Stones and The Beatles combined. What the hell.

Eels! Great artist. I think my favorite is the goofy Last Stop: This Town.

‘Industry’: Inside Eric’s Shocking Turn and What to Make of That Last Shot Ken Leung, Mickey Downs, and Konrad Kay go behind the scenes of Eric Tao's dramatic Season 4 arc, and what to make of that last shot.

Industry is the best series nobody's watching. S4 is almost uncomfortably thrilling. 🙈

www.indiewire.com/features/int...

It's way too expensive. Especially if you're already paying for another music service like I do. There's a cheaper Lite subscription without YouTube Music, but that's not available here.

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight Police Chases: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

Rewatched The Batman. Wayne should watch this episode of John Oliver before the sequel.

A pointless car chase that kills at least one innocent person (a truck explodes) and could've killed many more. He knows where the Penguin works, lives. Why endanger lives on the road?

youtu.be/wVFXUkFx5Y8?...

Good idea! I'm on it. I'll have my own little David Lynch film festival.

Yes! I haven't seen Straight Story in decades. I remember the scene where he explains family by showing a bundle of sticks that can't be broken. And the final scene on the porch. Very moving.

Transgressions that would've been huge scandals in my country, with the politician immediately resigning, or being removed from office or getting prosecuted for corruption, hardly even become headlines in the US.

Nothing happens. None of these openly corrupt criminal fucks are held accountable.

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I saw a French documentary about David Lynch. Now I want to watch Blue Velvet. And Lost Highway. Mulholland Drive. Maybe Straight Story.

Yes! I read about the Gauls last night. They typically favored a strong mustache, like Asterix & Obelix.

In the West, beards have come and gone. The Roman elite shaved. Beards were viewed as barbaric.

During the Middle Ages, beards were associated with masculinity and wisdom.

The razor returned during the Enlightenment. Beards surged back in the 1800s.

The current shaven norm began 1900–1920.

An English woman I knew in Spain once joked about men hiding their faces, apropos my big beard. I argued that it's shaving that hides the face.

If men with beard growth didn't change the appearance of their faces, they'd all have big beards.

Men constantly alter their faces because it's the norm.

I reluctantly subscribed to YouTube Premium. I still feel a Pavlovian dread when I press play. Then I'm relieved when there's no mind-numbing commercial.

Been watching a lot of live music performances.

I didn't expect to see him among the dancers. Also, he's so handsome!

I just watched the Super Bowl Halftime Show. Are my eyes deceiving me, or is this Pedro Pascal? Cool little cameo.

YouTube video by Studio Mágico Music N-Trance - Set You Free (93:2 HD) /1993/

This song was featured in the latest episode of Industry. Holy shit, that's a lot of 90s.

I was mostly into grunge, alternative rock, Britpop, and skate punk back then. Now I think this sort of slaps?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYVm...

A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms is heating up. ⚔️ I could easily have binged this show in one evening. I don't like the "you can only read one chapter a week" tactic.

"Look how bro glazed it." 😂

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This is what happens when you spend too much time alone in a cottage in a forest.

We perceive colors because objects reflect electromagnetic radiation differently; certain wavelengths are absorbed and others are reflected.

So light itself has no colors. It's the brain's interpretation of the wavelength. Without vision, the universe would be void of the quality of appearance.