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kottke, 51 minutes ago to random

The trailer for Butterfly in the Sky, a documentary film about Reading Rainbow and its host, LeVar Burton. “Reading Rainbow was not about learning to read, it was about loving to read.” Now streaming on Netflix. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUb6MCOMISY

kottke, 3 hours ago to random

The JWST has imaged the most distant known galaxy, seeing it as it was 290m years after the Big Bang. “An emerging theme is that galaxies and black holes appear to have grown much more rapidly than was expected.” https://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/may/31/james-webb-space-telescope-photographs-most-distant-known-galaxy

kottke, 20 hours ago to random

“Donald Trump has been found guilty of all 34 counts of falsifying business records in a criminal hush-money scheme to influence the outcome of the 2016 election.” First former president to become a felon. Congrats. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/30/trump-trial-hush-money-verdict

kottke, 23 hours ago to random

The Talking Piano. This is a regular analog piano being played by a computer-controlled mechanical machine and it sounds like a person speaking. This is so cool, I can’t believe I’d never seen it before. https://kottke.org/24/05/the-talking-piano

kottke, 1 day ago to random

The Purpose of a System Is What It Does. “Driving change requires us to make the machine want something else. If the purpose of a system is what it does, and we don’t like what it does, then we have to change the system.” https://www.anildash.com//2024/05/29/systems-the-purpose-of-a-system/

kottke, 1 day ago to random

From Life magazine, a gallery of outtakes from the filming of 1972’s Conquest of the Planet of the Apes in a futuristic mall. https://kottke.org/24/05/planet-of-the-apes-goes-to-a-70s-mall

kottke, 1 day ago to random

Here’s a behind-the-scenes of Ayo Edebiri doing the voice for the Envy character in Pixar’s Inside Out 2. She is so awesome. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/qaUs1a84VWQ

kottke, 1 day ago to random

Bill McKibben reviews an exhibition with “images of climate change that cannot be missed”. “We’re still early enough in this battle that, if we act decisively, we can limit the number of people who will have to bear this kind of trauma.” https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/images-of-climate-change-that-cannot-be-missed

kottke, 1 day ago to random

Trailer for Season Three of The Bear. So. Much. Unaddressed. Trauma. That these people are inflicting upon one another. (Men will literally open a Michelin-starred restaurant instead of going to therapy.) https://kottke.org/24/05/trailer-for-season-three-of-the-bear

kottke, 1 day ago to random

Former NBA player & TV sportscaster Bill Walton, who died Monday, was a huge biking fan. “I love my bike. My bike is everything to me. My bike is my gym, my church, and my wheelchair.” https://kottke.org/24/05/my-bike-is-everything-to-me

kottke, 1 day ago to random

404 Media explains the antitrust lawsuit against Live Nation/Ticketmaster. “It is about a systematic vertical integration of the entire live music business”: ticket sales, live music venues, artists’ tour booking, and concert promotion. https://www.404media.co/the-monopoly-case-against-ticketmaster-explained/

kottke, 2 days ago to random

Poll results show that “America’s best decade” isn’t the 80s or the 50s…it’s “whatever decade you were 11, your parents knew the correct answer to any question, and you’d never heard of war crimes tribunals…” https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/05/24/when-america-was-great-according-data/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzE2ODY4ODAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzE4MjUxMTk5LCJpYXQiOjE3MTY4Njg4MDAsImp0aSI6ImNkNzQ0NTA0LTM5ZGMtNGFiOC05MjExLTY1MmFmNTNhZTM0MyIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9idXNpbmVzcy8yMDI0LzA1LzI0L3doZW4tYW1lcmljYS13YXMtZ3JlYXQtYWNjb3JkaW5nLWRhdGEvIn0.tQJXqG5srD_0VSwFaSu9HqhfxjM3NNeDoNeLcXCAdBc

kottke, 2 days ago to random

Scientists have figured out why killer whales are smashing up luxury yachts: it’s a new fad among teen orcas. “A combination of free time, curiosity and natural playfulness has led to young orcas adopting this ‘trend’ of boat-bumping.” https://newatlas.com/biology/orcas-killer-whales-boats/

kottke, 2 days ago to random

Good god, the temperature in Delhi hit 50.5°C (122.9°F) today, an all-time record. “Years of scientific research have found the climate crisis is causing heatwaves to become longer, more frequent and more intense.” https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/29/delhi-temperature-hits-499c-as-indias-capital-records-hottest-day

kottke, 2 days ago to random

Okay, I did reread My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Part One, in advance of Part Two’s May 28 release (today!). Still slaps! https://kottke.org/24/05/okay-i-did-reread-my-favorite-thing-is-monsters-part-one

kottke, 6 days ago to random

Lol, tiny bumper stickers for your phone, including “My other phone is a burner”, “Caution: Extremely Online”, and “I brake for Notes app apologies”. https://bumperstickers.blog/

kottke, 7 days ago to random

Two diary workers have caught the H5N1 virus from cows, “the first known instance globally of a person catching this version of bird flu from a mammal”. We are just playing with fire with this stuff, aren’t we? 🫣 https://www.npr.org/2024/05/22/1252984256/bird-flu-h5n1-virus-human-michigan-cows

kottke, 7 days ago to random

The editors of Scientific American: There Is Too Much Trash in Space. “It’s time for nations — and the billionaires commoditizing space — to clean up Earth’s near orbit.” https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/there-is-too-much-trash-in-space/

kottke, 8 days ago to random

“Black holes might create infinite universes while destroying time and space. Everything in existence could be black holes, all the way down. We might live inside a black hole that is inside a black hole, that is inside a black hole.” https://kottke.org/24/05/infinite-black-hole-universes

kottke, 8 days ago to random

Every Sample from Paul’s Boutique by the Beastie Boys. Plus playlists and downloadable files of all the sampled songs. https://kottke.org/19/12/every-sample-from-pauls-boutique-by-the-beastie-boys

kottke, 8 days ago to random

Love this: an old mid-century TV cabinet from Zenith, retrofitted with a contemporary smart TV. https://www.threads.net/@midcenturymodernrescue/post/C7PnESUPFdL

kottke, 9 days ago to random

A Massachusetts “millionaire’s tax” (extra 4% tax on $1M+ incomes) has earned the state more than $1.8 billion in income for fiscal 2023. That’s about double the estimates and the funds will be spent on education and transportation. https://www.wgbh.org/news/politics/2024-05-21/millionaires-tax-revenue-reaches-1-8-billion-on-pace-to-double-estimates

kottke, 9 days ago to random

The Lost Typeface Recovered From the Thames River. After a bad beef with his business partner, a type designer dumped all of the lead type in the river. 100 years later, some of it was recovered and used to make a digital font. https://kottke.org/24/05/the-lost-typeface-recovered-from-the-thames-river

kottke, 9 days ago to random

Three pieces of music that prove Johann Sebastian Bach was a genius at composing “music which is simultaneously logical and beautiful, complex and emotive”. https://kottke.org/24/05/three-pieces-that-prove-bachs-genius

kottke, 9 days ago to random

“Given the lack of decency they have shown, Genocide Inc. has decided it will not be making job offers to any of these protesters when they graduate.” Gotta have decency to weaponize the Torment Nexus. https://www.theonion.com/ceo-warns-that-no-student-involved-in-protests-will-eve-1851488167