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Justin Long: Scream King
a.k.a. Designated Heater
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There's a funny thing that happens sometimes in some studio movies. You're watching a space drama about the power of love starring Matthew McConaughey and Anne Hathaway when-- SURPRISE! Matt Damon.
Matt Damon has built a reputation for random, memorable cameo appearances --"Interstellar", of course,
... See moreCapitalism, he noted, is not something imposed on us by some outside force. It only exists because every day we wake up and continue to produce it. If we woke up one morning and all collectively decided to produce something else, then we wouldn’t have capitalism anymore.
David Graeber • The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy
⌛️ Sat, Feb 22
enshittification began much longer ago than any of us realize.
as an example, recently i learned that one of my 2012 ford vehicle's keyfobs died with no clear way to bring it back. a coin cell replacement did nothing. so i thought: "well, i'll just buy a couple new ones to replace these. super easy; barely an inconvenience."
i sat in
... See moreWe’re not the first cohort to experience a crisis. To experience the passing of time. And by passing of time, I mean the dawning realisation that time is finite, and we might have already wasted a lot. We used to have time to burn. But it was a late blooming into misery.
While Gen Xers and Baby Boomers before us had these realisations by 25, for... See more
While Gen Xers and Baby Boomers before us had these realisations by 25, for... See more
Bride Jabour • ‘A late blooming into misery’: why Millennials are unhappy
been thinking a bunch about the delayed/extended adolescence that all of us millenials seem to be stuck in, even as we blow past a quarterlife crisis. even as we're on the wrong side of 30.
“Inside,” Reviewed: Bo Burnham’s Virtuosic Portrait of a Mediated Mind
newyorker.com
Most generations have significant social crises with which to contend, and that helped to shape their worldview. Ours was no different. We were a generation coming of age in the aftermath of 9/11 and the return to endless wars abroad. Climate change increasingly loomed over our future like the most ghoulish apocalypse film ever conceived, and then
... See moreSatya Doyle Byock • Quarterlife
The artist is distinguished from all other responsible actors in society — the politicians, legislators, educators, and scientists — by the fact that he is his own test tube, his own laboratory, working according to very rigorous rules, however unstated these may be, and cannot allow any consideration to supersede his responsibility to reveal all
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