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no because that means I'd have to watch it again

well we're in agreement on the last part!

sorry but this is what I feel in my pretentious little heart

I'll be honest: I have never decided not to take public transit because it is too expensive. when I decide not to take public transit it is because it is too slow or too infrequent or too logistically complicated or does not serve the places I want to go

alright I bought the hype and went to see it. It wasn't as terrible as Oppenheimer, is all I'll say

"it’s not a dictator but broad social and technological forces that are driving people toward slop ... Orwell thought the death of democracy would kill reading. It turns out the death of reading may be killing democracy."

"It would probably not be beyond human ingenuity to write books by machinery" he wrote in 1946.

interesting to see all the reviews framing Odyssey around its veteran-trauma-PTSD themes. War as something that happens to soldiers’ psyches. This is I dare say a very umbombed mentality. Processing war as individual moral injury when the actual subject is collective destruction

Great article that goes beyond the empty free-speech debate, summarised in the following quote: "But the question is not just about censorship. It’s about whether a democracy is obligated to provide a frictionless commercial platform to an aggressor state’s cultural exports during wartime."

"What do we owe an aggressor’s culture while the aggression is still going on? I don’t think the answer is a ban, but I’m certain it’s not a shrug." Great analysis.

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lol yeah whatever its political leanings, it does seem to show you can be destructive and obnoxious and nothing will happen as long as you're being cute bsky.app/profile/crzw...

I have two young kids so I've suffered through my share of Masha and the Bear, which pops up practically by default on the junior Netflix channels. But until this controversy I had no idea of its reach. Propaganda or not, it’s certainly one of Russia’s most successful cultural exports.

www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

I remember standing in those late-Soviet lines as a kid. The Public Aesthetics of the line are terrible. And the Gas Line is the opposite of Kuran's preference falsification: a public assembly of everyone privately doubting the government’s capacity to provide basic necessities.

fun fact

"A Brief for the Defense" by jack gilbert (2012)

the Mongol Empire is Russia's most committed steppe father

the hydration break is genius. More space for commercials but you can’t criticize it bc it’s protecting athletes. Very American in combining commerce with self-improvement

I've given 8am academic conference presentations in windowless rooms to a larger audience than the political party who controls all three branches of the US government at an event that also sells hot dogs and beer.