TIL lobsters aren’t immortal, but they are weirdly close to it. If they live to be a certain size, they reach the top of the food chain. At that point, they continue shedding their exoskeleton until it takes too much energy to do so, at which point they more or less die of exhaustion. Jellyfish really are immortal though.

This is a good Wikipedia 25th anniversary post.

This movie’s trailer makes it seem like it’s going to be a classic love triangle. It’s much more complex than that. It’s the first honest confrontation of modern dating that I’ve seen, and a recognition of the intangibility of love. Celine Song delivers her message beautifully and directly, wrapped up in an elegant rom-com with all the right notes.

https://letterboxd.com/jayhoffmann/film/materialists

I remain thinking about slowing down. How to find the time to feel creative. Some of this is, of course, seasonal. As we get closer to one of the bigger launches I’ve ever done, it’s feeling like just a lot. So now isn’nt necesarrily the best time to plan this and I think as I get to my next season I will feel as if I have more time.

But now is a good time to prepare. And that’s what I aim to do.

via Chris Krycho 

An important reminder that writing is thinking, even when it comes to commit messages.

I have sometimes written detailed messages I did not end up needing (yet!) but I have never regretted it, because I don’t know when writing whether I will need it, and if I do, I cannot go back in time to have written it. Better to spend a little extra time writing down something I may not end up needing than to rush past that opportunity and lose it forever.

This one is going to stick with me for a while.

via Aurlein

“Liberalism in the last half-century, our society has undergone a radical, nihilistic transformation towards pure form without substance, and mere existence without anything you could reasonably describe as life. So when people complain that life feels meaningless today, that’s because it is.”

I have to say I’ve been feeling this for quite some time. It feels like we’ve been completely stripped of ideology.

Liberalism marches on.

As usual, eevee gets right to the heart of it. All you get from this new fancy tech is… whatever

via JA Westenberg

Tolerance for ambiguity, boredom, and discomfort had atrophied in me. Modern life conditions us to flinch from them: which makes sitting in the ambiguity without reaching for distraction a radical act of reclamation. One Sunday I spent three hours writing by hand about a single question: “What does it mean to think originally?” I got nowhere. Every path ended in a hedge or a cliché. But that was the point. I was learning how to stay with a question even when it refused to yield.

via Ben Werdmuller

The term “open source” was designed as a callback to the early days of software, when source code had been bundled by default. The strategy was to sell Fortune 500 companies on using this software, rather than employ the grassroots evangelism that had been the bread and butter of the free software movement.

This buildup of open source happens to coincide with the rise of Web 2.0, zero interest growth, growing optimism, etc. it was built for a web that used to exist

Chris Hayes has kind of a spot on analysis here about the division between the old guard and the new.

via Tim Bray

I think that the best we can hope for is the eventual financial meltdown leaving a few useful islands of things that are actually useful at prices that make sense.

And in a decade or so, I can see business-section stories about all the big data center shells that were never filled in, standing there empty, looking for another use. It’s gonna be tough, what can you do with buildings that have no windows

What will stick with me — besides a performance by Daniel Kaluuya I was fully not prepared for — was the speeches. The speeches, that by all accounts, were pulled from the actual words of Fred Hampton. Rhetoric that encapsulated a moment with timeless readiness. They were treated with such reverence by the director, that you can only watch in awe when they happened. There is a lot to like in this movie, but I like that most of all.

Dir. Shaka King
2021

In some ways, this film feels a bit like Coppola playing the hits. But it’s filled with careful staging, elegant cinematography, unique soundscapes, and these quiet moments that elevate the charisma of Bill Murray and Rashida Jones. That’s more than enough to stand on its own

2020

Dir. Sofia Coppola

A captivating and beautiful love letter to the lost days of the city of San Francisco. The story frames the conflict as a relationship between a man, his childhood, and the home he had lost. But it is, in truth, a poetic film about the beauty of friendship.

2019

Dir. Joe Talbot

I recently had a chance to go back and read Jane Mayer’s incredible profile on David Addigton, Cheney’s right-hand man during the Bush years. She outlines the power-play that Cheney and Addington engaged in, pulling from a Reagan era playbook to expand the powers of the Presidency to extralegal judicial rulings and commissions, and even to spying on U.S. citizens. An incredible read.

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A fantastic distillation of the male ego, picked apart and dissected in a way that’s visceral and real. They really make you feel it, the arguments and the embarrassment, and the intimacy of the use of visuals and sounds adds to that.

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We refer to them as our unlived lives because somewhere we believe that they were open to us; but for some reason – and we might spend a great deal of our lived lives trying to find and give the reason – they were not possible. And what was not possible all too easily becomes the story of our lives. Indeed, our lived lives might become a protracted mourning for, or an endless tantrum about, the lives we were unable to live. But the exemptions we suffer, whether forced or chosen, make us who we are.

Adam Phillips, Missing Out

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks… the work for which all other work is but preparation.”

Ranier Maria Rilke, A letter to a friend