I can see why Tom Holland has been talking about how he’s going to pass the Spider-Man mantle on at some point because after Brand New Day it feels like he should just play it forever

It’s more important than ever to understand the camera when watching videos. Who is holding it? Does the person being recorded know the camera is there? Why is the shot framed like that? You might not like meta glasses but you’ve probably liked a video shot on them already. Have to stay critical

Doomsday trailer looks kinda bad but at least they let Mystique wear clothes now

I don’t know where along the way people got convinced that Christopher Nolan doesn’t use CGI but he absolutely does and to great effect. He captures a lot in camera too but every single one of his big, most celebrated hits has used CGI. CGI is not inherently bad

Top four of 2026 so far

Saw The Invite yesterday (highly recommend!) and seeing The Odyssey tomorrow. Helluva week at the cinema

Ok IMAX, you’ve weaponized fomo enough. Start making projectors again dammit

What do we call that sound that hybrids and EVs make? It’s not an engine noise obviously so idling doesn’t feel right. It almost sounds like wheels on rail like a train but it’s too consistent

Oh great, another round of “DEI hire” jokes that represent DEI as the opposite of what it is

They cut the government to the bone for no good reason and now we can’t eat raw whole vegetables. Fantastic. Why tf would you ever cut food inspection when it was already underfunded before?

Instagram keeps adding new features you have to opt out of because they know most accounts on there are dead but not deleted

Revisiting old stories and old media that you had strong feelings about is one of the most enriching things you can do for your taste

Sports terms we need to retire until people can use them correctly: - Golden generation - Dream Team - Analytics

Checked out the Fox feed and the announcers are British and can’t pronounce the Mexican players’ names??? Uh uh no no. Back to Telemundo I go

viva mexico guey

New PlayStation marketing just dropped

Ok I fear Pelinka may have taken Luka too literally when he said he wanted shooters and a good center because the defense is about to be a mess this season. Mamu, Grimes, Sexton… these are all offensive players with limited defense. Carr is suddenly really important as a two-way player

Nick@slownick.bsky.social · last mo.

The price was way too steep (Who gives away multiple unprotected picks these days?), but the Lakers got their center. A top three of Luka, Reaves, and Kessler is a championship core though, esp in this era of high variance

The price was way too steep (Who gives away multiple unprotected picks these days?), but the Lakers got their center. A top three of Luka, Reaves, and Kessler is a championship core though, esp in this era of high variance

Republic hanging on by a thread

Steve Vladeck@stevevladeck.bsky.social · last mo.

Final #SCOTUS ruling is birthright citizenship. For a 6-3 majority (Thomas, Alito & Gorsuch, dissenting), Chief Justice Roberts *strikes down* President Trump's executive order purporting to limit which individuals born in the United States would automatically be US citizens; preserves status quo:

“Well at least we still have birthright citizenship” is pretty grim

In case anyone is keeping score, Pizza Hut franchisees are suing corporate because the AI they’re mandated to use is losing them money and Starbucks axed their inventory AI because it was often wrong. But! The federal govt is arguing that we can’t force Grok to shutdown its illegal diesel engines

I don’t know who said it first but I keep coming back to this very basic response to AI-generated writing: “Why would I read something you couldn’t be bothered to write?” And you can extend this to all AI slop. If you don’t care to make it, why should I care to see it? Soulless stolen derivatives

Any democratic platform in 2028 that doesn’t include expanding/reforming/packing SCOTUS is unserious

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Modern sports fandom means engaging with the huge portion of each constituency that does not watch the games but loves engaging in the discourse anyway

An injured Luka-Kyrie backcourt made it to the Finals two years ago. A Luka-Reaves backcourt can definitely win one. Just need to build correctly around them. Three point shooters, lob threats, defense defense defense

At this point the ultra rich have so much wealth that we could significantly raise their taxes and they’d still end up richer anyway. If anyone hits a trillion in personal wealth there should be an automatic tax fee of at least $100 billion. People are starving. People are unhoused. Be serious

Peacock has been defaulting to Spanish ever since a trip to Mexico and honestly it’s enriching the Copa Mundial de la FIFA for me. They don’t go to full ads during the pausa de hidratación. They just have some live reads

If we ever get another non-Republican administration, they have a ton of work to do breaking up all this corporate consolidation, particularly with media companies

“Filipinos name their kids weird.” Ok well the Spanish made whole towns of people take on Spanish last names. So god forbid their given names are a little unique and easier to track down. Maybe a portmanteau of their parents’ names is their actual legacy, not Rodriguez, Domingo, or whatever