One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being. --May Sarton http://t.co/gxRukxAgdw.

Wow!.

This is the type of film I would probably never watch except for having little kids around in extended family. Fun, with a strong story confronting unhealthy cultural standards, packaged in intricate knots of beautiful animation & the silk fabric of irresistibly charming music.

There are many cultural references! But the deepest Korean theme is shame, honor, secrecy. Perfectionism, conformity, impossible expectations lead not just to obsession with plastic surgery and the highest suicide rate among OECD nations—but also, inevitably, a low birthrate.

Tigers are an important part of Korean myth, literature, art, and history. I enjoyed seeing the charming blue tiger character. Background on tigers and magpies in Korean art:.

Their kids have been playing excerpts, singing the songs, learning dances all month. Boppy boy band song SODA POP has reached #5 on Billboard’s global chart while GOLDEN is viral on social media and has reached #1. Not bad for a film that both adores and satirizes Kpop.

Enjoyed watching KPOP DEMON HUNTERS at a family movie night. SPIDER-VERSE aesthetics. Emotionally resonant + hilarious at the same time. Feels genuinely Korean. Music is infectious. Mixture, second chances, betrayal, shame, authenticity, sacrifice: deep themes for a kids film.

It’s a distraction to levy false and misleading criticism of political rivals. No, Trump is not kludging the White House (1). The real architectural rendering of larger event space (2) is more cohesive. A fair AI rendering (3) would be based on that.

Great thread! . “As @pkedrosky has written, as a % of GDP, spending on AI infra has already exceeded spending on telecom and internet infrastructure from the dot-com boom….”.

Learned something new today: there were thousands of Irish immigrants in 19th century Latin America who helped liberate Chile, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, etc. Bolívar described them and the English troops as “…the saviours of my country.”.

I generally agree being a genius or having extraordinary accomplishments can serve in lieu of experience/resume. But the chaotic, ignorant, ineffective, and harmful DOGE efforts (ultimately failing) confirms—not mocks—the need for broader intelligence, training & experience.

STEM people are great, arts people are great. We need rockets, research labs, physics, books, art, music, ethics, moral courage to be human. There are different modes of intelligence. It’s a mistake—scientism—to think one narrow way of understanding the world is uniquely better.

RT @BobSnz: My brother and his wife set my roommate up with a friend of my sister in law’s on a blind dinner date with them. My roommate wa….

Leftists need to chill out about racy clothing ads, white guys loving on their families, mild jokes about sensitive topics, rigid codes on self-expression. Hysteria is so unattractive. Screeching puritans + arcane culture war mores push people away from healthy liberalism.

Good article on @internetarchive gaining federal depository status, “joining a network of over 1,100 libraries that archive government documents and make them accessible to the public…”.

RT @EduardHabsburg: Weeeeeeeeelllll. .

“The machine, the Linac Coherent Light Source at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory…accelerates electrons to more than 99 percent the speed of light and then shoots them through undulating magnetic fields to create a very bright beam of one trillion (1012) x-ray photons.”

The x-ray used to measure the temperature in this experiment is a 1.9 mile/3 kilometer-long laser in Menlo Park!.

Fascinating!. "’It's important to clarify that we did not violate the Second Law of Thermodynamics,’ White said with a chuckle. ‘What we demonstrated is that these catastrophes can be avoided if materials are heated extremely quickly—in our case, within trillionths of a second.’”.

“…gold had been superheated to an astonishing 19,000 kelvins (33,740 degrees Fahrenheit)—more than 14 times its melting point and well beyond the proposed entropy catastrophe limit—all while maintaining its solid crystalline structure.” 🫢.

RT @VictorEzteves: Photos I took in Iceland 🇮🇸