Services selling NCII accept multiple forms of payment, such as the example here, which accepts everything from India's UPI system to the crypto-based Moonpay.

Credit again to @santi4dc.bsky.social who saw this issue coming a mile away and got to work.

In an illustration of the exponential increase in scale, this report notes how there has been a 2,408% increase in volume year-on-year in referral links to NCII providers on major platforms.

Did not expect this to be one of the best movies I'd never heard of.

Just found out this exists, must own it

#filmsky, vibe check

July is going to be stuffed with blockbusters so if there's one movie you see before the deluge, make sure it's Past Lives

The movie rests on an imagined perspective that was unlike anything I'd ever seen in a story like this

Slow start on this summer's movie season

Reading this in @miasato.bsky.social's great Verge piece got me wondering about how much more I've seen the reddit search thing lately, and turns out it *has* permeated the public consciousness in a big way over the past few years.

Noticeable takeoff for people using it in 2021/2022

Average rally length over time for a few hundred Big 3 matches – each player's ability to keep the rally length where they want it to be based on the surface is remarkable

Data courtesy Jeff Sackmann & The Tennis Abstract Match Charting Project

2023 shaping up to be a banner year for my watching in-theater movies (green) even if all movies (grey) are lagging behind 2022