Josh Lunden
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Josh Lunden
@joshlunden.bsky.social
March 7, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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Most of the big prizes at the Oscars went to “Anora” and “The Brutalist”—“two blazingly intelligent, vividly personal movies, both encouraging signs of an American independent cinema not yet in its long-anticipated death throes,” @justincchang.bsky.social writes.
At the Oscars, “Anora” Keeps a Dream of American Cinema Alive
The ninety-seventh annual Academy Awards were buoyed by two plucky indies and a brave, history-making Palestinian-Israeli documentary.
www.newyorker.com
March 3, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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Gene Hackman left a rare cinematic legacy behind as “an everyman who defined a generation of moviemaking better than anyone else,” writes David Sims: theatln.tc/54WoBnFq
Gene Hackman Redefined the Leading Man
The veteran actor embodied a new, harder-edged generation of cinema.
theatln.tc
February 27, 2025 at 10:41 PM
February 13, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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This guy is as dumb as a box of hammers
Hegseth at NATO summit: "We can talk all we want about values. Values are important. But you can't shoot values."
February 13, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent.

Opportunities are everywhere.

Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉
January 30, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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Gulf of America sounds like a sombrero filled with deep fried mayonnaise that if you finish in under an hour you get for free plus a t-shirt
*no utensils allowed
January 24, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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Really noticing the slow drip of losing big budget journalism content. Not as many Vice videos, Vox etc. A general feeling of quietness creeping in
January 25, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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Ours is an era of obsession as much as distraction. “To ascribe our woes to a society-wide attention-deficit disorder is to make the wrong diagnosis,” Daniel Immerwahr writes.
What if the Attention Crisis Is All a Distraction?
From the pianoforte to the smartphone, each wave of tech has sparked fears of brain rot. But the problem isn’t our ability to focus—it’s what we’re focussing on.
www.newyorker.com
January 25, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Often when someone asks me about my “ideal future,” the first thing that comes to mind is “Star Trek: The Next Generation.” I would guess I’m not unique in that. This sent me down a rabbit hole today about Star Trek’s use of AI.
January 23, 2025 at 1:07 AM