Not To Critique Evolution, But I Would Think Orange And Black Stripes Wouldn’t Be As Good For Camouflage

understanding the races of middle earth via their most prominent character flaws.

La La Land (2016) dir. Damien Chazelle

I’m letting life hit me until it gets tired. Then I’ll hit back. It’s a classic rope-a-dope.

“Private institutions are under systemic and legal obligations to make money quickly to reward their capitalist investors; thus expensive, uncertain long-term research is inevitably harder and harder to justify as quarters tick by with few money-making breakthroughs to show for it. Small wonder, then, that the Internet, the web, the GUI, modern processors, Wi-Fi signaling, fundamental computer languages, and even Google itself arose from the academic or military research settings where steady funding is more or less assured and near-term stock prices don’t drive whether projects get axed. The history is long—Guglielmo Marconi developed radio for the Royal Navy, Berners-Lee the web protocols for CERN. The OSTP notes, “Past DOD research has resulted in revolutionary technological capabilities such as radar, digital computers, wireless mobile communications, lasers, fiber optics, composite materials, the Internet (and other ‘packet switched’ networks), and satellite navigation.””

— Rob Larson, Bit Tyrants: The Political Economy of Silicon Valley

Seamless offices. Evocative of innovation and openness.

The smoothness of the “walk"🎵♬ ♩ ♪ 

I caught her human parents defiling my forest. They threw their baby at my feet as they ran away. Instead of eating her, I raised her as my own. Now, my poor, ugly, beautiful daughter is neither human nor wolf. PRINCESS MONONOKE もののけ姫 | Mononoke-hime 1997 • dir. Hayao Miyazaki

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The Handmaiden (2016) dir. Park Chan-wook

isn’t it weird how it’s already february but it’s also only february