🎥 The 22 Most Exciting Films to Watch This Season — The Atlantic

Killer list that’s here more as a reference for myself than anything else.

👗 ‘Fashion freaks me out’: the anti-style magazine sharing profits with staff — Guardian

What a killer looking magazine.

🧾 Epic Games Sells Bandcamp Amid Layoffs — Pitchfork

I knew that original sale was going to be a mistake, now I’m worried Bandcamp will end up in this corporatized limbo before eventually shuttering. Maybe they can pull a Barstool and end up independent again…

🦌 Blazers trading Damian Lillard to Bucks in 3-team deal — ESPN

Wowow! Didn’t see this coming. I still don’t feel like the potential Heat deal is much worse than this and the Bucks will be asking a ton of Malik Beasley defensively.

🧑‍⚖️ New York judge finds Donald Trump committed business fraud for a decade — The Washington Post

The defenses Donald Trump attempts to articulate in his sworn deposition are wholly without basis in law or fact.

Feels like one of the most obvious things a judge has ever had to say.

👔 Wardrobe malfunction — Indignity

Dress codes are dumb. Ties are dumb. The end.

🖋️ Writers Guild Deal Reached With Studios, Potentially End of Strike — The Hollywood Reporter

The deal will first go to the union’s negotiating committee for a vote, then to the WGA West’s board and the WGA East’s council for approval; both referendums are tentatively scheduled for Tuesday. If rubber-stamped by those leaders, board and council will also vote on whether to end the strike

🧟 The Toxic Avenger Review: Peter Dinklage Brings Soul To A Gore-Soaked Comedy Of Anarchy — /Film

Didn’t actually read this… but between this headline and the still images that were released of Radcliffe and Dinklage it’d be hard to overstate my excitement for this.

👴 Murdoch’s Audience of Two — Puck

The biggest news of the day and I think Belloni nails the reason why given there is no chance Murdoch is actually stepping away.

🧠 The “Cancel Culture” Headline That Broke My Brain — The Present Age

That’s often the goal with this kind of reframe: make every issue that you don’t actually want to debate into a meta-debate about “free speech.” Everything else (including issues that are actually about free speech) gets ignored, brushed aside, and equivocated away.

💽 One More Time… - Album Trailer — blink-182

It’s pretty cool seeing these three guys back together again and talking a little bit about all the shit that went down between them. I really hope the album lives up to the hype on October 20th.

⚔️ Lynch law meets lynch legalism — INDIGNITY

I understand the worry and desire to protect one’s family, but the fact the threat exists should be telling these people something…

💬 Jacqueline Woodson:

The more specific we are, the more universal something can become. Life is in the details. If you generalize, it doesn’t resonate. The specificity of it is what resonates.

Saving this for myself for work.

🎼 An Open Letter to Taylor Swift — Ted Gioia

This has been shared pretty widely already, and I dig the sentiment, but if I’m being honest, I don’t feel like I fully understand what the solution is. “Form a company” sounds a bit abstract/obtuse to me…

🧰 The UAW launches a historic strike against all Big 3 automakers — NPR

The targeted approach here is interesting given it starts on a pretty small scale, but my hope is the Democratic Party supports them in full force to show Americans they stand with the people and not the execs.

🎥 The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar — Trailer

Henry Sugar hits Netflix on Sep 27 and three more short films from Wes Anderson will be released over the following three days. Color me excited.

🏛️ Elizabeth Warren explains her new Big Tech-focused Digital Consumer Protection Commission Act — Vox

I’m a huge fan of Warren and I really hope she is able to gain some traction here so something can eventually pass in the near future.

🎙️ Introducing: Economist Podcasts+ — The Economist

The Economist is taking all of their podcasts except The Intelligence behind a paywall. Sounds like they’ll be setting up subscriber feeds so you can still use any podcast app.

📋 2023 TV Shows — Aboard

I’ve played around with similar TV databases in Notion, Roam, Tana, Kinopio, etc. so I decided to spend some (aka way too much) time giving Aboard a go and porting everything over. Should be pretty comprehensive including every 2023 show worth a go.

🏀 How the NBA’s new rules on resting stars will work — ESPN

In the end, I think this will help curb over-resting a bit, but ultimately, they need less games.

🌊 river — Max Bittker

Max shared this in the Are.na discord and it’s a really neat way to look through tons of cool images from Are.na.

🎃 The Pumpkin Spice Espresso Martini Is A Dark Portent Of Humanity’s Demise — Sprudge

I’m not a pumpkin spice guy, but I think if people like it, let them have it. This also feels like the exact thing that should be at a Starbucks Reserve bar. Funny article though.