Ben Folds spends a non-stop hour swinging wildly between virtuosic on, and literally violent, with a capital V, to, the piano, while he and his bandmates tear through 15 absolutely unskippable 90s bangers as if they share one brain, twelve limbs, and three perfectly synchronized hearts. Top it all off with a bunch of dancing dudes showing up about halfway through the set in the back of every shot of Ben Folds, looking EXACTLY like every bully I ever had, singing every single word of every single song with a big innocent smile, and busting moves like theyโre in a jazzy Gen X dance-off.
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Ben Folds Five: The Complete Sessions at West 54th, 2001 - โ โ โ โ โ
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Facebook has been caught with its hand in this cookie jar over and over again. It’s like Zuckerberg doesn’t think anyone outside the company can… read computer code:
The most recent version of Meta AI, a companion app for its line of smart glasses, strips out the unactivated software components that powered the system Meta internally called NameTag. The version published the day of WIREDโs report included several code libraries explicitly named for face recognition. Fridayโs release includes none of them.
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Mike Masnick of Techdirt:
But at a time when the Supreme Court keeps telling us we shouldn’t believe that they make decisions on partisan grounds, it sure would help if they actually stopped doing things differently depending on the partisan valence of each case – something Alito seems to do quite regularly.
Absolutely right.
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Paul McCartney, in an interview by The Rest is History’s Tom Holland:
You would know certain chords. And then someone would know an extra cord. So you would go to his house and learn this extra cord, and you’d build up your knowledge through things like that.
Itโs wild to find out that Paul McCartney and I learned how to play guitar in basically the same way.
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Jeremy Yurow, writing at Courthouse News Service about Hawaii’s new “anti-Citizens United” law:
The bill takes aim at the U.S. Supreme Courtโs 2010 Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission ruling, which allowed corporations to spend unlimited amounts of money in elections. Lawmakers, drawing from a legal theory developed by the Center for American Progress, argued that because states create corporations and grant them their powers, Hawaii could simply decline to grant corporations the power to spend in elections.
You love to see it.
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Matthew Haughey, who has a masters degree in soil chemistry, writes about why some farms plant red clover in the spring.
Haughey jokingly swears heโs fun at parties, but people with specialized science knowledge are precisely the folks I want to talk to at parties.
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The fact that there is no statutory ban on the government commercially sourcing personal location data without a warrant is a mockery of the Fourth Amendment.
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This ruling seems to be shocking parts of the tech web, but all the court did was apply the plain language of Appleโs developer agreement. The company has never needed cause to expel an app from the App Store.
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๐Jay Willis in his Balls & Strikes newsletter:
Although the force of the Republican Party’s response to Scalia’s death felt like a “shocker” to some, the reality is that the right had been quietly putting in the work–of building a judicial pipeline, of championing a particular vision for the Constitution, and of making sure the base understood the stakes of every Supreme Court vacancy–for a long time. The left had not.
The long game has been the weakest part of the liberal political playbook for at least the 42 years Iโve been alive. Theyโre always skating to where the puck isโฆ
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At $150 per ticket, a family of four will pay $600 for the 80-minute tour of Jim Hensonโs Creature Shop. The money grab is going to be prohibitive for a large swath of the very people most likely to appreciate and delight in the experience. ๐
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The Super Mario Bros. Movie, 2023 - โ โ โ โ
Watched on Sunday January 18, 2026.
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Kung Fu Panda 4, 2024 - โ โ โ โ
Watched on Saturday January 17, 2026.
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Ne Zha 2, 2025 - โ โ โ โ โ
Watched on Friday January 16, 2026.
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Anora, 2024 - โ โ โ โ
You probably wonโt believe this until you finish the movie, and maybe not even then, but itโs a romanceโฆ
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TRON: Ares, 2025
Watched on Sunday January 11, 2026.
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Ne Zha, 2019 - โ โ โ โ
Watched on Sunday January 11, 2026.
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Ford v Ferrari, 2019
Watched on Saturday January 3, 2026.
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I will always link to something Bari Weiss doesnโt want people to read or watch or know. In this case, she spiked a 60 Minutes segment about one of Trump’s more egregious presidential crimes, the CECOT renditions, but it aired in Canada anyway, and made it onto the Internet Archive.
Source: The Verge via Daring Fireball
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The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, 2002
Watched on Thursday January 1, 2026.
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The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, 2001 - โ โ โ โ
Watched on Thursday January 1, 2026.
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Ernest Saves Christmas, 1988 - โ โ โ โ โ
A forever classic. Cut anyone who doesnโt enjoy it out of your life. No exceptions.