Mark Hamill does some smooth Jedi moves on over-eager Star Wars fans:
My friend Vivian has released her new EP, “In Between Times”. Listen on Bandcamp, and drop a few bucks if you like what you hear.
New Yorker thinkpiece about how we no longer use facts to justify our beliefs, which, okay, but I’m pretty sure we never did.
And this short vid summarising psychologist Paul Bloom’s take on why empathy is a bad thing is infuriating in its bland dumbness. “We go to war because we are told people are suffering and we need to save them, then it turns out we harm loads more people, THANKS EMPATHY”. Linking to see if I’m motivated enough to read deeper and figure out if this guy has a point or not. But I suspect not.
Both those via the Nextdraft newsletter of interesting things, well worth the subscription.
Actually these might have come from there too – Vanity Fair’s writeup of the senior citizens behind the biggest jewel heist in British history. (There _must_ be a film of this in production already.)
The origin of the Airball chant, basketball’s most humiliating crowd response.
Edward Gorey’s War of the Worlds illustrations.
The AV Club has an overview of the vast store of unaired TV pilots at DailyMotion, including Young MacGyver and Buffy: The Animated Series (which I’d never seen before).
Via Billy: the story of when, in 1906, a young African man was exhibited with the apes in a zoo.
And finally, what do you get when you cross legendary bad movie The Room with legendary good musical Hamilton?