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First teaser for the 4K IMAX re-release of ‘AKIRA’. In theaters this September.

currently in the middle of watching it in this order cribbed from a guy on reddit:

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Eagle and Fox together in Dutch Harbor. They both agree something needs to be done.

THIS THING COMING AT YOU Duke University had developed Argus, a 20-legged robot equipped with a camera on each leg, drawing inspiration from the visual system of the sea urchin.

afternoon everyone y'all's favorite village idiot music entity here another month done more shlop from me. got 50 of the best tracks from june, plus here are my favorite albums from the last 2 months. loads of different stuff. enjoy & thank you always! billdifferen.blogspot.com/2026/07/billdi…

@sovietsoleri open.spotify.com/track/3X2jgmpU…

LISTEN: Jacob Rockwell was fined for running a red light in Pensacola, Florida. Only thing is Jacob wasn’t in Florida, he was in Alabama. He sounded off at a local city meeting recently and his concerns go beyond just one citation.

@omgsidewalks It's because our Economic system is built on and designed around lying. Lying to consumers Lying to employees Lying to investors Lying to government Lying to easily impressionable and naive teens Lying to yourself

The clearest 11 minutes I have heard on why the AI capex boom may not pay off. @ChrisBloomstran at the Zurich Project on the depreciation wall, ~$650B of off-balance-sheet SPV debt, and the circular financing between Nvidia, OpenAI, and the hyperscalers.

Robot unboxing scenes will become common in many homes everywhere. Sooner that we think.

Premodern societies tended to be rent by terrible wars. In the early modern period, tens of millions died in wars in Europe, India and China. Just one society found a kind of solution: Japan. Between 1603 and 1853, Japan enjoyed near-perfect peace. The ruling Tokugawa family achieved this through creating what might be seen as the largest prison in the history of the world, the city of Edo (modern Tokyo). worksinprogress.co/issue/samurai-… Most of Japan was governed by about 260 nobles, called ‘daimyo’ (see first map). To secure their loyalty, the government required that the daimyo leave their families permanently in Edo, essentially as hostages to the state. Most daimyo women thus never saw the domains over which their husbands and sons ruled. The daimyo were also required to alternate years in Edo personally. The result was that most of the surface area of Edo was given over to daimyo palaces, or to accommodation for the hundreds of thousands of samurai retainers they brought with them (see second map). This was arranged through an elaborate zoning system, probably the largest use of zoning before modern times. Edo was extraordinarily top-heavy socially: about half of its population were samurai. Samurai were theoretically a warrior class, but since Japan was at peace, they did little real work apart from gentlemanly occupations like calligraphy. Their main income came in the form of tiny hereditary stipends from their daimyos or the government. These stipends were fixed in perpetuity around 1600, declining gradually with inflation over the next quarter of a millennium. Most samurai thus lived in dignified but extreme poverty, their income determined by the favour in which one of their ancestors had stood centuries earlier. The commoner population was also tightly controlled. Commoner Edo was divided into some 1,500-2,000 fenced and gated blocks. These were then subdivided into gated alleys lined with small houses (see third map). The Low City was thus divided up by tens of thousands of internal checkpoints, all of which closed at night. Edo was not under threat of attack in the Tokugawa period and the city as a whole was not fortified. The purpose of this immense labyrinth of walls and gates was to control and monitor the movement of the population. Prisons are useful things, and the Tokugawa system was a kind of success, making Japan the most peaceful society on earth. But it is also a disconcerting reminder of the power of rent-seekers, and how a whole city can be warped by the political exigencies they create. Edo is a particularly striking case of this, but it is far from alone.

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The sound alone is something out of a horror movie. These new type of drones are really unsettling.

happy sunday afternoon another month gone another 50 tracks from me! we got funk from all over brasil, jersey club, out of this world rap, minimal synth bangers, 35 minute avant garde brutal death metal opuses, & much more. enjoy & thank you always <3 billdifferen.blogspot.com/2026/05/billdi…

The fight scene between Tony Jaa and Nathan Jones in The Protector is one of the most intense and brutal moments in martial arts cinema.

Day15 yūshō playoff! Oz Kirishima 12-3 (L) K1 Wakatakakage 12-3 (R) This is it! If Kiri wins it’ll be his 4 yūshō and 2nd in a row and there will be yokozuna talk. It would be WTK’s 2nd yūshō (last one was 4 years ago). Kiri beat WTK once already on Day11 #natsubasho2026

Lateef Crowder is a god damn legend, imagine if Mando fought like this haha (movie is The Protector 2005)

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Pedro Pascal gives a shoutout to the stunt performers who also play The Mandalorian in ‘THE MANDALORIAN & GROGU’. “Brendan Wayne… has been part of Mandalorian from day one. Lateef Crowder is a stunt performer [where] Mando is fighting 80% of the time.”

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Day11 Oz Kirishima 8-2 (L) Km Wakatakakage 8-2 (R) High expectations! A few men share the lead this basho but one of these men will fall behind the rest when the match is done #natsubasho2026

Effects of Creatine, Ginseng, and Astragalus Supplementation on Strength, Body Composition, Mood, and Blood Lipids During Strength-Training in Older Adults jssm.org/mobile/fulltex… Astragalus and ginseng improve the benefits of Creatine over just Creatine alone in humans.

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The bright orange lines appearing to radiate from the nucleus are diffraction spikes created by the interaction of light with Webb’s structure. For this pattern to occur, the light source must be very bright and very concentrated, such as M77’s nucleus. Read more: esawebb.org/images/potm260… #WebbSeesFarther 📷 @ESA / @ESA_webb , @NASA & @csa_asc , A. Leroy 3/3

個人で「もしタランティーノがセーラームーン実写映画を撮ったら」の仮定で、予告編、公式サイト（非公式）、スチル写真、サントラ試聴、撮影風景、レッドカーペットの様子などまでつくった人がいます。わたしは原作が好きで全巻持っているのですが、つくりこみがすごいです。