Sad to hear that Marjane Satrapi has died. Just screened PERSEPOLIS in my Directed by Women class this spring. A political, fierce, and uncompromising artist.
There’s a variation on the Annabelle Butterfly Dance at the end here 🦋
LA Bluesky lining up to make Spencer Pratt jokes:
"If our descendants are still around in 100 million years, I predict they will be flower people. They will have figured out how to work in deep cooperation with flowering plants so that they and the rest of the ecosystem can thrive."
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In "California Futures," Daniel Lanza Rivers examines histories of environmental speculation and extraction in California, thinking beyond the colonial Anthropocene to articulate opportunities of land return and environmental justice under climate change. Read the intro for free: buff.ly/qzn0f6a
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I see a lot of charts everyday. Few make me go: THIS IS CRAZY. www.carbonbrief.org/ai-boom-mean...
Full fathom five / the Florsheims fit fine
Speaking of flowers, here's one of the beautiful stencil-colored rotating flower films from the collection of the EYE Filmmuseum in Amsterdam.
Veldbloemen (Gaumont, 1912) Watch to the end for a magical transformation. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xc2I...
Robert Ryan and Mary Astor in the brilliant noir ACT OF VIOLENCE (Fred Zinnemann, 1948).
MarxGPT, Max Weber, and Émile Durkheim chatbots in this story are funny but a distraction.
More important: AI is extracting public resources for private profit. “All of these companies need to show revenue, and where is better for that than public school systems?” www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/m...
In his latest book, biologist David George Haskell describes flowering plants as “world creators.” In an interview with Yale Environment 360, he explains how they spurred the evolution of new ecosyste...
