first racoon

if only they’d come so we could hug.

a touchscreen mac might be the clearest sign that apple is abandoning everything it once stood for.

apple used to have a pretty simple philosophy: don't rush to be first, just make it better. and let each device do what it's actually designed to do.

a touchscreen mac goes against both.

it probably won't be as good as an ipad for touch, or as good as a traditional mac for productivity.

even tim cook once compared combining a tablet and laptop to merging a toaster with a refrigerator.

kind of ironic that apple might end up building the exact thing it spent years explaining why nobody needed.

the real test of a first date is the walk back to your car. either you're already hoping to see them again, or you're wondering how you managed to talk about absolutely nothing for two hours.

the great transformation is karl polanyi’s idea that modern capitalism didn’t just create new ways to make money. it transformed society by turning things like land, labor, and money into commodities that could be bought and sold.

before industrial capitalism, economic life was usually embedded in family, community, religion, and social obligations. then the market started becoming the organizing force itself.

polanyi’s bigger warning was that society can’t be treated like just another market. eventually, people push back when economic rules start reshaping everything else.

hot take: the vmas might measure fandom power almost as much as the music itself.

for many major 2026 categories, mtv let fans vote up to 10 times a day.

so when an artist wins, how much are we rewarding the best video and how much are we rewarding the fanbase that organized hardest?

at some point an award show starts looking a little like a popularity war with trophies.

turning “how did you two meet?” into “we both swiped right and somehow survived the talking stage.”

sometimes cheating starts long before anything physical happens. for example, constantly sending flirty messages to someone, hiding the chat from your partner, and telling yourself “nothing happened.” maybe nothing happened physically. but something already changed.

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a thinking error that feels completely reasonable while you are inside it. one bad thing happens and your brain turns it into “this always happens.” someone seems distant and suddenly it becomes “they hate me.” you make one mistake and somehow arrive at “i am a failure.” the strange part is that the brain is not necessarily trying to lie to you. it is trying to simplify reality. sometimes it just simplifies it into something much worse.

the baroque period was, in many ways, an age obsessed with finding order in nature and understanding that order as something ultimately rooted in god. art, mathematics, architecture, philosophy, science, and music all reflected that search for structure, proportion, and harmony.

in music, repeating patterns and ostinatos are common, and slower tempos such as adagio, andante, larghetto, adagietto, and largo appear frequently. compared with the emotional turbulence of the romantic period, baroque music often feels more spacious, balanced, and controlled.

that sense of order is part of what makes it so calming.

music around 60 to 80 bpm is often associated with relaxation and sustained attention, while even slower tempos are commonly used for meditation and sleep. when that slower pulse is combined with the patterned structure of baroque music, the effect can feel especially soothing.

another reason is the way tension and resolution are handled. harmonic tension is often introduced and resolved relatively quickly, so the listener is not left suspended in discomfort for very long.

compare that with wagner’s tristan und isolde, where tension can be stretched across enormous spans of time before finally resolving.

in short, baroque music reflects the same larger idea that shaped the period itself: the search for order in a world believed to have been created according to divine structure.

johann sebastian bach made that connection explicit. he often wrote soli deo gloria on his manuscripts.

“glory to god alone.”

following king mohammed vi of morocco's decision yesterday to pardon nearly two thousand prisoners, thousands of people reportedly headed today toward ceuta and melilla in north africa.

although both ceuta and melilla are located on the north african coast, they are spanish territories and part of the schengen area, which means they are legally spanish soil.

according to reports, many of the migrants were dropped off at the spanish border in trucks and vans.

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the last ten minutes completely changed the way i saw this film.

for most of the runtime, i thought i was watching a fairly straightforward revenge story told through metaphor. then the ending clicked, everything fell into place, and what had been a 7/10 instantly became a 9/10 for me.

the only reason it isn't higher is the opening sequence. i still have no meaningful explanation for it, and honestly, i wish i could unsee it.

the pain of feeling the distance between yourself and the world.

the cinematography, performances, and overall production are solid, though not particularly groundbreaking. what really makes the film stand out is its central idea and the moral dilemma it leaves you with.

imagine being deeply in love with someone. would you actually want that person to love you back with absolute, all-consuming devotion? the film suggests that our desire to be loved has a terrifying side. many of the moments presented as horror aren't supernatural at all—they already exist in countless real-life relationships: jealous rages that end in murder, obsessive stalking disguised as love, and complete self-destruction in the name of devotion.

in that sense, the movie argues that love itself can be a horror story.

i couldn't help but think that, in the hands of a director like kubrick or spielberg, this premise could have become one of those unforgettable films that stays with people for decades. even so, i still enjoyed it and appreciated what it was trying to say.

boring comfort.