NEW: Astronaut Reid Wiseman shares a video of ‘Earthset’ that was taken with his iPhone
“This is uncropped, uncut with 8x zoom which is quite comparable to the view of the human eye…” Wiseman said.
This has to be the greatest iPhone video of all time.
Yes, an amazing season. Margo Martindale!
Good for those teaching business of media: streamers pushing us to ad tiers.
what if he wanted to be basic this whole time and he just became prime minister because Dad Stuff
Headline on Hollywood Reporter that reads ”Paddington 4, Escape From New York' Reboot in the Works”
I misread the headline as one movie and got very excited for a moment…
On the theme of kids of astronauts, this is Maya Glover, the daughter of NASA astronaut Victor Glover and Dionna Glover. Maya is at Cal Poly doing architecture.
From her Insta: mayalorinnn.
Watching the 1995 science fiction classic Waterworld starring Jennifer Aniston.
I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake By A Horse Hello. I am a horse. I work very hard at my job of being a horse. When humans say move the heavy thing, I move the heavy thing. When humans sit on top of me and pull on my head, I carry them where they want to go. The main food the humans give me is hay and oats. But I am thinking it would be nice to have a different food. I am thinking I would like to try cake. Yes, yes. Cake. I know all about it. When humans eat cake, it is in glad times. It is the food for a celebration, such as when a woman becomes 47. I have seen cake on the Fourth of July. When humans have a cake, they stand around it and clap hands and smile and say happy birthday at each other. Sometimes there are beautiful markings on a cake, such as balloons or a pink shape. Sometimes the top of a cake is on fire and a boy must blow on the fire with mouth wind. This is the scariest cake. I do not want this kind. But I will eat any other cake. Any cake that is not the fire cake that tries to kill the boy. Please understand: I do not get money for doing work. I do not get to go inside the house. All I am either doing my horse job or standing in my pen or eating food off the floor. I always do these things. But I have never once gotten cake and I would like it very much. I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children. I am more helpful to the farm. Children do not move the heavy things like me or let anyone ride on them. And yet they get cake. Maybe the humans will realize this. Maybe they will say, "You know who deserves cake? That horse. That horse whose back we are always on." Every day I dream about what it will be like if I get to eat cake. Here is what will happen. First, I will walk to the cake and putt my nose at it like hrrfff to make and stomping my hooves to make sure it is not a snake. Then I will trot in a circle to show that I am a horse and I am large. After that, I will nuzzle the cake to …
The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me.
It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."
NYT on the steady decline in reality TV production...now I gotta just get my own article on the the end of peak reality TV written. Summer? 🙏
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/b...
Streaming subscription revenue tripled in 5 years, from $50 to $150 billion.
And they're using unfettered price hikes to "nudge" subscribers to ad tiers — which are even more lucrative.
www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus... #Streaming
Did you know that there's a third-party TweetDeck equivalent for Bluesky? Try the excellent @deck.blue
27 years later, every show on this list—other than 90210–is still around.
Aesop: I TOLD YOU
This is a great list of techniques for getting real information out of a Google search and avoiding AI slop and paid results.
(One thing not included is that if you add "-ai" to a search, you block the AI summary) cardcatalogforlife.substack.com/p/google-has...
"Mainstream media" is increasingly a misnomer when applied to outlets that publish content created by people they employ.
That's now a niche in a media market dominated by online megaplatforms that aggregate and monetize content provided for free by others. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...
You can check out a chapter from my book Indie Inc or my article on sex lies and videotape from Film Quarterly :)
Famed CBS anchorman Walter Cronkite while he was a student at UT-Austin. Walter was born in Missouri but moved to Texas when he was 10 years old. He went to elementary school, jr. high, and high school in Texas, then on to UT-Austin. He dropped out after two years to focus on being a journalist.
Post from Julia Fine that says, "Write the book you want to read because you will have to read it 75 times."
This really is a great picture:
My parents just do not understand and I cannot handle it!!!
Totally!
A screenshot with a photograph of a light brown cat whose smooshed face has the effect of making him look grumpy. In the blurry distance is a drawing of this same cat, with a sadder expression. Under the photo, text reads: "Meet Gary, the cat who ended a friendship and cost $25,000 in legal fees" A calligraphic "I" (the logo of the Philadelphia Inquirer) is in the bottom right corner of the image.
Amazing, no notes, I do not desire to learn anything else about this story, for it would only detract from the perfection on this headline.
Well, hey, how cool is this? 👏👏👏
In this report, we survey the past and present of Texas film, TV, and digital media while also looking at the prospects for media production for the state in light of the recent passage of a new film incentive bill, SB 22.
I’m thrilled to announce the publication of a new report, “Roadmap to the Texas Media Industries: The Passage of the 2025 Film Incentive and Beyond.”
This report includes more than a dozen articles produced by a team of researchers from UT-Austin and beyond.
moody.utexas.edu/media/roadma...
