Bill Bier

@KarenAttiah Steven Chow's "Kung Fu Hustle" same fight choreographer as Crouching Tiger

Trying to distract myself from grief. What are some good martial arts / kung fu movies I should watch

@libshipwreck K-12 curriculum curriculuminsightproject.substack.com/p/to-future-pr…

One of the notable things to pay attention to now is how much a lot of the current anti-AI sentiment is broadening out into a broader critique/rejection of computerization more broadly. Not just a “Cancel ChatGPT” but a “get off your phone as much as possible.”

@rbfrncs Alan Menken composer Little Shop of Horrors: Ronnette Crystal and Chiffon were the Street Urchins and a song in Aladdin

I read a passage about street urchins (c. 1886) and thought "we really don't talk about street urchins any more" but google suggests we're actually talking about them more than ever. Any theories?

@raulpacheco per redfin @ C$2500

@bill_bier Canadian or US?

I used to live here (12th Avenue and Birch Street). When I lived there, I paid $750 Canadian dollars for a one bedroom apartment. I wonder how much these apartments are being rented for. Where would I find this information?

@melnickjeffrey1 versobooks.com/products/1688-…

I would like to learn more about the history of Zaire/Congo for many reasons but not least because this place, from roughly the mid 1980s to the early 1990, kicked up one of music history’s most ebullient and just plain gorgeous genres—soukous-that this planet has ever known.

Ahora en enero, volví a leer ¿Que es Fascismo? Y, ahora en febrero,vuelvo a leer: El origen del totalitarismo, de la inmensa #HannahArent Estoy buscando uno más “light” para intercalarlo. (¿Alguna recomendación? Qué están leyendo ustedes?)

@ArturoVictoria4 La batalla tuvo lugar el 1 de enero de 1586, cuando las fuerzas inglesas lideradas por Sir Francis Drake atacaron y capturaron la ciudad colonial española de Santo Domingo en la isla Hispaniola. cartografo Battista Boazio

Estamos en el siglo XVI, pero todos conectados. #Geopolítica #Venezuela

@HelenBranswell @kakape science.org/content/articl…

@foxypiano It is from a 1998 documentary Koo Nimo Palma Wine Guitar Banyan Archives Production

@foxypiano you tube has a 3:51 minute clip search Len "Boogsie" Sharpe and Koo Nimo

i've been looking for the full part of this video. whether it is from a film, documentary, i don't really know.

@GustavoArellano Pictured from left to right are Lou Gehrig, Joe Cronin, Bill Dickey, Joe DiMaggio, Charlie Gehringer, Jimmie Foxx, and Hank Greenberg.

Is that Hank Greenberg or Charlie Gehringer at far right? Because that Tiger is tall AF!

@Belmonteenredes 1837 narrative, A Narrative of the Adventures and Escape of Moses Roper from American Slavery

La existencia de la esclavitud se basaba en una real o posible aplicación de violencia contra los esclavizados. Esta se desataba a la hora de aplicar castigos, en imagen, una máquina empaquetadora de algodón utilizada para castigar fugitivos, Carolina del Sur, 1830.

@provisionalidea Stafford Beer

1973

@shaindelr working on playing "Movin' Out" by Billy Joel ON BANJO

Is anyone else super amused by their kids' Spotify wrapped? Mine said I'm 47 (I'm actually 48). Meanwhile, it says my 14-year-old is 69 based on the music he's listening to, and one of his friends is supposedly 87 🙃

Found on our evening walk: California poppy blooming on the last day of November, 2025 #FlowerReport

the report of the flowers #flowerreport

@melnickjeffrey1 llegó el pavo

“Alice’s Restaurant” is still great but daughter’s bf just introduced us to this amazing Silvio Mora song about a turkey that’s so glad to have arrived in the DR—where it won’t be eaten—and yeah there’s a new sheriff in town.

@FereshtaKazemi @sethharpesq nytimes.com/2025/11/27/us/…

@sethharpesq Hi Seth, do you have the link to this article? I can't find it online

It was under President Obama that the mission in Afghanistan became all about assassinations, aka “night raids.” His CIA developed and deployed the Zero Unit death squads in which Rahmanullah Lakanwal reportedly served. Apparently the horror of it shattered his mind.

@JasonAChristian @IneluctableQuak The Hole Tsai Ming-liang

The best novel about the pandemic will have to wait till 2027 but the best movie about the pandemic already exists