Tony Bacigalupo

@Thinkwert You might prove to be right, just on a much longer time frame. Streaming services playing too many games with limited access is driving people back to physical media.

This is why old school Netflix (back when they mailed DVDs) was such a revelation. They had almost *any movie* you could ever want. I (very wrongly) predicted the pivot to streaming would fail because they gave up what for me was their most important feature: huge selection.

@imPatrickT For anyone else wondering: Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

this is the best trailer for DISCLOSURE DAY

You share 98.8% of your DNA with chimpanzees. A group of 200 of them just tore itself apart in a Ugandan rainforest, and researchers have been watching it happen for a decade. A study came out yesterday in Science, one of the top research journals in the world. For 30 years, scientists tracked the Ngogo chimps in Uganda's Kibale National Park. This was the largest known chimp group on the planet, around 200 animals all living, hunting, and raising families together. Then around 2015, the group started splitting down the middle. Two clusters, one on the west side of the territory and one in the center, stopped spending time together. Males stopped mating with females from the other side. By 2018, they'd drawn a line through the forest and refused to cross it. The Western chimps started raiding. Between 2018 and 2024, they killed 7 adult males and 17 babies from the Central group. They ripped infants straight off their mothers' chests. Fourteen more Central males vanished during that stretch, bodies never found, while Western's population climbed from 76 to 108. John Mitani, a University of Michigan researcher who spent over 20 years with these chimps, told NBC he believes the Central group is "doomed." He used the phrase "extinction event." This almost never happens. DNA evidence suggests chimp communities fracture like this roughly once every 500 years. The only other time anyone saw it was in the 1970s with Jane Goodall's chimps in Tanzania, but researchers questioned that case because Goodall's team had been feeding bananas to the animals for years, which may have warped their natural behavior. Ngogo is the first split observed with zero human interference. The cause dates back to 2014. Five males died that year, likely from disease. These weren't random chimps. They had close bonds on both sides of the group, the kind of friendships that kept 200 animals functioning as one unit. Once they were gone, a new top male seized control in 2015, a disease swept through and killed 25 more in 2017, and the two sides just kept drifting until there was nothing connecting them anymore. One part of the paper sat with me. These chimps have no ethnicity. No religion. No political parties. The war started because friendships broke down, cliques solidified, and new group identities replaced years of cooperation. Aaron Sandel, the lead researcher from UT Austin, argued that keeping relationships alive across group lines may be the actual recipe for preventing this kind of collapse. In a species 98.8% identical to us, that recipe failed in under ten years.

If you share a Google Spreadsheet with me, I *will* reformat it. I *will* delete the superfluous columns and rows. I *will* freeze headers and columns. This is your fair warning.

@greendragonhq We were also supposed to get the canceled ACA subsidies as cash.

Reminder that Trump owes us all $8,700. $5,000 DOGE check. $2,000 tariff revenue check. $1,700 tariff refund check.

They really needed this guy on the set of Emmett Otter's Jug-Band Christmas.

@kameraad52 @maddierune LOL I'll dm you

@tonybgoode @maddierune Wait wut 🎉

I don’t know, I just keep coming back to this idea that children are supposed to outgrow you. That’s the whole point, right? You give them everything you didn’t have & pray they run farther than you ever imagined. You hand them a map & whisper…please, find the roads I was too afraid to walk, let the world be kinder to you than it was to me, step into the future like it’s yours, because it is. And honestly, the idea of being jealous of them feels so backwards. Because a parent who envies their child has forgotten the assignment entirely. If my children surpass me, GOOD, that means the story didn’t end with my mistakes. Envy has absolutely no place in a room where you’re teaching someone how to grow. I want them to take every beautiful thing I ever did & every bad thing I survived and use it as scaffolding. Please, climb so high the sun is forced to learn your name. Please, fly so high you never have to look back to see where I stopped. And if all I ever do in this life is give my children the ground to launch from, then that’s enough for me. More than enough.

@LubaYudasina maps.app.goo.gl/zQHswgCS1DmxTV…

NYC needs more coworking coffee shops! What are your favorite? Recently discovered Gogojang Cafe in Midtown

@maddierune Thank you! First baby coming next month so I'm soaking it all up.

@tonybgoode Thank you 😌

So we're gonna do a mashup of two Elton John songs Ok, love it A verse from one of them Then the prechorus of the other one Throw in a few new lines Then the prechorus of the first one Repeat Neither of the song's iconic choruses, though? Never I smell 2.6b Spotify streams

I can tell that it’s causing discomfort when I refuse to look at my phone idly in public spaces. But I’m trying to bring back just looking around

I still think the key question of this decade is: what do you want more than dopamine? because there are infinite ways to waste life scrolling, sitting in group chats, having endless conversations with LLMs etc. So what do you actually want? Are you doing the thing?

Whatever political movement can actually inculcate gratitude for the material abundance of modern society while also allowing grief at the loss of sincerely coherent, beautiful and purposeful collective meaning-making systems that existed in more materially impoverished eras...

BRING BACK HANGS!!! remove the barrier to hanging out: > "dropping by" someone's home > cozy movie nights with pals > meeting your neighbors > working out of coffee shops > recurring weekly traditions > random phone calls to friends integrate COMMUNITY into your week!!

This is how I look at things.

going to the movies together is sacred. we’re actually bonded 4 life over this cinematic experience and expensive popcorn.

@owlthatissuperb "Zone gardening" took this approach, and it was a big part of Central Park's radical transformation from its low point in the 70s. maximumnewyork.com/i/133158724/co…

this might sound insane but imagine going into the subway and 5 of your neighbors are cleaning it. wow. what a world we could live in.