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Last night I watched Robert Bresson’s 1959 masterpiece Pickpocket. The act of crime is portrayed as poetically as one man’s path to emotional revelation.
https://memora8ilia.com/index.php/2022/12/23/last-night-i-watched-robert-bressons-1959/
On the 20th anniversary of Joe Strummer’s passing I feel the need to share my favorite opening credits sequence for a TV show of all time:
https://memora8ilia.com/index.php/2022/12/22/on-the-20th-anniversary-of-joe-strummers-passing/
The first lab-grown seafood will be fancy
❝ Fish farming was supposed to relieve the pressure of commercial fishing on oceans, but that hasn’t come to pass. As fish farming has grown six-fold since 1990, the rate of wild-caught fish has plateaued, not declined. We farm fish so that we can eat more of them, not so we can preserve wild populations. […] Fish has the lowest carbon footprint of all meats, yet it’s uniquely harmful to oceanic ecosystems and marine life — commercial fishing is a major threat to coral reefs, and discarded fishing gear accounts for 10 percent of plastic found in the ocean. ❞
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❝ The seafood supply chain is also dizzyingly complex, lacking the traceability of most other meat products. For example, a recent study found that out of 105 samples of fish used in sushi, ceviche, and poke dishes at a smattering of Orange County, California, restaurants, almost two-thirds were mislabeled. That won’t be true of cultivated seafood. ❞
https://memora8ilia.com/index.php/2022/12/14/the-first-lab-grown-seafood-will-be-fancy/
Kenneth Anger’s Scorpio Rising was added to the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress today.
https://memora8ilia.com/index.php/2022/12/14/kenneth-angers-scorpio-rising-was-added-to-the/