Favorite scenes from TV and movies

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I’ve been collecting these for 20+ years. One of the reasons I started blogging… to have a place to collect these. I could have linked each of these directly to the post/video (see Five Easy Pieces below) but it’s better if you just browse. Or you can use the search box at the top of the page.

  • 12 Monkeys (Consumerism)
  • Alien (Breaking quarantine)
  • Andy Griffith Show (“Is this good government!”)
  • Boiler Room (Ben Affleck speech)
  • Brazil (Ministry of Information)
  • Broadcast News (Keep it to yourself)
  • Carnivale (gas station shooting)
  • Charlie Chan (Mantan Moreland and Ben Carter)
  • Dave (budget cutting)
  • Dave (Commerce Secretary)
  • Deadwood (kidney stone)
  • Dr. Strangelove
  • Five Easy Pieces (diner scene)
  • Game Change (Concession speech)
  • Glengarry Glen Ross (always be closing)
  • Good Will Hunting (why not work for the NSA)
  • Inherit the Wind (creationism vs evolution)
  • Mississippi Burning (Gene Hackman grabs deputy’s balls)
  • Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (assorted)
  • Network (Mad as hell)
  • Rainmaker (“You must be stupid!”)
  • Rambo III (Freedom speech)
  • Snowpiercer (axe battle)
  • Sorcerer (bridge scene; picking out a truck)
  • St. Vincent (Bill Murray sings Bob Dylan)
  • The Deer Hunter (fuck it)
  • The Deer Hunter (Russian roulette)
  • The Dentist (W.C.Fields)
  • The Memory Expert (W.C. Fields)
  • Time Bandits (understanding technology)
  • Shakespeare In Love (“It’s a mystery”)
  • Tarzan the Ape Man (pygmy scene)
  • The Shield (“yammy full of Georgia joy juice”)
  • Three Days of the Condor (final scene)
  • Time Bandits (understanding technology)
  • True Detective (Philosophy of Rust Cohle; Rust Cohle on religion)
  • True Romance (White Boy Day)

Mastodon is designed to be “antiviral”

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Clive Thompson provides a thoughtful look at how Mastodon is different from Twitter (and most other platforms):

Perhaps even more important than the design of Mastodon is the behavior established by its existing user base — i.e. the folks who’ve been using it for the last six years. Those people have established what is, in many ways, an antiviral culture. They push back at features and behaviors that are promoting virality, and they embrace things that add friction to the experience. They prefer slowness to speediness.

Mastodon will never really be a replacement for Twitter. It’s a subtly different place. You see less of the massively viral, you-gotta-see-this posts. You see a lot more murmuring conversation.