Nilay called it back in 2024, and now the Gray Lady is on board with recognizing the demise of the open web. It takes a look at how Google went from being a gateway to the internet to becoming the internet for many users who never leave the cozy confines of its AI summaries.
Felicia Day’s shortform web series, The Guild, is about to celebrate its 20th anniversary. Now the cast has something else to celebrate: its new movie getting funded on Kickstarter. As of writing, Codex & company are about to hit $2 million on the first day. Not bad for the “Knights of Good!”
[Felicia Day (Kickstarter)]
The theater chain reported earning $1.6 billion over the past few months, its highest quarterly revenue to date. In the earnings report (pdf), AMC CEO Adam Aron says he expects theaters to have their “strongest yet post-pandemic year” in 2026, citing the blockbuster release of The Odyssey and the upcoming debuts of Spider-Man: Brand New Day, Dune: Part Three, and Avengers: Doomsday.
Netflix just released a trailer for the “two-part, multi-brick” Lego One Piece special premiering on September 29th, which will recap the first two seasons of the live-action One Piece, narrated by Usopp.
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The epic made $264.1 million worldwide this weekend — Nolan’s biggest global opening yet — with $124.5 million in the US alone. Not bad for an R-rated adaptation of a 3,000-year-old poem. Fittingly, it’s likely to run on and on too, with no big competition until Spider-Man arrives, and IMAX 70mm screenings sold out for weeks.
The reputable Design Docs YouTube channel has a new documentary about Apple’s first graphic designer. Kare is responsible for the smiling Mac icon, that weird looped-square Command symbol still found on Apple keyboards, and many other “pictures that taught a generation of nervous, non-technical people that a computer could be approached without fear.”
AIM chimes. Teletype machines. Floppy drives. Dialup modems. Tamagotchis. The whole thing is a wonderful soundboard that instantly transports you to a bygone era. There’s not much to do here besides click a few icons and listen to the sounds, but it’s still a nice way to kill a few minutes.
[Museum Of Endangered Sounds]
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A modern take on vintage reed organs from Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker that makes writing rich chord progressions breezy.
Players and game preservationists might need to prepare for a world without discs.
