Hold onto your Hennessy: Netflix’s newest docuseries could be a contentious one.
Jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy comes from the minds of longtime Ye collaborators Clarence “Coodie” Simmons and Chike Ozah. The three-part event, which debuted its first “act” in January at the Sundance Film Festival and dropped a trailer for the public on Thursday, stems from more than 21 years of behind-the-scenes footage captured while working with Ye.
The project reportedly chronicles everything from the rapper’s beginnings as a small-time music producer in Chicago to his modern, Grammy-winning career and its seismic effects across Hollywood. jeen-yuhs is, per Netflix, “an intimate and revealing portrait” that showcases “both his formative days trying to break through and his life today as a global brand and artist.”
Ye has voiced interest in taking control of the documentary’s edit process. “I’m going to say this kindly for the last time,” he stated via Instagram last month. “I must get final edit and approval on this doc before it releases on Netflix. Open the edit room immediately so I can be in charge of my own image.”
Simmons and Ozah have since reiterated that Ye will not be given ultimate approval on the doc, but stressed the role authenticity played in making that decision.
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“To keep it authentic, [Jeen-yuhs] had to come from a perspective of the filmmaker,” Simmons said in an interview with Deadline. “The story is really through the perspective of this journey of me and Kanye.” Simmons went on to say he was confident the film would resonate with Ye’s fans.
The eerie, almost haunting trailer offers only a small glimpse at the genuineness Simmons alludes to there. But suffice to say, we’re very interested in what the filmmakers deliver — and what Ye ultimately thinks of it.
jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy release week-to-week starting Feb. 16 on Netflix
If there’s a rule of 21st century TV shows, it’s “don’t piss off Elisabeth Moss.”
The Emmy-winning actor has played strong, determined women exacting revenge on petty, horrible men her entire career, and her new role in Apple TV+’s upcoming series Shining Girls has her firmly in that niche. Based on South African author Lauren Beukes’ bestselling horror novel, Shining Girls is about a time-traveling serial killer who accidentally leaves one of his intended victims alive, only for that victim to dedicate herself to tracking him down wherever or whenever he might hide. Knowing Moss’ characters, he better run fast.
Pokémon Legends: Arceus is the engrossing open world adventure Pokémon fans have dreamed of inhabiting since we were kids. It’s not the most graphically perfect game out there, but it’s earnestly charming and clearly dedicated to getting the important aspects of the Pokémon world right.
The spirit of the original franchise comes through in the hidden details, Easter eggs, and discoverable secrets that exist all over the map — here are some of our favorites.
1. Nosepass always point north, except when they’re battling.
Who needs a compass when you have these little blue dudes? Credit: Gamefreak
Nosepass are rock type Pokémon with red electromagnetic noses. The Pokédex says their noses align with electromagnetic fields and make the Nosepass function as a walking compass. In Pokémon Legends: Arceus, wild Nosepass will always point due north until they’re distracted by the player or battling. Captured Nosepass don’t seem to retain the ability, though.
2. Sometimes when you let a Pokémon out of their ball, they’re in the middle of a nap.
This is the opposite of a surprise, Snorlax. Credit: Game Freak
One of Pokémon Legends: Arceus‘ more fun features is the ability to chill with your Pokémon whenever you want. Most of the time when you let them out of their Poké Balls they’re ready to chat, play, and otherwise hang out, but it’s also possible that you’ve caught them in the middle of a nap. Sorry, buddy!
Also, some Pokémon snore.
3. Your character automatically takes their shoes off inside their house.
Credit: Game Freak
Credit: Game Freak
The polite and sanitary tradition of taking one’s shoes off before stepping on someone’s nice clean floors is alive and well in Pokémon Legends: Arceus. Your character will wear their shoes or sandals when they enter their or someone else’s home, but once they cross from the wood to the tatami mat, their shoes automatically disappear.
4. If you complete a village quest with a shiny or an alpha, they’ll stay shiny or alpha in the overworld for the duration of the game.
Hey there, Billy! Also hey there, Giant Billy! Credit: Game Freak
Pokémon Legends: Arceus’ side quests involve capturing a wild Pokémon to give to one of your neighbors, and most of those Pokémon end up staying in the village where you can see them every day. If you happen to gift your neighbor a shiny or an alpha Pokémon, they’ll usually remark on how big or unique it is but keep their special and/or enormous new friend just the same.
It’s technically possible to fill all of the quests with shiny or alpha Pokémon, so there’s a fun challenge for people who want to have an extra cool-looking town.
5. Bringing the wrong Pokémon for the more vague side quests unlocks unique dialogue.
Idk, I think both tails are pretty. Credit: Game Freak
In addition to unique dialogue for bringing a shiny or an alpha, bringing someone the wrong Pokémon for their quest also unlocks some fun responses. For example, the man asking for a Pokémon with a curly tail will be impressed by how cute a Vulpix is but admits he’s looking for a different curly tail.
6. There’s a cemetery in the Coronet Highlands that’s infested with Ghost Pokémon at night.
What’s uh….what’s going on here, folks? Credit: Game Freak
Spooky! Definitely come here at night and see what happens.
7. You don’t have to own the right stones to evolve your Eevee.
Forget gotta catch ’em all. Gotta Eevolve them all. Credit: Game Freak
Most Eeveelutions that require exposure to a particular type of stone require that stone to be held in your inventory. Pokémon Legends: Arceus has all of the Eeveelution stones available to find or buy, but some of those Eeveelutions have a special loophole.
There are magical places on the PL:A map that can evolve an Eevee in your party just by standing near them, so keep an eye out for anything that looks out of the ordinary and save on the cost of some magic rocks
8. Bidoof on the roof. That’s it, that’s the detail.
You’ve heard of elf on the shelf… Credit: Game Freak
After completing the Bidoof side quest, these three little scamps stay in the village to help with construction and sleep here at night. Roof Bidoof!
9. You can get a great view of Jubilife Village from a balcony off Kamado’s office.
Pokéhome sweet Pokéhome. Credit: Game Freak
Between the fact that most of your visits to Kamado’s office cue up a cutscene and the fact that 90 percent of the doors in the Galactic building are useless, it’s easy to miss that the door to the right of Kamado’s desk is functional. It takes you outside to a balcony where you can get the best view of Jubilife town, a closer look at those Magikarp statues, and maybe even a little something else if you look really close.
10. Porygon’s Pokédex entry shows Professor Laventon is totally freaking out.
Credit: Game Freak
Credit: Game Freak
Pokémon Legends: Arceus takes place in the past, long before computers were invented and data-based Pokémon could exist.
You can only catch the “futuristic” Porygon in space-time rifts, and completing its Pokédex page shows that Professor Laventon is having a hard time wrapping his head around what the heck this pink-and-blue thing is. He notes that it has no heartbeat, is “utterly bizarre” and has “inscrutable biology.”
11. Land-dwelling Pokémon get an appropriately sized Poké-raft when they battle in the water.
A fish, a mammoth, and a dragon walk into a wooden bar… Credit: Game Freak
Now we can find out who would win between a Gyrados and a Mamoswine when the Gyrados has home field advantage.
Buried in Meta’s dense annual report for the Securities and Exchange Commission, filed Thursday, is a surprisingly stark sentence laying out a scenario in which The Company Formerly Known as Facebook might have to entirely stop operating Instagram and Facebook in Europe. Yep, no Instagram, no Facebook, for all Europeans.
To which we as Americans can only say: Luckyyyyyyyyyy!!!!
At issue are European data regulations that prevent Meta from ingesting Europeans’ data on American servers. Basically, Meta says the ability to process user data in between countries is crucial for its business both operationally and for ad targeting. European laws meant to protect user privacy by keeping users’ data within the EU’s jurisdiction have invalidated previous systems. So, because Meta has been unable to reach new data sharing agreements, it’s threatening to walk away from the continent with Facebook and Instagram.
“If we are unable to transfer data between and among countries and regions in which we operate, or if we are restricted from sharing data among our products and services, it could affect our ability to provide our services, the manner in which we provide our services or our ability to target ads,” the statement reads. Then, Meta clarifies that it thinks it will be able to reach new agreements in 2022, but if it does not, “we will likely be unable to offer a number of our most significant products and services, including Facebook and Instagram, in Europe.”
The London financial newspaper CityAM reached out to Meta to see if they were, uh, reading that right. Meta responded with a statement from the company’s illustrious VP of Global Affairs, Nick Clegg, who attempted to connect the plight of a billion-dollar international conglomerate Meta with struggles small businesses could face.
“We urge regulators to adopt a proportionate and pragmatic approach to minimise disruption to the many thousands of businesses who, like Facebook, have been relying on these mechanisms in good faith to transfer data in a safe and secure way,” Clegg told CityAm.
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Frankly not being able to access Facebook or Instagram — just poof, gone — sounds like a dream. But, for better or worse, many businesses rely on Facebook and Instagram ads to connect with customers and sell their products. Because of the impact the platforms’ removal would have on European businesses, a continent without these main social media players is probably unlikely. An SEC annual statement’s job is to lay out the challenges and opportunities in a company’s financial outlook — but it’s also a convenient way to send a message.
So for European lawmakers, the scenario seems like a threat. But for us regular folks wishing there was something that could untether us from mindless scrolling? C’mon, Meta, make that threat a promise.
To quote the greatest golf movie ever made: “It’s in the hole!”
On Saturday, Caddyshack icon Bill Murray returned to the green, but he wasn’t playing smart-mouthed groundskeeper Carl Spackler. Instead the 71-year-old actor finished out his third round as a competitor in the 2022 Pebble Beach Pro-Am with a trick shot you have to see. Although, crucially, he did not see a thing.
In a clip posted to the PGA Tour’s Twitter, Murray’s shot comes just six seconds in and is preceded with so little fanfare you’d be forgiven for missing it at first. Sidling up to his ball, Murray stares into the distance before effortlessly sinking the shot while facing away from the hole. This is known interchangeably as a “no-see” or “no-look” putt.
“It’s going in,” an announcer begins, before the crowd erupts into cheers. “Of course, it’s in! He’s Bill Murray!” Murray then flings away his putter, before moseying away with a well-earned smirk.
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Nailing the no-look isn’t Murray’s first big moment at Pebble Beach. Hollywood’s reigning Duke of Deadpan has become a mainstay highlight of the tournament over the years, with a PGA compilation video combining some of his most noteworthy moments caught on camera. This includes helping pro-golfer D.A. Points clinch a win in 2011.
Credit: Cliff Hawkins/Getty Images
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Murray first competed in 1994, at which time he not only brought a baseball bat onto the green but also pulled a scoring judge’s hair. Since then, he’s worn countless silly hats and cracked just as many jokes. On Thursday, Murray led the crowd in an impromptu rendition of “Happy Birthday” to honor fellow 2022 golfer Chris Stroud.
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Some aren’t a fan of Murray’s antics, but hey — gophers aren’t fans of Caddyshack either.
What happens after a grand romantic gesture? After the big finale, now what? Do you sit in silence like the dentist’s aquarium fish in Finding Nemo once they’ve rolled to oceanic freedom (stay with me) or do you fill that awkwardness with so many activities you’ll never have to talk about what’s next?
That’s where things pick up in the second season of Starstruck, the romantic comedy series created by and starring comedian Rose Matafeo that stole our hearts by bringing a new millennial twist to Notting Hill. It was hands down one of the best TV shows of 2021. Co-written by Matafeo, Alice Snedden, and Nic Sampson, and directed by Dead Pixels‘ Jamie Jay Johnson, Season 2 has landed on BBC Three in the UK, coming later to HBO Max in the U.S., ABC in Australia, and TVNZ in New Zealand.
When we last left Jessie (Matafeo) and Tom (Nikesh Patel), they’d been through the horrendously awkward and wonderful clusterfuck that is falling for someone new — especially complicated when one of you is a famous movie star. With the pair of them sitting at the back of the bus en route to Charing Cross, we had so many questions: Would Jessie leave London to go home to family in New Zealand? Would Tom take the big role and head to Ireland?
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With the will-they-won’t-they set-up anchored, Season 2 moves Jessie and Tom into the next phase of early dating territory, not completely ignoring Tom’s celebrity status this time around but making it slightly less of a focal point. But while the overt Notting Hill comparison may have faded, Matafeo’s respect for the rom-com has not, with the second series both leaning into and skewering old tropes, while hand-delivering a truly superb Love Actually reference in episode 2.
As modern rom-com sage Iris Simpkins (that’s Kate Winslet in The Holiday) says, “I’m looking for corny in my life.” Starstruck delivers on this, reminding us that among the awkwardness and uncertainty of a new relationship, there’s some genuinely lovely cinematic moments that we might miss if we’re constantly calling them out as cheesy.
Figuring it out. Credit: BBC / Avalon UK
Matafeo and Patel triumphantly return as Jessie and Tom, wielding their charmingly awkward chemistry and seemingly effortless flirtation in order to tackle new relationship challenges beyond the “what is this?” conversation. Starstruck runs the whole uncharted dating gamut: surviving the pressure of your first holiday season, discrepancies in gifting quality, sending awkward voice notes, engaging in thesaurus-reliant phone sex, meeting family members, snowballing into high-drama moments on New Year’s Eve, and (most predominantly in this season) navigating exes.
Matafeo yet again reigns supreme as Jessie, using finger-gunned humor to maintain the upper ground and keep those emotional walls steadfast, while superbly calling things out as they are. Furiously smashing the proverbial Undo button on her major life decision to leave London, Jessie faces the fact that, yeah, she might have just missed a very expensive flight for love, and what the hell does that MEAN?
Patel, meanwhile, calmly steals every last heart in the room as Tom, who despite his high-flying screen career is awkwardly trying to figure it all out like the rest of us — especially his relationship with Jessie and his own family. Patel’s deadpan comedic delivery and sweet patience make every scene both romantic and relatable, especially when the core pair disagree over something.
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One of the strengths of Starstruck is Matafeo, Snedden, and Sampson’s ability to write a combustible argument, in which two people are insistent they’re right, unable to see the situation from another perspective. In Season 2, Jessie and Tom wrangle with this through some unpleasant ghosts, or rather, Jessie’s lurking jerk of an ex, Ben. It’s through Ben that Starstruck explores the potential we all have for self-sabotage, being drawn to toxic people from the past, and the tendency to return to the known for fear of committing to something scarily real and new.
Kate and Jessie’s relationship is one of brutal honesty (and we love it). Credit: BBC / Avalon UK
Enduring this to and fro between Jessie and Tom with as much commitment and silent screaming as the audience, Stath Lets Flats star Emma Sidi returns as Jessie’s blunt, overly honest roommate, Kate, her anxious boyfriend Ian (Al Roberts), along with friends Sarah (the hilarious Lola-Rose Maxwell) and Steve (the delightful Nic Sampson). Plus, Minnie Driver returns as Tom’s caricature of an agent, Cath.
In Starstruck, Matafeo and her team have created a truly relatable modern rom-com, a fun, sharp analysis of relationships and dating which allows its characters to mess up, acknowledge their flaws, and learn how to apologise. In Season 2, the fear of going all in on something real makes fame look like a walk in the park.
Starstruck Season 2 premieres on Feb. 7 at 10 p.m. on BBC Three and then BBC iPlayer. It’s coming to HBO in the U.S. (date TBC) and will air on ABC TV and iView in Australia on Feb. 16.
Fitting that this juicy piece of eye candy from the Hubble Space Telescope captured a starburst, a brief and intense star-forming period for a galaxy.
Say hello to NGC 1705, a dwarf galaxy about 17 million light-years from Earth in the southern constellation Pictor, the “painter’s easel.” NGC has produced many young stars outside the galaxy’s core, as well as the central giant star cluster.
It is petite, oddly shaped, and has recently spawned a bounty of stars. NASA and the European Space Agency released the snapshot last week.
This galaxy has been churning out new stars its entire life, but it kicked into high gear as recently as 26 to 31 million years ago. That’s not long relative to the estimated age of the universe, nearing 14 billion years. During starbursts, the stellar birth rate can be tens to hundreds of times greater than in typical spiral galaxies.
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Astronomers like to study dwarf irregular galaxies because they can give valuable insight into the early history of the universe: They tend to have little more than hydrogen or helium in the way of elements and are thought to be similar to the oldest galaxies ever formed.
The new Hubble Space Telescope image of dwarf galaxy NGC 1705, top, provides more depth and detail of the starburst than the observatory’s previous camera, used to take the 1999 photo, bottom. Credit: Top: ESA/Hubble & NASA, R. Chandar; bottom: NASA, ESA, and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA);
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Scientists last photographed this galaxy in 1999 using Hubble’s former camera, the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2. Astronauts replaced it with the Wide Field Camera 3 in 2009. The newer camera was used to take the latest picture, revealing a lot more detail.
Starburst galaxies are considered to be among the most luminous infrared objects in the universe. Astronomers wanted to revisit NGC 1705 to study a specific wavelength of light, wherein they’d find thousands of nebulae, aka star nurseries. The star-making regions are created when hot, young stars bathe their surrounding gas clouds in ultraviolet light, causing them to glow.
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Despite the overwhelming number of job platforms and websites making it easier to find a job, the application process is still largely a pain in the butt. It can make applying to jobs feel like a full-time job in itself, which is particularly rough if you’re working a full-time job and job hunting.
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LazyApply works better for some jobs than others, of course. You’d probably want to write a cover letter yourself if you’re applying for certain jobs.
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I wasn’t impressed when the Peloton bike first arrived at my house in 2018, and it’s because of how much that screen’s potential feels wasted.
Nothing against exercise or even filling up some of my precious house space with a large and expensive stationary bike. But once my partner’s Peloton arrived and got set up, I instantly saw what simultaneously felt like the tech’s great potential and greatest flaw: that built-in display.
For anyone who may not know, Peloton’s big twist is the service side of its product. The screen that’s attached to the company’s stationary bikes and treadmill is a conduit for Peloton’s paid membership, a $39-per-month proposition. That monthly fee brings streaming fitness classes, social features, and progress tracking to whichever Peloton brand of hardware you’re using. (A separate $13/month app-only subscription is “not compatible” with the bikes or treadmill, as a Peloton support specialist informed my partner.)
While the subscription thing is theoretically a smart way for Peloton to keep customers from becoming one-time buyers, reality hasn’t been so kind. The company is reportedly shopping itself around for a buyer, as the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, after a bruising start to 2022 led by chatter about stalled bike and treadmill production.
I can’t read that news without thinking back to my first encounter with our Peloton bike in 2018. The first question out of my mouth, eagerly asked as I saw that screen get attached: Can I watch Netflix while I ride? The answer was “no,” of course. Peloton’s built-in display is for Peloton features only. You can hack your way into a browser and stream stuff from there, but something like that ought to be a feature rather than a bug.
That oversight has always bothered me. Yes, Peloton’s primary interest is in getting you to sign up for the monthly subscription. But structured, hosted exercise time isn’t what I want when I climb on a machine like this. I just want to get in a workout, and do whatever I can to distract my overactive brain from fixating on the strenuous activity.
You can hack your way to Netflix and stream stuff from there, but something like that ought to be a feature rather than a bug.
So I’ve skipped using the fancy $2,000 bike that sits in my home and sought out other exercise options that are more easily tailored to my personal preferences. That’s what gets me about Peloton: It seems like such a perfect solution for someone like me who wants to stream things while exercising.
I admittedly haven’t thought much about any of this in the past four years, ever since coming to terms with Peloton’s walled garden. But the puzzling thought exercise was rekindled this week by a pair of news stories: First, that Peloton is looking for a buyer; and second, that Google is reportedly de-prioritizing its Stadia cloud gaming service in favor of a business-facing product that provides the tech to other companies.
Insider’s story about the current state of Stadia names Peloton as a potential destination for the re-dubbed Google Stream technology. In fact, the report notes that Peloton’s video game, Lanebreak, is powered by Google. The moment I read that, my mind was once again filled with all the “what if” possibilities for the stationary bike I’ve never touched.
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Peloton has shown no inclination toward expanding the functionality of built-in displays beyond company-made products. So I greet this news of a potential buyer for the company with some excitement purely as a customer (technically, the husband of a customer).
Just think about Amazon, the only potential “suitor” named in WSJ‘s story. Is it so hard to imagine an Amazon-owned Peloton that can link up with other subscriptions? Baking in support that lets subscribers stream their Prime Video library seems like a no-brainer. The same goes for Luna, Amazon’s Stadia competitor which is still charging subscribers an “early access” rate. Bringing Luna to Peloton could even boost the fledgling service. I’d happily spend time on the bike if I could fool around in Everspace 2 while I’m pedaling.
The best outcome, of course, would just be a proper app store where you could find Prime Video and Luna, yes, but also Netflix, Hulu, GeForce Now, Stadia, and so on. But any change that lets a Peloton owner officially use their hardware’s built-in screen for… really anything other than Peloton-specific activities would be a welcome and frankly overdue change for the struggling exercise machine’s prospects.
Donation platform GoFundMe has seized all funds from a campaign supporting anti-vaccine mandate protesters that have been congregating in the Canadian capital of Ottawa.
In a statement from the company, GoFundMe said it had reason to believe the protest had turned dangerous. “We now have evidence from law enforcement that the previously peaceful demonstration has become an occupation, with police reports of violence and other unlawful activity,” GoFundMe wrote.
Before the Feb. 5 decision, the GoFundMe fundraiser had already accumulated more than $10 million from 120,000 donors. The website will automatically refund all campaign donors. The Ottawa police are also calling on other donation platforms to pull campaigns for the Freedom Convoy.
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GoFundMe previously paused donations to the campaign on Feb. 2, alerting site users that the company was working alongside local law enforcement to receive more information about the convoy and its use of the campaign’s funds.
Donations were going toward the so-called “Freedom Convoy,” a group of Canadian truck drivers and their supporters who have taken an extreme step to protest the new COVID-19 regulations imposed by the Canadian government for travelers across the border. The convoy is currently demonstrating in downtown Ottawa, with an expected 2,000 people and 400 trucks to join the protest group over the weekend.
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced the new regulations in Nov. 2021, requiring previously exempt travelers, such as truck drivers, to show proof of vaccination before entering the country or quarantine after entry. The new protocols went into effect on Jan. 15. Small protests starting on the west side of the country last week quickly grew into a large cross-country convoy, which at one point blocked a U.S.-Canadian border crossing point. Now, the convoy’s mission has morphed into a general campaign against government control.
The convoy has also caused transportations delays and business closures, damaged public property, and led to the arrests of three protesters — one for carrying a weapon in a public meeting, another for “mischief,” and a third for issuing threats over social media. At least 13 other people were being investigated for their involvement in possible illegal activities. Families and children have also joined the protest group in Ottawa.
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One of the organizing groups, Canada Unity, has asked the Canadian governor general and Senate to end all public health measures, The Washington Post reported. The Canadian Trucking Alliance issued a statement on Jan. 29 supporting COVID-19 regulations and denouncing the non-peaceful actions of some protesters.
As the group convenes in the capital, public health officials have spoken out against the congregation. Canadian law enforcement are ramping up security around the capital, and a possible 1,000-person counterprotest may also join the downtown demonstrations in defense of the government mandates.
