Read Nesbø’s The Snowman years ago but never finished. Now Netflix is turning The Devil’s Star book into Detective Hole w/ Tobias Santelmann as Harry. Time to finish both books before March 26 (but I doubt I will)! Nesbø also had The Snowman filmed in 2017. Hope it is good. Trailer: this Oslo noir!

AI tools are everywhere now - every app racing to add generative features. But there’s a backlash brewing: AI fatigue.

As Siddhant Khare puts it:

“People can smell AI slop from a mile away.”

And he’s right. We’re drowning in content from the same bland algorithm - polished but lifeless.

His piece nails why I keep my writing voice authentic. AI helps with writer’s block, but can’t capture weird brain connections or how you’d explain something over coffee.

The internet doesn’t need more generic content. It needs real voices.

Saw Mummy films & enjoyed all of them. Brendan and Rachel are coming back for another Mummy movie! May 2028. She wasn’t even in the 3rd one, so getting both of them back is amazing. After Brendan’s comeback w/ The Whale, this feels perfect. Two years feels like forever to wait though!

I love Spiderman! There is another Spiderman coming! Nicolas Cage is playing Spider-Man Noir in a new series dropping May 27th on Prime Video, and it looks incredible. 1930s noir detective vibe, and they’re releasing it in both black-and-white AND color. I’m definitely watching it in noir.

Before Dracula, there was Carmilla—literature’s first major vampire, and she was a lesbian. Published in 1872, Le Fanu’s novella features Laura’s tortured attraction to the mysterious Carmilla.

“I experienced a strange tumultuous excitement that was pleasurable, ever and anon, mingled with a vague sense of fear and disgust.”

Carmilla whispers,

“You are mine, you shall be mine, you and I are one for ever.”

The novella predated Dracula by 25 years and established the lesbian vampire archetype. Though Dracula (born 1400s) is older in his story than Carmilla (1698) in hers.

I came across this fascinating study abt how the Chincha Kingdom in Peru fertilized their way to success w/ seabird poop! They used guano to grow surplus maize, which they traded w/ the Inca for ceremonial beer. They even celebrated this in their art, showing seabirds & sprouting corn together!

Here’s something wild: an old Texas coal mine is now a garden feeding 3,000 people a year. The Dewey Prairie Garden near Jewett grows 10,000 pounds of produce for local food pantries—turning land that once powered plants into something that actually nourishes families. Pretty cool redemption story.

Just read this fascinating study where older adults (65+) did brain training for 10 weeks and reversed about a decade of brain aging. They actually measured brain chemistry changes. Kind of makes me think about what I could be doing now at 50 to keep my brain sharp down the road. Read more here.

Rant: I am frustrated that I can’t edit the date because of the post(s) I accidentally add today’s date when it should be last Friday at that time when it was scheduled. The mobile site doesn’t make it easy to change the date. Sigh. Any idea how can I fix the date on the phone?

Cc: @help