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Film Yap is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work please consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. A lot of folks just hate on something simply because Zack Snyder’s name is on it. I like Akira Kurosawa's “Seven Samurai” and Antoine Fuqua’s “The Magnificent Seven” and I outright love John Sturges’ “The Magnificent Seven.” I like Snyder’s “Rebel Moon - Part Two: The Scargiver” too.

That was an open forum (all Twitter spaces are). Kinesis didn't show up. Jim ran away in the middle of it but not before making a bunch of false statements detailed above. They had another opportunity yesterday. Neither Jim nor Kinesis showed up. Nothing here is a debate topic. Everything presented on this Substack is factual and based on public information. All methods data and sources were provided. A "

Sei is a Layer 1 blockchain built using the Cosmos SDK and Tendermint Core Sei is building a scalable and interoperable blockchain optimized for DeFi The Nakamoto coefficient of SEI is 7 versus 21 for Solana—3x more decentralized Sei is nearly three times faster when it comes to finality Sei only has 4 developers compared to Solana, with 322 weekly developers Inflation will be heavy for Sei over the foreseeable future

Greetings on a summer morning in the morning of summer. It occurred to me today that I’ve actually been on a pretty good streak of satisfying reading, so I thought I’d jot down a few suggestions. You may not want to read these books, but you may want to know they’re out there. So here goes. King, by Jonathan Eig. it’s been almost forty years since David Garrow and Taylor Branch won Pulitzer Prizes for their biographies of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Welcome to another issue of Le Cordon Bong, a newsletter about recreating Michelin star meals at home. You can get in touch with me via the comments or by email. All of the previous content is up on the website (which I personally find to be a a more enjoyable reading experience than the email format). If you like this newsletter, please hit Subscribe and be sure to share with friends, family, or anyone who you think would be interested.

What do you want to leave behind when you die? A loving family, a prodigious cookbook collection, a funeral full of exes all reminiscing about how you were the one that got away? For some people—our kind of people—the answer is simple: a damn good recipe.  I’ve been fascinated with the wonderfully macabre genre of gravestone recipes since I stumbled upon Naomi Miller-Dawson’s recipe for spritz cookies in Brooklyn’s Greenwood Cemetery a few years ago.

You may never have heard of Wayne Collins or known of his influential role behind the bar during the first years at the London cocktail renaissance in the late 1990s and early aughts, but more than likely you’ve enjoyed his work. That White Negroni you’ve ordered at your local bar or made at home—that’s his. He invented it by accident back in 2001 while on a business trip to Bordeaux when he tried to make a Negroni, but couldn’t find any Campari or sweet vermouth at the local liquor store.

I often get asked “What should I read first?” by people who are getting into Stoic philosophy. Obviously, it depends. Are you talking about classics or modern books?Are you looking for in-depth academic texts or easy-to-read self-help guides? There are many books available now. Some are much better than others. (Most are okay but one or two are not… ncG1vNJzZmicn6OurbDRqJmeqqSovK960q6ZrKyRmLhvr86mZqlnopqwsLnMnqWdnZRiv6atw6KloGWfo3q0wM6imqKrnQ%3D%3D

I wanted to use this post to write a little bit about something outside my usual beat. It’s about my favorite author, Leo Tolstoy. In my next post, I’ll get back to transparency and the internet, including Meta’s big US 2020 research project and why the most important part of the project had nothing to do with the results. But, for now, let’s dig into some Russian literature. Unless you’re an avid reader of classic literature or just a fan of Russian history, you might not know much more about Tolstoy than the fact that he wrote War & Peace and Anna Karenina.