When I think about torrenting, The Pirate Bay, and all of that I am amazed that movie studios find it easier to spend billions destroying competition rather than a few dozen million making something better for their customers.

That’s not just stupid, that’s powerful stupid.

All you people who use Facebook, how do you put up with this? And why?

Think of a world in which your phone constantly checked in with the central phone company to decide which of your relatives it should allow you to call, and to jumble their sentences around in any order it deemed “better” (to keep you “engaged” and on the phone longer) — and served you ads in the middle? That’s many of your platforms today. We no longer truly own our intermediaries; instead they are guided by an invisible, algorithmic layer that neither answers to nor is accountable to us.

Humans puzzle me, and I allegedly am one.

Oh god, yes, please.

Ellen Page will be taking on the part of Han Solo in director Jason Reitman’s live stage-reading of The Empire Strikes Back Thursday night, and Jessica Alba has been cast as Princess Leia.

Ellen Page as Han Solo would really, really work. The Empire Strikes Back is the only Star Wars movie with any real heft. Ellen Page as Han and Brit Marling as Luke, please, though.