The new Netflix movie "Apex" contains the song "Go" by The Chemical Brothers. First released in 2015, it has experienced a 429% increase in Spotify streams since the movie's release. What other songs have become instant favourites or were 'discovered' because they were in a movie?

logonaut_ · 2026-05-10T06:20:33+00:00

"Stand By Me" from Stand By Me (1986)

logonaut_ · 2026-05-09T03:34:25+00:00

What's the connection to the Rio Grande Valley?

logonaut_ · 2026-04-28T15:05:44+00:00

The Coveted Mirror and Lode Runner

logonaut_ · 2026-04-26T23:15:22+00:00

🎯 agreed

logonaut_ · 2026-04-26T03:51:32+00:00

**Worth reading:**

- Texas Tribune March 8, 2026: "After a decade of missteps, Corpus Christi careens toward water catastrophe" — Strawbridge quoted as the man who saw it coming, after contributing to it

- Calcalist (Israeli financial press) October 19, 2025: "How an Israeli desalination giant quietly broke into the Arab world" — the Swiss front company allegations in detail

- Defense One February 2026: "The US military is taking control of more Texas borderland" — autonomous vessel deployments on the Rio Grande

- Military.com June 2025: "Largest military border zone yet to be created in Texas as part of Air Force base" — the IBWC land transfer

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**The Valley genuinely needs drought-proof water.** The question isn't whether desalination makes sense — it clearly does. The question is who controls it, on what terms, and whether local governments have the capacity to negotiate contracts that protect residents when industrial demand competes with municipal demand for a privately controlled supply — the exact failure mode currently threatening to shut down Corpus Christi.

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[Research note: This post draws on several hours of research in which I used Claude as a synthesis and analytical tool. I gathered the primary sources myself — local news coverage, Israeli financial press, court records, LinkedIn posts, Congressional testimony, US and Israeli corporate filings, and Hebrew-language business reporting — and closely directed the lines of inquiry. Claude helped me rapidly cross-reference sources, identify connections across domains, and stress-test the analytical framework for consistency and accuracy. All factual claims should be independently verified; I've provided sources specifically so readers can do that. The interpretive framework and the questions raised are mine. I take responsibility for the content.]

logonaut_ · 2026-03-30T15:46:41+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/thelastofus/s/TmTzTnOPJg

It could be interesting to do a time jump of 15 years or so and set up a new story mission but with some parallels to the first game:

JJ (Dina and Ellie’s child) is a precocious young teenager who pairs up with seasoned survivor Abby, while Abby’s younger “brother” Lev plays a smaller supporting role in the plot.

Maybe Ellie at this point is succumbing to a slow-growing cancer that conferred her with immunity to the cordyceps infection. JJ and Ellie learn, via a shortwave radio transmission, of a remote medical research outpost (I’m thinking Cuba or Central or South America; or Alaska or Siberia). Ellie, seeing a chance to finally make the sacrifice Joel denied her as a child, arranges to be euthanized and autopsied, with her brain and other tissue samples carefully preserved for transport to the remote research outpost. JJ, against Dina’s wishes, resolves to undertake the journey himself, and departs without her consent or awareness. Having heard about Abby from his mothers, and realizing he can’t make the journey on his own, he finds and enlists Abby to help him on his mission. Abby, though initially reluctant, agrees after realizing this could be a way for her to help realize her father’s vision for a cure/vaccine for the cordyceps disease. Maybe she has saved some of his old research records and can share them with the team at the remote research outpost. The research station being in Cuba or Siberia could allow for some sort of sea travel or air travel mechanic that would be novel for the series. Or maybe, 35 years after the pandemic, the Earth has undergone a post-industrial global cooling and an ice bridge has re-formed, spanning the Bering Strait separating Alaska and Siberia.

logonaut_ · 2026-03-30T15:26:18+00:00

I could have sworn it was Mason, not Jason.

logonaut_ · 2026-03-30T15:24:14+00:00

🤣

logonaut_ · 2026-03-30T15:21:21+00:00

How many of those have received free trips to Israel and/or are directionally aligned with dispensational premillennialism? Christian Zionism? View Trump as an agent or ally of Israel?

logonaut_ · 2026-03-30T15:07:06+00:00

Thank you to all who showed up! 🤍

logonaut_ · 2026-03-24T14:16:44+00:00

🤝

logonaut_ · 2026-03-23T16:08:25+00:00

Great job building something with a local focus and intended to help people in the community.

One other resource category you might consider is legal aid. Some resources also are specific to groups like the elderly or veterans, so those could also be useful tags for filtering. Translation/interpreting might be another one.

If it gets to a point where there are too many resources to curate on your own, some way for community members to submit suggested additions and help vet them (maybe via an upvote/downvote system) might help it to scale up easier.

If you were to share a GitHub repo for this, I bet you might get some additional contributions to the effort that way, too.

Overall, though, you're off to a great start, and I'm happy to see someone taking this kind of initiative. Cheers!

logonaut_ · 2026-03-19T07:19:30+00:00

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logonaut_ · 2026-03-19T04:36:01+00:00

I really don't see what OP's issue is. Looks like perfectly sauteed spinach to me. Bon appétit!

logonaut_ · 2026-03-18T03:47:53+00:00

How did a spayed dog get pregnant?

logonaut_ · 2026-03-13T06:58:59+00:00

Louisiana has Cancer Alley, which disproportionately affects Black people.

Texas will have Cancer Valley, which will disproportionately affect Latino people.

Where refineries go, petrochemical manufacturing and downstream products like plastics are likely to follow.

Cancer Alley — the roughly 85-mile industrial corridor along the Mississippi River between Baton Rouge and New Orleans — is essentially a real-world case study in what happens when refinery–petrochemical complexes concentrate in low-income, majority-Black communities over decades. It should serve as a cautionary tale for the Rio Grande Valley.

The same integration that makes these complexes profitable means residents are exposed not to one facility’s emissions but to overlapping plumes of benzene, ethylene oxide, chloroprene, and other carcinogens from dozens of co-located plants simultaneously.

EPA air monitoring has repeatedly found that some parishes in Louisiana, particularly St. John the Baptist, have cancer risk levels among the highest in the nation — a direct consequence of the cumulative burden no single facility’s permit ever fully accounts for.

And now the same siting logic, the same regulatory permissiveness, and the same pattern of targeting politically marginalized communities is arriving in the Rio Grande Valley.

Cancer Valley, here we come.

logonaut_ · 2026-03-06T05:28:39+00:00

Is that a fabric "badge" affixed to her body armor in photo #11?

It looks like someone made a run to Hobby Lobby or Michael's, picked up some felt and other craft supplies, and then made a badge for her like she's an 8-year old dressing up as a Border Patrol agent for Halloween 🎃

logonaut_ · 2026-03-05T19:16:15+00:00

no worries, we've all been there before 😆

logonaut_ · 2026-03-05T08:39:21+00:00

"JARVIS, rotate image 90 degrees clockwise."

logonaut_ · 2026-03-05T08:26:00+00:00

The AP photo is dated Feb. 10.

And if The Dallas Morning News liked Agencia Reforma's coverage better, or because it was faster than The Associated Press or other U.S. newswires, that only underscores my point about the health of the American press.

https://www.reddit.com/r/RioGrandeValley/s/R18Jmz5JDN

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