The DPU

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[dailyflicks]

BEEF (2023—) S02 | E08

[thedpu]

What I Learned About Billionaires at Jeff Bezos’s Private Retreat

For the richest men on Earth, everything is free and nothing matters.

"This sense of invulnerability has deep psychological ramifications. If everything is free and nothing matters, then the world and other people exist only to be acted upon, if they are acknowledged at all. This is different from classic narcissism, in which a grandiose but fragile self-image can mask deep insecurity. What I’m talking about is a self-definition in which the individual grows to the size of the universe, and the universe vanishes. Asked recently if there is any check on his power, President Trump—himself a billionaire, and by far the richest president in American history—said, “Yeah, there is one thing. My own morality. My own mind. It’s the only thing that can stop me.” Not domestic or international law, not the will of the voters, not God or the centuries-old morality of civic and religious life." -- Noah Hawley

[thedpu]

Woodland Dance

[pughflorence]

RENATE REINSVE 38th European Film Awards in Berlin, January 2026

[thiscoldheart]

SENTIMENTAL VALUE (2025) dir. Joachim Trier

[bongjoonhoe]

Sentimental Value (2025) dir. Joachim Trier

[oopsbunny]

[thatbitchsimone]

[wordsforyoungmen]

[thedpu]

Tom Junod Is a Waffle House Regular

“There are very few things on any menu anywhere in the U.S. as good as Waffle House cheese eggs.”

"First, a banana. Can I tell you that I have beef with bananas? I eat a lot of them, of course—who doesn’t? The banana, of all fruits, comes closest to food. The beef is that there is no such thing as a good banana, just as there is no such thing as a bad one. You can’t buy a good peach or a good plum in a supermarket. But you can find good peaches and good plums at farm stands and such, in defiance of the monoculture. No such luck with a banana. You can’t buy, like, a local banana, and the variation between them is not good or bad, only ripe or unripe. I lean green, in the matter of bananas. But I do wonder why they’re pretty much all the same, why they’ve always been pretty much the same. Do I blame the banana itself, or the United Fruit Company?" - Tom Junod

[weepingwidar]

David Hockney (British, 1937) - No. 125 (2020)

[kosmogrl]

[xanaxfarts]

An assortment of paintings by Mark Rothko (1903-1970)

[judgingbooksbycovers]

Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage

By Belle Burden.

[kulturegroupie]

“This is not an apple” by René Magritte | 1964

[rihanna-online]

anti world tour, vancouver (april 23, 2016)

[thedpu]

A Battle with My Blood

When I was diagnosed with leukemia, my first thought was that this couldn’t be happening to me, to my family.

"When I look at him, I try to fill my brain with memories. How many more times can I watch the video of him trying to say “Anna Karenina”? What about when I told him I didn’t want ice cream from the ice-cream truck, and he hugged me, patted me on the back, and said, “I hear you, buddy, I hear you”? I think about the first time I came home from the hospital. He walked into my bathroom, looked at me, and said, “It’s so nice to meet you in here.”" - Tatiana Schlossberg