“Shrek, the movie, is an important cultural document that heralded the arrival of CGI animation as a dominant medium and essentially forced the Oscars to create its Best Animated Feature category. Online, Shrek has long provided source material for memes and artistic expressions, but the internet love for the movie’s actual substance has, by far, been overshadowed by the seemingly unquenchable joy of reinterpreting Shrek, often in explicit, NSFW ways.” Read more at Thrillist. To all chocolate lovers out there, check out a brief history of chocolate and the cacao beans they’re made from. Read more at Mental Floss. Shadow in the Cloud, starring Grace Moretz, is the scariest action movie of 2021 so far—and it’s now available to stream on Hulu. “August, 1943. A female Royal Air Force officer boards a B-17 bomber manned by short-tempered misogynists. With no room on the plane, she’s forced to stay below in the claustrophobic turret seat of glass and rusty metal. She can barely make out the ground thousands of feet below. Meanwhile, something small and evil sneaks through the plane’s crevices. This is Shadow in the Cloud.” Read more at Inverse. Over 500,000 people have placed orders for SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet service. Read more at PCMag. The messaging app Signal’s overly honest Instagram ads about data collection by tech giants immediately got banned. “A series of Instagram ads run by the privacy-positive platform Signal got the messaging app booted from the former’s ad platform, according to a blog post Signal published on Tuesday. The ads were meant to show users the bevy of data that Instagram and its parent company Facebook collects on users, by… targeting those users using Instagram’s own adtech tools.” Read more at Gizmodo. The Invincible fandom’s dislike for Amber Bennett is unsurprising, but nevertheless disappointing. Read more at The Mary Sue.
