Culture splat (a few broad spoilers)

Challengers is a good and original movie.  Imagine a 2024 rom com, except the behavior and conventions actually are taken from 2024, and with no apologies.  The woman says the word “****ing” a lot, and no one treats this as inappropriate or unusual.  There is bisexuality and poly.  Society is feminized.  Of course opinions will differ on these cultural issues, but the movie is made with conviction and so it is truly a tale of modern romance.  Who in the movie is in fact the emptiest shell?  Opinions will differ.

Zendaya dominates the screen  — for how long has it been since we have had an actress this central and this charismatic?

Also, I quite like the new Beyonce album, and Metaculus estimates the chance of an H5N1 pandemic at about two percent.