I wonder if the latest Jurassic Park: Rebirth film drew from this?

There is a reference to global warming that is similar to the poem. That the world will heat up, and humanity will die, and the earth will continue on as it has for a million years. The film mentioned the “the earth will shake us off, like a summer cold”.

This seems fairly comparable to the soft rains poem in this piece.

Ray Bradbury has some great ideas, but I hate his writing style. It’s far too flowery, he’s on a spectrum that contains Hemingway at one extreme, and Bradbury near the other.

I prefer Hemingway. Writing style at least.

This story was adapted into a short animated film in 1987:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LNHYz89sNc

(Russian, with subtitles.)

The story of a smart home that can't tell when you're not home! :-)

Today is August 4, 2026

One of my favorites of Bradbury’s.

Haunting.

Yeesh how bleak

https://wnyc.org/story/bradbury-centennial-with-neil-gaiman

Yetide Badaki's marvelous reading begins at 3:50

Earlier this year...

There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46847297 - Feb 2026 (52 comments)

(I’ve turned off duplicate detection due to the significance of the date.)