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Criticizing a film about lower class characters because it defines them by circumstances and/or plot mechanics instead of giving them any sense of interiority is a bit tricky. There should be a question of what the film is exactly doing with that choice rather than dismissing it.

Oh, the 2010s had an aesthetic alright.

honestly any real attempt to one to one TLOUII and Israel / Palestine breaks down very quickly and if we didn’t know Druckmann’s background it wouldn’t even occur to most people as a specific point of comparison

Stephen King has been angry at the Kubrick adaptation of The Shining for over 40 years because King saw Jack Torrance as a tragically flawed but decent guy while Kubrick saw the character's actions as those of a narcissistic monster who merely thinks he's a good husband & father.

in Breaking Bad season 1 Walter White was written to be a desperate but ultimately good family man in a bad situation. Vince Gilligan has spoken about how he was convinced otherwise by others working on the show and took the show in a different directions as a result

Sincerely not trying to be unkind: an unintuitive but genuine piece of writing advice I have is that if you approach narrative prose as a means to describe a picture or "video" from your mind it is probably going to end up pretty bad

I have officially been professionally reading screenplays and giving story notes to writers, production/literary companies, and competitions for 5 years now🥳! Here’s what I’ve learned: (1/5)

Calling it now.

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current FDA-approved treatments are few:

oops! I fixed the inline links in my llm-wiki demo

Besides Donald Trump, Elon Musk and his fellow DOGE head Vivek Ramaswamy, at least 11 billionaires will be serving key roles in the administration.

Saw mainstream news coverage about the killing of the CEO of United Healthcare on TikTok and I think political and industry leaders might want to read the comments and think hard about them

Added a little version bump animation to the what’s new screen

Dr. Ally Louks's PhD thesis is set to be one of the most influential theses of 21st century. Puts forward an original argument with remarkable clarity.

misunderstand feature

Molly Crockett (@mjcrockett.bsky.social)

Large numbers of people are heaping abuse and mockery on a seemingly nice lady who's proud of earning a PhD, demonstrating that the worst thing you can be on social media is earnest and vulnerable, especially if you're a woman.

(2) David Adler on X: "BREAKING from Mexico 🇺🇸🇲🇽 President Claudia Sheinbaum has just penned a letter to Donald Trump. It’s brilliant, firm, and unflinching — a document that will set the tone for an entirely new era of US-Mexican relations. I have posted the English translation below: “Dear https://t.co/OJJp90TUc6" / X

Just made this, no JS, no libs. Just some HTML, CSS, SVG filters, and a couple textures. That’s all

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this is true across all of society btw. Someone was posting about Theranos's fraud on reddit YEARS before the right people noticed. Increasing communication across society is going to solve so many of our problems

i literally think about this all the time

Appearing on a Christian nationalist podcast last night, Pete Hegseth said he's creating a system of "classical Christian schools" to provide recruits for an underground army that will eventually launch an "educational insurgency" across the nation.

Everyone thinks this is an exaggeration but there are so many software engineers, not just at FAANG, who I know personally who literally make ~2 code changes a month, few emails, few meetings, remote work, 5 hours/ week, for ~$200-300k.

Alice on X: ""Absolutely incredible"-- In 2020, Trump talked half his supporters and much of the GOP elite into maintaining that he won the election, despite losing it with room to spare. He maintained the position even after losing every court challenge he launched. None of the "psychic" / X

Isaac Saul on X: "From today's issue of @TangleNews, here are 9 pre-election narratives I think we can now put to bed: 1. Trump is winning because the country is racist. Again: Trump has lost white voters since bursting onto the political scene while gaining voters of color. This isn't proof of" / X

(3) YouJiacheng on X: "wow. https://t.co/wE4taYndAw" / X

Angry Staffer 🌻 on X: "Marco Rubio, Trump’s Secretary of State pick, explicitly said yesterday that he would NOT call for a ceasefire in Gaza. Great job to all the protest voters who snubbed Harris over Israel - you guys are really playing 6D chess here." / X