Asking very specific questions is an underrated skill. Both to yourself and other people.The opposite is asking “what do you think about X?”You’re functionally asking for the entire range of thoughts I’ve ever had about X, where X is always impossibly broad and non-specific…— Maggie Appleton (@Mappletons) April 16, 2024
noticing a lot of brands utilizing a specific intro style on tiktok that i am calling “shock and sell”. start with a shocking viral clip and transition into a hard sell. examples here from reformation and aeropress. pic.twitter.com/MJ0R7u6Pam— Rachel Karten (@milkkarten) April 16, 2024
(1) Dan Purdie on X: "Experimenting with typography and colours. Which colour combination is the strongest? https://t.co/UtIOirVwzC" / X
Experimenting with typography and colours.Which colour combination is the strongest? pic.twitter.com/UtIOirVwzC— Dan Purdie (@DanPurdie16) April 12, 2024
Leon Simons on X: "@AI_imagineX @EliotJacobson @ClimateAdam That's a good point. A lot of scientists have told me in person that what the data shows can't be true, because of what it would mean for their children [paraphrased]. What psychological archetype are you referring to?" / X
Denial of climate change by scientists, or difficulty interpreting data that suggests a highly undesirable circumstance
Steven Soderbergh says he’s “not afraid of AI” as a writer.“It has no life experience. It’s never been hungover or scared. It’s never felt insecure because somebody it went to school with has become incredibly successful. As of today, it’s not keeping me up at night.” pic.twitter.com/17YdPZefru— Film Updates (@FilmUpdates) June 12, 2023
Sigh. Okay, once again: The reason the end of the federal net neutrality rule didn't significantly impact the internet is California shortly after enacted its own net neutrality rule, and carriers decided it was cheaper to stay net neutral than create a patchwork for every state. https://t.co/NLV5rEJKt0— Matthew Chapman (@fawfulfan) June 11, 2023
Jason Pargin, author of John Dies at the End, etc on Twitter
To give you an idea of how unfinished Cyberpunk 2077 was upon release, it's getting an expansion in a few months that totally repairs all of the flawed/broken systems (progression, police spawning, vehicle gameplay and more)... meaning it took THREE YEARS for them to fix it all.— Jason Pargin, author of John Dies at the End, etc (@JasonKPargin) June 12, 2023
Husband: Hey babe, turn on HBO max
wife: HBO max? You mean Max right?
husband: Max?
wife: Starting may 23rd hbo max is just Max
husband: Just Max huh? I like the sound of that. is anything different?
wife: No.
Husband: I love you so much
wife: i love you too
I keep waiting for the media analysis about certain news websites and the formats that are the most rage-fishing, reductionist, and surface-level because they're easy to write quickly, involve less copy editing and quickly rack up pageviews
It was such a perfect takedown of the Murdoch/Fox format, which lasagnas every exploitative story with a layer of trolling gags and memes, nihilistic zingers that make it harder to take the ugliness seriously
@RichardHanania boss man— just say you don’t know what’s going on and leave it at that.
He’s in a fraternity, and that’s what the shout is about.
In the context of the black graduation, there’s nothing disrespectful here.
yesterday I had to say goodbye to my $8000 couch because I found 2 million individual bed bugs and 3 different colonies of bacteria inside of it, and it stinks really bad. I left it on the sidewalk for garbage collection 💔 https://t.co/Gq3T72u7nR
SUCCESSION art department, I want you to know that I 100% paused and enjoyed the hard work you put in that appeared onscreen for like two seconds https://t.co/FOS8UaHU1w
One of the greatest gifts my dad ever gave me was telling me “education is what’s left when the facts are forgotten,” a quote sometimes attributed to Einstein. It was his way of saying, get good grades, but focus more on enriching your mind and life than fixating on career goals.
has anyone seen my heavily squirted-on couch? i put it out on the sidewalk to dry this morning and now it’s gone. it looks like this. https://t.co/kF4ZaNfDpp