First, there's the gun violence. Red states have all but abolished gun laws, and are awash in firearms. The result: lots more death, both in terms of murders and suicides. We see people randomly blowing away innocent strangers all the time. 2/n https://t.co/ngFgEVyiEY
when i did a good parallel parking job and then thousands of people told me i deserved to be imprisoned or killed for being ableist (?) and then barack obama wrote that i was an example of online bullying going too far........ https://t.co/qcTGEttVeA https://t.co/3DjZi21kHf
the best and worst thing about the recent Bond era was how much they “borrowed” from the darkly cerebral, subjective and moody vibe that both Villeneuve and Christopher Nolan are known for—what Bond badly needs right now are fresh voices and a new take https://t.co/bZXZZnd6tY
Clarence Thomas: Sorry about my ineptitude filling out these forms. Fixed it! nbd.
Also Clarence Thomas: Too bad your lawyer was incompetent but you made a mistake filing your appeal so that death sentence is still good. Sorry!
1. “The Supreme Court is hopelessly divided.” Actually, over the last decade, 43% of all SCOTUS decisions were 9-0 *unanimous* decisions. In 2021-2022, roughly 60% were 9-0, 8-1, or 7-2 decisions. https://t.co/X3KW44oM0F
Two articles on the front page of today’s New Orleans Times-Picayune. One about a new memorial to the victims of the 1873 Colfax Massacre. Another on how the Louisiana GOP wants to stop colleges from teaching about “inglorious aspects” of US history - like the Colfax Massacre. https://t.co/ELQXHxMmxe
I’ve told it so many times in interviews, podcasts, etc that I’m worried people who have followed me for a while are sick of hearing it by now. I’ll do a condensed version in a thread though: https://t.co/HzvEgxUYx2
Saint Laurent is launching a film production company, beginning with Pedro Almodóvar’s ‘STRANGE WAY OF LIFE’.
They are also developing new films from Paolo Sorrentino, David Cronenberg, Wong Kar Wai, Jim Jarmusch and Gaspar Noé.
(Source: https://t.co/aM1xQLF8UC) https://t.co/JrSaHlZtPU
Now, you might say, we have TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, etc. Sure, we do. But those are filtered through their own bottleneck: an algorithm that sorts their content. And if you want to see what kind of culture emerges from an algorithmic feed, go look at a Facebook cooking video.
Twitter, pre-Musk, pre-all of this, meant that if you were young, inexperienced, from a marginalized background, or just a huge weirdo, those important people might see your stuff. And crucially, they would see your stuff BEFORE it was sanded down in that editorial bottleneck.
I keep waiting for someone else to make this point but it hasn’t happened yet. Or I haven’t seen it yet. Discovery on here sucks now. But there’s a very profound thing that Twitter provides creative industries that isn’t traffic. And when it’s gone, oh boy, are we gonna feel it…
David Choe, who plays Isaac in the Netflix series ‘BEEF,’ supplied his paintings for the title cards of the show.
https://t.co/fvj4WtMhSP https://t.co/Jn05eHE5eT
I THINK - barring a few tweaks - we finally finished the soundtrack to #AcrossTheSpiderVerse
It features:
- Orchestra
- Electronics
- Turntables
- Hollywood
- Bollywood
- Punk
- Funk
- Opera
- Timestretch
- Techno
- Breaks
- Goose
…and much more.
I hope you love it. https://t.co/kGfJcOfw9v
Billy Magnussen has joined the cast of Disney’s live-action ‘Lilo & Stitch’ film from director Dean Fleischer Camp.
(https://t.co/RUDj45CR9N) https://t.co/SPkDd179AU
This is quite the paper!
It gave 25 AI agents motivations & memory, and put them in a simulated town.
Not only did they engage in complex behavior (including throwing a Valentine’s Day party) but the actions were rated more human than humans roleplaying. https://t.co/G7oJW1S3na https://t.co/d7Gp4sXp4V