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KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON (2023). I feel like late stage Scorsese -- perhaps from WOLF OF WALL STREET onward -- is carving out this new genre: the true-ish fever dream lyrical essay about America. Pictures that feel like full literate novels, all grace notes & soul sickness.

Killers of the flower moon review:1. beautiful movie.2. not an indigenous movie at all, rather a early 1900ʻs period piece where the osage people are the setting. both a positive and negative.3. To me a powerful exercise in humanizing even the most detestable of villains.— Rosehill (@Kailikapu) October 23, 2023

Google: 90% of our engineers use the software you wrote (Homebrew), but you can’t invert a binary tree on a whiteboard so fuck off.

Facebook is another company where you have to do obscure computer science puzzles to get a job there, but once there feel free to write code that crashes 20% of the apps on the App Store. Quality is unimportant provided you can feel smug about how to manipulate data structures.

Feel like I can share my story about BetterHelp. During a particularly dark time and being affected by Israeli lobbyist attacks on me and my livelihood, feeling paralysed, lost, I signed up to trial online therapy. How BetterHelp works is that it (cont.) https://t.co/HbUrMehDdB— Jennine (@jennineak) October 11, 2023

There are huge protests everywhere in the US against genocide in Gaza, in solidarity with Palestinians and calling for not only a ceasefire but an end to US support for occupation. Yet, I haven’t seen a single article in a major newspaper about what is becoming a mass movement 1/— Thea Riofrancos (@triofrancos) October 22, 2023

The children yearn for auteur filmmaking https://t.co/oD33qLykun pic.twitter.com/srW4Va1yxN— Jonathan (@jonathanmb32) October 22, 2023

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Pfizer says it will price Covid treatment Paxlovid at $1,390 for a five-day course, which researchers estimate only costs Pfizer $13 to produce. That's a 10,000%+ markup. Shameful.

photographs inspired by studio ghibli pic.twitter.com/Y7A57gYXcA— vaughn (@inthemeadow) October 21, 2023

the urge to redo my website is kicking ini don't want a portfolio i want a personal websitei want it to be minimal it'll be my first ever site where i'm not describing myself as a front end developer (est 2008)wip in thread— Pedro Duarte (@peduarte) October 21, 2023

Dedicated thread for Dall-E 3 screenshots of classic 3D modeling/animation apps that never existed. pic.twitter.com/dFOeCj8SEf— Erik Robson (@ErikRobson) October 20, 2023

EXCLU: State Dept officials are preparing a dissent cable over Biden's Israel-Palestine policy"A mutiny [is] brewing within State at all levels,” one official said, as staff describe anger, depression, tears in meetings + rumors more colleagues will quithttps://t.co/QgKElV6n4c— Akbar Shahid Ahmed (@AkbarSAhmed) October 19, 2023

When I was young, I never really understood my parents insistence to only use olive oil imported from Palestine. It took a long time and a great distance in a process that was neither cheap nor convenient. The oil came in old beat-up containers that did not look appealing to me… pic.twitter.com/ylbQI6QDnH— Sharmine Narwani (@snarwani) October 20, 2023

My insanely talented friends are undervalued by modern institutions and scattered all over the world. So I dreamt of building a "campus" where friends could live & work near each otherThat's finally happening with the launch of Fractal University 🏵️1/ pic.twitter.com/wnnJEKWW18— Tyler Alterman (@TylerAlterman) October 20, 2023

One misunderstanding is that this way of working leads to some tech debt: I don't think it does, if the designers/engineers know what they are doing. No-one is going to create a new button component because it's 1px larger than what exists in the code. So we have components,… https://t.co/BDsEtodDsV pic.twitter.com/OAA2ceSRyt— Karri Saarinen (@karrisaarinen) October 20, 2023

A paper that really illustrates both the unexpected power, and unexpected risks, that come from LLMs.Given text of anonymous posts on Reddit, GPT-4 can infer things like income, gender & location with 85%+ accuracy at 1% of the cost required by humans. https://t.co/qcrodZsgUQ pic.twitter.com/at8NfwLxjr— Ethan Mollick (@emollick) October 20, 2023

forget look gaps or iq gaps can we talk about interestingness gaps in relationships— Ava (@noampomsky) October 20, 2023

BREAKING: 🇮🇱 Netanyahu's government approves regulations that allow temporary shutdown of foreign news channels on grounds of national security, as Communications Minister seeks to shut down Al Jazeera's bureau.— The Spectator Index (@spectatorindex) October 20, 2023

it can be helpful to discuss with your friends which energies specifically are being exchanged in relationship, what you each are giving and receiving, how that feels, and what, if anything, wants to be shifted— Love Pilgrim (@tasshinfogleman) October 15, 2023

"We, as the government of Spain, need to suspend diplomatic relations with Israel..."The Spanish Minister of Social Rights speaks out against Israel's "planned genocide" in Gaza. pic.twitter.com/PhWNeBAUUQ— Lowkey (@Lowkey0nline) October 18, 2023

This week, I called Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish, a physician from Gaza who now lives in Canada, to check in on him. During Israel’s 2008-9 war on Gaza, three of his daughters were killed when an Israeli tank struck their home. This time, I had to offer my condolences again, when he…— איימן עודה أيمن عودة Ayman Odeh (@AyOdeh) October 19, 2023

i think it’s important to note that Gaza would not be able to build water infrastructure because Israeli Military Order 158 explicitly prevents that https://t.co/CRUFgZqJVM— abram (@abram_facts) October 19, 2023

Russia had no human rights norms during its Afghan campaign and still lost. This 4chan worldview doesn’t map onto the world. https://t.co/5M2xYmPjC6— Zaid Jilani (@ZaidJilani) October 19, 2023

I watched Barbie thrice to come up with this idea: What stops most people from living out their true selves is not ignorance of their own mortality but an inability to distinguish between wants and oughts. Most are too busy going through the motions (ie. planned choreography):

About the #Gaza #hospital blast, The version saying it would have been caused by Palestinian rocket (mis)fire is gaining traction online and among #OSINT communities. A thread showing weaknesses in this version, and why an Israeli bombing is highly more plausible.⬇️ 1/x