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What happened with Dark Universe is so fascinating to me because we've never seen anything like it. This wasn't even the first attempt. Far from! Universal kept making monster reboots that were meant to start something. None of them ever did. Let's go over the history (thread) https://t.co/sW5Z1Z42t6— Nat Brehmer (@NatBrehmer) May 22, 2023

This line is thought is terrifying. education becoming debt-exploding prep for a job that likely won’t use your degree anyway is one of the worst things to ever happen. The liberal arts expand the mind, deepen our appreciation of culture, and train us for how to see and live life https://t.co/PWvbE5Zmec— Brendan Hodges (@metaplexmovies) May 21, 2023

My favourite effects/techniques in After Effects:- CC Composite- CC Starburst/Light Burst- Extrusion for Morphing- Gaussian Blur & Matte Choker- Animated Brush Strokes- Fractal Noise & Colorama- Difference ModeI've made a mini-tutorial for each one under this tweet. 🧵— Will Taylor (@visualsbywlroo) May 19, 2023

“Some people have been asking how the top section for this page was built. It was a ton of fun to make so here's a breakdown of how it was made… 🧵”

the eccentricity of a brand should map to how often people interact with itif often: calmer and more conventional, if less often: eccentric and uniquee.g. boutique hotels and restaurants can/should have highly memorable design language because you don't spend much time there— kepano (@kepano) May 18, 2023

I really value the kind of all-purpose intelligence where you can ask someone to do literally anything and they might not be a 10/10 but they’ll def be 8/10 good at it— Ava (@noampomsky) May 18, 2023

those are the straightforward, common sense ends of the pro-life position if you take it at face value, but they’re also really unpopular so you’re supposed to have this entire euphemistic superstructure around it that he just ignores— William B. Fuckley (@opinonhaver) May 17, 2023

My life has significantly improved since I stopped giving away my expertise for free in group chats, panels and 1:1’s with people who have more access to capital than me.— Daisy Alioto (@daisandconfused) May 17, 2023

“@clhubes I've converted several cat haters into cat lovers by simply introducing them to cats”

“Ever wondered how grass is made in video games? Making grass may seem simple, but theres actually a lof of history and technology behind this surprisingly complex topic. Another big thread 🧵”

The root of so many American problems is first, refusing to accept that it is a problem at all and second, refusing to accept that everyone else is doing a vastly better job and that you could learn from that. Denial + Not-invented-here https://t.co/5gfEWAR5Ac— Benedict Evans (@benedictevans) May 14, 2023

Gotta love the folks flexing moral superiority in the quotes. 🤣😭 The whole point of the show is that these damaged, “bad” people possess “good” qualities, and the show helps you understand what would make someone so vile. Your feelings shouldn’t be binary, one way or the other.— Johnny Sobczak (@JohnnySobczak) May 15, 2023

What is your favorite piece of graphic design history? Share it with us in the comments and use the hashtag #designreviewed https://t.co/0S95QBZE9T pic.twitter.com/BbCABG36a0— Graphic Design History (@DesignReviewed) May 14, 2023

The handdrawn lines on the characters' faces in Spiderverse? An internally developed bespoke ML tool for the purposes of the production to make artists' lives easier animating expressions.It didn't need to rip off the entire internet and steal private sensitive data to do it pic.twitter.com/MZh42Iohdd— Jessie Lam _(:3 」∠ ) (@axl99) May 14, 2023

“our entire system of expert authority is built on circular references where the strength of the network determines the strength of the argument this is the basis of citation numbers, impact factor, etc. it's also the basis of the original google pagerank algorithm”

= new paper w/yuliy baryshnikov

(Artist GERARD DUBOIS)Moby Dick pic.twitter.com/NnD78jwB33— Charles Miller (@Monkey7771) May 11, 2023

“celebrity game apps”

“broken country" Video from the FBI on what to do if a shooting breaks out where you are

Feedback effects: Google initially relied on the (human-curated) link structure of the internet to derive "importance" signals from the internet graph. As people started using Google instead of links, Google accidentally destroyed the fabric that provided the value.— Halvar Flake (@halvarflake) December 5, 2022

so now, the goal is to get as many people as possible supporting me instead of agreeing with the underlying premise of my argumentand so we all became politicians instead of scientistsand quality lost out.— James Rosen-Birch @provisionalidea@bsky.social (@provisionalidea) November 5, 2021

the metric replaced the thing we wanted to measure, and instead of recognizing this fact and changing the metric to match what we *actually* wanted to measure,we ended up in an arms-race between those tweaking the metric and those gameing it— James Rosen-Birch @provisionalidea@bsky.social (@provisionalidea) November 5, 2021

[speechless] https://t.co/krpR53MFsS— Amal El-Mohtar (@tithenai) May 8, 2023 The author of that time war book reacting to how the viral tweet is sending her book to the top of the Amazon best sellers list

“Block acquiring Tidal made no sense to me; turns out nobody at Block other than @jack wanted it; He was doing his buddy Jay-Z a favor (at Stockholder expense) The memo is FANTASTIC and worth a read to see how an "all-star company" REALLY operates. https://t.co/tznroN9ApP”

“This scene was our Heartstopper.”

“@itsjamiecho My theory is that you can’t systemize Gen Z marketing because Gen z makes organic , personal , user generated content hence you can only copy the same meme , viral video 1-2 until it becomes cringe or the internet already moved on away from it”

“who's writing on the aesthetic of plastic-y luminosity that befouls so many AI images in popular circulation?”

Some of my students were struggling to find internships, so I made this master list of studios for them to reach out to and figured I'd share it here too! It skews more towards the US + branding (my own bias) but I welcome any additions / nominations 💙 https://t.co/EBpGG89K7K— Elizabeth Goodspeed (@domesticetch) May 9, 2023

The issue of respectability in dress, and what constitutes "proper" attire in public, has raged for as long as people have worn clothes. People who take this position fail to recognize that their own clothes were once the "yoga pants" of their day. I will run through examples 🧵 https://t.co/1zOaxEfCiz— derek guy (@dieworkwear) May 9, 2023