In the same manifesto, Palantir's owners argued that we need a national military draft, that soft power is over, and that we were too hard on Germany and Japan after World War II. I don't think that company should be allowed to exist anymore.
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just realised how much funnier that episode of the rehearsal is now that paramount is buying hbo
Let’s try this again now that bsky works
Ahead of a talk at NYU on games media, I’d like to hear how folks get reporting.
Not criticism. Not analysis. I got those covered for now
Plz send links to outlets, writers, video makers, podcasters who do interviews, uncover new info, break news, etc!
Aryam crying
Sham crying
Mahmoud in bed
Mahmoud's legs jn bandages and braces
🚨 Urgent Appeal 💔🚨
Please save my daughter Sham 💔
Sham is infected with a virus and needs treatment 💊🙏
Mahmoud urgently needs medication and tests; without them, his life is in danger⚠️
My baby Aryam needs milk 🍼 and diapers🧷,costing £300💔
Don’t leave us to die, I beg you 💔
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“It’s a couple of things that work beautifully in concert. First: no music. Audiences are so sophisticated, but what they’re not accustomed to is not being told how to feel,” Wyle says. “You take all that out and it forces a level of engagement where you’re now looking for clues within the frame of the screen, which forces you to look up from your phone. And I think that is extremely engaging, especially to young viewers who aren’t accustomed to being asked to participate in a nonpassive way in the viewing experience.
![“Second point, shooting it with almost exclusively 50-millimeter or 65-millimeter lenses, which is the most comparable to the human eye—and only shooting from the point of view of a human being that’s present in this space. There are no cameras on gurney wheels going in the hallway. There’s no cameras on the ceiling looking down from a God point of view. You are limited to the perspective of a participant. You can look away, but you can’t leave, and it becomes an endurance test for you to stay on your feet as long as we’re on our feet. Which [brings me to my] third point: real time. Real time has an aggregate sense of tension that you don’t get in any other form of storytelling. What happened before is happening now, and these two things are going to add up to the next thing. And if we throw more ingredients into this cooker and keep ratcheting it up, it’s going to pop.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:guthikarwozoldkzhueivkl6/bafkreihklvhtymho7wpemo5mj2f7xaiq6ulvfvcwnzo6hjstg3wixzgesy)
“Second point, shooting it with almost exclusively 50-millimeter or 65-millimeter lenses, which is the most comparable to the human eye—and only shooting from the point of view of a human being that’s present in this space. There are no cameras on gurney wheels going in the hallway. There’s no cameras on the ceiling looking down from a God point of view. You are limited to the perspective of a participant. You can look away, but you can’t leave, and it becomes an endurance test for you to stay on your feet as long as we’re on our feet. Which [brings me to my] third point: real time. Real time has an aggregate sense of tension that you don’t get in any other form of storytelling. What happened before is happening now, and these two things are going to add up to the next thing. And if we throw more ingredients into this cooker and keep ratcheting it up, it’s going to pop.”
Wyle makes eye contact for his next point, delivering it with a Robby-esque matter-of-factness. “Fourth point: The election went the other way,” he says with a shrug. “We could have been a really good show with a lot of nice things to say in a perfectly normal Kamala Harris universe. And instead we became almost a beacon of hope and humanity in an alternative universe. But in the midst of that, fifth point—this is essentially competence porn. You’re watching really smart, dedicated people do what only they know how to do at a level that you don’t know how to do it, and you’re so fucking glad that they’re there doing it, and compartmentalizing their own stuff to put your broken pieces back together. You’re so reassured by knowing that there are people out there that laugh and joke and have the ability to lock in like that.”
this is fucking unreal stuff from Noah Wyle on the magic of The Pitt. www.gq.com/story/noah-w...
Tonight's Hacks posits (correctly) that Ann Dowd inspires the kind of devotion that would lead someone to learn to paint with their anus just to make a portrait of her
www.avclub.com/hacks-recap-...
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Screenshot of Lord of the Rings. The main character says "All right, then. Keep your secrets."
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The Simpsons screenshot from "The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show," but Homer's saying we should all be asking about Hudson Hawk, not Poochie
DoorDash's head of public affairs said "no one is claiming it was a real delivery." I found a few people who were claiming that: Reuters, ABC, CBS, the AP, Fox, Newsmax, The Hill, the New York Post, and CSPAN, for starters. www.readtpa.com/p/a-real-del...
NEW: A new pre-print study offers the first causal evidence that outsourcing reasoning tasks to AI can rapidly erode users' independent performance AND their will to persist despite difficulty.
"People’s persistence drops... they’re also not willing to try without AI.”
futurism.com/artificial-i...
Om Sham's three children
Mahmoud's injured leg in a metal brace censored with illustrated doves
One of the children sweating with fever
Mahmoud lying face-up in his hospital bed
🚨 Urgent Appeal 💔 🚨
I beg you to save my daughter Sham 💔
She urgently needs medicine 💊🙏
Mahmoud needs daily care; without it, his surgery and life are in danger⚠️
My baby Aryam needs milk 🍼 and diapers🧷,costing £250 💔
Stand with us,
Donate and share — don’t let them suffer💔
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A picture of a sunset and it’s very nice
Days that can’t make up their minds whether or not to rain always make for great sunsets
Huzzah—or hole-zah?—people are discovering Hole again
Of course, @roxana-hadadi.bsky.social has an astute take on the show
www.vulture.com/article/dtf-...
I could listen to Richard Jenkins saying “Indiana Jones jack-off classics” on a loop, that’s for sure
What I liked best about DTF St. Louis is what everyone else liked best: namely, Jason Bateman and David Harbour being goofs. The rest of it left a lot to be desired
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In a new short documentary, Zeteo returned to the Twin Cities to see how Operation Metro Surge is still affecting Minnesotans.
Watch the full film: zeteo.com/p/donald-tru...
a complex biosphere in vivid color in an illustrative style inside a circle and outside all white with shadow, with suggestion of complex ferns and other vegetation; art by rogan brown
Thrilled that my first new short story in several years, "Constellations," about astronauts crashlanding on a distant planet, has been published by the @technologyreview.com. Acquiring editor Rachel Cortland. Art by Rogan Brown. Free link to avoid the paywall: ter.li/r3tbrsgr
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the only safe data is the kind that is not collected.
I love libraries and I want to expand access to them. But when I read that CPL is letting students use their CPS ids as library cards "through an agreement between CPS and public libraries to share student data" I hear alarm bells
“Why aren’t college students protesting” stories are almost always wrong (they are protesting), omit crucial context (they were brutally punished for protesting before), and somehow suggest that 19 yr olds have more moral responsibility than elected officials three times their age
A politics of white reconciliation based on a foundation of anti-Blackness.
I like this because it articulates the conservative concept of freedom in a nutshell. You have the freedom to do x, except you don't, because I don't want you to. bsky.app/profile/atru...
I have a father and mother in law in Iran. I have a sister in law. A niece. She's 14. She likes silly pink headbands and purses and dresses, just like kids her age all over the world. There are 93 million people like her in Iran. People who do all the normal mundane life things as the rest of us.
