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It is profoundly unfair to the important — and currently •urgent• — cause of Palestinian liberation that it is a minefield of deceit and outright lies in all directions, plus accidental & deliberate antisemitism.
But one •must• step carefully. Please do.
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I have bottomless rage at having been forced to spend about a thousand hours of my life in “physical education” classes that did not teach me how to stretch, train, or even lift a heavy box properly but did teach me to hate exercise
PE teachers can wreck your health. Dr Anne Elliott found that bad experiences in school PE actively deterred people from taking exercise in later life & led to a state of alienation from their own bodies.
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A friend informs me that their IT department has deployed a Report Phishing button on their email client with a 🐟 icon, promoting it with the slogan “when in doubt, click the trout”
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I know a secret Star Trek story.
As an LA teenager in the 1980s I paid to attend a talk by Harve Bennett & Nicholas Meyer, as I was nerd enough to know that Bennett had produced ‘Wrath Of Khan’ & ‘Search For Spock’ and had written the latter, while Meyer had directed ‘WoK’.
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“When voters were asked whom they’d pick if the primaries were held today, Mr. Biden came out ahead. When asked whom they would make president with the wave of a magic wand, without the candidate needing to win an election, voters went with Ms. Warren.”
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Nimoy says,
“So I go up to Shatner and I say something to him I think this group will understand. ‘Bill, this is the only time I will ever give you this direction. This time? Take it as far as you can.’”
Magic.
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“Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect”
Missouri governor says he'll pardon St. Louis couple who pointed guns at protesters after indictment
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@MPAAPresident
@saywhatagain
It was very weird that the role obviously written for Jack Black in ‘Onward’ was instead voiced by one of the Chrises
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Meyer replied with a comment he has made in public many times since:
He found that the secret to directing Shatner was to do lots of takes, because he would get bored, and that would make him become more subtle and interesting.
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For example, Meyer said, Shatner could not resist a funny, hammy line reading in the prefix code scene.
“Heeere it COMES!”
A dozen takes later, he had the terrific — and much funnier — dry delivery of that line which went in the movie.
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Nimoy takes the stage and we are the nerdcool nerds who came to see writer/producer/director guys talk so we keep it chill and hold our standing ovation down to a tasteful 45 seconds
😁
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Nimoy says, like the first take of this one scene didn’t work at all and I was really worried; it was the one where Kirk gets the news that the Klingons have murdered his son.
Harve Bennett has this look on his face like he is going to BURST INTO FLAMES.
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Bennett says Shatner’s first take was hokey and terrible, like, wreck-the-movie bad.
So Nimoy goes up to Shatner, looks him in the eye, says just a few words, they shoot the scene again, and Shatner is incredible.
Boom. Cut and print!
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@benallenwf
The use of Blue Öyster Cult’s “Don’t Fear The Reaper” in the opening of the disappointing 1994 adaptation of ‘The Stand’ takes the gold medal.
It turns a pretty good montage into pure magic that covers 50 pages of the book in three minutes.
Okay Stranger Things using "Running Up That Hill" has me thinking. What's the best use of music in film or TV? And why is it "Hide and Seek" by Imogen Heap in The OC?
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Harve Bennett said a thing about Shatner that has stuck with me, thinking about film actors:
Shatner was a better actor than his detractors say, but his strong suit was something else, something more rare. He was a born movie star.
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They tell some more stories, and then a tech for the venue comes up and whispers something in Meyer’s ear, and he tells us,
“He said he might drop by and we didn’t think he would really have time, but … Leonard Nimoy is in the house.”
😲
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He does a bit of his Charming Nimoy thing but this is not a fan con, it’s a movie industry thing, so he is taking nuts-and-bolts about directing ‘Search For Spock’.
He says he was lucky to direct his first feature working with material and actors which he knew so well …
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Bennett said that Nimoy seemed to know something about getting good performances out of Shatner. He pointed to the scene where Kirk learns that Kruge killed his son David.
“You Klingon bastard, you killed my son.”
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OK, I’m coining a neologism:
———————
hyperkludge
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A hyperkludge is a design which is not a good solution for much of anything, but is a tolerably bad solution for so many things that it proliferates until network effects help it beat out better designs
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OH:
Kim Davis' defiant stand is exactly like Rosa Parks' act of civil disobedience.
Except Kim Davis is the bus driver.
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Meyer asks what the hell Nimoy had said. Bennett says he desperately wishes he knew.
It took maybe fifteen seconds for him to say it. What could it possibly have been?
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They told great odd inside baseball stories.
How they had carpeted the bridge of the USS Excelsior and were astonished at how it solved sound recording problems they’d had with the Enterprise bridge.
The snafu which put spoilers in the TV ads for ‘ST3’.
Nerd stuff.
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Replies demonstrate persuasively that public school physical education has been actively harmful to people’s mental and physical health
I have bottomless rage at having been forced to spend about a thousand hours of my life in “physical education” classes that did not teach me how to stretch, train, or even lift a heavy box properly but did teach me to hate exercise
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@downwithlcc
Horatius At The Bridge gets me •every• time
Screw dunking on it, what are your FAVORITE plot cliches? Like no matter how many times it's been done, no matter how many miles away you can spot it, you will always get hype when it's executed well?
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@slimyhipster
The only example I could think of where animated animal characters are unmistakably gendered without it feeling skeevy
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I know some followers see me as a Sanders booster, because I do a lot of anti-anti-Sanders commentary, but this is how I feel.
By my lights Warren stands in a class above everyone else in the race. I have my criticisms, but she is a better candidate than I ever expected to see.
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When you say
"EVERYONE on the team is responsible for X"
I hear
"nobody on the team has ownership of X
and
expertise in X is not valued"
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Fire every cop.
Raze every police station. Salt the earth where they stood.
Start over.
No guns. No one who was a cop before.
The legitimacy of liberal democracy is at stake.
(And the correct word here is "rape".)
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Hey, Tolkien geeks:
Tom Bombadil is TERRIFYING
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I have been getting a lot of replies about the horrors people experienced in physical education classes — shame, bullying by classmates and teachers, frustration, misery, and injury — and this sums up the cultural politics of it:
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You can have my Oxford comma when you pry it from my cold, dead, unambiguously-punctuated hands.
@dys_morphia
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If you are one of those people who says that fascism is not fascism until it arrives at authoritarian political repression through the prevention of free elections and terrorizing the citizenry with state agents and civilian brown shirts, HERE WE ARE
They are normalizing brownshirting in advance of the election, they will almost certainly find a pretext to deploy these methods in Democratic cities in the lead-up to the election.
They are going to terrorize voters off the streets.
Again.
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@girlziplocked
The software industry is like if you made houses with construction workers but no architects.
Usually no one knows what the thing will be like when it is finished; the programmers just start building, and we make changes as they go.
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Yet another reminder that police are not responding to rioting, they are responding to any expressions of sympathy for victims of police violence, however gentle and graceful those expressions may be
Yesterday Aurora, Colorado was holding a violin vigil for Elijah McClain, who was known for playing his violin, especially to animals.
Then the police decided they’d seen enough.
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Important thread about how fascism proceeds
The thing about trump putting a literal goddamn nazi in a position of power, is that it is a test of his enemies and supporters.
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So I was just thinking about the 2016 ‘Ghostbusters’, the way you do, and how I liked it more than a lot of folks did, and how the thing I LOVED was, of course, MacKinnon as Holtzmann
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My father, who spent a fair portion of the Great Depression in an orphanage, told me, “if you are down to your last dollar, spend that dollar on chocolate”
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@_Almaqah
“I feel so bad saying that.”
She is sure she is not a bad person, “not a racist”. She expects another white person to rescue her, to reassure her, to tell her that they understand, so she does not have to complete the thought and face what she is saying.
A Texas woman explains why she doesn't want affordable housing in her neighborhood. I think this clip is
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@_Almaqah
Fascinating and excruciating.
I don’t read her as biting back the overt bigotry she expresses in private, quite. She is accustomed to white people responding to her hints with ones of their own so that she never has to face she is actually saying.
A Texas woman explains why she doesn't want affordable housing in her neighborhood. I think this clip is
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Nested threads on the Punisher skull as a fascist symbol used by police
Disney and Marvel could come down hard on these cops using their intellectual property, yet choose not to. Considering how protective they are of their branding in other cases, it's somewhat telling.
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@letstalkjla
I haven’t yet seen anyone bring up this sage commentary from
@gaileyfrey
: “You’re not sure whether he owns the slum where you live. You wonder if your rent money pays for decorative antique suits of armor.”
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#BlackLivesMatter
is evolving into a global movement against the legacies of racism and colonialism
A crowd has climbed onto the statue of colonial King Léopold II in
#Brussels
chanting “murderer” and waving the flag of the Democratic Republic of Congo where his atrocities took place.
#DRC
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#BlackLivesMatter
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We could have suspended ALL of the rents and interest payments from the start. Just paused the clock.
But heaven forbid we show that this is possible, and get people thinking about a jubilee.
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OK, this still of Henry Cavill looking handsome and dashing in curly hair for a new film has inspired me to unleash the Superman Hair Rant which I have been biting back for some time
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Cruelty is not a byproduct. Cruelty is the point.
BREAKING: Trump administration will stop granting asylum to victims of domestic abuse and gang violence. Tens of thousands impacted. Story coming shortly.
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I have been getting countless replies like this, describing how “physical education” normalized pointless cruelty at the hands of people given authority over us
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@jh_swanson
Fascinating replies.
Frank Miller’s novel ‘300’ is a better work than Zach Snyder’s film adaptation, but both are guilty pleasures and I am amazed that Snyder managed to take fascist source material and make it MORE fascist without knowing it.
If you're on the political left, what is the most right-wing artistic work that you enjoy and appreciate (in whatever way you understand that concept)? And if you're on the right, the reverse?
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The horrible paradox that women don't vote for Warren because they second-guess the sexism of men has its parallel in Black voters' strategic voting
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In my first cube farm job I was frontline billing support. I was told to take as many calls a day as possible.
I once got a customer who had suffered months of the runaround. It took me 45 minutes and a visit to another floor to FINALLY fix their thing.
I was punished.
It is incredible and unfair burden to make someone responsible for outcomes regardless of their responsibility in causing it.
But that is what it takes.
Do you hire people who have what it takes? Do you support them in their outlays of responsibility?
Or do you make them fail.
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Nested threads on the Punisher skull as a fascist symbol used by police
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@maxberger
The term of art for this, among people who study the far right, is “stochastic terrorism”
What if we thought of the shooters at the Buffalo supermarket, Pittsburgh synagogue, Kyle Rittenhouse and Dylan Roof, and the Proud Boys as a kind of neoliberalized freikorps? Bound together by white nationalism, without formal association?
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Do the math.
They are putting non-citizens into camps already.
They are denying citizenship arbitrarily.
Add those together.
Multiply by millions.
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A thread about understanding The Andy Ngo Incident.
In order to understand the incident, you need to understand who Andy Ngo is.
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I have been muttering for Quite Some Time about recognizing the big tech stacks — Google, Facebook, Amazon, Twitter — as utilities and nationalizing them.
Time for a tweetrant about building a Socialist Data Not Quite Utopia.
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Tell me an audience won’t go BERSERK for a cameo by MacKinnon as Holtzmann in just about ANY comedy.
Heck, you could shoehorn her into a lot of action movies; Holtzmann doesn’t make any less sense than anything else in the Fast & Furious universe, f’rinstance.
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Kate MacKinnon could have a side career playing cameos of Holtzmann forever, like Bebe Neuwirth does with Lilith. We would always be happy to see her.
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And I have gotten countless replies like this about how cruelty from classmates in PE classes was not just a byproduct of the class as a forum, but implicitly (or even explicitly) encouraged by the adults responsible to the kids in their care
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"the most common shared trait across entrepreneurs is access to money"
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Superman does not belong in a Christian church. Superman does not have straight hair.
Superman is Jewish.
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@IDoTheThinking
@KevOnStage
Too high?
This reads to me as an AMAZING level of skill and craft. Using video editing software would be EASIER.
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Someday these will be beloved by preservationists arguing for the classic design of the 2020s
I love 5-over-1 apartment buildings. They are so beautiful. Build one of these on every block!! 😍
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@peter__stern
@ryanlcooper
I just looked it up and the book says that the rule only applies to socialists
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I am not being flip when I say this, I am being serious:
THIS is the America I was promised
Bob McGrath, Loretta Long, Matt Robinson, and Will Lee.
The original humans of Sesame Street,
1969.
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“I am a user experience designer”
- blathery
- corporate
- what does it even mean
“I direct the actions of machines”
- commanding
- magical
- maybe you have a sword
“I’m a rabbi”
-preachy
-judgy
-no fun
“I hold space for encountering the numinous”
-mysterious
-ominous
-maybe you have a sword
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Conservatives never believed in liberal democracy.
They never believed that liberals’ political claims were legitimate.
They never believed that our institutions are more important than their political victory.
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Public anonymity is doomed.
Maybe you can use dazzle cosmetics to defeat facial recognition but there will be gait analysis and iris recognition and millimeter-wave radar and and and and.
We need institutional solutions that keep this from being a threat.
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For the convenience of travelers, parallel universes have been seeded with an identifying designation:
• Brenstein
• Brenstien
• Brenstain
• Brenstane
• Berenstein
• Berenstien
• Berenstain
• Berenstane
• Baranstene
See your transit guide for details
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@studentactivism
I read an article about FEMA disaster planning once, in which the most stunning of many awe-inspiring considerations of scale was when it pointed out that the Federal government can knock on every door in the country in a day, if it has to, using the United States Postal Service
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The show had deep problems from the start and unraveled once it got past GRRM’s books but good gods I have anti-sympathy for people who did not understand this as where Danerys’ story was obviously going all along
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And this is the worm at the heart of Star Trek:
it is an attempt at a framework which enables us to reframe the colonialist stories of “adventure” without the moral horror of colonialism, but it only gives us a sanitized colonialism which justifies it
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As a brewer once said to me, if you look at it historically, beer is not liquid bread — bread is solid beer
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So what I’m saying is:
Hollywood, the people want more Holtzmann! Come take our money!
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@being_tim
@burnlittlelight
@TheRaDR
Superman was invented by Jerry Siegel & Joe Shuster, both the children of Jewish immigrants.
In 1938, when the first comic was published, even pale Jews were not yet read as White in the US; assimilation to Whiteness was an ongoing and contested process at the time.
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This is a huge •culture shift•, because it non-trivially coïncides with an astonishing level of video literacy.
Photography & filmmaking skill at a level that only a handful of professionals could do a generation ago is ordinary among teenagers today. I am illiterate.
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I have been a UX designer for 25 years and I can tell you that civilians NEVER understood hierarchical directories
As a software developer, finding this fascinating. Apparently text search has completely replaced hierarchy among younger people as a means of accessing information and they do not understand the concept of a directory.
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I was looking at this real life horror show and thinking about how someday this is going to be part of the familiar aesthetic language of evil
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If only Iran had produced a popular leader advocating democracy, secular society, human rights, and peace.
They did. His name was Mohammad Mosaddegh. He was elected prime minister in 1951 … then overthrown in a US-sponsored coup in 1953 and imprisoned for the rest of his life.
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@easyp82
@girlziplocked
I did know that; poetic liberty. But you also know how the house is going to come out.
In software, they often put the bathtub in the kitchen because the plumbing is easier, then grouse about having to change it … then management asks if it can be used as offices …
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The headline misspelled “democratic governance folds in the face of threats from authoritarian terrorist death squad”
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We are evidently not going to get another movie in the 2016 ‘Ghostbusters’ continuity, which is fine — I don’t have a hunger to go back to the ghostbusters conceit at all — but ... that doesn’t mean we cannot have more Holtzmann. She could show up in ALL KINDS OF PLACES.
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People:
Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” is a Jewish song about fucking, doubt, longing, being Jewish, kinky fucking, lust, melancholy, agapē, magic, and Jewish fucking.
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An earlier thread of mine about the dynamics of sexism affecting Warren
On my feed I am seeing people making comments which cast this as primarily a demonstration of misogyny directed against Warren: “see what happens when a woman gets paid for her expertise” et cetera.
I respect this reading.
And. Also ...
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Fire every cop. Raze every police station. Salt the earth where they stood.
Start over.
No guns. Nobody who was ever a cop before.
The legitimacy of liberal democracy is at stake.
The following is a true story:
Fremont, CA Police meant to perform a hit on a teenage boy with a warrant but instead murdered a pregnant teenager and then paid the DA $10,000 to make sure it all went away for good.
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