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
Adler: the strongest person in our culture is the baby. The baby rules over the adults with his weakness. And it is because of this weakness that nobody can control him— Visakan Veerasamy (@visakanv) September 6, 2018
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
Because Twitter was purely chronological and because editors, producers, publishers, sources, bosses, managers, directors, hell, actual lawmakers were on here, seeing the same raw feed we all were, it meant you could circumnavigate that bottleneck.— Ryan Broderick (@broderick) April 13, 2023
On a diff note, there's a reason why Steven Yeun grew up evangelical, John Cho's dad was a pastor, & I was in a worship band w/Lee Isaac Chung in college. It's v hard to understand Korean imm & Korean Americans w/o (Protestant) Christianity. Some context for #BEEFNetflix viewers: https://t.co/4VEQZqEs88— Jane Hong (@janehongphd) April 12, 2023
“A recent small medical issue has highlighted how much someone needs to disrupt Google Search. Google is no longer producing high quality search results in a significant number of important categories.”
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…
“There’s a spicy article to be written about how much better videogames are doing at accessibility than consumer/enterprise tech. Look at Naughty Dog shipping fast follow improvements to what is already widely heralded as the most accessible AAA title of all time!”
“(digital) product design one of the most inward looking parts of the design industry it’s nuts. many won’t even bother look at other sectors of graphic design let alone games”
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