Chad Aaron Hall
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Chad Aaron Hall
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Today, there’s often a hilarious mismatch between how normie audiences receive a film versus how it’s reviewed by critics, one most clearly visible on the site Rotten Tomatoes . “Problematic” comedians like Dave Chappelle are denounced by the culturati while ordinary people laugh their asses off. Chappelle’s 2021 Netflix special The Closer , for... See more
Kat Rosenfield: How Culture Got Stupid
The cliché is to have a character inform another character with an info dump or a quote and have the other character react to hearing it as if they are hearing it for the first time or learning something. What is more interesting is to have the second character already know what the first person tells them. This imbues the second character with
... See moreInteresting ideas are repeated more often, meaning engagement not accuracy determines what we come to believe.
The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time by Steven Van Zandt, Joe Levy, Rolling Stone Magazine
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Slow Media are timeless : Slow Media are long-lived and appear fresh even after years or decades. They do not lose their quality over time but at best get some patina that can even enhance their value.
Jörg Blumtritt • The Slow Media Manifesto | Lanre Dahunsi
The pitch is that creators and business owners will use these AI profiles to talk to their followers on their behalf. They’ll be able to talk directly with humans in chat threads and respond to comments on their author’s account. Meta says Instagram users in the US can get started with AI Studio via either its website or by starting a new “AI chat”... See more
Instagram now lets people create AI versions of themselves | The ...
Thiel was right. By the end of February 2000, the two sides were looking at a 55/45 merger. Levchin was still unhappy but told Thiel that he would reluctantly accept it. That was the case until, on a visit to X’s offices, Musk told Levchin that Confinity was getting “a f**king deal.”
“My blood just boiled, and so I thought, it’s off ,” Levchin... See more
“My blood just boiled, and so I thought, it’s off ,” Levchin... See more
Twitter’s Future Is a Return to Elon Musk’s Past
There are no better examples than Harvard University and the New York Times , whose choices so often set the tone for other elite universities and publications. Both institutions may have declined in their overall control over American life, but they have remained culturally influential and economically viable by pandering to the tastes of a small... See more