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Happy New Year! I directed the video for @lowtheband's "I Can Wait", now available to watch here.
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🎊HAPPY NEW YEAR🎊
Ring in 2022 with @lowtheband's new video for "I Can Wait" from the 🏆GRAMMY nominated🏆 very much acclaimed album, HEY WHAT-> ffm.to/low_heywhat!LOW
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Britain asking for their "treasures" to be returned while refusing to return so many items they stole during colonization is wild.
As “Winnie-the-Pooh” turns 100, Britain is renewing calls for the original stuffed bear and his friends to return from the New York Public Library.
The library has resisted requests, citing the toys’ age and popularity. Oh, bother! wapo.st/4im74oZ
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
The Winnie-the-Pooh toys were sent to the US in 1947 with permission from A.A. Milne and Christopher Robin and donated to the New York Public Library in 1987 by the publisher. They were never in any British museum and Britain has no legal claim.
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The cure to male loneliness? Podcast night at a local bar or brewery. You and 3 random men are seated at a table with fake microphones, and over the course of two hours and 4 beers, you get to talk at each other about your hobbies.
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Ava DuVernay using and endorsing generative AI is *so* disappointing.
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Hey so ICE shooting a car with a 5 year old child in it is exactly what the IDF does to Palestinian families
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NEW: A source familiar with the @ColoradoChamber Gov forum says the candidates were provided with moderator Ed Sealover’s questions, word for word, in advance.
GOP candidate Victor Marx is reading prepared answers, word for word, from a notebook on his lap.
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In an age dominated by technology, in which efficiency and profit often take precedence, it is so important that we continue to cultivate a spirit of contemplation and allow time and space for beauty. Such an attitude will greatly help humanity, especially young people, to discover the ability of art to uplift and reveal the depths of the human spirit and our openness to the divine. Contemplation presents a marvelous opportunity to encounter the God who is Beauty.
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Fucking losers
NEW: According to a bombshell report in the New York Times, Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah threatened to walk out of Pope Leo XIV’s AI encyclical launch in May because the pope rejected the idea that machines can be conscious.
Olah’s team then privately lobbied the pope’s advisers “to take the possibility of model consciousness seriously.” Pope Leo XIV held firm.
For months, Anthropic has wined and dined theologians and religious scholars under nondisclosure agreements, hoping they would bless the idea that Claude has moral standing. thelettersfromleo.com/p/nyt-…
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Guys, none of us are perfect, but we gotta find a way to talk about this shit otherwise we deserve every accusation of complacency that can be thrown at us. Misogyny and dehumanization of others needs to be actively opposed- “destroyed” if you need a more primal term.
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Some ppl will never be swayed by evidence of your humanity because their goal is not to move through life with empathy and connection, but to continue supporting violence that makes them feel even tangentially powerful. Logic and empathy doesn't penetrate bad faith! Their souls have rotted away in self-made prisons that reflect the ugliness and cruelty of their world!!!
There are a great number of people who DO understand, and healing, love and safety can be found in each other ILY
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New podcast! Out tomorrow:
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🧵 So I wrote the Wired story on the burnerverse, and as part of my reporting, I spent months reading and listening to the convos 20-something men have when they think no one is looking.
It's easy to dismiss the Cornell 7 as outliers, or super privileged frat bros, or byproducts of the Greek system. They're not.
It's also easy to say they're the worst-case scenario. That they represent the nadir of toxic masculinity, or a culture that teaches men from an early age that young women's bodies are disposable. But they don't.
That Snapchat thread? That's the norm. That's the baseline. That type of language is EXTREMELY consistent with the convos these guys are having when they think no one is paying attention. Because most of the time, no one is.
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Why are these glasses legal? I don’t get it!
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In 2014, I interviewed a Columbia University student who went from class to class carrying the mattress she was raped on—a protest performance piece to remind college administrators what they put on her shoulders.
Twelve years later, we still expect women on college campuses to carry that weight. jessica.substack.com/p/carry…
