@shawsam

Creator / showrunner of MANHATTAN, DEVIL IN THE WHITE CITY, co-creator of CASTLE ROCK, etc. Prose before shows. Alice Munro sun, Steely Dan rising.

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Joined May 2009
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As we breathlessly await further casting announcements on Scorsese’s Grateful Dead movie, here is a thread of dogs who look like Bob Weir:
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MJ Lee@mj_lee17 Nov 2025
New: Sen. Elizabeth Warren tells me Harvard should sever ties with Larry Summers, putting new pressure on the school to hold Summers accountable for his intimate friendship with Jeffrey Epstein. Summer "cannot be trusted" to teach students, she says: cnn.com/2025/11/17/politics/…

Larry Summers says he is ‘deeply ashamed’ after new Jeffrey Epstein emails and will pause public...

Larry Summers said Monday night that he was “deeply ashamed” about his relationship with the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, telling CNN that he would pause all public engagements as he works...

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Today is Matt Power's fiftieth birthday. He's ten years gone. On Saturday we went to the Scratcher, read out his stuff and toasted the guy. I loved him. harpers.org/2014/03/matthew-…
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This passage from “Disturbing the Universe” perfectly illustrates Freeman Dyson’s unique gifts and wisdom in being able to combine insights into science with insights into human beings, in this case Oppenheimer and Teller.
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What a filmmaker, what a cast, what a movie.
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OPPENHEIMER (2023)
Dr. Hawk@choppingwoodpod27 Sep 2023
David Lynch directing Inland Empire
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The Daily Times, New Philadelphia, Ohio, July 9, 1924
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These 12 Media Execs Are on a ‘Regular’ Call to Solve the Strikes – IndieWire indiewire.com/news/business/…

These 12 Top Media Execs Are on a ‘Regular’ Phone Call to Solve the Strikes

Twelve top executives from the eight major studios are on a "regular" AMPTP phone call to solve the strike, Bloomberg reports. Here they are.

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Like a lot of cool folks in the know, I’m here to urge you to watch Manhattan if Oppenheimer did it (or didn’t do it!) for you polygon.com/23816318/manhatt…

The perfect Oppenheimer follow-up (and best show you’ve never watched) is free on Tubi

Time to go on a trip to Manhattan (the project, not the borough)

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Decider
@decider27 Jul 2023
Want even more brilliant scientists struggling to balance their messy personal lives with the stress of creating nuclear weapons a la #Oppenheimer? Then you need to watch the brilliant WGN America series MANHATTAN stat: trib.al/0NBx37q
OPPENHEIMER/ MANHATTAN

ALT OPPENHEIMER/ MANHATTAN

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Opening day of Oppenheimer seems like a good one to mention that one of the best and most criminally underwatched TV series of the past decade is "Manhattan" -- also about development of the a-bomb, but focuses on the "regular" scientists and their wives, not the famous guy.
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Highly endorse. Streaming on AMC+, Tubi, and Freevee.
Brandon 🚷@bnowalk21 Jul 2023
Oppenheads, two seasons of Manhattan awaits you. You'll see all your favorites: Oppy, General Groves, Jean Tatlock, Niels Bohr, Sarah Snook's twerpy ex from Succession, the star of CBS' Evil, the dadcop from Stranger Things, Olivia Williams,
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Succession Nate is a snack! Otherwise I endorse endorsement!
Brandon 🚷@bnowalk21 Jul 2023
Oppenheads, two seasons of Manhattan awaits you. You'll see all your favorites: Oppy, General Groves, Jean Tatlock, Niels Bohr, Sarah Snook's twerpy ex from Succession, the star of CBS' Evil, the dadcop from Stranger Things, Olivia Williams,
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Critic: “There’s no such thing as a sellout masterpiece.” Donald Fagen: “Hold my beer.”
Expanding Dan: the Steely Dan newsletter@ExpandingDan21 Jul 2023
Steely Dan's long-lost Schlitz beer jingle is the latest artifact @Cimcie exhumed from the archive of her father, engineer Roger Nichols.

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Sam Shaw@shawsam15 Dec 2015
It was a dark and stormy night.
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Sam Shaw@shawsam15 Dec 2015
I.I. Rabi on Trinity: "We were lying there, very tense, in the early dawn...you could see your neighbor very dimly."
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Eight / seventy-eight years ago today.
Sam Shaw@shawsam16 Jul 2017
Two years ago today. 70th anniversary of the Trinity test, with our fearless general.
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I am become death, retweeter of old threads.
Sam Shaw@shawsam16 Jul 2020
The story of my first TV show, MANHATTAN, ended at 5:29 am 75 years ago today, with the Trinity test in New Mexico’s Jornada del Muerto desert.
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We very seriously don’t talk enough about how streaming took advantage of the desperation of historically disadvantaged groups to tell their own stories, set them up to fail by denying them the standard industry training, and then slammed the door when the contraction hit
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