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@Edokwin
Arts, Culture, Entertainment, Knowledge. Good over bad, truth before convenience.
I wish my "following" tab was strictly chronological and did not include my own tweets.
This Never gets Old. The history of philosophy in the age of social media
There's quite possibly no bigger lie, on a meta level, in writing and the arts, than "the audience doesn't matter." Nothing but a self-defeating bit of cope and cap.
Tom Lehrer outlived the reporter who wrote his obituary, which would probably have amused him. archive.is/89a1G
Success is ever mysterious and elusive to those who think it can only be gamed or gifted rather than earned.
The problem is that most people don't: 1. Have the time+resources for that 2. Actually want to understand But like Wright Mills often said, grand theories are appealing because they can supposedly explain everything at once. We love shortcuts.
If you want to understand how society works, you should spend more time reading about specific events and case studies than you spend reading about theories and explanations. Somewhere around 4:1 is roughly the right ratio.
AI outputs are just the abyss of our own writing clichés staring back at us.
The #1 and #4 spots are obvious. Hard part is ranking the two team movies.
Rank these 2025 superhero films 🍿 • 'The Fantastic Four' • 'Superman' • 'Thunderbolts' • 'Captain America 4'
For now we still speak of the World Wars in the plural, but they’re already starting to blur together in historical memory. I wonder how long it’ll be before it’s spoken of in the singular, like the different wars that make up the Hundred Years’ War or the Peloponnesian War.
Reminder: The opposite of a conservative, broadly speaking, is a progressive (not a liberal). And when most people say "liberal" in political discourse, often what they really mean is "progressive." Once one understands all this, a lot of oddities make sense.
The thing conservatives are most correct about is that mainstream liberals have a baffling tendency to be soft on the kind of hard leftists who quite openly admit that they want to kill liberals.
Regular reminder half the dumb economic and political takes come from wealthy celebs fed a steady stream of propaganda, who are well-insulated from any policy decisions they want. And much of the population looks up to them. There's a reason ancient Rome made them low status
I'm actually kinda shocked there's not more love for Danny Elfman in these QTs and replies.
Name your favorite film composer. You cannot say Hans Zimmer or John Williams. Go!