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Jack Mackay retweeted
The naysayers are getting embarrassing. Every day, people are using AI to make incredible breakthroughs and answer some of the toughest questions around, like "what do I like about my child?"
Jack Mackay retweeted
pretty clear evidence that republicans in the US losing any election going forward are going to always beg for a coup if they lose. lots of people will have to go to jail
Jack Mackay retweeted
This is the strategy everywhere from now on. Try your hardest to suppress the vote, propagandize, or otherwise disenfranchise the opposition. If you lose, call the results into question, wage lawfare, and coup monger your way back into power by any means necessary if you can.
Jack Mackay retweeted
In one day, two politicians - Bolsonaro in Brazil and Vucic in Serbia - with ties to Trump and his family have lost surprise elections, thanks to high turnout. The rise of the international far-right is not inevitable.
Jack Mackay retweeted
My phone blinking like a Xmas tree with messages from around the world. Thank you friends ♥️🇧🇷. Brazil has just told bolsonarismo, today’s grotesque voter suppression, election meddling from US big techs, Brazilian legacy media and Trumpism a huge FUCK OFF. What we have accomplished is historic. Lula, 80 years old, elected 4 times democratically, by the people. What a giant.
Jack Mackay retweeted
Brazil’s results tonight are a big endorsement for the idea that every country should have a second “are you you sure about that” election a couple weeks after the first one for the important stuff
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Don’t become numb to this. It’s disgusting and dangerous racism and if Rogers wins next month it’ll only escalate.
Sick, sick stuff.
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URGENT🚨: We’re witnessing unprecedented voter suppression here in Brazil. Far-right governors are targeting the poor & the marginalized – & shutting down their access to polling stations. We must wake up! Whether it’s Trump or Bolsonaro, authoritarians fear the people’s voice!
Jack Mackay retweeted
Wildwood is one of the biggest examples of why I’m begging folks who make media for younger audiences to stop holding back on kids. Took my younger cousin (11) with me to see the film and he was extremely engaged, quietly commenting and theorizing throughout the film.
‘Big City Greens’ storyboard artist Gabi Rodea encourages parents to have their children see ‘Wildwood’ for its mature storytelling.
“Big studios like Disney and Paramount want to sanitize stories, effectively training children not to think about sadness or fear. Wildwood is for kids to be inspired by how they feel when they see a great movie.”
Jack Mackay retweeted
just went to the aquarium and saw an epaulette shark and my mom said “oh my god are those its eyes?!” duped, i fear, by quite literally one of the oldest tricks in the book
Jack Mackay retweeted
the reason moby-dick remains such a vital piece of human art is that it addresses what is probably one of humanity's greatest collective atrocities, the genocide of the whales, with an ambivalence it cannot itself fully articulate. melville is distraught, but he can't explain why
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Jack Mackay retweeted
Nothing bewilders and enrages these people more than the idea that someone might believe in something
Janice Turner in the Times, serves it cold to Sally Rooney.
"Rooney’s work brims with jaded ennui: achievement is empty, love problematic, sex just a serotonin blip before postcoital gloom. Beautiful World, Where Are You? whines the title of her third novel. I’ve met young Ukrainians under nightly Russian drone attack who find more laughter and joy in life than her privileged, Mogadoned nihilists.
The longing to feel something — anything — defines her characters and her own life. But now, at 35, Rooney has found meaning at last. The cause of Palestine is “to join in something greater than our selves, to participate in some small way in a struggle for human liberation”. Gaza is not about the suffering of a people but Rooney’s self-realisation."
thetimes.com/comment/columni…
If you are an acclaimed, voice-of-a-generation novelist there are infinite practical ways to deploy your fame and money to aid Gaza’s hungry, injured and displaced. But Rooney has chosen one that gives her the ultimate prize: pain-free public martyrdom.
Jack Mackay retweeted
what i learned from my father (who worked as an animator during this era of movies) is that accessible CGI brainbroke studio execs in a manner eerily akin to how ai has brainbroke boomers
Jack Mackay retweeted
Every summary of her work by these idiots is straightforwardly factually inaccurate.
Janice Turner in the Times, serves it cold to Sally Rooney.
"Rooney’s work brims with jaded ennui: achievement is empty, love problematic, sex just a serotonin blip before postcoital gloom. Beautiful World, Where Are You? whines the title of her third novel. I’ve met young Ukrainians under nightly Russian drone attack who find more laughter and joy in life than her privileged, Mogadoned nihilists.
The longing to feel something — anything — defines her characters and her own life. But now, at 35, Rooney has found meaning at last. The cause of Palestine is “to join in something greater than our selves, to participate in some small way in a struggle for human liberation”. Gaza is not about the suffering of a people but Rooney’s self-realisation."
thetimes.com/comment/columni…
If you are an acclaimed, voice-of-a-generation novelist there are infinite practical ways to deploy your fame and money to aid Gaza’s hungry, injured and displaced. But Rooney has chosen one that gives her the ultimate prize: pain-free public martyrdom.
