Notices by Extinction Studies (aka_quant_noir@hcommons.social)

@hellomiakoda

Learn shit, build some really amazing, foundational tools, get rich, get old and fucking die.

Don't skip those two bits in the middle!

@georgetakei

She needs a big ass banana peel as a nemesis.

@GottaLaff

You know if he's allowed to do this, it's a small step from cleansing and relocating any town in America, any ethnic group, any group of never-Trumpers...

Tonight I'm watching I think two films.

First up is Shattered Glass (2003), directed by Billy Ray, starring Hayden Christensen, Peter Sarsgaard, Chloë Sevigny, and Steve Zahn. It's a biopic about journalistic standards and fabricated stories... I know, right?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shattered_Glass_(film)

After that, Going Clear (2015), Alex Gibney's documentary about Scientology, based on Lawrence Wright's book. It's kind of infamous I guess?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Going_Clear_(film)

#film #physicalmedia #documentary #biopic #scientology

These two #film experiences involved manipulative, narcissistic, paranoid men who got away with terrible things, either cruelty or fabrication of truth, or both, until they were exposed. But both are living with it, and Miscavige still exercises great power and wealth, so the lesson is that the consequences for shatteringly bad behavior in this culture are slight. Which is a lesson the GOP has learned all too well. #cult

I guess the nicest thing you can say about corporations is that they're organized. They're organized to steal your money, now...

@Blueteamsherpa

It's going to take a revolution. We'll have to make threats we're able and willing to carry out.

@jacklaridian

I do appreciate the music as a way to differentiate between normalcy and urgency. It's more than a horror film. I'm going to have to think about it, which is a hallmark of a good movie for me.

@jacklaridian

It's fuckin' weird. I dunno. All these stringed instruments trying to get me in a Psycho headspace, lol.

@jacklaridian It's about dehumanization and the horrors we are able to choose to do, to ourselves and our fellow humans, if we are systematically oppressed or neglected, or treated as others.

@jacklaridian

So far Us reminds me of M. Night Shyamalan. This is my first viewing, whereas I've seen Get Out at least twice and Nope once so far. Great movies.

Decided I'm *finally* going to watch Us (2019), directed by Jordan Peele, starring Lupita Nyong'o, Winston Duke, Shahadi Wright Joseph, Evan Alex, Elisabeth Moss, and Tim Heidecker. It's psychological horror. Peele's just so great.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Us_(2019_film)

After that I'm going to watch Irresistible (2006), directed by Ann Turner, starring Susan Sarandon, Sam Neill, and Emily Blunt. It's a mystery? About obsession?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irresistible_(2006_film)

#film #physicalmedia

Doing what a President says is a norm. Honoring their power is a norm. Choosing to not indict a sitting President is a norm.

Trump ate norms for breakfast last time. Let's eat his norms now. Tell all your friends. Tell the government.

Journalism isn't a relay race. It's not a game of telephone either.

It's about investigation and connecting dots. It's about following the money and winnowing truth from propaganda. Questioning power, not cozying up to it.

Know your metaphors.

#journalism

@WarnerCrocker Yeah, when are we going to do something about it? That's really the question. What's the appropriate and good thing to do? As a country, and as people?

@pluralistic

Of the four Nebraska reps, I know one (or knew), and know who the chair is. Ron Kaminski, not so much. Seems like an operator.

@atomicpoet

The economics will hopefully collapse a lot of these ventures before they do too much harm. Energy costs will have to be realized eventually, for instance. But the costs to the job market may bankrupt so many white collar workers that combined with all the stupidity Trump wants to do, the whole economic system may collapse.

@liztai

For me, I would just ask myself whether I'm more of a cheese tart or more of a scone. But that's what passes for self-awareness in my house.

I appreciate
Each attempt to make better
What's already fucked.

#haiku

@d2718 @pluralistic The industry i work in is aggressively getting bezzled into AI and pitching it to employees as an opportunity to learn new skills. AI to insurance employees is however a black box still; we don't have any windows into what they're implementing and what skills they'll care enough to help us learn, let alone how we'll be able to comply with laws or how our customers will be impacted.