California supremacist. Climber. English prof. Urbit: pasmul-hopnel. Author of "Excavating the Memory Palace" and "The Last Mixtape." Blog at link below.
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Seth Largo retweeted
Jun 11
What’s funny is that we were like this before cameras too. After all, what does it mean to call a landscape “picturesque”?
you've heard of Porn Brain. well i've got Film Brain. i'll be looking at a sunset and think What A Terrific Shot. WHAT "SHOT" YOU IDIOT? THAT'S LIFE!
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Seth Largo retweeted
Jun 12
fucking incredible quote from Cregger, a writer i admire:
"having your brain sucked into your phone for hours a day is *robbing you of the boredom* that is crucial to having ideas."
BRING 👏 BACK 👏 BOREDOM 👏
The below clip actually comes from a very charming Q&A Zach Cregger gave to a class of high school students. Here is his great follow-up answer to what to do if Elfing isn’t working for you
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McLuhan imagines the gig economy: "Men in the electric age move to involvement in diverse jobs simultaneously . . ."
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Seth Largo retweeted
Jun 10
people in new york be like "now watching: Shrek 2 on 35mm"
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Jun 10
Complaints about reading comprehension are now verified from the other end.
Jun 9
Berkeley Professor Mina Aganagic:
“‘I realized that for students to follow me…I had to start reviewing basic algebra stuff, like fractions.’ The lack of mathematical fluency, Aganagic said, extended even to ‘the meaning of equals in an equation.’”
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Seth Largo retweeted
Jun 9
Imagine going out and once the night starts you have no way to contact anyone. It’s just you, the people you’re out with, and whoever you might happen to run into throughout the evening. What a time.
Jun 8
People who actually lived through the 1990s:
what’s something you genuinely miss from that decade that just doesn’t feel the same today?
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Jun 9
Stephen King famously had the guts to run this experiment. His alter-ego found a publisher and a small audience but would never have become wealthy.
Jun 7
Mr Beast says he could start a faceless channel tomorrow and hit 20 million subscribers in six months
“I could start a new channel tomorrow not using my face or my voice without ever promoting it and in six months have 20 million subscribers”
“It’s purely knowledge if you knew what I knew you could get 10 million views a video and 10 million subscribers no matter where you are right now within 6 months”
“It really is just knowledge”
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Jun 9
The irony here is that even racists used to admit that Elba would be the one black Bond they wouldn't mind. I always said he would've been awesome if they leaned into it and made him infiltrate a Nigerian terrorist cell or something.
Idris Elba says James Bond doesn’t need to be “woke”
“Bond is big all over the world. And audiences won’t [all] go for a Black male, an African male, playing Bond. That’s not what they like in their culture. Period…
Bond is so unrealistic, so a hint of reality is good, but let’s not try and make it woke. I think you’ve got to be pure to what it is: escapism. Don’t try and answer the world’s taste. Just be Bond.”
(Source: gq-magazine.co.uk/article/id…)
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The deepest lore is that Captain Clark's "lazy fat a--" wife is Keira Knightley.
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Jun 9
You also put bodies in it as a sacrifice to the gods of spring
Jun 8
Every winter, the Jaycee’s would drive put a junked car out on the ice covering this lake. The person who correctly guessed day it would fall through won a big pot of money
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Jun 8
What possesses a man to post this?
Jun 8
people who criticize high end escorts and their clients because of her looks (she's too ugly to make that kind of money!) are proving that they know nothing about being with a woman who is seductive, smart, alluring, and in short, an overall talented courtesan
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Jun 8
Trying to over-explain the Trinity is a heresy. You're not expected to understand the divine, little human.
Jun 7
I confess I am not as well versed in Trinitarian heresies as many who were raised with the concept, but I am enjoying the various heresies being raised in the comments to explain the Trinity
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Calculators solve arithmetic with 100% accuracy. It is important that people understand arithmetic. Therefore, we limit the use of calculators for students learning arithmetic.
Now imagine if calculators were accurate much less than 100% of the time.
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Seth Largo retweeted
I was showing my girlfriend's teenage kid this and Fabulous Secret Powers and said "you think your generation has the monopoly on brainrot" and she responded with "Why are these videos so long?"
In 2003, a Flash animation of dancing badgers yelling “badger” became one of the internet’s biggest early brain infections.
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Jun 7
"Liminal" is going to just mean "hallway" in 20 years isn't it
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Jun 5
You laugh, but millions of Americans hang their TVs like this.
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Jun 5
I miss line waiting with fellow movie nerds. Got a short term girlfriend out of it one time.
Dude you used to have lines around the block to see movies opening weekend. It’s always been like this, they used to not even assign seats
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Jun 5
Why would you learn a language if it doesnt make you money?
I find the insistence on raising your kids bilingual to be a little odd, especially if the “other” language isn’t Chinese or Spanish.
My first language is Russian but I’m most likely never going to return to Russia in my lifetime. Russian isn’t necessary for any job or industry.
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JFC, we're doomed
Jun 4
You just do it beforehand, have done this for an exam recently because I did not respect that professor or his class. It's easy, you study what the robot did and it's easier than writing it yourself.
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Jun 4
Been looking for a reason to kickstart my "The Last Mixtape" blog. Might start here.
Jun 4
It'd be a worthwhile essay, looking back at movies from the 90s - 2010s, made by Gen X and Elder Millennials, that use "mythical detritus of the 1960s" as a guiding aesthetic. I doubt' you'll find a film 100% committed to that aesthetic as a narrative device, a la "Backrooms," but I imagine it's there in certain scenes.
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