Rictus Erectus

Movies aren’t that interesting as an artform because the cost of their production compromises their aesthetic imperatives more often than not. There are a few “auteurs” like Kubrick/Tarkovsky etc who acted like dictators on their sets, & only these sorts make Art out of Film.https://twitter.com/TwitterMovies/status/1217531520786796546 …

This reminds me of the people who complain about all the "emotional labor" they are doing that nobody asked them to do, nobody wants them to do, and people would prefer if they stopped, actually.

Yeesh, the replies. We sequester these young people in very low info density environments and then use the ignorance we've imposed on them as evidence of their inherent incompetence — and the need for yet more schooling.https://twitter.com/balajis/status/1216051738802782210 …

Normal catholics have never read the bible & believe entirely in a folk cosmology inherited from things their ellis island grandma said.

Call me the United States military because when I say I'm pulling out, it's a lie

To paraphrase: "these Puritan women held enormous influence & the society would not have functioned w/o them, but you've never heard of them, because well-behaved women seldom make history" It's a critique of prog historiography, not of well-behaved women

The fact that everyone thinks software needs so much maintenance (especially open source software) is a sign of how broken things are. If you are writing something solid, that does real work, why should it have to change like seasonal fashion? People still use LINPACK.

Note the context: China fights back against US economic predation with industrial policy (support for infant industries). He’s saying strategic purchase commitments could be used to undermine that, confirming that ‘free trade’ is itself an anti-industrialization strategy.

It’s not complicated folks! This is also why Bernie will lose— he can’t be angrier than Trump/Biden. Trump is a cavalier, Biden is an angry puritan. Sanders would win if he said “god ordained me to execute the sacklers in public— cruel necessity!”

Meanwhile, I (& you & others in this sphere) was absolutely insane before 2016, & 2016 lined up with a collective manic episode in which we all believed the end times were near, & now, post-apocalyptically, we are the only sane ones.