Adam Denton

[Adam Denton @Adamdenton44]

The Sandman comic series by @neilhimself with breathtaking cover illustration by @DaveMcKean was integral in inspiring and cultivating my desire to make art at a young age. Flash forward 30 or so years and who says dreams can't come true? Thank you 🖤✨❤️‍🔥
#TheSandmanNetflix

[Sarrah Bellus @sarrah_bellus]

Donald Trump will go down in history as the only US President to be outwitted by a single-celled organism.

[Chuck D @MrChuckD]

ARt

[Dylan Byers @DylanByers]

New statement from Scott Pelley:

There has never been anything in America like 60 Minutes.

The Sunday tradition is the most successful program of any kind in history. For more than a decade, its innovative growth on every major online platform has extended its reach to countless millions around the world. This spring, at the end of our 58thseason, 60 Minutes grew rapidly with an unheard-of 9% jump in viewers on CBS.

“60” has been the number-one program in America for decades because our beloved audience finds integrity, quality, and humanity in our stories. When stewardship of the program passed to my colleagues and me, our responsibility was to expand energetically into a new age of media technology while preserving the values our audience expects. Now, the new owner of our network is casting this legend aside, apparently to curry a moment of favor with the Trump administration.

The waste is heartbreaking.

Last month, 60 Minutes lost its DNA when our entire senior leadership and two of our best on-air correspondents were cruelly fired without cause. Good people were silenced because they stood up for our audience. They stood for fairness against the forces of political bias; they stood for professionalism against chaos.

For my part, new management has instructed me to inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story. I’ve been told to include assertions that are unverified. To date, in every case, I have managed to ignore these instructions or refuse them. Recently, politicians have been invited to choose correspondents for interviews on the broadcast. Giving politicians control over 60 Minutes interviews is not how this is done. Finally, incompetence and unprofessionalism in the new management have wreaked havoc. In a case involving one of my stories, the entire program came within 19 minutes of not getting on the air at all.

At 60 Minutes, we have fought harder than anyone knows to save the program that became an American icon. We owed that to our millions of viewers. I am deeply moved by the thousands of wishes we have received to “keep up the good fight.” Most of the men and women of CBS News are still in that fight. But now the collapse of values at the top has become untenable. The leadership of 60 Minutes is no longer recognizable. The principles I hold dear are gone, and so I must leave as well.

I depart after 37 years at CBS with one emotion—a heart brimming with gratitude for the men and women of CBS News who encouraged and enriched my work, very often at the risk of their own lives. I pray for a day when those people and their ideals are honored again—a day when sanity, competence, and courage return.

Scott Pelley

[Marwa ElDiwiny @MarwaEldiwiny]

Silver Swan Automaton… no motors, built in 1773 and still working perfectly.

The Silver Swan is powered entirely by mainsprings and brass clockwork gears.

Why did we stop creating such elegant engineering and beautiful pieces of art… timeless and built to last?

[Saganism @Saganismm]

“Tyrants and autocrats have always understood that literacy, learning, books and newspapers are potentially dangerous. They can inspire independent thought and even rebellion.”

— Carl Sagan

[Smartacus @fivestarmichael]

The reason everything seems so fake is because the working-class has been squeezed out of the music business, journalism, TV and movie production.

Some interesting introspection from Rick Beato.

Why Only Rich Kids Make It In Music Today

[Luiza Jarovsky, PhD @LuizaJarovsky]

I see no lies here

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

The Academy has banned AI from ever winning an Oscar.

• Only roles “demonstrably performed by humans with their consent” can be nominated for acting Oscars

• Screenplays “must be human-authored” to qualify for a nomination

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

Umberto Eco, who owned 50,000 books, had this to say about home libraries:

“It is foolish to think that you have to read all the books you buy, as it is foolish to criticize those who buy more books than they will ever be able to read. It would be like saying that you should use all the cutlery or glasses or screwdrivers or drill bits you bought before buying new ones.

“There are things in life that we need to always have plenty of supplies, even if we will only use a small portion.

“If, for example, we consider books as medicine, we understand that it is good to have many at home rather than a few: when you want to feel better, then you go to the ‘medicine closet’ and choose a book. Not a random one, but the right book for that moment. That’s why you should always have a nutrition choice!

“Those who buy only one book, read only that one and then get rid of it. They simply apply the consumer mentality to books, that is, they consider them a consumer product, a good. Those who love books know that a book is anything but a commodity.”

[Tolkien Universe @tolkienzone]

The only drawing of Sauron made by Tolkien himself.

[Nick Offerman @Nick_Offerman]

•The U.S. Senate may hold a floor vote TODAY which would overturn a 20-year moratorium on sulfide-ore copper mining on 225,000 acres of Superior National Forest land in the watershed of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area (BWCA) Wilderness in northern Minnesota. The Boundary Waters is the most visited Wilderness in the United States. 

🛶 Enjoying the Minnesotan/Canadian wilderness by canoe or other lesser watercraft is one of our nations greatest available pastimes, and one I have personally enjoyed my entire life. We must protect these public lands from the rapacious capitalists threatening to turn them into a poisoned wasteland.

•This vote in Congress would open the door to copper mining at the headwaters of this entire ecosystem. This kind of mining produces toxic pollution, including acid runoff and heavy metals, that can contaminate nearby waters.

•The Boundary Waters supports a major outdoor economy that sustains thousands of jobs and generates over a billion dollars a year - built on clean water and intact public lands. But this vote would clear the way for toxic mining that puts all of that at risk. It would also set a dangerous precedent, making it easier to roll back protections for public lands across the country, including wilderness areas, national monuments, and national parks. 

•This is a defining moment. If you care about clean water, public lands, and protecting places we can’t replace, now is the time to speak up.
•Protect the Boundary Waters, and vote NO on House Joint Resolution 140. Let’s save this treasured place for all of us—forever. https://t.co/JhNAR6Za2O

[Michael @TheMG3D]

Billionaires

[Adam Denton @Adamdenton44]

@BernieSanders thank you senator Sanders

[Karla Ortiz @kortizart]

They steal your work, they dumb you down, they make your electricity more expensive, they take your water and your livelihood.

But at least you’ll get opportunity of a lifetime: information that according to a BBC study is likely to be wrong 51% of the time! Great “progress” 💀

[Adam Denton @Adamdenton44]

@JANUSZCZAK @arthistorynews @HenryCPorter Please do!

[Vince Mpls @vincempls]

"Minneapolis", 1925 lithograph by Ukrainian-American Louis Lozowick, Smithsonian American Art Museum

[Saganism @Saganismm]

“You meet saints everywhere. They can be anywhere. They are people behaving decently in an indecent society.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

[Adam Denton @Adamdenton44]

@Profgampo Lived in Mpls since 93' and I love it. Clean, natural beauty, 4 seasons, awesome people, great sports and culture. Wouldn't want to be anywhere else. Great video. Minneapolis represent my friend

[Adam Denton @Adamdenton44]

@0ccultbot "Get me the fuck out of here"

[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

🚨NEW: Elon Musk has suspended U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar's Twitter account. This comes as the Trump Administration and its allies ratchet up attacks on Minnesota in the aftermath of the ICE Renee Good killing.

RETWEET if you stand with @AmyKlobuchar!