Chris Moreland

Cancer survivor. Edits things for Film & TV. Makes music with @TheNightToys Pet daddy.

[Chris Moreland @CMMoreland]

Life is just your friends asking you if you’ve watched that one show they recommended to you and you saying “No, not yet.” and then you asking them if they’ve watched that one show you recommended to them and them saying “No, not yet.” until you both die.

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@StephenM Die mad about it, ya bitch.

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@edgarwright WIRED by Basement

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@domluszczyszyn @WadlowBrendan Woah.

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@DownGoesBrown You’re probably getting sent a ton of these right now, but I felt pretty proud of this:

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships, and do not know from within what love, work, friendship or responsibility mean. Nor do they have a moral conscience, since they do not judge good and evil, grasp the ultimate meaning of situations, or bear responsibility for consequences. They may imitate or even simulate, but they do not understand what they produce, for they lack the affective, relational, and spiritual perspective through which human beings grow in wisdom. #MagnificaHumanitas

[CONSEQUENCE @consequence]

Conan O'Brien used his Harvard University commencement speech to argue that humility and the human connection matter far more than any diploma.

"I always recognize the enormous role of luck in my life. Refusing to see how luck has played a role in anyone's success is simply ignorant. Many people are happy to mistake a lucky poker hand for their own brilliance, and fighting that human instinct has kept me sane.

"I honestly believe that community, spontaneity, and a real commitment to humility has helped me build a rich life that means much more to me than any diploma. And believe me, I'm not saying the goal is to renounce accomplishments, but rather to metabolize them. If you carry your victories lightly, other qualities –- kindness, originality, courage, humor, and humanity –- have room to emerge.

"Maybe the greatest lessons I've learned along these lines have been through my 24 travel shows. I have degraded myself in Cuba, Ghana, Korea, Armenia, half of Europe, Argentina, Thailand, Mexico, and Greenland, where I visited a real estate office and tried to buy the country. When I travel to another land, every quality I have discussed -- community, adaptation, and a sincerely humble approach -- are all necessary. When you don't speak the language, no one truly cares where you went to college, and you have no choice but to make friends.

"It's on these travels that I learned a great lesson: let yourself be bad at things. I have been a bad dancer in every country I have visited. But the people laugh because it turns out everyone everywhere is related to at least one terrible dancer. For me, humility on these trips can easily lead to humiliation, which is also a useful tool.

"Three weeks ago, I visited Amsterdam, dressed up as Van Gogh, and forced my way into the Van Gogh Museum, where I started loudly demanding a cut of the merchandising because I made no money during my lifetime. Guards forcibly ejected me. I was roundly mocked by patrons for my pathetic display. But I did see a lot of smiles. And not one person said, now that's a Harvard grad.

"In Tokyo, I met with a teacher of Japanese etiquette who volunteered I wasn't her type. And when I asked her why, she just said, 'face.' In Ghana, after accepting a royal invitation, I was kicked out of the Ashanti Palace by the Queen Mother, because her favorite soap opera was starting.

"I understand that I am preaching modesty and connection at a time when this is not in style. We are living through a period of extreme narcissism. Our current leadership in Washington believes that empathy is a weakness and that our nation stands supreme and alone. Add to that, everyone here today has a phone in their pocket that is algorithmically programmed to celebrate you and you alone by making you the protein-maxing hero of your own special journey.

"Much has been written about how isolated and siloed we've become, but for me, the antidote is quite simple. By de-emphasizing what makes us special — in your case, a prized degree — we can really find one another, not as an exercise in virtue, but as a path towards greater laughter, love, and real growth."

[Audrey Kaufman @KaufmanAudrey]

Locals don’t think LA is evil, only transplants think LA is evil. Because they come here and they do evil shit, because they’re strivers, and then they’re like “it wasn’t me, it was the Santa Ana Winds”

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@realDonaldTrump You dumb fucking loser.

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If you don’t think Lupita is one of the most beautiful people on this Earth, ur gay as hell (derogatory).

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@jackrichrdson They all sucked.

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Damn they want me so bad.

[Task & Purpose @TaskandPurpose]

Army raises enlistment age to 42, removes waiver for marijuana possession https://t.co/wQ6OQ7geVQ

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@wolflovesmelon @GangstHannah Oh, I would have DOUSED a Nazi with gasoline.

[Chris Hedges @ChrisLynnHedges]

The murders of unarmed civilians on the streets of Minneapolis, including the killing today of the intensive-care nurse Alex Jeffrey Pretti, would not come as a shock to Iraqis in Fallujah or Afghans in Helmand province. They were terrorized by heavily armed American execution squads for decades. It would not come as a shock to any of the students I teach in prison. Militarized police in poor urban neighborhoods kick down doors without warrants and kill with the same impunity and lack of accountability. What the rest of us are facing now, is what Aimé Césaire called imperial boomerang. Empires, when they decay, employ the savage forms of control on those they subjugate abroad, or those demonized by the wider society in the name of law and order, on the homeland. The tyranny Athens imposed on others, Thucydides noted, it finally, with the collapse of Athenian democracy, imposed on itself. But before we became the victims of state terror, we were accomplices. Before we expressed moral outrage at the indiscriminate taking of innocent lives, we tolerated, and often celebrated, the same Gestapo tactics, as long as they were directed at those who lived in the nations we occupied or poor people of color. We sowed the wind, now we will reap the whirlwind. The machinery of terror, perfected on those we abandoned and betrayed, including the Palestinians in Gaza, is ready for us.

[Chris Moreland @CMMoreland]

Something I don’t see talked enough about Alien: Earth is how every episode ends with a full blown Butt Rock needle drop. For the finale, my wife’s betting on Disturbed’s ‘Down With The Sickness’ and I’m backing Korn’s “Freak On A Leash”. And I’m 100% certain one of us is right.

[Criminalsimpsons @Criminalsimpson]

I don't know what you have planned for tonight Homer, but count me out.

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@FriedgeHNIC God dammit, man. God dammit.

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@BillSimmons Bigger problem is he’s 40yo and coming in to a team that doesn’t have the elite-level talent like Oilers did to maximize what few things left Perry does well. We got shredded on the PK in the playoffs so adding one of the most penalized forwards of the last generation is… unwise

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The streets outside the Crypt are still chanting “SKIIIIINEEEEER”. There’s a change in the air. We’re all feeling it. #GKG @LAKings

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@keysmashbandit I was a teenager when the internet became a sudden and inextricable part of day to day life, and I imagine a lot of older people (ie, me now) are now worried of a similar shift in how AI could drastically change every industry to where they don’t have the means to keep up with it