Got hit with this on a Pitchfork review for the first time this morning. If Conde ends up using this to institute a paywall... it's chilling to think what effect that will have on music discovery and for those trying to access 25 years of archival music writing
Shoutout to Bill Meléndez (born José Cuauhtémoc Meléndez), the Mexican-American director and animator who was the only person Charles Schultz trusted to animate his comics. He also voiced Snoopy and Woodstock (the second pic is him recording those squeaks).
.@LAWeekly’s PR firm that sells best of spots in their articles to people threatened me with a campaign of “negative articles” about me and “forced to get your account banned / taken down using the mass reporting tools / software we have access to” if I don’t delete this tweet.
"No crop is more wasteful or more useless than turf that’s never harvested and never feeds, clothes or fuels anyone or anything, while producing no revenue." @latimes editorial board calls for California to ban nonfunctional grass lawns: https://t.co/eCrbkjq91Q
We could let desperate people come here to build better lives for themselves, which we did for 150+ years, and which study after study has shown makes us stronger, wealthier, and better off.
Or we could kill and maim them with cruel booby traps. It’s a choice, I guess.
Maybe if they didn't base all their decisions off of rarely replicated virality, algorithmic flukes, and juiced social media statistics that falsely reduce the magic of creativity to a code to be cracked, they might be in a better place.
🚨 Breaking from @dinfontay - On Wednesday evening, Anchor Brewing Union @anchorunionSF advised Sapporo USA that workers want to purchase the brewery and run it as a worker co-op.
Developing Story @ https://t.co/nQtiDfnukR
speaks volumes about how streamers keep treating its "content" that Soderbergh has a new mini-series out that's a really fun modern twist on a Kurosawa classic with Timothy Olyphant and Claire Danes and Zazie Beetz, but because "MAX" buried it essentially no-one knows it exists