Bob Engels once told me that what made Twin Peaks work was that the whole town felt guilty about Laura’s death. Everyone knew something was wrong & none of them did anything about it. That sense of guilt lingered in every scene & created the aura of Twin Peaks.
Released today in 1995!
Congo was slated to be the next Jurassic Park - it was also based on a novel by Michael Crichton, and was directed by Steven Spielberg’s producing partner, Frank Marshall.
Unfortunately, that didn’t happen but I still love it.
Oh, absolutely. I thought that when ChatGPT came out. The question wasn't "can AI be as good as humans at tasks x, y, z" but "will people accept crappier x, y, z if businesses force it on us and/or things get slightly cheaper" and the answer is... yep
Instead of reading that nightmare NYT piece on assisted dying that fully supports murdering poor disabled ppl, check on my work for Disability Visibility on the long and problematic history of assisted dying laws. Why read my work? Im not a eugenicist https://t.co/u35v2XU1u8
It’s really not appropriate for abled people to decide what does and doesn’t count as eugenics the way white people can’t debate whether something is racist or not over the voices of people of color. No one understands eugenics better than disabled people. Hope this helps!
Any time I read a piece in mainstream media about anything touching upon disability, it just makes me miss Ed Yong’s unapologetically patient-centric and deeply compassionate work.
thank u nathan fielder for enabling my refusal to get an autism diagnosis cause it's functionally useless and realistically the societal tradeoffs don't outweigh the benefit of any potential personal development