roman papademetriou

[roman papademetriou @Papa_Roman]

Honored to be named Forbes 30 Under 30 for Media, alongside my cofounders @AmeliaMontooth + @SandbergEmmet.

We founded Mutuals Media to build an entertainment company that helps an isolated generation feel more connected and hopeful.

Thrilled to see our vision resonate.

[TBPN @tbpn]

.@horwitzben says his anti-Grammarly tool, Sinceerly, is satire and not a business.

"[Sinceerly] started as social commentary. It's satire and playful, and I didn't want to pay for everyone's tokens. But I love making products that make people think twice about technology. And in this case, it's also a little bit of pushback on how we're using technology today."

[Katie Notopoulos @katienotopoulos]

As an unrepentant bad typist, I was delighted to talk to @horwitzben about his idea for an AI Chrome plugin that puts typos back into your emails https://t.co/FNFwlPhFNF

[Business Insider @BusinessInsider]

If so many emails are AI-written, are typos the new status symbol? https://t.co/TRUe9s1vVW

[roman papademetriou @Papa_Roman]

@horwitzben @tbpn @jordihays @johncoogan 👀

[Ben Horwitz @horwitzben]

I made the anti-Grammarly. Mess up your emails with AI.

https://t.co/R6kdTpoc0W

[roman papademetriou @Papa_Roman]

@ChrisRyan77 @andygreenwald dear henry my nerves are jangling for the industry pod

[Brendan McPhillips @BrendanMcP]

It's honestly INSANE that this has not blown up to be a bigger story. Are there not Republicans out there who are, if not moral people, at least outwardly ambitious enough to want to take over the party post-Trump? A revelation like this would have ended any other presidency.

[Charlotte Alter @CharlotteAlter]

jesus christ

[Pop Crave @PopCrave]

The mother of the 5-year-old taken into ICE custody reports that the child is getting sick due to the quality of the food at the facility:

“He has stomach pain, he’s vomiting, he has a fever and he no longer wants to eat.”

[jasper nathaniel @infinite_jaz]

CNN’s new reporting suggests Pretti was attacked by federal agents, entered into a database, and then *possibly* targeted by his eventual killers.

[Jason Selvig @jasonselvig]

“If we search your corpse after we murder you and don’t find an ID you’ll be in big trouble.”

[Karl-Anthony Towns @KarlTowns]

What is happening in the Twin Cities and the Great North Star State is heartbreaking to witness. These events have cost lives and shaken families — and we must call for accountability, transparency, and protections for all people. This moment demands that we reflect honestly on what our values truly are. My thoughts, prayers, and deepest condolences are with the families of Renée Good and Alex Pretti.

I stand with the people of Minnesota.

[Kenneth P. Vogel @kenvogel]

A @nytimes video analysis shows that after agents restrained Alex Jeffrey Pretti & removed his gun from the skirmish, an agent appears to fire 4 shots at Petri.

That agent & another then fire 6 more shots at Pretti while he lies motionless on the ground. https://t.co/ZPGBxgRIpu

[Jeremiah Johnson 🌐 @JeremiahDJohns]

This is genuinely how democracies fall into authoritarianism. This is an attempt to end democracy.

If you think it's an exaggeration, please ask yourself what you would have thought if Obama had thousands of masked agents killing people in red states, and promised to remove them only if he got control of the state's voting infrastructure.

[Tim Alberta @TimAlberta]

Okay so,

1) an American citizen exercises his First Amendment right to peaceably assemble and his Second Amendment right to bear arms, out of apparent concern that a tyrannical federal government is violating basic protections afforded under the Constitution

2) after coming to the aid of an unarmed woman who's been shoved to the ground by a masked federal agent, the citizen -- impaired by pepper spray, holding nothing but a cell phone -- is dragged to the ground by a group of other masked agents

3) during the scuffle, shortly after one masked agent removes the weapon from the restrained citizen's person, several other masked agents open fire, unloading 10 shots from close range and killing the unarmed citizen

4) despite video evidence, a spokesman for the federal government says the citizen approached agents with a gun, provoked a violent confrontation, and planned to "massacre" law enforcement

You really want to defend this? Go ahead. Just know, you look like an absolute fool.

[Seth Moulton @sethmoulton]

.@icegov YOU ARE COWARDS. You are all absolute, pathetic, untrained, unprofessional COWARDS. Todd Lyons and the rest of you not only need to be defunded, you need to be PROSECUTED.

[Josh Norris @JoshNorris]

sickening - completely sickening - videos again today, from multiple angles

the Minnesota Star Tribune has reported the victim had an active nursing license, and an active permit to carry

and once more, he has been termed a "domestic terrorist" and "would-be assasin"

dark

[roman papademetriou @Papa_Roman]

@loudmouthjulia I think they did it because @MattBelloni pressed Gerry Cardinale on it on Thursday

[TBPN @tbpn]

.@Colinrosenblum and @samirchaudry predicted that Netflix may start to sign podcasters to their platform on Monday's show.

"Netflix, in order to compete, needs to acquire a bigger catalog."

"Look at what they did with Mark Rober. They took his greatest hits from YouTube and repackaged them for Netflix. It became a top-10 show on Netflix and the No. 1 kids show."

"That shows me they have an openness to content that I don't think they would have been open to a couple of years ago."

[roman papademetriou @Papa_Roman]

Netflix is getting deeper into podcasts (barstool). YouTube is getting deeper TV (oscars).

These are increasingly the only two media companies that matter -- and they're becoming more alike each day.

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

The Oscars will stream exclusively on YouTube, starting in 2029.