Look, music obviously has huge emotional impacts on people. There are plenty of songs that make us cry, or miss people or places, or look back on What Could Have Been.
But I donโt think I will ever forgive the universe for making Africa by Toto one of those songs for me. ๐คฆ๐พโโ๏ธ
dispatches from the writers strike: hoop dancer Eric Michael Hernandez and the Southern California Bird Singers perform at the Native American and Indigenous Writers Committeeโs disney picket today
@UmActuallyShow@dropout I know someone's already done this, but I was excited so I'm going to as well... UM, ACTUALLY, Gustav Graves (the persona) was *not* French; he claimed that he was a British orphan who grew up in Ecuador. Moon deliberately modeled his cover on James Bond himself.
Iโve had a lot of trans people send me suicide notes, notes feeling they canโt go on, that it feels hopeless, in the last week.
Please please stick around.
We are going to build a better world and you need to be there to see it.
Amazing. Lizzo, in front of thousands of people, confronts LB574 - a gender affirming care ban and abortion ban - in Nebraska tonight.
"Don't let anyone tell you who you are. These laws aren't real. YOU are real."
A great thread on why AI companies have studios fooled into creating a work stoppage over something they not only have no clue about but also will eventually blow up in their faces after they try to pour a gazillion dollars into it then they'll fire more people and cry broke.
The "threat of AI to the profession of writing" is actually two completely different things that are being conflated by both the media and older, less tech-savvy writers. One is real and the other is fictional marketing hype.
If you have any doubt - ANY doubt - that television writers are being asked to work for such low pay in such precarious conditions that many can't afford to pay rent - read this thread.
Ok, but seriously though, Elizabeth Holmes is absolute trash. Read this thread every time youโre tempted to rehabilitate her based on nothing but her word. Or watch the documentary The Inventor.
for every glowing puff piece you see trying to rehabilitate Elizabeth Holmes's image, i want you to remember something
she personally approved a 15 month clinical trial using a device she knew to be useless, to measure cancer drug levels in the blood of terminal cancer patients