Christopher Lepkowski

Technical Director/Partner at @PrettyBigMnstr—let's work together! Husband of @stirandstrain. Now at

[Christopher Lepkowski @C_Lepkowski]

Current project: turn any object into an interactive device! #UE4 #EpicFriday #UnrealEngine #StarWars #Lightsaber https://t.co/G7XiMByegn

[Kevin Rector @kevrector]

For doing their job, reporters @brittny_mejia & @liborjany were berated by LAPD & police union officials.

The outrage exposed an alarming ignorance of a free press among top police officials in one of the nation’s largest cities, experts say

My analysis: https://t.co/Kp4e15pok5

[David Beard @dabeard]

“Police officers are public servants paid by the taxpayers, and part of the responsibility of being public servants in a democracy involves answering reasonable questions from reporters about events of consequence in the community. This is a normal part of reporting.”

[Christopher Lepkowski @C_Lepkowski]

Insurance companies pulling out of Florida completely because of litigation issues and climate change…

And the literal response from the state’s GOP CFO is whining like “they’re good at virtue signaling” and “the Bud Light of insurance”

🤡

https://t.co/oTNX3ooGAS

[Christopher Lepkowski @C_Lepkowski]

What you get when you drag all educated people as “elites” and only celebrate and elevate morons

[Fast Company @FastCompany]

In 2023, only 19% of Republicans had "a great deal" or "quite a lot" of confidence in higher education, according to Gallup. That’s a 37-point fall from 2015. https://t.co/Ht0fuCtrtF

[Ryan Summers @Oddernod]

DROOL.

[Lee Martin @leemartin]

160,000-foot LED screen. The largest spherical building in the world. Now, in your pocket. Become the @SphereVegas on @Instagram https://t.co/dbDO9FvATd #SphereVegas #Sphere

[Paul Trillo @paultrillo]

Timelapse showing how repeatable that drone really is

[Christopher Lepkowski @C_Lepkowski]

👋

https://t.co/VQbodiWDr5

[Keri Blakinger @keribla]

LASD usually goes over budget on overtime by at least $50 million a year.

The #1 reason employees list for why they need to work that overtime is... blank. They just leave it blank.

$50 to $150m over budget per year -- and zero reason listed.

[Radley Balko @radleybalko]

I have a piece in The NYT this morning. A Minneapolis suburb hired a Black chief and assistant chief. Over half the department quit. Yet the world didn’t end.

If cops would rather quit than respect the people they serve, maybe it’s okay to let them go.

https://t.co/cQswpYMVSt

[Christopher Lepkowski @C_Lepkowski]

“At least 32 inmates died in TDCJ [Texas] prisons in total during the month of June.”

[Ryan Chandler @RyanChandlerTV]

Breaking: A 37-year-old woman died early this morning at TDCJ's Murray Unit, the department confirmed to @KXAN_News.
She is at least the third inmate in their 30s to die in custody this week. TDCJ has not released a cause of death.
https://t.co/k47oy9R7iX

[b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie]

as expected, the court has inverted the 14th. an amendment written explicitly to directly ameliorate the conditions of race hierarchy becomes in conservative hands an amendment that says it’s illegal to try to directly ameliorate the conditions of race hierarchy

[Mark Elliott @markmobility]

While we're talking affirmative action, 43% of white students admitted to Harvard in 2019 were legacies, athletes or related to staff/donors.

[Ben Mekler @benmekler]

I've written around twenty episodes of animated TV, much of which spent weeks in Netflix's global top ten, all available to stream worldwide every single day, and I have seen about $400 in residuals. Not great! https://t.co/LKCP6OB7rn

[Christopher Lepkowski @C_Lepkowski]

Accurate to my experience with GOP family members—faux-worldly cynicism (and whataboutism) quickly appear to short-circuit sustained, considered thought on any subject of import.

So much easier than having a real think, I guess

[Jay Rosen @jayrosen_nyu]

This description by @anneapplebaum is of Putin's Russia, but it's happening here as the GOP goes culture war crazy. Flooding the zone with shit. Nonstop attacks on the news media, teachers, experts. Half meant conspiracy theories. The effect is to make paying attention pointless.

[The Intellectualist @highbrow_nobrow]

🚨Justice Amy Coney Barrett, the right-wing Supreme Court justice, sold a home to a religious freedom group that has filed numerous briefs in cases before the court. @commondreams.

https://t.co/NzMpponD0y

[Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse]

“If you were good friends, what were you doing ruling on his case? And if you weren’t good friends, what were you doing accepting this?”

What a tangled web Alito weaves.

https://t.co/26TdXs2SaO

[Christopher Lepkowski @C_Lepkowski]

@firt I saw this shared earlier, but don’t know any details, haven’t tried anything myself

https://t.co/vk9PKPHQ2P

[Ian Kettlewell @kettlecorn]

WebXR sample running in Safari on the Apple Vision Pro!

[Ian Kettlewell @kettlecorn]

WebXR sample running in Safari on the Apple Vision Pro!

[Christopher Lepkowski @C_Lepkowski]

It was only thanks to the GOP that Trump got away with:

a) stealing $400M from Congress and a foreign ally (1974 Act forbids this)

b) then extorting/bribing foreign ally with that same money to concoct a smear campaign against political rivals

It was a righteous impeachment.

[Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1]

House Republicans just censured Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff over his criticisms of then-President Trump and his role in leading the first Trump impeachment inquiry.