Kiowa Gordon

Actor/Vocalist. Born in Berlin, Germany to a spy and a Hualapai. Not German though. Twitch/TikTok:KiowaGordon Instagram/Facebook:KiowaJGordon

[Luke Barnett @LukeBarnett]

DARK WINDS season 4. A 1970’s neowestern crime thriller set on a Navajo reservation produced by George RR Martin and the late Robert Redford. Now on Netflix.

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Step 1: Remove filters in Reflecting Pool because Obama put them in.
Step 2: Give your criminal neighbor who runs "Greenwater Services" a $20 million no-bid contract to paint the pool.
Step 3: Fill the pool with water from the Potomac River, the phosphates from which cause algae blooms.
Step 4: Freshly sealed pool and extreme heat result in a super scum event
Step 5: Direct National Park Service to dump hydrogen peroxide into the pool which causes the paint to peel.
Step 5: Deploy US National Guard to stop people from taking photos of the swamp as a perfect metaphor for the administration.
Step 6: Blame someone else.

[Kiowa Gordon @CircaKiGordon]

@LukeBarnett Nope

[Culture Crave 🍿 @CultureCrave]

Uncle Iroh voice actor Greg Baldwin criticizes Paramount over the state of the 'Avatar: The Last Airbender' franchise

“Paramount doesn’t care about ATLA ... The new regime at Paramount is straight up evil"

"I can speak freely because I’m 65 years old and my pocketful of fucks is seriously depleted"

"Working as a paralegal at various studios in LA for thirty years…I had the opportunity to observe studio executives closely. They’re generally a slippery and clueless bunch who shouldn’t be allowed near anything remotely creative…but the new regime at Paramount is straight up evil"

"These soulless bastards have nothing but contempt for a show about grace and redemption and the struggle against fascism"

"ATLA is a mystery to them."

"They. Do. Not. Value. The. Franchise."

"Who should lose their jobs to AI? Answer… Studio Executives. Ironically…those cockroaches will be the last to go"

"In conclusion… Fuck you, Paramount"

(via @GregBaldwinIroh)

[Culture Crave 🍿 @CultureCrave]

AMC had its highest May theater attendance since 2019 🍿

[Elijah Wood @elijahwood]

For the first time yesterday, I experienced the new @alamodrafthouse QR code ordering system and I can tell you it’s truly awful. Rather than making ordering food and drink more efficient, it actually adds steps to the process AND if you want to order additional items during the film you HAVE to open your phone. No, your cute reference to that irony in your How To Alamo video doesn’t negate how ridiculous this is. Please don’t cut corners with your staff and revert back to physical menus and order cards.

[Variety @Variety]

#Backrooms producer James Wans says director Kane Parsons was only 16 years old when they first met about the film. (Parsons brought his dad to the meeting).

“We didn’t realize until we reached out that Kane was still in high school,” Wan admits.

Parsons, now 20, is the youngest filmmaker in history to have a film top box office charts.

https://t.co/mVxz18wvJm

[Kiowa Gordon @CircaKiGordon]

@LukeBarnett Pretty friggin cool, man. You’re crushing it, keep going! Congrats!

[Variety @Variety]

“Backrooms” ranked as the biggest debut in history for original horror, as well as the best start for a first-time filmmaker on a non-franchise film. Kane Parsons is the youngest director, by far, to have the No. 1 film at the box office.

Nearly 85% of audiences were under the age of 35, and more than 50% were 25 or younger, according to PostTrak data.
https://t.co/tvWW0XXjU8

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

‘OBSESSION’ has earned $26.4M in its third weekend, a 10% increase.

• Weekend 1 - $16M
• Weekend 2 - $22.4M (+30%)
• Weekend 3 - $26.4M (+10%)

Simply unprecedented.

[Kiowa Gordon @CircaKiGordon]

@nativegaymer I’m on it

[Luke Barnett @LukeBarnett]

Katherine Argent wrote a masterpiece of a tweet. We turned it into a dramatic one-take short film.

This is “Everything is Fine.”

[Kiowa Gordon @CircaKiGordon]

@LukeBarnett Madness

[Alex Veremeyenko @alex_verem]

Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it.

Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying.

Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence."

Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."

Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter.

They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created.

One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility."

Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies.

That's the metered intelligence business model.

And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.

[Variety @Variety]

Jack Antonoff slammed people who use AI to make art and music as "godless whores":

"So to everyone who is gassed up about the new ways you can fake making art, by all means drive right off that cliff. We're genuinely happy to see you go. Generations coming will be engaging in the ancient ritual of writing, recording and performing as it comes to us from God." https://t.co/K5XI8DbKse

[Kiowa Gordon @CircaKiGordon]

Well I’ll be a monkey’s uncle

[🧬Maxpein🧬 @maximumpain333]

Carl Jung wrote: "The more intelligent and self-aware a person is, the more they suffer from the general unconsciousness of society."

This is not a badge of honor. It is a recognition of the weight carried by those who cannot unsee what they have already seen. This is the psychology of the deep thinker and if you recognize yourself here, this one is for you:

The architecture of alienation. It starts early. The child who asks why adults say one thing and do another. The one whose questions are always labeled as "overthinking." Nietzsche described these people as "free spirits" — essential for progress, but wandering in a wilderness everyone else refuses to enter.

Research by Dr. Elaine Aron suggests approximately 20% of the population processes information more deeply and notices subtleties others completely miss. In a world that rewards speed, this depth can feel like a disability.

The frequency of truth. Deep thinkers operate on a different wavelength, the frequency of truth rather than the frequency of comfort. Most people live without ever questioning the fundamental assumptions of their own existence. But the deep thinker has glimpsed behind the veil.

Like Plato's prisoner who escapes the cave and returns to share what he saw only to be rejected and called a troublemaker—the deep thinker carries the burden of the witness. They see the masks, the exploitation, and the pain that everyone else has agreed to ignore.

The emotional sponge. Deep thinkers do not just observe emotions, they absorb them. They feel the anxiety of a stranger as if it were their own. They perform enormous amounts of invisible emotional labor — checking in on people, listening, supporting, acting as the unofficial therapist of every room they enter. And yet the relationship is almost always asymmetric. They give at a depth most people cannot match. They live with the quiet loneliness of being the strong one, the one everyone leans on, but no one thinks to ask: "Are you okay?"

The mask of normalcy. To survive, many deep thinkers learn to wear a mask, laughing at jokes they do not find funny, feigning interest in conversations that feel hollow, modulating their intensity to avoid being too much. This is not deception. It is survival. But the cost is enormous.

Maintaining the split between the complex private self and the simple public self is exhausting. And the mask, while protective, makes true connection nearly impossible. You cannot be fully known while hiding.

The wounded healer. Jung wrote about this archetype; the person who transforms their own brokenness into a source of healing for others. The wounds of rejection and misunderstanding become sources of deep compassion. The person who has felt most unseen becomes the most gifted at seeing others. But the challenge is learning to give without emptying yourself completely, to love others without losing yourself in the process.

The alchemy of solitude. For deep thinkers, there is a crucial distinction between loneliness and solitude. Loneliness is the pain of disconnection from others. Solitude is the joy of connection with yourself. In solitude, the deep thinker finally breathes. The noise of the world falls away. The internal landscape becomes clear. Isolation transforms into introspection and that is where the real work happens.

The revolutionary act of authenticity. In a world that profits from insecurity, choosing to be genuinely yourself is a radical act. When a deep thinker chooses authenticity over performance, it creates space for others to do the same. It gives people permission to be real in a culture that rewards shallow.

If you recognize yourself in any of this, stop apologizing for your depth. You are not broken. You are not too much. You are not too sensitive. You are awake in a world that prefers to stay asleep. Your sensitivity is a superpower. Your intensity is a strength.

✨🙌🏾💫