Lon Harris

Editorial director for @LAUNCH and @TWiStartups. STILL calling it Twitter!

[Lon Harris @Lons]

When I visited DC, I was struck by how relatively small the White House appears, compared to all the other big government buildings in the area. It's a nice statement. The President's House is not some grandiose palace. It's just a house. Anyway this clod ruined it.

[Lon Harris @Lons]

GOOD LORD, really? It looks like the White House is trying to appear slim by posing next to an overweight friend.

[Ben Page @Benpagelondon]

Wow the Whitehouse Ball room is….quite something. To put it mildly

[@jason @Jason]

me and @lons are slowly trying to figure out Substack and get our @twistartups "Tactical and Practical newsletter" to $ 100,000 a year, so I can hire a full-time analyst to run it in Austin...

it's basically two articles a week on how to grow your startup faster/better

7% there with this basically dormant list... some links in the reply for job listings and subscriptions

If you can pay, that's helpful...

However, if you want six months free, please reply back here and/or DM @twistartups and just ask... we want all founders to get this knowledge!

[Lon Harris @Lons]

Social Distortion formed the year I was born? Those guys have got to be closing in on 70. Good for them.

[Pop Base @PopBase]

Coachella unveils the lineup of performers with Dua Lipa, Tame Impala and SZA as headliners.

[Lon Harris @Lons]

It's always like "you said X but isn't Y true?" That's how Bill Maher writes interview questions, Claude. You don't want to copy him.

[Lon Harris @Lons]

I think this is why, while Claude has gotten incredible at fast research and fact-finding, it's worse than shit at analysis. It can pull every piece of public information about a founder in 60 seconds but can't come up with one halfway decent question to ask them.

[Katie Parrott @kplikethebird]

Something I've noticed about chatting with ChatGPT in the web app: It loves to present a dichotomy.

I've gotten some version of this so many times:

"Is it X or is it Y? Because those are two different kinds of Z."

Life can't be reduced to such facile binaries, chat.

[Lon Harris @Lons]

“Frantically grotesque screenwriting” is exactly the kind of overwritten try-hard wannabe critic bullshit people write to me in the replies, causing me to immediately mute them. What does that actually mean? Nothing.

[Lon Harris @Lons]

I mean, look at this, no one is actually concerned about making one movie you like. Any new project has to be worth many many billions of dollars for it to even potentially make a dent in the massive debts the Ellisons took on to amass this media empire. https://t.co/khiS1LMsV3

[Starlight 💫 (youtube.com/@x0starlight) @x0Starlight]

Everything Skydance owns

[Lon Harris @Lons]

I agree with everyone saying that DC should stop trying to create an cinematic universe all at once and should focus on individual films about individual characters but I fear that's not going to happen ever again. Studios don't think in films any more, only franchises.

[Lon Harris @Lons]

"DC" is no longer a handful of people trying to make one hit. It's a group of banks, private equity firms, sovereign wealth funds, and billionaires betting that the rights to Batman will be worth more in a few years, when they flip them, vs. today.

[Shubham Mishra @ildivino_42]

Asked my date whether she is Chinese and she said your company is not that big rn.

[Lon Harris @Lons]

@CoolGreg1 Here's where I think you've gone wrong:
- Supergirl faced a lot of dumb misogynist backlash ✅
- Everyone who disliked Supergirl for any reason is a misogynist ❌

[Lon Harris @Lons]

I like James Gunn, and I really enjoyed his SUPERMAN movie, but... SUPERGIRL genuinely was "fire the head of this studio" bad. I get it.

[Lon Harris @Lons]

A lot of people are responding to this like "What about Kevin Feige?!" assuming that I disagree with them but QUANTUMANIA is also "fire the head of this studio" bad for sure. 100% Let's fire everybody!

[Lon Harris @Lons]

FROM CHINA WITH LOVE
A GPU TO A KILL
ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET INFERENCE
FOR YOUR AIs ONLY
NEVER SAY SERVER AGAIN

[Lon Harris @Lons]

@datArtist_io @Qloo @Jason @CedEntertainer @todd_boehly @mbrio @abramsmichael You did awesome. I would genuinely like to use this for my next trip.

[Lon Harris @Lons]

I like RESIDENT EVIL way more than the other Creggers. Not trying to be deep, not showing off. Briskly paced, appropriately gross, consistently funny comedy-horror. This is very clearly his lane.

[Lon Harris @Lons]

@Jason I also think Josh O'Connor would kill it but it's down to those two for me.

[Lon Harris @Lons]

@FatDon420 Don't make me friends with this turd using the power of Slop, please. I beg you.

[Lon Harris @Lons]

Good luck, yutz. This guy no longer has the juice to end taco day at the WH cafeteria, let alone birthright citizenship.

[FactPost @factpostnews]

Stephen Miller: We have to end birthright citizenship one way or another

[Lon Harris @Lons]

Much like Lex Luthor, Miller has big elaborate plans, and seems pretty intimidating for a little while there, but ends up back in Super Prison by the time the arc's over.