Rory Willats

“The show is violent, sentimental, scabrous and obscene.” CHEAP WINE; EXPENSIVE PIZZA (he/him)

[Schuyler Mitchell @schuy_ler]

NEW: Police are spending hundreds of thousands of opioid settlement dollars on Flock cameras and other AI-powered license plate readers.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

We cannot consider #AI to be morally neutral. In reality, every technical tool embodies choices and priorities through what it measures, ignores, and optimizes, and how it classifies people and situations. Ethical discernment cannot be limited to asking whether we are using a system for good or bad purposes. It must also examine how that system is designed and what vision of the human person and society is embedded in the data and models that guide it. #MagnificaHumanitas

[Rory Willats @RoryWillats]

@ganbrood @Rahll But was there “selecting” here? Was there “transformation”? The insignia is combined with a soup of other elements that recontextualize that crest, the motifs, the heraldry, as unworthy of attention or care

[eve #2 @eeveeith1nk]

this is a form of ethnic cleansing

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

Seven additional deaths per 10,000 visits occurred at the private equity-owned hospitals after acquisition relative to hospitals that were not acquired by private equity.

Read more: https://t.co/zQrXIZHesi

[Ahmed Shameya 🇵🇸 @ahmedshameya995]

We have no food
We have no food
We have no food
We have no food

Thank you to everyone who will retweet this and amplify our voices.

[Evan Hill @evanhill]

Israeli forces and drones opened fire toward hundreds of Palestinians waiting for aid in separate incidents in southern and central Gaza early Tuesday, killing at least 44, witnesses and hospitals said https://t.co/QXAXSko3H3

[Rory Willats @RoryWillats]

@jk_rowling Middle fingers are not fingers

[Rory Willats @RoryWillats]

“Clocks tend to tear themselves apart after about a century.” - Danny Hills

[Rory Willats @RoryWillats]

@Csvich @BigTellyNI Love this!

[Rory Willats @RoryWillats]

@netanyahu War criminal

[Rory Willats @RoryWillats]

“We are looking for original magic ideas, preferably that can be manufactured by plastic injection moulding.”

[Rory Willats @RoryWillats]

@Csvich I think the result of very practical conversations about crafting registers of disbelief through meditation

[Rory Willats @RoryWillats]

Some of the coolest conversations around hybrid theater, presence, digital performance, etc., are happening in the (online) magic competition space.

Excited by FISM’s investment in this work

[Rory Willats @RoryWillats]

Today, I sit outside and read plays

[Rory Willats @RoryWillats]

That feeling when “the fact checkers have been too politically biased…”

ghoulish, cyberlibertarian nonsense

[Saagar Enjeti @esaagar]

Here is the full video from Mark Zuckerberg announcing the end of censorship and misinformation policies.

I highly recommend you watch all of it as tonally it is one of the biggest indications of "elections have consequences" I have ever seen

[Rory Willats @RoryWillats]

@Csvich Let’s do it!

[Rory Willats @RoryWillats]

@Csvich Hopefully the first of many such chats!

[Rory Willats @RoryWillats]

@AmidonChris Aww! I am. Send my love to the family

[Rory Willats @RoryWillats]

If you consider the blossoms on our orange tree (Pellegrino), it’s a white Christmas in Colorado ❄️