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Apr 11 • 4 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
The reason they use graduation photos is forgotten internet lore. When Mike Brown was shot in 2014, media went to his Facebook to get pictures of him. In every photo, he was smoking blunts, fanning money or throwing gang signs. So they used photos of him looking like a thug.
Black Twitter reacted angrily. They said that the media was using images of Brown that stereotyped him. There was a trending hashtag #iftheygunnedmedown of college students or professionals posting pictures of themselves looking like thugs in solidarity with Brown.
Media outlets, thoroughly shamed, went to Brown’s family to get a picture that did not make him look like a stereotypical thug. They provided a photo of him in graduation regalia. From then on, media started using graduation photos of men who died while being arrested.
Here is a contemporaneous article about the hashtag. abcnews.go.com/US/powerful-gu…

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This is an incredible article, because it shows what happens if you are a woke white man. Deck Nine makes progressive games and its CCO, Zak Garriss believed in assembling a diverse narrative team. But the people he hired hated and resented him and tried to destroy him.
In 2018, Garriss gave a talk at GDC about how he assembled a TV-style writers room for the game “Life is Strange: Before the Storm,” and how he believed “diversity of representation and perspective” strengthened the work. gdcvault.com/play/1025374/P…
But when he was nice to his team, they accused him of “love bombing,” a manipulation tactic. They insinuate that he was coming on to female employees, although he is never alleged to have tried to date any of his subordinates or that he made any kind of sexual advance. Image
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Feb 5
This “immigration reform” proposal is insane.

The problem we have right now is that anyone who claims asylum is entitled to a hearing to determine whether they deserve to be classified as a refugee. We are now getting millions of these claims every year and actually granting asylum to maybe 25k refugees.
The vast majority of asylum claims — about 97 percent of them — are transparently invalid, but the reason people who know they are not entitled to refugee status are claiming asylum is because they will be allowed to remain in the US while their claims are pending. For years.
A few ways to close this loophole might be to:

1. Restrict who is entitled to a hearing on an asylum claim. For example, people who have traveled through a third country, like Mexico, where they could have claimed asylum and did not are not entitled to claim asylum in the US.

2. Make “asylum seekers” wait for their asylum hearings in immigration detention facilities, or make them wait outside the US until their claims can be adjudicated.
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Dec 24, 2023
A lot of weird Marvel fanboys are coming out with this. The difference is that Warners is burning off the last of the DCEU properties before completely rebooting the property. Aquaman is the last gasp of a dead franchise, and everybody involved is already fired.

They cut costs finishing the movie and released it with an attenuated marketing spend. They basically dumped it.
The Marvels is a disaster. Marvel is supposed to be the blue chip franchise. The production budget on this was $270 million and they did a major marketing push for it. And even though it was one of the most expensive movies of all time, it didn’t look like it because so much was spent on reshoots and VFX shortcuts to stitch the pieces of the film together.
The Marvels missed two release dates because it was in such bad shape. Ant-Man 3 had to be pushed up six months to fill in the slot The Marvels was supposed to release in, and as a result, it was released seemingly unfinished.
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Dec 4, 2023
I would like to share my experience being radicalized by the YouTube algorithm which sends you down a rabbit hole of increasingly extreme content.

At the start of the pandemic, I was cooking a lot at home, and I started watching YouTube food videos. I became a fan of a YouTuber whose channel is called “Binging With Babish.” Babish, whose real name is Andrew Rea is a personable video editor and amateur chef whose food channel in which he attempts to construct food items from movies and TV shows became very popular.
However, I ultimately was interested in more technical cooking, and I began watching a YouTube chef named Joshua Weissman, who was cooking in a fine dining restaurant pre pandemic and started a YouTube channel that has become extremely popular. Many of his recipes are technical and challenging, but I did make his famous birria tacos, and they were very, very good.
But after watching a lot of Babish and Weissman, YouTube began feeding me stranger videos. From there I started watching videos from GugaFoods, an ebullient Brazilian who performs meat-based “experiments” often involving $250 Japanese wagyu steaks.
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Nov 4, 2023
The reason a lot of young progressives are so mad at JK Rowling is that they read the books as kids, and they thought they were Harry or Hermione. But they grew up into people like Percy or Dolores Umbridge or Cornelius Fudge or Rita Skeeter. And they know it. And on some level, they’re ashamed.
I’m reading the fifth book with my niece and it’s kind of astonishing how well it tracks to contemporary controversies. And Rowling is on the same side now that she was when she wrote it. Which is the side of people who tell the truth, against people who suppress and deny the truth in service of their ideology.
Cornelius Fudge and the Ministry of Magic are unprepared to deal with the return of Voldemort, so Fudge simply decides it isn’t happening and endeavors to silence anyone who says otherwise, which sets him in conflict with Dumbledore.
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Media figures all seem to agree that Twitter has gotten much worse since Elon Musk took over. If you aren’t seeing what they’re seeing, it’s because your experience of this website has historically been very different from theirs.
Prior to Musk’s Twitter, a curated group of about 500,000 users out of Twitter’s 368 million users had blue check status. The message many of them broadcast was that this wasn’t very important, but it absolutely was, and it’s the reason they had a special experience on Twitter.
First of all, blue checks get — and have always gotten — significantly more favorable treatment from the algorithm that populates your timeline. You are more likely to see tweets from people you follow who have blue checks.
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