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Jonathan Lack
@JonathanLack
I'm critic, scholar, and podcaster Jonathan Lack, PhD candidate @UIowa. Links to podcasts and more at https://t.co/uGooSph0Hm
Jul 20 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
I feel like as a career academic I am qualified to say this: Allan Lichtman is a quack. He promotes an unscientific, unserious, untestable “13 keys” to Presidential elections, and it’s no different than reading tea leaves. He - and anyone who listens to him - is a joke. I will be the first to agree polling is imperfect and should not be wholly relied on. But it is actual data. There is science behind it. It can be peer reviewed. You can analyze its methodology. You can aggregate lots of them for bigger data sets.

The 13 keys are quackery.
Mar 8, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Really important for everyone to understand that this isn’t an exaggeration. Idaho is considering a law to just flat out make trans people (and family/friends supporting them) illegal, as a group of human beings, and then arguing other states have to help them prosecute. That’s the exact kind of lawmaking that led to Dred Scott and eventually the civil war, in that the South wanted their slave laws to override the anti-slave laws of northern states. SCOTUS sided with the South. It eventually broke the union.
Mar 8, 2022 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Finished the first cour of Jujutsu Kaisen last night and a few thoughts:

1) Best anime ending ever?
2) OP slaps impossibly hard too
3) This is the most aggressively "off to the races" start to a Shonen anime I've ever seen
4) Gojo-sensei might be the coolest character ever? 5) The central conceit of having the big bad share a body with the protagonist is super clever. It's like if the main antagonist of Yu-Gi-Oh was actually Dark Yugi and I love that.

6) There's a guy named Panda and he's just a Panda but he talks and so far there's no explanation
Mar 7, 2022 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
#TheBatman opening at $128 mil in the US is actually pretty impressive. The last 2 Batman solo films set records and opened bigger ($155 and $160), but considering the pandemic, the length, and the fact it's much more neo-noir than action movie, that's not a big drop. Batman's been durable box-office gold since 1989, of course, but still - there's been a lot of Batman in the 2000s and an endless stream of superhero movies and I wouldn't have been surprised if this one underperformed.
Feb 25, 2021 • 16 tweets • 10 min read
So just for fun, I've been re-reading the original YU-GI-OH manga lately, and am once again amused by the surprisingly high body count of the original story. So in this thread, I will be keeping track of the official Yu-Gi-Oh kill count. I'm weird that way. Let's gooooo Image Vol. 1. Yami Yugi murders 2 people, both by incineration. First, this escaped convict who threatens Anzu, and then this school bully who messed up their class' festival display. One of those was definitely less justified.

Yami Yugi: 2 kills

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