@SaintLaurant @CinemaTweets1 oh that's not the issue, the issue is his total disdain for Tolkien's worldview; a radical, radical disdain he's spent a decade destroying as publicly as possible
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James Harris
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James Harris
@InHumaneShape
When he had told her these fair tales, To love him she began, Because he was in humane shape, Much like unto a man.
Bottom of the sea शामिल हुए Mart 2019
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@CinemaTweets1 Colbert does have extensive professional writing experience, plus has been a huge Tolkien "geek" for decades. His late night show shouldn't typecast him to just comedy.
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Why is Stephen Colbert given the responsibility to write a new Lord of the Rings film? What am I missing- how is this happening? I have no opinion about Colbert on a personal level, I’m neutral, but what qualifies him to write this? Because he’s a massive LOTR fan? That’s it?
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I'm based in France, but 43% of my audience is American.
I know many of us are in the same situation. To reach a wider audience, all my posts are in English, the international language.
Those who cause trouble may be punished, but with this change, which will significantly reduce our earnings, you're also penalizing a number of accounts that use the international language without any ill intent.
X tells us that videos and new, high-quality content will be prioritized, but this change will, on the contrary, drastically reduce our earnings.
Is there any way to reverse this decision, please?🥺
@XCreators @X @nikitabier @elonmusk
Nikita Bier@nikitabier
Starting Thursday, we'll be updating our revenue sharing incentives to better reward the content we want on X: We will be giving more weight to impressions from your home region—to encourage content that resonates with people in your country, in neighboring countries and people who speak your language. While we appreciate everyone's opinion on American politics, we hope this will disincentivize gaming the attention of US or Japanese accounts and instead, drive diverse conversations on the platform. We invite creators to start building an audience locally. X will be a much richer community when there's relevant posts for people in all parts of the world.
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@justindeanlee Don't be fooled man, chicks love this stuff. See: Dionysian cults.
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The first time I abandoned a girlfriend in the mountains was an accident.
We had an argument about something trivial, and she decided to go off on her own for a bit to cool down. I insisted she stick to the trail, but she said she didn’t need me mansplaining how to find her way in the woods. So I dropped it. How does one manage to get lost on a mountainside, anyway? You just walk downhill until you hit a switchback or reach the valley. Common sense stuff.
Well, she managed it. When she didn’t turn up by nightfall, I contacted the ranger station and they set out to find her. By 1am, I got tired of waiting and drove home.
They called the next morning to say they’d found her in a makeshift den she’d dug beneath a deadfall. She was naked, gone completely feral, her face painted with menstrual blood. A ranger tried to wrap a blanket around her shoulders, and she bit a golf ball-sized gobbet of flesh from his shoulder. So they sedated her and took her straight to the nearest hospital.
That was three years ago and she still hasn’t recovered human language.
Needless to say, I acquired a taste for it. I’m up to a baker’s dozen now, not counting the one that found her way back to the car before I could drive off.
But you never forget your first. Sarah will always have a special place in my heart.
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@OnlyFormHolds @thepalmerworm I've not considered the dangers of game theory much so I can't pick a side but I believe she's saying it actively contradicts when she notes it, "cannot represent OR PRESERVE."
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When with narrow breadth it cannot preserve an =ly narrow but ordered ontology then it's a bad tool.
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@thepalmerworm 1/ Unfortunately I just cannot see that. That’s not Aquinas’s standard for abstraction. For him, an abstraction is illegitimate if it contradicts the nature of the thing, not simply because it doesn’t carry the full account within itself or guide action on its own.
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Good article yes and recently I had an exchange on here in which I held the line on firmly stating why Game Theory is fundamentally incompatible with the ontological understanding of man as imago Dei (thereby with inalienable rights) encoded in the Declaration. You’ll see at the bottom of these excerpts I’m sharing from this article that Vermeule is a big advocate of deploying Game Theory under a Curtis Yarvin style Unbound Executive:
Excerpts (see article link below):
‘This gift for controversy was apparent in a manifesto Vermeule published in the Atlantic in March. There he recommended that conservatives abandon their longstanding originalist jurisprudence in favor of “common good constitutionalism.” The name for that project is “integralism,” and Vermeule has become its foremost defender in the United States. Integralism seeks to subordinate temporal power to spiritual power—or, more specifically, the modern state to the Catholic Church.
Vermeule displays similar flexibility himself, drawing from Schmitt but adapting him to contemporary debates. Unlike Schmitt, he uses the prestige of the social sciences in order to advance his often tendentious ideological claims. Vermeule makes clear the need to replace Schmitt’s metaphysical obscurities with what he calls the “simple causal intuitions and models” of “the social sciences, including economics, law-and-economics, and political science.” It’s a sophisticated strategy of translating Schmitt’s authoritarianism into the sober findings of social-science research and the institutions of American democracy.
Vermeule and Posner’s defense of rule by executive was presented largely as a sociological fait accompli in their next book, The Executive Unbound (2010).
they employed the methodology of law-and-economics pioneered at the University of Chicago, where they both taught. This approach depicts politics as a series of ideal game-theory scenarios and follows the economist Milton Friedman in assuming that social theory did not need to accurately describe reality per se. Such a methodology leaves researchers free to build abstract models of human behavior based on a few axioms of supposedly transcendental rationality. The result is a narrow vision of human beings as strategic, self-interested preference-maximizers.’
- I took heat for stating how and why Game Theory is so subversive and incompatible with American Constitutional Republican Governance. Quite a few accounts couldn’t understand why I held the line against it. I hope it’s starting to dawn on people now.
Paul Daniel@FlagARide
@ambermarieduke It’s not an anti-Catholic screed. Did you read it? It’s anti-this. If you’re part of that group, I could see why you might be offended. 👇🏼
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@klara_sjo There is still some hope for you. You'll just have to post a bit of subtle Euroslop about how America doesn't have any culture and how freedoms are dangerous.
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Nikita Bier@nikitabier
@forgebitz Out of curiosity, I simulated the impact based on last payout: Your payout would’ve been +168% higher Our regional bucketing aims to be very large and includes all of Western Europe.
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@bitcloud @nikitabier @forgebitz Demoralization slaves in the Golden Triangle and BRICS happened. IOW...
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@elonmusk @doganuraldesign The expense of politics creeping out from bad actor nations that literally enslave people to post nefarious content is too high.
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This CAN'T be serious!?
You do realize there are global content types beyond politics, right?
This is a mistake that will ruin the nature of X. Please revert it before it’s too late.
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@LeahLibresco Something way cooler than a minivan is coming
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Not many topics have the qualifier, "If you've not read this singular work of scholarship your opinion isn't well informed." The War With Mexico is an exception. If one is to speak on the war—especially considering later widespread efforts to misdirect from it—one must read it.
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Periodically we get some lackwit oomph gibbering about how the USA "stole Mexican land" and we should give back California, Texas, and so forth to the rightful owners. Yes I know this is an idiotic idea. Let's leave aside the question of who would conquer who in such a transaction (clearly the new American "citizens" of Mexico would dominate their government).
The treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo transferred those lands to the United States. It was a formal and internationally legal agreement. If Mexico was to attempt to dump that treaty, that would mean they were, once again, at war with the United States, because that's what that treaty ended.
I can see an argument from a Native American that their land was stolen. But Mexico's land was absolutely handed over to us, and the treaty stands up to scrutiny.
If Mexico wants it back, let them beat us in a war and make us sign a treaty to return it.
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@assend_dot_net @fandompulse Check out Twain's letters on the topic, they're peak.
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@fandompulse Huh, neat. I like this series on "things authors thought about writing."
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Isaac Asmiov on the one rule he followed in writing:
"I made up my mind long ago to follow one cardinal rule in all my writing—to be clear. I have given up all thought of writing poetically or symbolically or experimentally, or in any of the other modes that might (if I were good enough) get me a Pulitzer prize. I would write merely clearly and in this way establish a warm relationship between myself and my readers, and the professional critics—Well, they can do whatever they wish."
Did he make the right decision?
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@IMAO_ especially when half the plot is the kids getting one year older each book/season
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How is the thing that had been standard for well over half a century — a season of TV every year — now no longer possible?
Wizarding World Direct@WW_Direct
The HARRY POTTER TV series won't have one season a year "For some of the bigger shows like Harry Potter, huge world-building shows, it would be nice to have those on an annual basis. But from a production point of view, it’s just not possible." - Casey Bloys
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@DSterling1948 IT IS NOT FAIR THAT I LIVE IN A SMALL COW TOWN AWAY FROM ALL JEWISH FRIENDS AND CUISINE
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Just WAIT till they find out about Gefilte ☝️
(I’m still recovering)
The Mossad: Satirical and Awesome@TheMossadIL
"What do you mean Jews get their own soup? Why don't they tell everyone how to make this special soup or is it just for you chosen people?"
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@RyteSideUp In Enterprise it begins with them being BAD at their jobs when the pilot can't even fly the ship w/o scratching it and the humans have to take endless hot tips from species w/ experience.
There was no linear progression into wokeness, just a cliff of wokeness AFTER Enterprise.
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Star Trek through the years-
TOS: “Hey, this really diverse group of people is really good at their jobs. It’s something to aspire to.”
TNG/VOY/DS9: “Hey, this really diverse group of people, which even includes old enemies, is really good at their jobs. It’s something to aspire to.”
ENT: “These people that are brand new at this job are good at it, and they’re good at getting a diverse group of people to work together to do it. It’s something to aspire to.”
NuTrek: “This group of idiots is really diverse, and that’s okay, because they’re so diverse!”
Can we please understand why one of these is being rejected by fans of the franchise?
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I’ve discussed the Draft with probably 10 people so far under the age of 42 and every single one of them has said verbatim “I’ll shoot whoever comes to the door trying to take me.”
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@0hour1 @RealCandaceO >Video feeds of a thousand China-funded influencer slaves in Myanmar.
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We are going after @RealCandaceO network of influencers and boy are you all going to be surprised.
No one's safe
You want a war.
OK
Here we go!
SafetySwipe@SafetyNotorious
Anyone interested in contacting George Farmer can do so here 👉🏻 @whokilledck The George Farmer network (“authors”): @baroncoleman, @BlakeBednarz, @brandiandbillie, @RealCandaceO, @IanCarrollShow, @5149jamesli, @KeliRabon, @triggersmarthq, @ValhallaVFT, @FinanceWolves
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🔴 CNN:
The regime in Iran tells US it won't negotiate with Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, but rather JD Vance.
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@klara_sjo @nikitabier I'm sorry, blame India and the Chinese subversives. It had to be done 😢
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@nikitabier I post memes, rarely bother with politics, live in Europe, half my audience is from the US.
How screwed am I?
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Starting Thursday, we'll be updating our revenue sharing incentives to better reward the content we want on X:
We will be giving more weight to impressions from your home region—to encourage content that resonates with people in your country, in neighboring countries and people who speak your language.
While we appreciate everyone's opinion on American politics, we hope this will disincentivize gaming the attention of US or Japanese accounts and instead, drive diverse conversations on the platform.
We invite creators to start building an audience locally. X will be a much richer community when there's relevant posts for people in all parts of the world.
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@klara_sjo We did this back during the early Iraq/Afghanistan days too. I remember going through bootcamp with a guy in his 40s and the military news people coming and doing a whole thing on him. Pretty rare that someone that age is suited to going through that, but it does snag some dudes.
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Below is a statement that my brother bishop, @BishopBarron – a colleague on the Presidential Commission on Religious Liberty –recently issued. His comments are characteristically clear, and I agree wholeheartedly.
Bishop Robert Barron@BishopBarron
Over the past several weeks, Carrie Prejean Boller has complained that she was removed from the Presidential Commission on Religious Liberty because of her Catholic beliefs, and she has called out myself and other Catholic members of the commission for not defending her. This is absurd. Mrs. Prejean Boller was not dismissed for her religious convictions but rather for her behavior at a gathering of the Commission last month: browbeating witnesses, aggressively asserting her point of view, hijacking the meeting for her own political purposes. The Catholic position on matters of “Zionism,” to which I fully subscribe, is as follows: all forms of antisemitism are to be unequivocally condemned; the state of Israel has a right to exist; but the modern nation of Israel does not represent the fulfillment of Biblical prophecies and hence does not stand beyond criticism. If Mrs. Prejean Boller were dismissed for holding these beliefs, it is difficult to understand why I am still a member of the Commission. To paint herself as a victim of anti-Catholic prejudice or to claim that her religious liberty has been denied is simply preposterous.
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