Sean Tufford

UK is a prison island. Retweeting something can get you arrested in the UK.

COMUNICADO Hola amigos. Me resulta desolador tener que dar de nuevo explicaciones que he repetido, una y otra vez, sobre mis objetivos en mis proyectos teatrales. La ruina de la que se me hace víctima en determinados medios no existe. Lo siento por aquellos que pudiesen encontrar un cierto placer en que esto fuese así. El proyecto del Teatro del Soho CaixaBank es un proyecto donde solo me planteo un objetivo: hacer las cosas como creo que se deben hacer y tratar de buscar la excelencia en nuestras producciones, más allá del déficit económico que estos acarreen, y que, gracias a Dios, puedo asumir sin ningún problema. Ese es el pacto con mi pasión por el teatro, por mi ciudad, y conmigo mismo. Si hubiese querido ganar dinero habría sido muy fácil. Pero he preferido hacer producciones grandes, donde he dado trabajo a cientos de personas, y he disfrutado como no lo habia hecho en toda mi carrera. La noticia es que voy a seguir haciéndolo. Lo he dicho en ruedas de prensa y en diferentes entrevistas en incontables ocasiones. El Teatro del Soho CaixaBank es una empresa privada sin ánimo de lucro que más bien opera como un teatro público. Eso quiere decir que el proyecto no recibe subvenciones de dinero público y no lo hará mientras yo esté vivo. Me hago cargo de los gastos derivados de acometer proyectos carísimos que difícilmente veréis en empresas que han de presentar una cuenta de resultados. Y aquí me gustaría agradecer la destacada participación de los magníficos patrocinadores que me acompañan en esta aventura. El año pasado metimos en el Soho, contando con la producción que recaló en Madrid, casi 200.000 espectadores. Hemos logrado romper moldes en estos años y lo vamos a seguir haciendo. No, amigos míos, no estoy arruinado, estoy a tope! Y soy amenazantemente feliz! Hasta la vista babies.

🔥Even normies can't unsee this:

Signal, the non-profit, encrypted-messaging app, just warned, it would rather leave Canada than comply with Bill C-22. Here’s what Bill C-22 actually does: ✅ Forces tech companies to build surveillance backdoors into their systems ✅ Mandates that every cell phone in Canada be trackable ✅ Allows the Minister of Public Safety to issue SECRET orders to turn your Amazon Alexa into a listening device ✅ Requires metadata retention for up to one year: who you called, when, and where you were No comparable Western nation has adopted surveillance powers this broad. Meta called it conscripting private companies into “the government’s surveillance apparatus.” The US wrote directly to the minister warning it compromises American citizens’ privacy. A lawyer told committee: “As written, the minister could issue a secret order to turn your smart TV into a listening device.” Imagine: this is the same government that froze bank accounts without a court order. The same government that turned off committee cameras. The same government with 638 unresolved wrongdoing complaints. Now wants inside your phone.

To be eligible to win Best Picture at the Oscars… 1. At least 1 Non-White/Non-Straight lead or Significant Role. 2. At least 30% minor roles Non-White/Non-Straight people. 3. At least 2 Departments headed by Non-White/Non-Straight people. This is why Nolan did it. Coward.

Elon Musk just defended America better than every politician in Washington combined. Musk: “After World War 2, the US could have basically taken over the world and any country. Like we got nukes, nobody else got nukes. We don’t even have to lose soldiers. Which country do you want?” One nation on earth held a weapon nobody else had. Total dominance. Zero competition. No risk of retaliation. Every empire in history that held that kind of advantage used it. Rome. The Mongols. The British. The Ottomans. They conquered until they collapsed. America had a bigger advantage than all of them combined. And it rebuilt the countries it just defeated. Musk: “The United States actually helped rebuild countries. So it helped rebuild Europe, it helped rebuild Japan. This is very unusual behavior, almost unprecedented.” Almost unprecedented? It had never happened before. Not once in 5,000 years of recorded history. The Marshall Plan wasn’t foreign aid. It was the most radical act of restraint any superpower ever committed. America turned its enemies into allies. Turned rubble into economies. Turned surrender into partnership. Germany went from ashes to the economic engine of Europe in a generation. Japan went from unconditional surrender to the third largest economy on earth. Three years after the war, America was flying food into Berlin. A city in the heart of the nation that just tried to destroy it. That’s not policy. That’s a civilization deciding what it is at the exact moment it has the power to be anything. You’re being told a story right now. That America is the villain of history. You hear it everywhere. Media. Universities. Social platforms. Musk: “There’s always like, well America’s done bad things. Well of course America’s done bad things, but one needs to look at the whole track record.” Every nation on earth has dark chapters. Every single one. The difference is what a country does when nobody can stop it. And when nobody could stop America, it fed its enemies and rebuilt their cities. Musk: “The history of China suggests that China is not acquisitive. Meaning they’re not going to go out and invade a whole bunch of countries.” Probably right. China has historically built walls, not fleets. But the real question isn’t about borders anymore. We’re approaching a moment that mirrors 1945 in ways nobody has fully processed yet. AI is going to give a handful of people a power advantage that makes nuclear monopoly look quaint. If someone is going to hold that kind of power, who do you want it to be? The country that conquered when it could? Or the one that rebuilt when it didn’t have to? Every alliance. Every trade route. Every economy. Billions lifted out of poverty. All of it traces back to one act of restraint that had never been done before. And carries no guarantee of being repeated. The most powerful thing America ever did wasn’t building the bomb. It was what it didn’t do after.