Alan Jeffries
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Alan Jeffries
@AlanJeffries
Documentary producer/writer/editor. Senior video producer, Bloomberg Originals. Opinions mine. Ridley Scott’s The Duellists fan account
Katılım Ağustos 2022
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@sunnyright Nothing left but a wonderful family, 30 patents, 2 engineering degrees from MIT, a farm with a peach orchard, a herd of Wagyu cattle, a dozen inventions in my head, a clucks capacitor roaming my fields, and investors lined up to back whatever I invent next.
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Your reminder that Massie has been living off politics for upwards of 16 years, so it was either this or a podcast because he's got nothing else left
Thomas Massie for Congress@MassieforKY
I filed with FEC for the 2028 House race. This allows me to raise funds to continue my political operations supporting my position as a current office holder and as a potential candidate for federal office. I haven’t made a final decision about which office to seek, if I run.
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I don’t see a thing wrong with this and he certainly didn’t lose it. He reads as someone who has been playing this game for decades and knows how things can spiral. He’s establishing boundaries, the crowd listened, and he obliged. Zero drama.
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I really, really hope no one is taking this kind of post seriously.
ₕₐₘₚₜₒₙ@hamptonism
This might be a hot take but I know someone at meta who makes $400k a year and is quite literally capped at that number for life - likely will never get a promotion strong enough to change that. 9-5 until they’re what, 50? This is not living. No matter the salary.
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Rewatching 30 Rock for the first time since I got a real job in entertainment and it's unfortunately gone from a comedy into a horror show based on my own life
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@kierkegarchist Walkabout too, which was rated PG despite copious amounts of nudity
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Willy Wonka is rated G despite being one of two non-NC17 movies (the other being Apocalypse Now) to feature a real, unsimulated animal death
Zack Stentz@MuseZack
The original Planet of the Apes, which had numerous gunshot deaths, a lobotomy, implied nuclear annihilation, and Charlton Heston ass, was rated G in 1968.
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No reasonable person should have the remotest interest in what megyn kelly thinks about anything
Republicans against Trump@RpsAgainstTrump
Megyn Kelly, who endorsed and campaigned for Trump in the 2024 election: “I didn’t expect the corruption to be quite as widespread as it has been. The self-dealing, the lining of his and his family’s pockets. It’s shocking… You look across the board at the Trump family, I’ve never seen a family get so rich off the presidency.”
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@moonrefllection the last act of this movie really punches you in the gut in a rare way
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Steven Bartlett says a few glasses of wine ruined the next 3 days of his life
“It's one of those areas where you don't understand the hidden cost until you really give it up for a while. I stopped drinking at 30 years old. I'm now 33. When I was 31, I thought, I'll have a drink again because now I could really A/B test it. I had a year of not drinking, decided to have a drink again”
“It ruined three days of my life. I had a couple of glasses of wine, didn't get drunk. It ruined three days of my life because of the domino effect it caused”
“I got worse sleep that night, and then because I got worse sleep that night, I ate more poorly the next day because my dopamine system or whatever, the cortisol system was all messed up. I podcasted worse. I didn't go to the gym that day or the day after because I felt really bad. I then slept worse, and I could track all of this on my Whoop”
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If the goal of the ads on youtube mobile is to make me upset and vaguely nauseous, wow, congratulations, 100% success rate
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@EmpireEnjoyer3 @parmita put those goalposts back where they were
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@Musa_alGharbi I think the question of how to motivate climate action is a very tough problem. Media striking a more moderate tone just has nothing to do with it. The vast majority of people just do not want to think about climate anymore, through a doomer lens or otherwise
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It's a big problem that tons of climate journalism/ discourse has consistently used the worst case outlier model and presented it as a prediction of what was most likely to happen. But as it stands, even the worst-case scenario is being radically adjusted down. Hopefully climate journalists/ advocates don't just adopt the next worst-case model and instead discuss the most likely scenarios modelers have painted.
There's lots of work on this: it doesn't help motivate action to do doomsaying. It feed fatalism on the one hand, and mistrust of models/ climate science on the other (when we remain far from our goals but nothing like the "predicted" outcomes manifests).
Steve Guest@SteveGuest
Vox with a BOMBSHELL admission in the wake of the demise of RCP8.5. “Those numbers shaped a decade and a half of climate journalism, including a lot of my own when I covered climate change at Time magazine. I didn’t always know — and didn’t always communicate — that the scenario behind the most apocalyptic, attention-getting findings was largely an attempt to imagine how bad things could get, not a true forecast. But I wasn’t alone. RCP 8.5 was a frequent background presence in climate journalism.” vox.com/future-perfect…
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@horror_80s Watched it five times. Listened to the director's commentary. Still figuring it out!
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PRIMER (2004)
• Sundance Grand Jury Prize
• $7000 budget
• 80 minutes of raw 16mm footage (!)
• 77-minute runtime
• 3 years to complete the film
• Lofi high concept time travel
• 11+ timelines of convoluted chaos
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@vashikoo yes, unfortunately, these kinds of restrictions often lead to storytelling problems, such as the final act of this movie being incomprehensible
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the latter of which is exactly what I am doing here, I hate modern culture and myself
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The real trick to being read these days is to come up with a take that will annoy half the audience, but about a topic so trivial that the other half feels compelled to comment on the triviality,
Tyler Austin Harper@Tyler_A_Harper
In which I make the case that Miller Lite is the anecdote to the decadence of a professional class that constantly chases novel gustatory experiences and has come to confuse this empty, hedonistic quest with being cultured. theatlantic.com/culture/2026/0…
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