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@thamosdeaf This is accurate
At 5000, they have enough pretentious film knowledge to admit that Jackass is good again, and can justify its excellence by bloviating about cinephile references
Real ones know Jackass is incredible from 100-5000
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@chrismaddern @opensea The site is degrading in quality due to UI throwing everything in the same bucket
Organize things into categories
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@capybaroness The film did not “predict that people would be too distracted by prescribed fights over woke issues to care”
The film criticized people for being too distracted to care in 2020
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@tomgreenlive You have more control over the algorithm than it may seem
Spend a week only interacting with funny posts
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@jpegmafia release bbc instrumentals on vinyl if you want free money
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I’ve sold most of my remaining NFT portfolio over the past year. I will continue to hold - and may accumulate more - grail NFTs as art collectibles but personally view them as investments rather than fun and vibes.
Shifting most of my spend into more traditional collectibles, much of it onchain via platforms like @Trovexyz and @BAXUSco. I love the selection, transparency, liquidity, access and ease of digital collectibles backed by hard assets (cards, memorabilia, watches, whiskey, wine and more.)
Will be a 100x onchain category because the product is better in many ways than dealing with the physical assets and legacy value chain.
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Someone can certainly *make* a billion dollars. That’s not the same thing as earning.
Growing fast and disrupting markets also often means chasing and wielding market power, political influence, and scale.
Take Airbnb. They heavily lobby politicians against passing housing laws to protect working class residents because it’s bad for their business model.
Airbnb could not exist at its current scale and size without the housing market destabilizations, displacements, and exploits that are supercharging the evictions of working people everywhere from Puerto Rico to Jackson Hole.
Now young people are planning for a future where they will never be able to afford to own a home while others have 20 and live off renting it out to them at extortionate rates with zero protections. Yes, a tiny amount of people can make billions of dollars doing that. And millions of everyday Americans are bearing the cost.
Paul Graham@paulg
Sure you can earn a billion dollars. I've been teaching people how to do it for 20 years. The way you do it is to start a company that grows fast. You don't have to do anything bad to make a company grow fast. You just have to make something people want. paulgraham.com/ace.html
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@filmscite Christian Bale is a better actor than at least half of the list
A long list of actors better than Chalamet
I would even say Adam Sandler puts in better dramatic performances than Chalamet when he tries (Uncut Gems, Punch Drunk Love)
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@cwik_greg Everyone learns to love Eddington when they deserve it
Taking the position that Hereditary is not a “good film” is a discrediting stance
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@MattMurabro @JoyceCarolOates I agree there were likely more rich tech people attending this year
I still think the protests and similar negative sentiments are very misplaced, and did great harm to a fundraiser that helps ordinary people experience art through charity
It all comes off as highly superficial
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@digitalartfun0 @JoyceCarolOates …. he/she expects you to attend—and contribute to!) knows…..
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it would be wiser of the ultra-rich to display their wealth in private; when it is public we can see--literally--how their tax cuts allow them to waste millions of dollars on absurdly extravagant costumes of no benefit to anyone.
granted this is a fund-raiser, & without providing a platform for vanity, by keeping the displays private, not so much money would be raised.
Power to the People ☭🕊@ProudSocialist
70% of Americans are struggling to afford groceries, housing, and healthcare, and there is a genocide in Gaza and Lebanon. Fuck the Met Gala.
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@CoreyAtad Nolan makes incredible popcorn movies
Spielberg was significantly better in his prime from a storytelling perspective
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@MattMurabro @JoyceCarolOates For many celebrities, the brand deals come in waves, mainly when they are in a popular film or tv series
Then that goes away, and they spend several years living off the proceeds from the deals
There are definitely ultra-rich people attending the gala, but less than it may seem
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@digitalartfun0 @JoyceCarolOates …. projects that I’m sure he’s making multiple 6/possibly even 7 figures each for. Several are in post and one or two in pre
The gala being hosted by JB/LSB also probably means many rich non-famous tech folks there, probably a dozen from Amazon alone worth north of $20m.
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@MattMurabro @JoyceCarolOates I almost guarantee his net worth is under $15 million, he is newly famous
He probably was not paid much for the show as it was pre-fame, and likely made some good money from recent brand deals
I would estimate his net worth at around $2 million
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@digitalartfun0 @JoyceCarolOates No time for that exercise, but to use an easy anecdotal example, Hudson Williams-famous for all of 6 months—already has deals with Peloton, Balenciaga and Bulgari, among others.
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@MattMurabro @JoyceCarolOates Easy to verify
Annual attendance of the gala is approximately 550 people
See if you can identify over 110 people who attended last night with a verified net worth above $20 million
Many celebrities have lower net worths and simply keep up appearances for career purposes
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@digitalartfun0 @JoyceCarolOates The celebrities who get asked to go are, almost by definition, brand influencers who make millions of dollars from brand campaigns alone, in addition to their day jobs as entertainers. Those are the people who dress up.
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