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Rob Power

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Beatlemaniac. Books, art, music.

Oxford Katılım Ağustos 2012
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Rob Power@mrrobpower·
Baby woke up at the exact time the new @starwars trailer came out.
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@DlRTYSHlRT There are many of us who have this entire single on a loop in our heads at basically all times. We must rise up
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lena 𐙚⋆°。@DlRTYSHlRT·
as a society i wish we would talk more about this underrated song
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The Beatles Earth
The Beatles Earth@BeatlesEarth·
“Hope of Deliverance” - Paul McCartney (1992)
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The Away Fans@theawayfans·
Danny Dyer on his son-in-law Jarrod Bowen: "I have met every boyfriend that has walked through my door - then she brings home the West Ham captain. I have gone from lying cheats to a man who I would not mind kissing! If he lent in? I would put my lips on this geezer." 🤣🤣
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🇺🇸@FreeStateWill·
Afroman demonstrated that the best way to preserve liberty is to mock the individuals who perpetuate tyranny.
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CoffeeWithTheClassics@CoffeewClassics·
Cormac McCarthy is not to everyone’s taste, that’s fine. Life’s short, read what you want. But this is not nihilistic.
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Bandy@bandy1803·
Cormac McCarthy in El Paso, c.1980
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Rob Power@mrrobpower·
@MrEwanMorrison Publishers are in a race to the bottom. P&Ls are built on volume of title so lists keep growing. Nobody can keep up, standards are low, editors are swamped. This stuff is going to keep getting through. Cats out of the bag.
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Rob Power@mrrobpower·
@liz__meyer I’ve worked in marketing a long time and the last thing we need is more, fancier, procedurally generated decks. It’d be handy if we could demonstrably improve the world with this allegedly world-changing tech though
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liz meyer@liz__meyer·
Why are companies so dead set on killing the creative class? focus on finance? healthcare? improving the lives of the vast population, not just the lives of marketing people
Grant Lee@thisisgrantlee

There's a hidden tax on every knowledge worker in the world, and nobody talks about it: The design tax. You're a strategist, a sales lead, a marketer. You were hired for what you know. But every meeting, every pitch, every proposal expects you to show up with something that looks like a designer made it. I lived this. Before Gamma, I spent time in consulting and investment banking. I spent more hours formatting slides than the analysis that went into them. When my cofounders and I started Gamma, we asked: what if you never had to be a designer in the first place? Five years and nearly 100 million users later, we've refunded billions of hours of the design tax. Today, we're eliminating it for good with our biggest launch ever. Gamma Imagine — a powerful, AI-native visual creation tool directly in Gamma. Posters, logos, infographics, visuals from a single prompt. On brand, every time. AI-Native Templates. Templates were supposed to save you from design work. Instead you spent the time filling them in. So we completely rebuilt the template experience. Modify a whole deck with a single prompt, with your brand and style intact every time. Gamma Connectors. You're already thinking in ChatGPT and Claude. Now Gamma sits inside the most popular work apps in the world. No more context-switching. You were hired for your ideas, not to resize text boxes. Let Gamma pay the design tax.

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Rob Power@mrrobpower·
@jbienkahn @tituschalk …which is great and correct, but for every editor or publisher that takes a stand I guarantee there’s a dozen digital-first start ups pumping out AI assisted (or just fully AI generated) novels to an unsuspecting audience. Cats out of the bag.
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Joseph Bien-Kahn@jbienkahn·
This is extremely big and public and humiliating for this writer, but just know: I’m also privately cancelling each and every writer who pitches me with AI (and I’m sure many other editors are too)…
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Rob Power@mrrobpower·
It’s so weird to be at the point where ‘our’ culture becomes ‘the culture of the previous century’. So many of the things we take for granted are going the way of music hall or big band jazz. History tells us it will happen but I didn’t expect to see it so clearly *at the time*
Rambo Van Halen@RamboVanHalen

Lots of comments about how to remake the film industry--and a lot of "build back better" type talk. Sorry you have to hear it from me, but film as a dominant cultural force is never coming back. But it's not going to go away either. It's going to stick around. Just like opera stuck around. At one time opera was mass entertainment. And then it faded and was replaced by other forms of mass entertainment--like movies. Today opera is a niche thing--reserved for the wealthy. But it still happens. Old operas are still being performed, and once in a while someone even writes a completely original opera. I think we can expect something similar from film. Niche film theaters will play old movies, and once in a while will play something new. But the days of everyone going to the movies on a Saturday night (or even streaming at home) is over. The new films won't be made for a mass audience--not like The Matrix or Starwars or Lord of the Rings or any of the other movies you love--because that mass audience is gone. And it's never coming back. Instead films will be made for a niche audience. And we're already there now. Marvel movies are made for a niche audience of beard neck fanboys, and Oscar bait movies are made for the NPR totebag and Volvo niche. What's going to take film's place? I have no idea. If I had to make a bet on the future of mass entertainment I'd go with anything live and in person. The faker (and gayer) the world gets, the more people will want authenticity. Stand up comedy is enjoying a resurgence--partly for this reason. As far as digital content goes, maybe it'll be gaming, or maybe vertical drama type shows. But who the fuck knows. It will probably be something that doesn't currently exist. But again, film will never go away entirely. Somewhere there are opera companies producing operas, Shakespeare festivals still happen, Greek plays still happen, and somewhere in the world somebody is putting on a Punch and Judy show. So film fans, don't despair. They'll be something for you. It might not be great, but it will be there. And I guess that's better than nothing🤷‍♂️ (Credit to my friend @DisgracedProp for the film/opera insight.)

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Rob Power@mrrobpower·
@funkentechno Terrific book. Moments like this punctuate it like shafts of light. An unforgettable reading experience
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David James 🍩
David James 🍩@funkentechno·
This quote from Don DeLillo's Underworld perfectly captures the way my relationship with my mother changed since she died. In a massive book full of numerous great passages, this remains my favorite.
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Rob Power@mrrobpower·
The fact that these covers regularly go viral here, generating millions of views, and not only has DK done nothing to capitalise on it, but they’re not even aware it’s happening, tells you everything you need to know about the publishing industry.
Nostalgia@NostalgiaFolder

Eyewitness books

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Columned@Columned_·
Honestly i think the coolest award OBAA won last night was Best Editing. Cannot be overstated how this nearly 3 hour epic feels roughly 90 minutes And seriously, what a gorgeous looking film
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#nw One Battle After Another (4th Viewing) Dir. Paul Thomas Anderson

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Nicolas Tennant@TennantNicolas·
Personally, I think Paul McCartney should be on the £5 note
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shain 📚@shainreads·
I saw the Rothko exhibit at the Tate Modern today.... I get it...
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@Valotte_67 I suspect the answer in this case is because they were all stoned and then remembered the cameras and thought it’d be funny
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3lis3 🪽@herdebonair·
To my fellow Paul heads, what do you think is his best wings song?
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@UshiGOW Four perfectly balanced egomaniacs
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