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timappelo

timappelo

@timappelo

Ex-AARP movie/TV/music editor,Hollywood Reporter,EW,TheNation,got Bezos to buy IMDb. Last human Amazon homepage editor.

Washington, DC Katılım Aralık 2008
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@KBAndersen All part of Thiel's plan to dumb down the cattle. Separate the AI-stupefied herd from the few "superior persons," replace dangerous democracy with tech elite autocracy. That'll keep us safe from the great totalitarian menace of liberty and justice for all!
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Kurt Andersen@KBAndersen·
No joke. I’d bet that on average, people born before 2000-2005—i.e. really learned to read/think/write before AI-on-demand—will have more cognitive power and skill than people born after. OTOH: AI probably a boon to people born with less capacity and those who do learn to think.
Charlotte Alter@CharlotteAlter

not gonna lie one day this will make us the smartest people alive. Our brains are capable of things that the AI kids can't even fathom. In 40 years even the most mid millennials will be geniuses compared to the younger ppl who never had to develop these muscles x.com/KeruboSk/statu…

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Tico Romao@TicoRomao2·
This week in film teaching, I covered 1970s neo-noir in demythologization mode and focused on Chinatown (1974). J.J. Gittes often makes erroneous inferences and overlooks key clues, with the film’s restricted narration prompting the viewer to make the same errors.
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"A weak Iran needs to launch only one drone a day from the back of a vegetable truck to choke off the oil passing through the Strait of Hormuz and send the price of oil, gas and fertilizer soaring worldwide." -Tom Friedman
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Mike Young
Mike Young@micyoung75·
"Simple commonsense" is doing a lot of work for a bill that eliminates mail-in registration, online registration, and registration at a DMV, church, or college campus. Those aren't loopholes. They're how most Americans have registered for thirty years. Protecting elections means protecting access, not engineering a smaller electorate and calling it integrity.
Senator Ted Cruz@SenTedCruz

We are in the middle of the battle to pass the SAVE America Act. This is simple, commonsense legislation that will protect our elections. We need to get it done.

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stephen elliott@S___Elliott·
Movies are that are better than the book: No Country For Old Men Goodfellas The Godfather Strangers On A Train
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Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates@JoyceCarolOates·
in the 1920s, as a young writer, F. Scott Fitzgerald earned an extraordinary income from short stories alone: $386,000 which is the equivalent of $8 million in 2026. to say that Fitzgerald "idolized" the rich is somewhat naive. his income placed him in the upper 1% of his time. unfortunately, Fitzgerald & his wife Zelda spent literally all of this money. it is harder to believe that they spent this fortune than to believe that Fitzgerald ever earned it with slick commercial stories that, today, are scarcely readable. (Fitzgerald took novels more seriously & was writing for posterity; ironically, the later novels were too subtly imagined for commercial success.)
Joyce Carol Oates@JoyceCarolOates

you "doubt that Scott Fitzgerald could think that deep"--seriously? as deep as you think? Fitzgerald knew the wealthy well, & was highly critical of them as a class, especially the Buchanans of "the Great Gatsby." he had been a bestseller in his early 20's & made an astonishing amount of money selling slick stories to magazines like "The Saturday Evening Post" even during the Depression; he was himself rich, & spent all that he had as if compulsively.

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The human wrecking ball Bari Weiss strikes another blow against CBS, truth, justice and the American Way.
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"Your doctor went to medical school for 12 years. The person denying your claim went through a two-week training module."
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@thetrueshelby I spent 7 days taking Bill Gothard's Institute as a kid. Strange guy. Got a link to source of this list?
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shelby@thetrueshelby·
This is the Duggars religion: The Institute in Basic Life Principles (IBLP) is a conservative Christian organization founded by Bill Gothard. The organization has faced serious accusations of abuse and covering up misconduct. Here is one of the lessons they teach on abuse.
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Rep. Dan Goldman
Rep. Dan Goldman@RepDanGoldman·
Republicans have repeatedly said the SAVE Act is the most important piece of legislation they have. Yet they cannot point to a single statistic to back up that claim. Why? Because there is no evidence of widespread voter fraud. There is, however, mountains of data that shows that the proof of citizenship requirement of the SAVE Act would disenfranchise millions of Americans. That’s why it’s important to them. That’s what they’re doing.
Headquarters@HQNewsNow

Q: Trump said the SAVE Act is his number 1 priority, can you give me one example of fraud conducted in a previous election? Mike Johnson: We're not going to litigate all of that

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Melanie D'Arrigo
Melanie D'Arrigo@DarrigoMelanie·
Then why doesn’t the SAVE America Act provide every eligible voter with a voter ID? Why does it instead put up barriers and force illegal poll taxes upon eligible voters to prevent them from voting? The SAVE America Act isn’t a voter ID bill — it’s a voter suppression bill.
John Kennedy@SenJohnKennedy

I support the SAVE America Act unconditionally. If you’re voting in an American election, it’s common sense that you should have to show you are who you say you are.

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