Professional advocate for art, history and thought. Head of Comms @WendeMuseum of the Cold War, formerly marketing @cap_ucla
Long Beach, CA
Joined September 2014
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A timely message on hate from Rod Serling youtube.com/watch?v=B3ID7k0_…
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one under discussed part of the mamdani campaign was the usage of the video filters. every video used the same soft, humanizing tone consistently.
it crafted a world around him. an aesthetic, almost utopian one. close shots, warm tones, delicate pacing. it framed him as the delivery vehicle for a better feeling reality. beautifully cinematic.
no surprise, his mom is a well known filmmaker. this was vibe warfare. & he won. you have to understand how modern culture works in order to partake in it no matter what your underlying mission is.
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"I may not always love you" is an insane way to open one of the most beloved love songs in history
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Brian Eno is donating his royalties from the Window 95 chime to Gaza victims: “If a sound can signal a real change then let it be this one” → cons.lv/N82zc4
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Ms. Rachel showing more courage and humanity here than 99% of America’s political class.
WATCH: Ms. Rachel sings a song with Rahaf, a 3-year-old from Gaza who lost both her legs in an Israeli strike.
Rahaf is one of countless children who have lost limbs to Israel's bombs during its ongoing genocide in Gaza.
cnn.com/2025/05/20/world/vid…
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After having terminated lawyers for unaccompanied children, the government is now making toddlers represent themselves in deportation proceedings.
4-year-old migrant girl, other kids go to court in NYC with no lawyer: 'The cruelty is apparent'
gothamist.com/news/4-year-ol…
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All the focus on tariffs being a haphazardly implemented policy that are failing at their stated goals while making life worse for everyone has distracted from DOGE being a haphazardly implemented policy that is failing at the stated goals while making life worse for everyone.
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Her name is Olena. A Russian missile killed her today in 🇺🇦 Sumy.
One of 34 dead (so far).
#StandWithUkraine
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Basically some people got really mad about wokeness in video games and now tens of thousands of children will develop asthma and their parents will be booted from the Medicaid rolls while billionaires get a tax cut.
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anora discourse making me more depressed than any discourse of the last like 5 years. deep sense that anti-art, reactionary and conservative thinking has infected society far beyond electoral politics in a way i’ve not seen ever in my life.
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I still can't believe they didn't exempt Canadian oil. They literally built a "higher gas prices" button and pushed it. They acknowledged it was a bad idea to put tariffs on it but decided to do 10% instead of 0. They *literally* built a "higher gas prices" button and pushed it!
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Whatever *happens* this does seem to be the idea. It's perfectly coherent, and it is a project that takes the future seriously and is responding in kind, which liberalism can no longer do. That's important to understand I think! teapawt.net/provisionalidea/status…
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"great books" is having a moment of being right-wing-coded but i promise you, reading your greek and latin classics (as well as your french, german, italian, spanish, arabic, chinese, russian, hebrew, and sanskrit classics) is good for you no matter your politics
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Roland Barthes: "Anti-intellectualism is a historical myth, linked no doubt to the rise of the petite-bourgeoisie... yet its *political* danger must not be overlooked: it is quite simply fascism, whose first objective always and everywhere is to liquidate the intellectual class."
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Let It Be is such a strange album. There’s not actually a definitive version of it. Phil Spector’s 1970 album is basically a mix, with added instrumentation, and the original album sleeve even stops short of calling him the producer and it’s not like he sat in the studio with the four of them and worked on it. Glyn Johns mix that was released as Get Back on the Let It Be boxset is excellent, though it’s easy to see why it wasn’t released at the time. Too ragged, too rough sounding, and there are some odd song choices on there. For me, this is the one I reach for when I want to hear these songs. Song selections, spot on. Sequencing, perfect. Mixes, sublime. Hearing these versions of Long And Winding Road and Let It Be it becomes obvious which Macca pushed for this project to happen. The intros and ad libs are missing, but the more polished sound brings it in line with the rest of the catalogue. And it’s got Don’t Let Me Down on it, a song that’s just too good to be a B-Side.
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One of my wackiest views is that consciousness isn’t a given but something we have to cultivate through the habit of thinking for ourselves so I do think there’s a non-zero chance that AI dependence turns a lot of people into the equivalent of zombies.
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I’ve always thought that framing fascism as weakness is the way forward when it comes to messaging
Especially when trying to deradicalize or disinterest young men from it
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Will get less attention but this is way less ambiguous than the salute imo
