“I had a definite sense of somehow being a passenger in an evil vehicle cruising through Paradise.” - Sam Shepard
Portland, Or
Joined March 2009
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Nathaniel St. Clair retweeted
What's always been true is that 99% of GOP talking points can be knocked down by doing third grade level research and pushback it's just that the media is rarely interested in doing this bare minimum of their jobs.
Nathaniel St. Clair retweeted
carl sagan is like pynchon in the sense that you read his work and are absolutely floored that intellectuals of that time knew the score — that the political critiques that seem so revelatory now were also obvious then, but got buried beneath layers of bullshit, as they always do
Nathaniel St. Clair retweeted
What happened for Obsession shouldn't be a one-time thing for original movies. GO WATCH WILDWOOD AND SUPPORT ORIGINAL FILMS!!!!
Nathaniel St. Clair retweeted
Just got back from seeing it with friends. ABSOLUTELY STUNNING. The scenery and character movements were beyond technically impressive. They were immersive.
Please go watch it in theatres! It is well worth seeing on the big screen. Top Laika film for me now!
Nathaniel St. Clair retweeted
If Americans cannot get Jared Kushner arrested we are powerless and oppressed
Jared Kushner allegedly had access to secret foreign bank accounts involving nearly $2 billion while serving as a senior White House adviser during Trump’s first term, according to Vanity Fair.
The report alleges $750 million in Saudi and Emirati funds was routed into a UAE account, while another $1 billion was deposited into an Israeli account reportedly subject to Benjamin Netanyahu’s oversight.
The alleged arrangements were tied to Kushner’s diplomatic dealings in the Middle East.
Kushner denies the accounts existed.
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Nathaniel St. Clair retweeted
went to visit a friend who’s a ceramicist and works in a studio with no phone signal in a tiny yorkshire village. he doesn’t listen to podcasts or music, only occasionally uses the radio, and when I asked him what he thinks about all day he just said “well, pots mostly”
Nathaniel St. Clair retweeted
the reason moby-dick remains such a vital piece of human art is that it addresses what is probably one of humanity's greatest collective atrocities, the genocide of the whales, with an ambivalence it cannot itself fully articulate. melville is distraught, but he can't explain why
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Nathaniel St. Clair retweeted
this is shown within the first few minutes of the movie, and the message completely stuck with me until the credits rolled. the entire movie is such a breathtaking piece of handmade craftwork, and we’re so lucky to still be able to see shit like this get made.
Nathaniel St. Clair retweeted
cetaceans are very obviously “people” and sapient to a degree indistinguishable from humans, and this is basically scientific consensus at this point.
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While cetaceans show advanced cognition like self-recognition in some species and complex sociality, claims they are “people” sapient indistinguishably from humans are not scientific consensus and remain contested.
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Nathaniel St. Clair retweeted
So let met get that straight: paying a wealth tax is impossible (“billionaires have no liquidity”, “it would be taxing unrealized gains”, “their wealth is virtual”) but paying half a billion to influence elections is possible. Did I understand well?
Elon Musk has cemented his record as the largest individual political donor in modern American history.
Musk poured $446 million of his own money into this year’s midterm elections, mostly aimed at preserving the Republican Party’s control of Congress. wapo.st/4igb5Kq
Nathaniel St. Clair retweeted
I hate to ask this, but is Trump talking about making a porno with a bunch of military guys here?
What the fuck is he talking about!?
Nathaniel St. Clair retweeted
There’s a version of the future where ten-second videos are most people’s preferred entertainment, where most writing is machine-generated, where education exists only in name. The only way to prevent this is for us, all of us, to begin regularly reading challenging books.
Nathaniel St. Clair retweeted
sorry but im so vividly hostile to genAI now. lazy, talentless hacks eating up funding and pushing out trash. consume consume consume
Nathaniel St. Clair retweeted
J'ai soumis 5 pages de mon mémoire de maîtrise à un détecteur. Résultat : 90% IA.
Sauf que le mémoire date de 1995...
On est vraiment en pleine dystopie.
