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Jeff Picanso

@scramblecity.bsky.social

I got better things to do tonight than die.

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Moira Donegan@moiradonegan.bsky.social · 2d ago

What billionaires are doing in California to fight prop 40 is a lot wilder than the Alaska multiple Dan Sullivan thing, which at least had the virtue of being funny.

Lois Beckett@loisbeckett.bsky.social · 2d ago

"If there’s an impediment, just buy it.” Opponents of California's billionaire tax tried to kill the ballot measure by PURCHASING THE FIRM THE UNION USED TO COLLECT SIGNATURES, so they would *own the signatures* @darakerr.bsky.social reports. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

So Mayer@suchmayer.northsky.social · 2d ago

Ursula K. Le Guin on Patrick Stewart as Captain Picard, from her TV Guide article "My appointment with the Enterprise: An Appreciation" "Such a strong, sensitive, intelligent man, so short, so bald, so beautiful"

Being in love with him I thought was safe, until I saw the episode in which Capt. Picard (Patrick Stewart) lives a whole life in 25 minutes, and then the one where he revisits his home and brother in France. Such a strong, sensitive, intelligent man, so short, so bald, so beautiful-well, so I'm a bigamist. My favorite episode may be the one where Picard is alone with Capt. Dathon (Paul Winfield), an alien whose language is all myth and metaphor. A beautiful idea, and the way the alien's soul shone through his ugly, piggish, snouted face was magic. The Next Generation never had a simplistic concept of Us/Nice/Real People vs. Them/Ugly/Villains. Of course, there are bad guys out there. When the Klingons turned into real people, the Romulans and Cardassians were waiting-but they keep turning into real people, too. The Borg was a great embodiment of Evil-mechanical evil, absence of souL Hence the power of the episode where Picard, the very soul of the Enterprise, became a Borg: Anybody, even the best man, can lose his soul. This is a genuinely scary idea, a mature concept. Violence, on The Next Generation, is shown as a problem, or the failure to solve a problem, never as the true solution. This is surely one reason why the show has such a following among grown women and men.
Frank Cifaldi@frankcifaldi.bsky.social · 2d ago

A funny Patrick Stewart thing people might not know is that he really, really liked Transmetropolitan and wanted to play Spider Jerusalem, but a project never came together. I'm enjoying seeing funny things he did that I didn't know about, so I hope fantasizing about this brings you joy today.

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Mark Harris@markharris.bsky.social · 3d ago

I'm reading some of the You Can See Everything backlash stuff, and am honestly baffled at people saying accusatorily that the movie manipulates its audience by deciding how and when it reveals what it reveals. Um...yes. Related question: Have you ever seen a documentary before?

Don't be sClaired@isolinearchip.bsky.social · 4d ago

In 1972 in preparation for Skylab, NASA ran a full 56-day ground simulation. It was called SMEAT, and at the request of the three participating astronauts Charles Schultz personally drew the mission insignia: a choking Snoopy with a rope around his neck.

B/w photo of the mission patch. It says SMEAT at the top, CRIPPEN BOBKO THORNTON at the bottom, and has a drawing of Snoopy being choked by a rope in the center
Brooke Harrington@ebharrington.bsky.social · 4d ago

I spent years documenting my argument that the broligarchs and their offshore financial projects were an effort to re-establish colonialism, then this Thiel associate just comes out and says it.

Cover of my 2024 book: "Offshore--Stealth Wealth and the New Colonialism."
Jenny Cohn@jennycohn.bsky.social · 4d ago

Will Chamberlain of the Thiel-backed Edmund Burke Foundation (which organizes NatCon) says that “The Brazilian regime should look carefully at what has happened to Venezuela and Cuba, and remember that this hemisphere belongs to the United States of America.” 1/

Will Chamberlain I @willchamberlain Follow Flavio Bolsonaro's passport was cancelled and he was forced to flee the country by Lula, Alexandre De Moraes, and the insane Brazilian regime. His brother Eduardo has an arrest warrant out for lobbying the US. His father, Jair Bolsonaro is serving 27 years. Victims of political persecution, all of them. It's time for the Brazilian left to face the full force of American diplomatic and economic sanctions until they stop acting like a banana republic. The Trump administration lifted Magnitsky Act sanctions on de Moraes, his wife, and his holding company last December. They should be immediately
Dare Obasanjo@carnage4life.bsky.social · 4d ago

China’s AI bubble has already burst. Its AI-heavy STAR50 index has fallen 40%, wiping out $480B. Some Chinese AI chip companies have lost half their value. Even after the crash, the index still trades at 100x earnings, down from nearly 250x. In comparison, the Nasdaq 100 trades at around 30x.

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Jeff Picanso@scramblecity.bsky.social · 5d ago

If they can make a movie about Stallone writing and shooting Rocky, they can absolutely make one about George Lucas returning from the Star Wars shoot in London to discover that Dykstra had completed 0 out of 150 effects shots and then having a heart attack at the age of thirty.