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Tinkerer, #retrocomputing and #stopmotion enthusiast, and #LaserDisc aficionado. Check out my Criterion Collection exploration podcast #The305 at bitcrush.io, where I watch the entirety of the original LD catalog, with a different guest for each episode.

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Waiting to board my next flight on my annual journey to Holdrege, Nebraska, pop. 5,515.

This will be my 12th time as the Computer Science instructor for their high school "Summer Honors Program," which is now in its 47th year!

Taking a page out of @pluralistic's many books,, this is going to be a Long thread. (Sorry to name drop you, you've just given me so many great ideas!)

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“It’s like a whole world of intellectuals and artists got a multibillion-dollar grant from the tech world... But we mistook that, and were frankly actively gaslit into thinking that that was because they cared about art."

A fascinating article on Hollywood, the writers' strike, and the state of film and television. There are so many incredible quotes...

https://harpers.org/archive/2024/05/the-life-and-death-of-hollywood-daniel-bessner/

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@danwagstaff
Wow, this is spot-on analysis, at least seen from my perspective inside the industry. I've been complaining about how insanely risk-averse and short-sighted executives are, and Apple treated the animated show I was on the same as in the article: no viewership numbers, no release schedule, strung along for months about season two without saying 'no' (despite evidence we were a top-viewed show).

What I didn't expect was the same private equity firms that @pluralistic has been writing so incisively about to have been at the root of it once again.

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