mike cavalier

Cuomo should run against him a third time

this is some sicko shit

something vaguely disappointing about the Macarena making a comeback

saw a woman in Walmart wearing a tshirt that said “I’M NOT ALWAYS A DICK. JUST KIDDING. GO FUCK YOURSELF” and this struck me as a little intense to be wearing while running errands or making groceries

ive been thinking about this idea all day

i’d be hurt they didn’t ask it to be more flirty friendly

I’m not voting for zohran, are you crazy?? i live too far away

i feel like they caught you in some trap. you’ve been bested by parasites

say what you will (bear with me on this!)

about Adolph Hitler (hold on, hold on!),

but at least he had the dignity (HEAR ME
OUT)

of killing himself

i often joke that i have had “the tightest full circle” of all my friends, because I started in Louisiana making dumb little movies with high schoolers, and now,

@bruzzeseonline.bsky.social when it’s time to break up with your beautiful girlfriend

here in the Deep South, folks have the courtesy to have confederacy phases instead of Nazi phases. we got our own homegrown losers to romanticize

i gave them a list of 25(!) different challenges to choose from, with past student examples of each

this is a google slide and it is insane

i’ve come up with an insane thing called “the directing sequence” where everyone in my film classes is director of their team for a day, and i also direct one film with all 18 groups i teach, and then i direct one full-class project at the end. It’s gonna yield like a hundred little movies

gotta admit though, if Curtis Sliwa inexplicably burst in at the end as fat bastard, we’d be cooking

this is such a cool reference, only 23 years since the last Austin powers movie

Winsor just texted me this

the only role my students will give me is "unreasonable authority figure"

you know how with most things, it’s like, nobody remembers that cringey thing you did or said. No one’s thinking about that.

a few years ago i ran into someone and, nightmarishly, they said “hey remember that time we were at that party…” and proceeded to recall exactly what I had hoped they forgot

i’m not high IQ, i just talk a lot

i suppose a generous counterargument could be that someone in chapel hill would be highly motivated to cry out for more YIMBYism, just as someone in a murder capital like Baltimore would cry out for less murder

anyway my favorite Derek fact is that when I proved he read a table wrong, he blocked me

In general, I just don’t think Derek is a very sophisticated thinker. (His hopelessly bad writing is a separate issue.) but I can’t figure out which i find more annoying: that he’s so arrogant and insecure, or that he genuinely seems to think he understands the things he talks about

😮😮😮 anxiety is AI, generative slop based on my previous feelings with none of the context that created those feelings in the first place and no way to ever create something truly new

And actually, Henry Jenkins would probably also say that Derek is wrong, as he displays a naive understanding of how the internet works. it’s not just a constant flow of content that you can only passively digest. it’s something you can also respond to and interact with

Derek’s saying the Internet is getting worse because Williams’ “flow” is everywhere now. But Williams never said flow was bad! He was describing a neutral fact: TV chops up shows with ads into a “flow” of mixed content, and this was a choice made by TV executives, not a technological inevitability.

the problem with quoting Raymond Williams is that he *disagreed* with the kind of technological determinism that Derek is indulging in.

Williams thought that McLuhan was too apolitical, and didn’t pay enough attention to how *people* and cultural practices determine how a medium actually gets used

but more importantly, Derek is trying to say that because everything is turning into television, this is making everyone more antisocial and causing people to have a less active life-of-the-mind. (Speak for yourself, dipshit!)

Everything Is Television A theory of culture and attention

in his post “everything is television,” Derek argues all media is becoming similar. what he doesn’t know is that this is not a new or original insight. in media studies, this is called “convergence.” the theorist he should be citing is Henry Jenkins www.derekthompson.org/p/why-everyt...

I truly hate this guy, but sometimes I feel guilty about it since he’s unemployed

finally I get to say this with authority: Derek is absolutely not demonstrating here that he read the books he’s referring to