Rob Salkowitz

Evergreen analyst of most of what Trump utters.

He was a cool young rabbi used to dealing with wiseass precocious kids, and it was a Reform congregation, so not as bad as it could have been. Something about "some people believe those stories are true and calling them 'myths' is impolite." He did not disagree that Hercules would kick Sampson's ass

As a myth-obsessed kid, I particularly remember the time (age 8or 9) I asked the rabbi at our congregation if Bible stories were just Jews’ less cool take on Greek myths.

It’s at least 5 administrations beyond that. Congress should have moved as soon as GHW Bush let the Iran Contra people off the hook.

How This Notorious 50 Year-Old Film Anticipated The Epstein Era A movie once banned for its shocking imagery offers some of the clearest insights into connections between oligarchy, exploitation and fascism.

"The sexual politics of the nameless castle in Salò (or Epstein Island) become the actual politics of society once those people manage to seize the machinery of the state." Some disturbing parallels between life and one of the most shocking films ever made. www.forbes.com/sites/robsal...

How This Notorious 50 Year-Old Film Anticipated The Epstein Era A movie once banned for its shocking imagery offers some of the clearest insights into connections between oligarchy, exploitation and fascism.

50 years later, one of the darkest and most shocking movies ever made provides some of the clearest insights into the connections between Epstein, oligarchy and fascism, today at Forbes. www.forbes.com/sites/robsal...

It’s about showing people who’s boss. Since they are utterly incapable of earning respect, it is the only actual thing MAGA wants, and it’s the one thing democratic politics can’t offer them.

MAGA clowns, realizing that taking over elite, legitimate institutions does not make them either elite or legitimate, have decided to destroy them. We have met the barbarians and they are us.

Paul Allen's sister seems ok too. I dread what pile of human garbage or Borg-like sovereign wealth fund buys the Seahawks from her, although it sounds like the money will go somewhere good.

I know it's naive to expect this, but does a single person in our current generation of oligarchs consider public interest for its own sake, rather than some instrumental means of power or reputational whitewashing? When you have that much money, maybe occasionally just do something good?

The Future of Animation in the Age of AI: Rob Salkowitz, Technology and Pop Culture Analyst - DEEPER LOOK | NHK WORLD-JAPAN Is generative AI a creative revolution or chaos? Rob Salkowitz, technology and pop culture analyst, examines the impact on the animation industry.

Just did an interview with NHK on the impact of AI in the anime industry, including issues around IP, copyright, the Disney deal and more. www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/...

Yes. Policing how we express disgust with an objectively disgusting regime strikes me as a bad use of time.

Yeah, it was on indie cinema from about 1968-77. Bonnie and Clyde, McCabe & Mrs Miller, Mean Streets, 5 Easy Pieces, The Last Detail, Nashville, etc.

Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took at university.
Politics of International Relations (Brzezinski)
Civil War & Reconstruction (Foner)
Intro to World Cinema (Sarris)
Philosophy of Art (Danto)
Asian Humanities & Lit (de Bary)

After that, nothing intellectually intimidated me.

Colleges cling to the ideal that we should resolve problems through inquiry and debate but students see how today's America works: by asserting power in support of ideology. Nobody wins a debate. They win the fight or they lose it. We are educating students in de-civilization, and they are learning.

When decency and conscience conflict with their sense of tribal identity, it's almost always resolved in favor of the identity. Otherwise, they have to accept they've become something they've been taught to define themselves in opposition to.

Give a toddler an army and sooner or later, everyone who tells him no is an aggressor.

I’m feeling a Joey goal if this score holds up

Any law enforcement officer who isn't proud enough of what they're doing to display their face and badge probably shouldn't be a law enforcement officer.

70s Bob was definitely animated by specific cases of injustice - Hurricane, George Jackson, Joey (if we must...). And I saw him perform very impassioned, pointed versions of "Masters of War" and "God on Our Side" about 2 weeks after 9/11. But who ever knows what he'll do?

I mean, "Hurricane" had its moments.

"Everyone who disagrees with us should shut up, go away or die, and if you won't do the first two, we're here to help with the third." That's America to these people. They've talked themselves into believing that the country won't thrive until we've purged all empathy and tolerance.

One thing we learned last night is that it’s never too late to call a penalty

They started hearing from their scarier constituents, I assume

Continuing to presume any of this is happening in good faith is a huge part of the problem. Dem position needs to be to burn it all down and build back anything we legitimately need on a legitimate basis.

A teaching moment for people who can only learn the hard way.

Also, the squishes are usually first against the wall in a revolution. If those so-called moderate Republicans think this will work out ok for them, they should read some history. Even if they have no spine and a deep disdain for liberals like EW, they should worry about their own safety.

More like “troublemaker should have kept his mouth shut.”

Love when the scoreboard lines up with the eye test. Wish we'd had this game against the Ducks though.

It's amazing how all the negative impacts of AI are showing up immediately, but all the promised benefits remain hypothetical.