adam_y

If it feels like old twitter now will it feel like new twitter eventually?

The medium is the message and the platform is the users.

Dude, the use of "mongoloid" is not cool.

You know what it means, right?

Best moment of Disco Elysium for me.

I just sighed so hard I put my back out.

Just because you don't know something doesn't mean it is untrue.

See also, "this is new to me therefore I have discovered it"

This is like reverse appropriation and is just as bad.

It sort of is.

He used his executive position to kill the story.

Could they have written the headline, "Washington Post Endorsement Killed by Bezos"?

Sure. But tradition dictates you lead with the person. People are interested in people.

You are right. It is click-baity, but that's because it is a newspaper headline and all newspaper headlines are "click bait". They literally invented it. That's why we have headlines. Often in bold and large type.

I disagree that this is misleading though, especially if you expect folk to read the whole sentence.

I think it is traditional newspaper language.

For instance to "kill a story" or "catch and kill".

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catch_and_kill

I think they expect most people to get that.

Fleetwood Mac and cheese.

Yeah, OK. I'm in.

The big brain move was to ask them first, thereby proving you wanted to use their IP.

If he had just faked it anyway without asking he might have got away with it.

Genius strategist.

I do find it interesting that folk think Renaissance art is realistic.

I'm being a little glib, but the truth is that we are still looking at hyper-idealised bodies.

The main difference,I suspect, is the use of perspective rather than drawing on a flat plane. In a way it took a leap of imagination to make things look more "realistic" whilst sculpture was merely (again, said with a certain smirk) just mimicking what the artist could see and feel in the real world.

That is to say that sculpture is reproduction whilst drawing is representation, and with representation you need to be able to take some pretty big leaps for both the artist and the viewer to work these things out.

Yeah? Cool.

I don't think that's true. There's a great video here that highlights the fact that even a lot of modern slang is far older than you think.

https://youtu.be/BFgg-Gy0E2g?si=4qXv92KZaMN0odKO

Mate, the thing about gen x is that they dont care. This is boomer energy being projected.

Which is cool, I guess, whatever.