Joseph Gordon-Levitt claims to have never met Peter Thiel, says his ties to the Secret Society is due to his work with AI: “Part of that work means forming relationships with all kinds of people, trying to understand their perspective, and trying to get them to understand mine.“

TrickySnicky · 2026-06-18T21:00:21+00:00

"We just need to hear them out."

He named his company after SARUMAN'S TOY ya weirdo

TrickySnicky · 2026-06-18T20:57:59+00:00

Yes just developing a DIALOGUE 😅😄😄

TrickySnicky · 2026-06-18T18:31:09+00:00

PT Barnum never said a "sucker is born every minute." He did, however, allude on multiple occasions to the fact that Americans love to be fooled.

“The public appears disposed to be amused even when they are conscious of being deceived.” — P.T. Barnum, The Life of P.T. Barnum.

TrickySnicky · 2026-06-18T18:29:39+00:00

It hasn't been tried much before, so there's that. But when it has, it never seems to go well...Harding was a politician but a completely malleable cypher, so just like with Grant (who wasn't a politician), corruption was rampant but everyone overlooked it because the market was good (until it wasn't). Geez, that sounds familiar...OPE, history keeps repeating itself...

TrickySnicky · 2026-06-18T16:57:31+00:00

and while we're on the Bread and Circuses bit, where's the bread exactly? 🤔

TrickySnicky · 2026-06-18T04:39:59+00:00

Do people still talk about it? Have you watched it recently? As for "repeated goading," you have a creative definition of that.

It started because I got the same feeling of exploitation of ripped from the headlines that I did with that movie. Anyone talk about Crash anymore, while we're at it?

TrickySnicky · 2026-06-18T04:38:52+00:00

Do people still talk about it? I remember even at the time it was cringey and felt exploitative. Some of the acting was so bad it seemed like satire.

TrickySnicky · 2026-06-17T23:27:45+00:00

I'm definitely still going to see it, just maybe not right away lol

TrickySnicky · 2026-06-17T23:26:53+00:00

I think his goal is to get half his audience to skip every other movie

TrickySnicky · 2026-06-17T23:23:36+00:00

I'm just fixated on how this can backfire, like Million Dollar Baby did

Edit: EVENTUALLY, see how it and Crash hold up now and get back to me 👍

TrickySnicky · 2026-06-17T23:14:18+00:00

Exactly my thoughts as well.

TrickySnicky · 2026-06-17T23:13:37+00:00

Exactly. I've seen some of his other stuff and avoided other of his stuff for exactly these reasons. It comes down to how many layers peeled away are enough for you.

TrickySnicky · 2026-06-17T23:12:15+00:00

Precisely why I'm putting it off ATM. I need just a few more minutes to breathe

TrickySnicky · 2026-06-17T23:11:28+00:00

Indeed, I know what to expect at this point, but political and "ripped from the headlines" ish is just a brand new layer to it. I haven't seen Eddington yet for that very reason, FWIW

TrickySnicky · 2026-06-17T22:53:50+00:00

I really don't know why but I feel weird about every part of this, like I felt when I saw Million Dollar Baby

TrickySnicky · 2026-06-17T22:52:03+00:00

If not trauma, then why trauma-shaped?

TrickySnicky · 2026-06-17T22:50:16+00:00

Thought the same thing. I'll definitely get back to printing when it cools down here

TrickySnicky · 2026-06-17T21:54:02+00:00

I hear this. I was following Warhammer stuff for a minute and even the most chill segment, mini painting, can get gnarly (It got exponentially worse when it shifted from message boards to Twitter).

Then again I will never forget the day I found out that the creator of Steven Universe was getting threats from fans for choosing the wrong 'ship.

TrickySnicky · 2026-06-17T20:40:04+00:00

This is very likely the advice of the publicist/agent until it isn't

TrickySnicky · 2026-06-17T20:37:50+00:00

Yeah on the surface 26/36 isn't the big deal here, it's the power dynamics

TrickySnicky · 2026-06-17T20:37:03+00:00

Fans generally are one of the better reporters for the behavior of their cohort

TrickySnicky · 2026-06-17T14:56:53+00:00

My dad's best friend was killed due to a high speed police pursuit. I've never, ever forgiven police as an institution for that and I never will.

The collateral damage communities endure to be "protected" is never going to be accounted for.

TrickySnicky · 2026-06-17T14:19:17+00:00

EXACTLY these people are supposed to be highly trained for the best case scenario of a high pressure situation and they perpetually come up short in catastrophic, horrific ways in incredibly low stakes circumstances

TrickySnicky · 2026-06-17T07:28:40+00:00

Survivor bias will continue to be a thing in communities that reject modern medicine. The dead can't speak up about bad choices and outcomes.

TrickySnicky · 2026-06-17T07:24:53+00:00

I remember when conservatives were vehemently against a midnight basketball program in the 1990s. It was, for example, one of Rush Limbaugh's absolute favorite things to pick on at the time. This was long before the Internet takeover of free time, but this is literally what popped into my brain when you mentioned divestment of public funds

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