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Dan Olson
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Dan Olson
@FoldableHuman
Albertan documentarian behind In Search of a Flat Earth, Line Goes Up, and The Future is a Dead Mall
Not actually a duck
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- Say what you will about the #GameOfThronesFinale, the John Hughes homage was a bold choice to end on.
00:00 - No one in any of the demonstrations are wearing glasses.Welcome to the era of spatial computing with Apple Vision Pro. You’ve never seen anything like this before!
00:00 - AITA for marrying my best friend? Edit: who I met through a mutual acquaintance Edit 2: the acquaintance is my daughter Edit 3: they know each other from school Edit 4: the school is Jr. High Edit 5: but they're starting college now Edit 6: we've been married for 3 years
- Look at all of you, singing sea shanties like you're in a high stress state, isolated in a confined space for months on end, clinging to the hope that months from now you'll be free to go drinking and wenching to your heart's content.
- July 18, 2008 “I wish my boyfriend would stop doing his awful Gollum impression, it’s been years and I’m so tired” A finger on the monkey’s paw curls “Hey, honey, are you excited to see The Dark Knight?!”
- Line Goes Up - The Problem With NFTs
- How to go rags-to-riches like Elon Musk 1 part hard work 1 part good ideas 2 parts assemble a good team 50 parts have a dad who owns half of a colonialist emerald mine
- It's so funny that AI art folks are like "my prompts are very finely crafted, they are my art" and then the prompts are like "photorealistic, insane quality, extremely detailed, masterpiece, professionally color graded, viral on Artstation, viral on Twitter, viral photo"
- Watched a "metaverse wedding" where two VC celebrities had a wedding in Decentraland sponsored by Taco Bell and MC'd by Kal Penn and it was easily the most pathetic thing I've seen in several years across every vector.
- Teens deserve a living wage, too, and paying a teen “like an adult” is a good idea for a number of reasons. 1) it’s moral 2) there are no downsides to teens having financial independence 3) many teens are the primary provider for their family 4) teens buy stuff
- Media: AOC only has $7000 in her savings account. Actual people under the age of 40: Wow, $7000?! I want $7000, how do I get $7000?
- A vigil is a funerary ritual, a component of social grieving. Armed government goons attacking one is the kind of nakedly obvious terrorism campaign that would earn someone a Pulitzer if they wrote about it happening in Kandahar.Aurora PD breaking up the peaceful violin vigil for the very kid they murdered. #ElijahMclain
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