People are always asking me important questions like “why are you screaming?” “Can you stop screaming?” and “how is it possible the screaming has gotten louder?”
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Katharine Trendacosta
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I wish I knew.Joined August 2008
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I think it has honestly been... decades since I spent more than one day at Disneyland. This Star Wars Celebration is going to be a lot.
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I'm debating if I include, like, ten seconds of a music video clip's audio in an upcoming video and thought I'd check what the official policy is on fair use. They provide a video to explain that, which has been apparently blocked for a copyright claim, so I can't watch it
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I was so furious I watched the David Suchet Death on the Nile immediately after. #notmypoirot
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The person with the most dignity in this movie is Russell Brand. Yeah. Think about that for a minute.
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Is this worse than the dark and gritty WWI backstory shots? I don't know. I do know that this film manages to have both unwatchable darkness and unwatchable brightness at the same time.
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I wish so much that this was the worst part of Death on the Nile, but it is not.
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I believe CGI is getting worse even as the tech advances. I don't know if it's laziness or cost cutting but so many shots look so much worse now than in the nineties. Look at these shots from DEATH ON THE NILE. It looks like it was shot at a local tv station's weather map set.
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I have so many weird sad images of saved to my computer. I can only imagine it's because they make me feel joy.
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The best part of this whole video is that you can see my cat's tail behind me as she wanders about.
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.@k_trendacosta from @EFF talks about why filters hurt competition on the Walled Culture podcast 
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I want to overlay all of these words on those absolutely bananas commercials I keep seeing about how good it is to work for Amazon.
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🚨 from talks about the US DMCA, upload filters, SOPA-PIPA, fanfiction & platform competition with on our newest Walled Culture podcast 👇
🎧 walledculture.podbean.com
📽️ youtube.com/channel/UCwO_J
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I am so happy that my 2-year labor of love on this topic is finally going to see the light of day.
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Oh God yes, and we used to do this by bringing people up through the system, but the short seasons and the development crunch have completely broken the system.
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I don't love what it says about me that I can never spell "exercise" right on the first try.
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Babe wake up Facebook hired a GOP comms firm to run a nationwide campaign to trash TikTok in local news
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The “scandal-article-book-documentary-miniseries” life cycle is growing unsustainably short.
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Some of y’all are using the slap as a bizarre Rorschach test. Sometimes things are just things that happened.
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Once, one of my colleagues left her debit card at Tropical and she opted to cancel the card rather than go back and get it.
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I mean, fuck it, not even the wrong city. My man was in the wrong STATE.
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Listen I love my current coworkers, but none of them have fallen asleep on the train ride home after an event and ended up in the wrong city.
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Been weirdly nostalgic for my Gawker media days, and it occurred to me that I just… miss going into an office with these people. The pure camaraderie of wartime.
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And this is everyone I know.
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As a general rule large universities do a very poor job of mentoring students or telling kids how to get mentoring. So if you have a natural inclination or connections (like being a legacy) you once again have a privilege.
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Pretty even split, I’d say, between those saying I could do things and those just… worried by my existence. I choose to remember the former.
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Just out of curiosity, retweet if you were told by a teacher or advisor you couldn’t be where you are today.
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Like I can't fucking stress enough how mandating filters at every level of internet access--ISP to platform--is shitty. It's stupid and bad and I can't believe people look at Content ID and go "more of it, please."
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This bill is so terrible and it's only surpassed by the piece of crap that is the "myth vs. fact" sheet released by its gutless, witless sponsors. tillis.senate.gov/services/files
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These companies are begging Gen Z to learn how to pirate stuff without any modicum of shame in the way millennials did.
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Editors save writers from themselves and keep them aware that they can make mistakes. Just saying.
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Every single writer who makes it big and then eschews editing ends up convinced they are always right on everything, expertise or no.
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To wit, guess who has a sxsw badge and no business cards? This lady!
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Continually very grateful that I left media when I did. Part of my best was “jowling kowling’s politics” and it was a terrible beat five years ago, I can’t imagine dealing with it now.
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Also may have told a dude from Facebook that the part the better content moderation was being smaller and therefore actually user focused.
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I have been working on this for two years. It’s your problem now.
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The best part about having an editor is that when your research is good, your interviews done, and everything is transcribed into a document, you get to make it their problem.
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