Why does nobody talk about this neurospicy au / adhd power couple as the brain trust they deserve
Alt: Bert and Ernie
Her main answer - any old fanbase with this already in it is probably fucked for actual good stuff, make new stuff from ground up and build tthat fanbase - is the one I've come to, and basically what Jamie and I did a decade ago on WicDiv. You have no idea how much nicer our lives were then.
Charlie is on point here. "Here's the conundrum about super fans in a nutshell: they have some ability to do damage to a movie or TV show, but they have zero ability to make a project successful." Read the whole thing to see her unpack it.
My latest newsletter is about the toxic so-called "superfans" who torment Hollywood. Why are they such a problem? Because they have the power to hurt movies and TV shows, but they have zero power to make anything successful. buttondown.com/charliejane/...
ICYMI I have a novel coming out next August called Lessons in Magic and Disaster, about a young witch who teaches her mother how to be a witch. Along the...
That Vance/Trump keep a steady stream of racist lies coming about immigrants necessitated that this piece and many others be written to push back.
“That Apple has kept its work with cops largely under wraps indicates the company is aware that providing tech for police surveillance operations is inherently at odds with its pro-privacy marketing…”
At Apple’s secretive Global Police Summit, cops from 7 countries learned how to use Apple products like the iPhone, Vision Pro and CarPlay for surveillance and policing.
It got downgraded to a Cat 4 so we need four more researchers.
Okay this is a touching tribute to someone who dedicated their life to the science of studying these things but dropping someone’s remains into the eye of a hurricane also feels like we’re trying to appease an angry god.
