The experience of using Instagram without having a Threads account is that the app will still suggest Threads posts you "might like" but you can't really see the whole post, just a preview, so I see something like "I've gotten a few nasty messages and comments this weekend because like to publish my recipes with gram measurements instead of volume (cups and tablespoons)." and then I just have to live with that rattling around in my head forever I guess!
i will take any excuse to recommend the 2018 documentary Screwball, which is nominally about the MLB/A-Rod juicing scandal but is really invested in the project of capturing the essence of miami as a thriving city that is also the epicenter of everything bad. an incredible chunk of the runtime is devoted to just letting the fake doctor who prescribed him steroids talk unrepentantly into the camera. at one point he tosses off something like “and of course my cocaine bill was like five thousand a month.” genuinely incredible stuff.
Threads sounds like the experience of overhearing conversations while waiting in line. Or walking through one of those mixed use commercial centers that have high end retail on the bottom and luxury condos on top. All of these conversations are happening outside of a Sur la Table
prior to watching Oppenheimer, i was particularly curious about where Nolan would insert the infamous “i am become god” line, and the fact that he incorporated it into that hookup scene with Jean Tatlock is so unserious 😭
also the fact that multiple times in the movie a character, or even Oppenheimer himself, says something along the lines of “will anyone ever tell the true story of what happened here?” and i could just picture Christopher Nolan standing in a superhero power pose declaring “i will tell your real story!” it felt very fanfiction-y
These dumb-ass Thread comments sound like confused AI troll accounts. I dropped facebook years ago after Zuckerberg's involvement is providing all our data to Cambridge Analytica - the white nationalist org form UK responsible for 2016 election influencing via false social media propaganda disparaging Hillary Clinton and favoring Trump. However, I never deleted my instagram because I built it before creepy Zuckerberg absorbed it/wrecked the random scroll - into his Meta monopoly universe. Also deleted my Twitter account after fascist weirdo oligarch Elon Musk ruined it. Digging Substack right now for it's mostly positive vibes and intelligent feed back loops but already see the trolls are coming to ruin the party. No desire to ever check out threads or anything new Zuckerberg/Meta has anything to do with.
If you wanna keep riding the Oppenheimer train, I would recommend checking out 109 East Palace by Jennet Conant. It gives another perspective on the Manhattan Project, but largely tells the story of Dorothy McKibbin. She was the one Oppenheimer selected to be his primary point person for setting up the Los Alamos project site.
I’ve lived in Miami for 4 years and against all expectations I have come to love it. It’s such a unique blend of American, Latin and European cultures, it has great unique neighborhoods like Coral Gables and Wynnwood, good food, and (in winter) fantastic weather.
«Restless one Saturday night, I slipped on a red dress and snuck into a graduate-school event, coiling an HDMI cord around my wrist as proof of some technical duty. I danced. I drank for free, until one of the organizers asked me to leave.»
I can't imagine how much of a fucking pest does a hot girl have to be to be kicked out of a Harvard grad school event. This is definitely not the whole story.
The Threads content from people I follow (1. Japanese people 2. middle aged lib types who are usually tech journalists) is just fine, but when the For You decides I need new content it sure is completely unpredictable what that content is going to be, and it's usually unpleasant - sometimes it's porn stars, sometimes it's people complaining about Disneyland, sometimes it's British landscape photographers angry about something I couldn't figure out.
I did join day one and for a day or two was very amused that Instagram influencers kept joining and trying to start off with those "relatable quotes" posts that are just like "Sometimes love hurts… when it goes away…".
That's pretty funny. Coincidentally that's how I feel on notes as well. There's no coherent narrative that affords me a reason to care. If social media has no news element or no niche immersion, what is the point?
There are people saying this is because you follow only 14 people, but I get the same thing following 94 (though with some decent posts in between).
I feel like Twitter's recommendations (at least circa 2022) trended a lot more toward posts that already have a lot of interaction. It's almost like Threads is doing the opposite and aims to boost visibility of low-interaction posts.
Unrelated to this post but please bring your signature wit to tearing down Netflix’s putrid adaptation of 3 Body Problem. There’s so much comedic potential there, in a pedant’s conception of what a ~*cool and thought provoking*~ sci fi story looks like
The experience of using Instagram without having a Threads account is that the app will still suggest Threads posts you "might like" but you can't really see the whole post, just a preview, so I see something like "I've gotten a few nasty messages and comments this weekend because like to publish my recipes with gram measurements instead of volume (cups and tablespoons)." and then I just have to live with that rattling around in my head forever I guess!
There is a literal superhero suite-up montage in Oppenheimer when he puts on his hat. To your point, can’t decide how conscious that inclusion is.
i will take any excuse to recommend the 2018 documentary Screwball, which is nominally about the MLB/A-Rod juicing scandal but is really invested in the project of capturing the essence of miami as a thriving city that is also the epicenter of everything bad. an incredible chunk of the runtime is devoted to just letting the fake doctor who prescribed him steroids talk unrepentantly into the camera. at one point he tosses off something like “and of course my cocaine bill was like five thousand a month.” genuinely incredible stuff.
Threads sounds like the experience of overhearing conversations while waiting in line. Or walking through one of those mixed use commercial centers that have high end retail on the bottom and luxury condos on top. All of these conversations are happening outside of a Sur la Table
Now wondering why there have been no superhero origin stories centred around high consumption of lead during a 1970s childhood.
prior to watching Oppenheimer, i was particularly curious about where Nolan would insert the infamous “i am become god” line, and the fact that he incorporated it into that hookup scene with Jean Tatlock is so unserious 😭
also the fact that multiple times in the movie a character, or even Oppenheimer himself, says something along the lines of “will anyone ever tell the true story of what happened here?” and i could just picture Christopher Nolan standing in a superhero power pose declaring “i will tell your real story!” it felt very fanfiction-y
These dumb-ass Thread comments sound like confused AI troll accounts. I dropped facebook years ago after Zuckerberg's involvement is providing all our data to Cambridge Analytica - the white nationalist org form UK responsible for 2016 election influencing via false social media propaganda disparaging Hillary Clinton and favoring Trump. However, I never deleted my instagram because I built it before creepy Zuckerberg absorbed it/wrecked the random scroll - into his Meta monopoly universe. Also deleted my Twitter account after fascist weirdo oligarch Elon Musk ruined it. Digging Substack right now for it's mostly positive vibes and intelligent feed back loops but already see the trolls are coming to ruin the party. No desire to ever check out threads or anything new Zuckerberg/Meta has anything to do with.
If you wanna keep riding the Oppenheimer train, I would recommend checking out 109 East Palace by Jennet Conant. It gives another perspective on the Manhattan Project, but largely tells the story of Dorothy McKibbin. She was the one Oppenheimer selected to be his primary point person for setting up the Los Alamos project site.
I’ve lived in Miami for 4 years and against all expectations I have come to love it. It’s such a unique blend of American, Latin and European cultures, it has great unique neighborhoods like Coral Gables and Wynnwood, good food, and (in winter) fantastic weather.
«Restless one Saturday night, I slipped on a red dress and snuck into a graduate-school event, coiling an HDMI cord around my wrist as proof of some technical duty. I danced. I drank for free, until one of the organizers asked me to leave.»
I can't imagine how much of a fucking pest does a hot girl have to be to be kicked out of a Harvard grad school event. This is definitely not the whole story.
"It’s someone I don’t know telling a story I can’t follow for reasons I don’t understand." is 100% accurate for me.
The Threads content from people I follow (1. Japanese people 2. middle aged lib types who are usually tech journalists) is just fine, but when the For You decides I need new content it sure is completely unpredictable what that content is going to be, and it's usually unpleasant - sometimes it's porn stars, sometimes it's people complaining about Disneyland, sometimes it's British landscape photographers angry about something I couldn't figure out.
I did join day one and for a day or two was very amused that Instagram influencers kept joining and trying to start off with those "relatable quotes" posts that are just like "Sometimes love hurts… when it goes away…".
That's pretty funny. Coincidentally that's how I feel on notes as well. There's no coherent narrative that affords me a reason to care. If social media has no news element or no niche immersion, what is the point?
There are people saying this is because you follow only 14 people, but I get the same thing following 94 (though with some decent posts in between).
I feel like Twitter's recommendations (at least circa 2022) trended a lot more toward posts that already have a lot of interaction. It's almost like Threads is doing the opposite and aims to boost visibility of low-interaction posts.
The easiest way to understand Threads is that it's Meta's attempt to rebuild Facebook on the Instagram codebase.
The people who use the platform to create content (and what they post) are incidental to the effort, myself included.
Unrelated to this post but please bring your signature wit to tearing down Netflix’s putrid adaptation of 3 Body Problem. There’s so much comedic potential there, in a pedant’s conception of what a ~*cool and thought provoking*~ sci fi story looks like