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At last I reveal my process for my performance in JACK FROST (1998)
An Actor's Commentary - YouTube
Paul F. Tompkins offers commentary on his most beloved acting roles
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December 24, 2025 at 5:20 PM
At last I reveal my process for my performance in JACK FROST (1998)
Watching “born poor” and I want to hug everyone m.youtube.com/watch?v=WTbo...
Born Poor (full documentary) | FRONTLINE
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December 21, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Watching “born poor” and I want to hug everyone m.youtube.com/watch?v=WTbo...
AJC looks at deaths in police restraint
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Sunday, December 21, 2025
Dozens die across Ga. after being held in police restraint
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December 21, 2025 at 12:43 PM
AJC looks at deaths in police restraint
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100% agree. Ironically, this is the only version of "broken windows" that actually makes any sense, because it has to do with the individual behavior of one person going from getting away with small crimes to getting away with big crimes, instead of being some vague theory about general contagion.
My hottest take is that letting cops park in red zones for mundane errands and coffee breaks; I think “you can break the law at your discretion as a job perk” is the small domino that ends in the large domino of “shooting protesters in the face with rubber bullets”
It must be wild to get to abuse the public then pay for it with the public's money
December 12, 2025 at 6:14 AM
100% agree. Ironically, this is the only version of "broken windows" that actually makes any sense, because it has to do with the individual behavior of one person going from getting away with small crimes to getting away with big crimes, instead of being some vague theory about general contagion.
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May be posting these slides a lot in the next few weeks/months...
Tax increment financing (TAD/TIF) is *not* designed for places where property values are already rising fast. It will likely DIVERT already rising revenue from schools & citywide services to development projects in TAD/TIFs. 1/2
Tax increment financing (TAD/TIF) is *not* designed for places where property values are already rising fast. It will likely DIVERT already rising revenue from schools & citywide services to development projects in TAD/TIFs. 1/2
December 7, 2025 at 5:38 PM
May be posting these slides a lot in the next few weeks/months...
Tax increment financing (TAD/TIF) is *not* designed for places where property values are already rising fast. It will likely DIVERT already rising revenue from schools & citywide services to development projects in TAD/TIFs. 1/2
Tax increment financing (TAD/TIF) is *not* designed for places where property values are already rising fast. It will likely DIVERT already rising revenue from schools & citywide services to development projects in TAD/TIFs. 1/2
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A massive problem today is the uneven distribution of shame. Some of us are running dedicated on-site shame servers 24/7 while others have no access to shame at all, even though they desperately need it. What we need to do is put shame in the cloud
December 6, 2025 at 2:54 AM
A massive problem today is the uneven distribution of shame. Some of us are running dedicated on-site shame servers 24/7 while others have no access to shame at all, even though they desperately need it. What we need to do is put shame in the cloud
Fairly clear to me that LLM chatbot tech will be financed through manipulation of users.
Like the "Musk is the best piss drinker" thing from a few weeks ago. For a price, your company can also be the best piss drinker.
Like the "Musk is the best piss drinker" thing from a few weeks ago. For a price, your company can also be the best piss drinker.
December 5, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Fairly clear to me that LLM chatbot tech will be financed through manipulation of users.
Like the "Musk is the best piss drinker" thing from a few weeks ago. For a price, your company can also be the best piss drinker.
Like the "Musk is the best piss drinker" thing from a few weeks ago. For a price, your company can also be the best piss drinker.
This article is good, and explains how Scott put less application burden on organizations. My editorial thought is that this is the behavior of someone who is **actually interested** in giving money away. www.vox.com/future-perfe...
MacKenzie Scott’s billion-dollar bet on vibes
A billionaire’s spiritual guide to letting go — of $19 billion.
www.vox.com
December 4, 2025 at 10:17 PM
This article is good, and explains how Scott put less application burden on organizations. My editorial thought is that this is the behavior of someone who is **actually interested** in giving money away. www.vox.com/future-perfe...
This is a frustration I have with LLM tech, feels like we skipped a bunch of much easier wins.
Sometimes I think about simple things that don’t even require ML but nevertheless don’t get implemented.
Such as, iMessage could weight terms that have appeared recently in a conversation, or in the metadata in link preview cards, and treat them as words that don’t require autocorrection.
Such as, iMessage could weight terms that have appeared recently in a conversation, or in the metadata in link preview cards, and treat them as words that don’t require autocorrection.
November 30, 2025 at 5:00 PM
This is a frustration I have with LLM tech, feels like we skipped a bunch of much easier wins.
New Spiller Park midtown location pretty busy this morning
November 9, 2025 at 2:08 PM
New Spiller Park midtown location pretty busy this morning
Been listening to John Dickerson for years on Slate Gabfest and IMO he is stellar. Brings fair and deep context to every issue he comments on.
dickerson is one of the best broadcast journalists in the game, and someone who would clearly be a real asset to a new leader interested in strengthening the network's journalism. but, of course, we know weiss isn't actually interested in journalism as such.
John Dickerson To Depart CBS News In First Major Talent Exit Under New Paramount Owners
John Dickerson, co-anchor of CBS Evening News who has been with the network since 2009, said that he is exiting at the end of this year.
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October 27, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Been listening to John Dickerson for years on Slate Gabfest and IMO he is stellar. Brings fair and deep context to every issue he comments on.
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Please take this survey on MARTA disruptions.
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MARTA Disruption Survey
MARTA disruptions
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October 23, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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New, by me, on why the City of Atlanta should not extend its TAD (TIF) districts and how it will hurt, not help, low-income Atlantans.
(Bracing for a new round of ad hominem attacks from Mayor Dickens or his staff/lobbyists, but I am traveling so may not see it.)
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(Bracing for a new round of ad hominem attacks from Mayor Dickens or his staff/lobbyists, but I am traveling so may not see it.)
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Extending gentrifying Atlanta’s tax districts for 25 years makes little sense
Atlanta's Tax Allocation Districts (TADs) have run their course and we should find more novel ways to spur prosperity, build housing and assist low-income residents.
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October 18, 2025 at 11:27 AM
New, by me, on why the City of Atlanta should not extend its TAD (TIF) districts and how it will hurt, not help, low-income Atlantans.
(Bracing for a new round of ad hominem attacks from Mayor Dickens or his staff/lobbyists, but I am traveling so may not see it.)
🧵1/N
(Bracing for a new round of ad hominem attacks from Mayor Dickens or his staff/lobbyists, but I am traveling so may not see it.)
🧵1/N
This absolutely resonates with my experience, the ghost bus phenomenon is infuriating www.letspropelatl.org/voicesfromth...
Propel ATL releases “Voices from the Bus: MARTA Riders Speak Out.”
Transforming Atlanta’s streets into safe, inclusive, and thriving spaces for people to ride, walk, and roll.
www.letspropelatl.org
October 7, 2025 at 2:18 AM
This absolutely resonates with my experience, the ghost bus phenomenon is infuriating www.letspropelatl.org/voicesfromth...
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In case you missed it Friday, a very good @cwarzel.bsky.social piece about the very bad social web
Something Is Very Wrong Online
The cycle of violence will continue as long as the medium doesn’t change.
www.theatlantic.com
September 15, 2025 at 3:14 PM
In case you missed it Friday, a very good @cwarzel.bsky.social piece about the very bad social web
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Monarez is playing her weak hand perfectly, and should be a model for institutional resistance for the next four years:
1. Make them fire you
2. Don’t go along to get along
3. Don’t apologize, have confidence in your own integrity and the importance of your role
4. Always escalate the conflict
1. Make them fire you
2. Don’t go along to get along
3. Don’t apologize, have confidence in your own integrity and the importance of your role
4. Always escalate the conflict
August 28, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Monarez is playing her weak hand perfectly, and should be a model for institutional resistance for the next four years:
1. Make them fire you
2. Don’t go along to get along
3. Don’t apologize, have confidence in your own integrity and the importance of your role
4. Always escalate the conflict
1. Make them fire you
2. Don’t go along to get along
3. Don’t apologize, have confidence in your own integrity and the importance of your role
4. Always escalate the conflict
I enjoyed “a very special hospital”, is at 7 stages next weekend www.essentialtheatre.com/play/a-very-...
A Very Special Hospital
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August 27, 2025 at 2:21 AM
I enjoyed “a very special hospital”, is at 7 stages next weekend www.essentialtheatre.com/play/a-very-...
When someone says they are going to be "heads down" on a project, that sounds to me like a nap
August 26, 2025 at 2:00 PM
When someone says they are going to be "heads down" on a project, that sounds to me like a nap
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Co-signed times a thousand. “Other people have no interiority” is, fundamentally, a deeply evil belief to hold which will lead you exclusively to terrible places
One of my most moral panic style opinions is the use of “NPC” as a slur is a symptom of a societal sociopathy epidemic.
August 25, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Co-signed times a thousand. “Other people have no interiority” is, fundamentally, a deeply evil belief to hold which will lead you exclusively to terrible places
This is also a profoundly self-centered thing, “ah yes my group *must have* been the key factor in this other group‘s behavior“.
Basically it's this: any time they discuss a behavior or belief of MAHA types, or vaccine deniers, or the right generally that is crazy, they instinctively, immediately explain it through recourse to something Dems or the administration did.
August 24, 2025 at 3:22 PM
This is also a profoundly self-centered thing, “ah yes my group *must have* been the key factor in this other group‘s behavior“.
Perhaps obvioustown but with morality, values, etc, there's a tendency to think you're **good** when in fact you're **average** (which is fine/normal).
August 20, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Perhaps obvioustown but with morality, values, etc, there's a tendency to think you're **good** when in fact you're **average** (which is fine/normal).
> murder budget
Oop that's it, that's what I'm calling it from now on
Oop that's it, that's what I'm calling it from now on
I just really worry about what will happen to these people when this murder budget hits. Basically everyone I saw there was already on SNAP and still going to the food bank. Lots of them had jobs and the ones that didn’t were in such rough shape physically that working is off the table 7/x
August 15, 2025 at 1:46 PM
> murder budget
Oop that's it, that's what I'm calling it from now on
Oop that's it, that's what I'm calling it from now on
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the guy running a ponzi scheme is a far bigger threat to society than a guy who robbed a convenience store and latter has a far better shot at being rehabilitated than the former, imo
here's my maybe kinda moderately warm take: most violent crime needs less punitive punishment and more rehabilitative work; most white collar crime is psychopath shit that should get folks punished far more severely.
August 13, 2025 at 2:33 PM
the guy running a ponzi scheme is a far bigger threat to society than a guy who robbed a convenience store and latter has a far better shot at being rehabilitated than the former, imo
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Insanely cheap considering they’re gonna spend $11 billion to add tolls lanes to SR400 that nobody wants
$3.5B sounds like a lot but we’re getting 22 miles of reliable (revenue producing) transit connecting hundreds of thousands of current and future residents across 45 neighborhoods. Compare than to another megaproject the Stitch which $2B for a 3/4 mile project in one neighborhood.
Last night, Beltline officials unveiled a route for light rail along the northwest quadrant and identified station locations in the south. Plus: A $3.5B price tag. Details here: www.ajc.com/news/2025/08...
August 13, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Insanely cheap considering they’re gonna spend $11 billion to add tolls lanes to SR400 that nobody wants
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I’ve heard from a lot of people at CDC in the last day and a half. Not one was surprised at the attack.
Gift link to my story in the Atlantic:
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
Gift link to my story in the Atlantic:
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
‘I’m Actually Surprised It Didn’t Happen Sooner’
CDC staffers saw the violence coming.
www.theatlantic.com
August 10, 2025 at 12:06 PM
I’ve heard from a lot of people at CDC in the last day and a half. Not one was surprised at the attack.
Gift link to my story in the Atlantic:
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
Gift link to my story in the Atlantic:
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...