@macosken I remember a magazine interview with him around the same time. The interlocutor asked him his opinion on the Internet. He explained that he drove - not flew - from gig to gig and had a CB radio in his car so he could get the heads up on speed traps and accidents from truckers, but when he got near the city, there was always a dude in his underpants in an apartment screaming incoherently with the mic button taped down - and he figured that's what it would become.
#prescient
In the early 90s we had media like Dave and The West Wing, inspiring hope in the USA through, essentially, lying to us about how politics worked. Then in 1998 Warren Beatty gave us Bulworth, which made audiences feel... bad. It's not a perfect movie, but IMO it's a really good one. Its portrayal of the ugly underbelly of American #politics that rings as true now as it did then.
It did not do well at the box office, and I suspect the bizarre pairing of Warren Beatty (he wrote the thing) with Halle Berry was not the real issue--after all, Americans had no problem with geriatrics like Harrison Ford and Sean Connery hooking up with 20somethings in other films. No, I think it was this:
Conservatives hated it because it lionized #liberal values and showed the nastiness of corruption in Washington.
Liberals hated it because it showed us these things in the Democratic party.
The movie is about #Democrats. They're the bad guys. They're the slimebags. It's not a conservative film--the Democrat leaders are not bad because they're liberal; they're bad because they pretend to be #liberal while shoving #neoconservatism down America's throat.
Go watch this movie. Don't worry, it's very watchable (overlooking the weird grossness of Beatty with Halle Berry, who can do no wrong). It's got style, zing, good pacing, and tons of humor. It has multiple instances of Warren Beatty, sleep-deprived and stoned on street weed, trying to rap and doing exactly as horribly as you might imagine (I can forgive him the Halle Berry thing for being grown-up enough to lampoon his own ridiculous middle-aged white-guy-ness).
MDH prediction from 2023: “You know, in a couple of years’ time people will be able to resolve this issue themselves, in relation to whether they want a silent person, a puppet, or whether they want a president.” - President Michael D. Higgins #áras25 #Prescient
The Handmaid's Tale (book, 90s movie, AND the show) feels way too real right now 😰 It's honestly scary how prescient it all was. Really hoping our future looks nothing like what comes next in that story... #HandmaidsTale #TooReal #WomensRights #Dystopian #Prescient
#Autocracy. #Oligarchy. #Theocracy. Robert Charles Wilson's vision of America's #future seems #prescient. It's just happening a little more quickly than he expected. Read my piece on his under-rated 2009 #novel Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd Century America. doncurren.blogspot.com/2025/07/in-y...
This game isn’t just a trap, it’s a reminder that asking pro athletes to travel thousands of miles a month, to play eight games in 36 days in multiple concurrent tournaments with a side of international play that can’t be avoided is just too much.
That’s today’s lesson. Nothing more, nothing less.
Shoutout to the time almost 20 years ago me and my pals in #Triad crammed Electronaut / VNV Nation onto the #c64 in about 18kb <3 x
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGnzC_u9g_o
code: tao / gfx: decompracid / music: ne7
I was unaware of #artist Jonathan Harris & his powerful painting #Critical #Race #Theory, so I’m sharing this news story that I just found, in case you don’t know about his work of #art that is #prescient of the #racist acts by the #US #gov’t. https://www.freep.com/story/entertainment/arts/2022/01/17/critical-race-theory-painting-brought-jonathan-harris-overnight-fame/6550013001/
#Prescient some might say...
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:j53tav4pdcpfxyx2gcfr5fhb/post/3lkgrig7yx22f
Star Wars: Episode III “Revenge of the Sith” hits harder in 2025.
How ironic this is the 25th anniversary, and they are re-releasing the film in theaters this year.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBdVTXJtvGk
#StarWars
#RevengeOfTheSith
#SoThisIsHowLibertyDiesWithThunderousApplause
#LibertyDiesWithThunderousApplause
#Prescient
Oldie drawing from halfway through Trump’s first admin, before he was kicked off Twitter. Very evident Nazi idiot even back then.
#prescient #punchanazi #drawing #cheetolini
#prescient #punchanazi #drawing #cheetolini
Yep.
Added this to "Spectacular Independent Journalism", it is prescient today.
At least President of the Galaxy Z. Beeblebrox didn‘t actually try to govern.
#president #prescient #beeblebrox
reading this anthology of pre-WWII Japanese sci-fi stories that imagine future war with America. The earliest dates back to 1910, a full 31 years before the actual Pacific War began. #prescient #Japan #fiction #scifi #alternatehistory #futurewar #futurism
"It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog." — Joseph Conrad — — — #JosephConrad #quote #quotes #prescient #clear #rulers #leaders #obscurity #uncertainty #inexact #boldness
@AlisonW but you really did not go to any and all lengths/ total due diligence - imagine scenario at nih and in health care generally...consider alternatives/computer and network diversity and excerpt from another post addressing these issues
computers are cheap - dirt cheap compared to rev loss and potential injury and exposure with regards to patients - they should have a diverse collection of networks and pc and os - not saying ahole is completely right but he may well have a point in some regards - you have big money but also people's lives on the line so be pragmatic and proactive to prevent occurrence in the future #prescient #mis/mal/non-feasance
#JamesHansen has been #prescient about the #ClimateCrisis - #ClimateEmergency for decades. Most have chosen to ignore/deride him. Now they’re fucked.
The #ClimateApocalypse is coming.
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