Eric Kissack

@erickissack
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Dad, film editor, TV director, born in NYC, adopted by LA, happy to be here.
My Sitewww.erickissack.com
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@ivory Ok, seems like Bluesky is becoming the place to be. Any plans to add native support? I can't lose you!
The Move is an entertaining short film in which a couple discovers a previously unnoticed feature of their new apartment. “There’s always going to be something new and weird and different in life. This is part of the fun.” https://kottke.org/24/10/the-move
The Move

I really liked this entertaining short film by Eric Kissack (editor & producer for The Good Place), in which a couple moving int

kottke.org
Had to quit my job so I can read emails from my child's school full-time.
Why turn on the Fediverse sharing on threads? Here are a few benefits:
👉 Reach a wider audience: It allows your posts to be visible across multiple platforms, expanding potential views beyond just Threads users.
👉 Enhanced engagement: You can interact with a broader community and build stronger connections.
👉 You own your content: Since the Fediverse is decentralized, you retain more control over your content.

The Activision thing finally landed. Which means MS owns Infocom, via an impressive 40-year chain of buyouts, takeovers, and shakeups.

Now I formally put forth the plea:

Microsoft should put all of Infocom’s IP under a Creative Commons license. Or donate the rights to a nonprofit which can do the same. Let’s bring all these legally-shaky fan sites and collections into the light.

https://blog.zarfhome.com/2023/10/microsoft-consumes-activision

(Yes, I’m part of a nonprofit that could do that.)

Pass it along.

#InteractiveFiction

Microsoft consumes Activision; and a plea

The gavel has fallen; the cup has been stomped; pick your metaphor. Microsoft has succeeded in its almost-two-year quest to gobble up Activision. The peculiar side effect in my corner of the world is that Microsoft now owns the dusty remains ...

Zarf Updates
The Tenderness of Marshawn Lynch. The former NFL player is in a new movie called Bottoms and was amazing at ad libbing his lines. It also gave him a "chance to right his wrongs" about how he acted when his sister came out when he was 16. https://kottke.org/23/09/the-tenderness-of-marshawn-lynch
The Tenderness of Marshawn Lynch

For the role of a teacher/coach in her new film Bottoms (about a pair of queer girls who start a fight club in their high school i

kottke.org
The interior angle of the pizza slice emoji in the Apple emoji set 🍕is 48.5556º, implying that the pizza was cut into a very awkward 7.4 slices. (Or that somewhere there exists another 48º slice and two corresponding 41.4444º slices)
Here @davidfrenchjag had nailed one of the differences between MAGA and extremists elsewhere. The cheerful apocalysm has few European equivalents https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/06/opinion/maga-america-trump.html
Opinion | The Rage and Joy of Donald Trump’s MAGA America

Come for the community. Stay for the vituperation.

The New York Times
Elon Musk’s Wealth Plunges $13 Billion as Drama Unfolds Across Empire

In the span of 24 hours, Tesla’s earnings disappointed, a SpaceX rocket exploded and Twitter purged legacy blue checkmarks.

Bloomberg