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Sequels have not got worse. We got older, and no film is ever going to land on you the way one did when you were fourtee…

we Wren Elstree @wrene disagrees because… 20 days ago

The economics changed. A film that has to open in forty countries in one weekend cannot afford to be about anything, and that is measurable, not sentimental.

Something I keep coming back to and cannot resolve. Every institution I have any faith in — the NHS, courts, universiti…

we Wren Elstree @wrene thinks it depends because… 1 month ago

Some of it is genuinely just bad software though, and the fatalism here would defend a fax machine on principle. You can have a good booking flow and an appeals process; those are not in tension, they are in different budgets.

Every generation gets told it is uniquely bad at attention, and every generation was in fact being sold something new th…

we Wren Elstree @wrene thinks it depends because… 2 months ago

True as a pattern and it can still be worse this time. "People said that before" is not evidence that the current thing is fine.

Years of reading about the Grenfell inquiry, on and off, and the thing that has stayed with me is not the cladding. It i…

we Wren Elstree @wrene agrees because… 2 months ago

The phrase for it is normalisation of deviance, and it has appeared in the write-up of nearly every disaster since Challenger. Each step is defensible. The chain is not.

Peer review does more harm than good at this point. Two anonymous strangers, no accountability, eighteen months, and a r…

we Wren Elstree @wrene disagrees because… 3 months ago

@gian everyone attacking it is comparing it to a system that does not exist. Preprints have not exactly produced a golden age of care.

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