Fantasy filmmaker. Autistic Minnesotan. Proud Farmer-Laborite Socialist trying to do some good. Founder of @BattlemageFilms.
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Samuel T. Weston retweeted
AOC is the only candidate who can lead the working class movement to fight the oligarchy and transform America. We’re organizing across the country to build the grassroots support we need to win in 2028. Go to ReadyforAOC.org to sign the pledge.
Samuel T. Weston retweeted
On Tuesday, Democrats flipped:
At least 43 House seats.
At least 7 Senate seats.
At least 5 governorships.
At least 500 state legislative seats.
With more races still to be called.
This is what happens when you invest in state parties: You can win anywhere.
Samuel T. Weston retweeted
Not long ago critics called for his resignation. This week, DNC Chair @kenmartin73 delivered Democrats their largest victory in 50 years.
Martin told me those critics have yet to reach out with congrats but said he's unconcerned as the DNC prepares for 2028 and beyond.
newsweek.com/dnc-chair-ken-m…
Samuel T. Weston retweeted
I love my country, Minnesota. Natural beauty, multiculturalism, & bottomless solidarity. We got trans babes, Somali moms, church ladies, & average Joes looking out for each other.
Yes there is hardship & poverty. The cops & every mayor suck ass.
And I would die to protect it.
Samuel T. Weston retweeted
In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgent to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity.
Samuel T. Weston retweeted
We are now in the SENATE!
After another year of conversations around DC, we have gone bicameral. Steph and I are proud to announce the launch of the Senate Creators Caucus.
Washington is making increasingly consequential decisions about AI, social media, online safety, and the future of creative work. Creators, as the front lines of these issues, should be a voice in those conversations, but historically, we've fallen into the cracks of the system.
Now we have a seat at the table.
More to come soon!
ALT MatPat at a Senate Creators Caucus podium
Samuel T. Weston retweeted
Democrats could spend a fraction of what they're sending to Ossoff, Talarico, and Sayed to tilt this race Blue.
Any guesses as to why they have all but abandoned Angie in terms of fundraising and media support? (rhetorical question. we all know why)
New - Florida statewide races
Senate
🔵 Angie Nixon 45%
🔴 Ashley Moody (Inc.) 45%
🟡 Other 3%
St. Pete Polls #C - LV - 9/17
Samuel T. Weston retweeted
MIT published a brutally honest report on what AI is doing to students.
A committee of professors and students spent five months studying how AI changed learning on campus, and the findings read like a warning to every university on the planet.
Study groups are disappearing. Office hours are emptying out. Problem sets and take-home exams no longer prove anything, because AI can produce credible solutions to almost any written assignment in the undergraduate curriculum. Students who lean on chatbots lose mastery and confidence, and some slip into what the report calls cognitive surrender, reaching for AI at the first hint of struggle.
The numbers are rough. 46 percent of surveyed MIT undergrads use LLMs daily. 90 percent worry about their own overreliance. Undergrads who feel AI makes them replaceable now outnumber those who feel it makes them capable.
The committee's answer surprised me. They refused to fight AI with surveillance. The report calls AI detectors unreliable, says lockdown browsers feel like spying, and warns that policing students builds a classroom atmosphere of mutual distrust.
Instead, MIT wants to rebuild education around the things AI can't replace. That means oral exams, semester portfolios, in-person project work, and a required social component in every subject. The report even floats the idea of rethinking grades entirely, since without a GPA to optimize, much of the incentive to cheat with AI evaporates.
The committee warns professors against replacing undergrad research assistants with AI agents just because they're cheaper, because a university exists to grow people, not output.
The most famous tech school on earth admitted the machines broke its way of teaching. Its answer is more humans, not more software.
Samuel T. Weston retweeted
Also, AOC now has no choice but to run in 2028.
The constitution establishes that you are obligated to run for president once a campaign poster has been made out of split peas. I’m sorry, I don’t make the rules
Samuel T. Weston retweeted
We are DSA members organizing to seize the moment, unite Labor and the Left, and elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to the Presidency.
Samuel T. Weston retweeted
Congressman Meeks, chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, is calling on the Minnesota DFL SCC to remove MN DNC delegate Latonya Reeves from her post after running an unsuccessful campaign against DFL-endorsed congresswoman Ilhan Omar.
i will be voting to remove tonight.
Samuel T. Weston retweeted
Over the past 19 months, we’ve increased the DNC’s investments to our state parties so they can build the infrastructure necessary to win.
It’s paying off.
ALT An image of DNC Chair Ken Martin speaking in front of a row of American flags. Text below reads, "Investing to Win, Investing to Build, Investing to Last. For too long, Democrats have relied on a broken boom-and-bust cycle that sits on our resources until the last minute and then tries to deploy them in a spending blitz in the closing weeks before Election Day. I reject that idea wholeheartedly. We need to give communities a reason to trust us. Not by parachuting in three months before Election Day. But with the honest-to-goodness work of grassroots organizing. kenmartin73.substack.com." An image of Ken Martin appears next to the Substack logo.
Samuel T. Weston retweeted
George Miller handed 480 hours of Mad Max footage to an editor whose credits were Happy Feet and Babe: Pig in the City. She had never cut an action film in her life. She was also his wife.
When Margaret Sixel asked why he wanted her, Miller said if a guy did it, it would look like every other action movie.
It took her three months just to watch the footage.
Then two years to cut it. Ten hours a day, six days a week, much of it while raising two teenagers alone because her husband was in the Namibian desert shooting for months at a time. The finished film runs 120 minutes and contains 2,700 cuts. The Road Warrior, the most celebrated action film of the 80s, had 1,200.
Cutting that fast usually turns action into blur. Miller solved it before she ever sat down, composing nearly every shot with the key detail dead center of frame. Your eye never has to hunt. Sixel could cut every 1.5 seconds and your brain kept up, which is why Fury Road feels fast where other action films feel like noise.
She won the Oscar for Best Editing. The only action film she ever cut.
And Miller was right about the guy thing. An action editor inherits the genre's reflexes. Sixel had none, so every one of those 2,700 decisions got made from scratch.
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Samuel T. Weston retweeted
This isn't New York. We don't do fusion voting here. The Minnesota DFL does not endorse Republicans, IPers, or Forwardinos. If these candidates don't repudiate this cross endorsement, they should be stripped of their endorsement and removed from the party.
Today, we’re announcing Minnesota Forward Together, a coalition of DFL, Republican, Independent and Forward Independence legislative candidates committed to working across party lines to solve problems for their constituents instead of trying to score political points.
For years, Forward Independence has talked about doing politics differently.
We believe elected officials should spend more time working together to solve problems for the people they represent. Good ideas can come from anywhere, and our elected officials should be willing to work with anyone who is serious about getting things done.
Minnesota Forward Together is that philosophy in action.
Tomorrow, candidates from the DFL, Republican, Independent and Forward Independence parties will stand together at the State Capitol and make a commitment to work together once they get to St. Paul.
They aren't promising to agree on everything. They're promising to put their constituents ahead of their party and find common ground wherever they can.
@ChadHartmanShow @DeRushaJ
