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Howland Crowe

@howlandcrowe.bsky.social
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I'm that #ActuallyAutistic kid they didn't think could write screenplays. Far left, but politically homeless. 🏳️‍🌈 Bi, he/him. 🇮🇱🕊🇵🇸 #BlackLivesMatter #ProChoice

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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 28/09/2026
For the best part of a century, the biggest threat to the residents of Svalbard was polar bears. Increasingly, it now comes from Russia.
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Putin is testing NATO on Norway’s remote Arctic islands
Russia’s rising hybrid activity on Svalbard is sparking fears that Moscow could spark an incident that tests NATO’s Article 5 mutual defense clause.
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Howland Crowe @howlandcrowe.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
That feeling when you're a history buff writing a true story who reads an entire book for research only to use it in one scene and realize you have to cut it because it slows the plot down. 😭 What do you MEAN I can't include every random, interesting fact I find in my story?
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Howland Crowe @howlandcrowe.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Other screenwriters: "I hate exposition. It's really hard having to explain the rules of this sci-fi/fantasy world I made up." Me, writing a true story in a political environment that doesn't exist anymore: "Uh-huh... 😂 That's nice. You ever tried explaining to an audience wtf a Whig is?"
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Howland Crowe @howlandcrowe.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
26 years of the 21st century. 100 television series considered the greatest in that time. Only one animated show. 🙄 One.
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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...
So the message of this research out of China, where you were seeing a lot of kids using A.I. to help them, was that when they were using the A.I., they were getting things done faster. But it turned out that the skills they were learning were not holding, that their actual personal performance, at least in the way we traditionally measure it, was degrading.

What do you think when you hear that?

The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter?

That’s my question for you.

Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does.

But there must be some set of skills that matter.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe not those. We’re going to discover new ones. Just maybe not those.

There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first confession, I actually don’t know my address.And I ——

I don’t really believe that to be true.

It’s completely true. Janine will tell you and Lori will tell you.

One day I had to pump gas — it was a few years ago. They needed my ZIP code, and I panicked. I didn’t know my ZIP code. I don’t know my telephone number. I forget these things. I can live with it.

But let me take the other side because I don’t want to fall into a thing where, because some skills can be safely offloaded ——

Yeah.

I also can’t get anywhere without a mapping system now. Never could, frankly. But I’m a big reader. And one of the skills I really value, one of the capacities I have that I really value is an attention span formed on physical books.

You’re a big reader. I’ve read about the kind of reading you do. And there is, prior to A.I., a lot of concern and noticing among college professors and others that the way people use the internet has probably shortened attention spans.
Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Yeah. Well, I think that we’re going to lose some finer intellectual dexterity, but we’re going to be better systems thinkers.

Today’s engineers are far better systems thinkers than I was when I graduated from school. But I was a much better transistor thinker.

What do you mean by systems thinker?

They think of large systems. Today’s computers have trillions, hundreds of trillions of transistors in them. When I first graduated from school, the first chip I worked on had 200 transistors. I knew every one of them by name. No engineer does that today. Most engineers now work well above the transistor, well above the functionality, and they’re cobbling things together to do things.

So you need to think much more about systems and interactions of systems. So some of the lower-level knowledge is gone.
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Howland Crowe @howlandcrowe.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Jeff Katzenberg today: "The film industry must embrace A.I.! It's the most revolutionary technology we've ever seen!" Jeff Katzenberg in 2011: "Why are audiences not embracing 3-D? 😭 It's the most revolutionary technology we've ever seen!"
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Howland Crowe @howlandcrowe.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Sooo Macklemore promised to donate $1 million to Palestinian aid. Now, Ed Sheeran is donating $2 mil and Kraft says he's donating another $2 mil, and, like... ... these rich douchebags couldn't have just done all this in the first fucking place without making it a one-upping ego competition?
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Howland Crowe @howlandcrowe.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Hollywood: "Guys, we've had three Robin Hood films bomb in the last fifteen years, but I am telling you... I think tying this unrelated historical rebellion from 1381 to Robin Hood will reverse our fortunes. The Robin Hood Cinematic Universe WILL happen!" www.indiewire.com/news/box-off...
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‘The Uprising’ Bombs at Box Office Despite Last-Ditch Scramble to Market Film as Robin Hood Origin Story
'The Uprising' bombed at the box office despite an attempt to rebrand it as a Robin Hood movie.
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Howland Crowe @howlandcrowe.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I absolutely despise this trend right now where directors attempt to "subvert" classic stories because they think it'll make them stand out as interesting. But it's not. It's boring. We've had THREE "dark and edgy" subversive takes on Robin Hood in the last 15 years.
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Howland Crowe @howlandcrowe.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Wtf does this story about the Peasants' Rebellion of 1381 have ANYTHING to do with fucking Robin Hood? 😂
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Howland Crowe @howlandcrowe.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Literally Trump to Saudi Arabia right now:
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Howland Crowe @howlandcrowe.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
This is hilarious, because Andy Serkis is 3/4 Iraqi. His Armenian family name was Serkisian. Like, bruh, you ARE a diversity hire.
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Howland Crowe @howlandcrowe.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Watching the third season of "Silo" on Apple TV+ with what's been going on between America and Iran is... interesting, but very uncomfortable. 😅
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Howland Crowe @howlandcrowe.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Fuck me, man. 😩 More sad news. #RIP Daveigh Chase
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Howland Crowe @howlandcrowe.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
So, basically a worse U.S.-Iran deal than the 2015 one under Obama.
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Howland Crowe @howlandcrowe.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Marjane Satrapi died. 😩 This loss really hurts. variety.com/2026/film/gl...
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Marjane Satrapi, French-Iranian Director of Oscar-Nominated ‘Persepolis,’ Dies at 56
Marjane Satrapi, the Oscar-Nominated writer and director of 'Persepolis,' has died at 56.
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Howland Crowe @howlandcrowe.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
I had a violent "NO!" reaction watching Beef S2. I identified more with the young protagonists until Mulligan's character corrected someone. "I'm 39!" The young girl called them Boomers. ... I am 36. That's when I realized the older country club couple was MY demographic. 😭
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Fred Guttenberg @fredguttenberg.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
If you were horrified watching elected leaders run & scramble because of gun violence, just imagine how my daughter Jaime felt in school running from an active shooter before she was killed. Now, become a part of the solution & only vote for people determined to address gun violence in America.
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Howland Crowe @howlandcrowe.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
OOF. 😭😭😭
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(VFP) Strategic Gravitas Reserve @braak.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Keep imagining Orbán thinking to himself "I've got the machinery in place to seize and keep power anyway but if I do they're going to keep sending JD Vance to talk to me and l just don't want to do this anymore. I don't want to talk to JD Vance anymore."
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Howland Crowe @howlandcrowe.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Trump: "I got 93% bad publicity. [...] Maybe Karoline's doing a poor job." Literally this.
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Howland Crowe @howlandcrowe.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
What does the "J" stand for? 😒
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Howland Crowe @howlandcrowe.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
After a month of nothing, there's finally a new news article about what is going on in El Fasher. There's something genuinely infuriating about how little news coverage there is of what The Guardian is calling "the fastest and largest killing spree this century." www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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Heroism, horror and the ‘pits of hell’: inside the last days of El Fasher
Over two days in October 2025, up to 10,000 people are believed to have been massacred; a further 40,000 civillians from the Sudanese city are still unaccounted for. This is the story of what happened
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Howland Crowe @howlandcrowe.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Some things just shouldn't be live-action. #Moana
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Howland Crowe @howlandcrowe.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
After the news that all our allies said "no" to Trump's recent demands, I had to make a meme.
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Howland Crowe @howlandcrowe.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
What it's like being American traveling abroad these days. 😂
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Howland Crowe @howlandcrowe.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
I love Marlon Wayans, but I don't think a "Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood" sequel is possible today. No one makes hood movies anymore. Hustle & Flow, Baby Boy, Shottas, Belly, etc. are 20+ years old. Not sure you can parody a genre that doesn't exist.
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People's Government of the Pelargir Commune 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
I think it's um rather interesting how desperate people are to believe that America can't possibly be invading a country that its conservatives have talked about invading every single year for the past forty six years except if a nefarious foreign force bribed it to.
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Howland Crowe @howlandcrowe.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
I howled laughing. 😭 A dark sense of humor is very cathartic. #EpsteinFiles
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Howland Crowe @howlandcrowe.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Four years of war later, there are still obnoxiously loud voices on the far left who support Russia's invasion of Ukraine. 😩 Being a socialist with critical thinking skills is very isolating right now.
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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
I really appreciate this TikToker with Tourette syndrome, Shay, for taking the time to educate so many of us (including me) about her disability and coprolalia in light of what happened at the BAFTAs with John Davidson when Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo were on stage. I learned a lot.
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Howland Crowe @howlandcrowe.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Al Pacino is the last actor from this scene still alive. R.I.P. Robert Duvall.
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
👀 Invoking Orwell, a federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore panels and historical acknowledgments of the history of slavery that the National Park Service removed in Philadelphia. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Howland Crowe @howlandcrowe.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Trump has called for Republicans to "nationalize" elections. This is a five-alarm fire. "The Republicans should say, ‘We want to take over.' We should take over the voting, the voting in at least many — 15 places. The Republicans ought to nationalize the voting." #2026election #midterms
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Howland Crowe @howlandcrowe.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
This correction from The Guardian's review of "Melania" made me picture Melania acting like Connor Roy's sugar baby Willa on "Succession" reading reviews of her play and then flinging the laptop off the yacht in anger. 😂
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Howland Crowe @howlandcrowe.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Welp, now I need to rewatch Terminator 2, because Sarah Conner in this was one of several awakenings from my childhood. Pretty much the opposite of "I can fix her." Fix her? Why? She's perfect the way she is. 🥵 Stick a needle in my neck, you buff Amazonian goddess.
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Howland Crowe @howlandcrowe.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
As sad as it is Darren Aronofsky has become a sellout hack with his own A.I. film studio, seeing Google results call him a "former" filmmaker was legitimately funny. 😂
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Howland Crowe @howlandcrowe.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
ICE dude sounds like he swallowed a squeaky dog toy. 😂😂😂 Just listen to that pitch go up when he says, "You raise your VOOOIIIIICE." Probably thought he sounded like a badass.
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Howland Crowe @howlandcrowe.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
I didn't think the hot takes about ICE's murder of #AlexPretti could get any more unhinged than what Trump supporters were saying, but then this lovely nugget came across my feed. The West Wing quote on bottom was my addition.
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Howland Crowe @howlandcrowe.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
It's a start.
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Howland Crowe @howlandcrowe.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Trump supporters: "Well, what did you expect was going to happen if the governor of Minnesota antagonizes ICE and refuses to cooperate with the federal government?" Me:
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Howland Crowe @howlandcrowe.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Talk about a top comment making the article author's point for them. 🙄
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Howland Crowe @howlandcrowe.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
He's doing it again.
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Howland Crowe @howlandcrowe.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Charlie Kirk supporters want to make comparisons with Renee Good so bad? Fine. Let's compare their last words and see who's more of an asshole?
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Howland Crowe @howlandcrowe.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
So do something about it. Bring the bastard up on criminal charges.
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Howland Crowe @howlandcrowe.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Of course this asshole has to chime in about the murder of #RobReiner and his wife Michele.
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Howland Crowe @howlandcrowe.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
I'm about to have a crashout over this revelation #StuartLittle isn't actually a mouse.
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Howland Crowe @howlandcrowe.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
George Orwell would be rolling in his grave. #AnimalFarm
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Howland Crowe @howlandcrowe.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
🎶 I never thought The leopards would eat my face 🎶
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Jonathan Lemire @jonlemire.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
NEW: www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...
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