@ManVsTweets

Senior digital producer at The Herald News, The Standard-Times, USA Today Network | est. 1977 | lover of dogs and Cats (2019) | [email protected]

 Fall River, MA
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Joined February 2012
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The great thing about having a Portuguese dad is you can’t visit without leaving with something random foisted on you. God knows what. Sometimes it’s 3 gallons of olive oil. It could be, & has been, a black leather jacket and a box of head-on shrimp. You will never predict it
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I build expensive journals for people, but have come to realize customers buy them as an aspirational purchase, not a practical one. I’ve been told many times they’re “too nice to use” even though I design them for that purpose
Aaron Gwyn
@AmericanGwynOct 18
I handwrite first drafts of pretty much everything. Sometimes I buy these expensive journals, but when I sit down to write in them, my farm-boy hand recoils like a human body rejecting a baboon heart, and I go back to writing on plain printer paper like always.
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I don’t use journals myself. I write by hand but on an iPad mini. My paper style is one I made myself, light green letter size w margins. Advantages: I can write in the dark, the ink is erasable, and I can zoom in to fill the margins w tiny script in case I want to add something
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Watching the DGG Halloween trilogy & I’m way in the minority here but Halloween Kills is kind of amazing. Everyone is so hilariously stupid, I’m loving it
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Dark Link landing on the out-thrust sword. My god
vivi@vivigrotOct 15
NEVER BEFORE SEEN FOOTAGE!! New Japanese trailer dropped for Ocarina of Time Remake! This is trailer #1
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Max Knoblauch@MaxKnoblauchOct 15
For sale: mechanical bird, not for sale
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Again, remember that this use of AI is a tool of *management* and production — not labor. This $78.5M cost savings is good for *management*. This also represents $78.5M in lost wages for skilled artists and craftspeople
Variety
@VarietyOct 12
"Merry the Christmas Witch" director Tom Walsh says his movie adaptation of the 2012 children’s book would've cost $80 million if he did not use AI. The final budget was $1.5 million. “We were kind of stuck. The doors are not very open to new kind[s] of ideas and new kind[s] of stories and everything, and that makes it a little tough for independent filmmakers, so that’s where AI came in.” variety.com/2026/film/news/m…
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Me half-asleep trying to describe the ending of Jackie Chan’s Police Story
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More than 12 years in prison for one of the men who pulled off a nearly half-million-dollar heist of cash from cannabis companies: heraldnews.com/story/news/cr…

Man who robbed cannabis courier of $436K gets 12 years in prison

A Raynham man will spend 12 years in prison after a heist in Swansea of nearly half a million dollars cash in deposits from cannabis companies.

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Each time I open this app
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got an email pitch from an online bookie w odds for the execution livestream, and I cannot stress enough how wrecked I am about the state of our world
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watching Halloween II for the first time & i thought the stuff about Dr. Loomis being a homicidal maniac were just wisecracks. He just committed assault w intent to murder of what seems to be a child & chased him into an oncoming car that burst into flames. Boy! Not a nice fellow
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Also committed A&B on a police officer trying to stop him but evidently they’re ok with this and the preceding offenses & have taken him on a ride along
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After 3 years, the Lizzie Borden trademark lawsuit seems to be over. Mixed results for everyone, but both businesses can still operate as usual. I broke down all the legal mumbo-jumbo here: heraldnews.com/story/news/co…

Lizzie Borden trademark suit over. Cafe owes $31K but still open

It's been 3 years, but the Lizzie Borden House and Miss Lizzie's Coffee trademark suit is over, with mixed results for everyone.

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When you use historical images, you should have a sense of responsibility to the human beings depicted & to understand layers of interpretation. A photo taken from the 1860s, you’re already seeing a *photographer’s interpretation* of one second in someone’s complex life
Decider
@deciderOct 9
Ava DuVernay explains why AI was used in new documentary '14th:' "People should see this" trib.al/1ybSWqF
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Been thinking about this a lot lately bc in the Lizzie Borden community you see a ton of people using gen AI to animate their old pictures & act out creepy little scenarios. They feel it brings them to life & feel closer to them. What they’re doing is playing w paper dolls
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They were once complex human beings, became icons & avatars against their will, and to play around with them that way kinda further diminishes their humanity imo. I find it all very anti-humanist
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Ryan Chandler@RyanChandlerTVOct 12
Hope some realize now that their perception of big-J journalists “not doing their jobs” was in fact due to a great example of them doing their jobs - diligence, skepticism, verification - standards the amateurs skip because their only guiding principle is engagement
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I always thought it was bizarre that my school asked middle-school-age boys to shower together side by side in a big open room w no booths, curtains, or privacy, & then go about your day having been seen naked by your classmates & your bullies. What pervert decided that policy
Megan Johnson@megansarahjOct 12
Do you ever think about how weird it was in junior high and high school gym class that they were like “get really sweaty then go change in 4 minutes and sit in math class”
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