Toni Morrison was a national treasure, as good a storyteller, as captivating, in person as she was on the page. Her writing was a beautiful, meaningful challenge to our conscience and our moral imagination. What a gift to breathe the same air as her, if only for a while.

Arizona State University is now offering a 'Content Creation' major for students wanting to become social media influencers. Students in the program will learn how to "market themselves." "The Bachelor of Arts program in content creation prepares you to become an influencer and strategic storyteller who thrives in the rapidly evolving creator economy," ASU's website says. "Program coursework emphasizes content planning, video and podcast production, global perspectives and personal branding." Yikes.

New roles across YZi Labs portfolio companies: • Growth & Trader Success Lead @frontrunpro • Head of Marketing (Asia) @nym • Mobile Senior Engineer @vibedotfun For growth minds, storytellers, and engineers who want ownership at the frontier →

Creators: @NASARoman is launching this summer, and you’re invited! We're looking for storytellers to join us as our Roman Space Telescope lifts off to help answer some of the biggest questions about our universe. Applications close June 28 at 11:59pm ET:

One of the big reasons for the current lack of patriotism and pride in our nation’s history is that about 40 years ago our most prominent storytellers in Hollywood just basically stopped telling stories about American history altogether, unless it has something to do with WW2, civil rights, or slavery. I mean they just released a movie about the meteorologist who did the weather report for D-Day. They’ll give WW2 weathermen their own movies before they tell a story from any other era of American history. The Right has attempted to counteract this a little bit, but “conservative” attempts at American history films and TV shows are invariably hokey and kid friendly, the kind of thing you can watch with your grandmother and your 5 year old, and you’ll all be equally informed and bored by the experience. We need R-rated adult-oriented American history stories. Daniel Boone should have his own series. It would be gritty and violent and not for children, but it would also be phenomenally entertaining and put an American legend back on the cultural map, so to speak. The fact that Daniel Boone hasn’t been depicted on screen at all since like the 60s is a travesty. Throw a dart at that guy’s Wikipedia page and you’ll land on something that could be its own feature length trilogy. That’s just one example. How is there not a great R-rated movie or series about Antietam? Or Kit Carson? Or the Panama Canal? How does Theodore Roosevelt not have like 10 movies about different periods of his life? You could go much farther back to pre-American history. A movie about Cortes’s conquest of Tenochtitlan would be tremendous and horrifying and fascinating, and it would introduce into the public consciousness one of the world’s most incredible stories that most Americans know next to nothing about. And on and on. The possibilities are literally endless. All of these movies, if they’re executed to even a B+ level, could make hundreds of millions of dollars and transform the culture in a way that a million podcast monologues never could. If the Right actually wants to reclaim the culture, this is the place to start.

the takes on the Odyssey are so mid Nolan always cooks, and is one of the greatest storytellers of our time you think he is going to tell a linear story? it's going to jump and turn and provide an incredible experience if you are upset about casting, you have succumbed to mob retardation

after a year as an independent creator, i'm joining @openai imagining the future is how we create it we need to expand who gets to imagine and what becomes possible. those are the stories i’m here to tell if you're an artist, storyteller or maker, i'd love to hear from you 🫶🏼