"After some more of that damn rumination, however, I decided that the traditional reading of the movie was wrong. Not because it’s too bleak — this is a movie where suicide is repeatedly played for laughs — but because it’s too pat."
www.thenecessaryfictions.com/p/network-is...
spurs legend:
manifesting (1) sevy season + (2) a soto bomb like this off skenes: youtu.be/BJXjR1Wx5f4?...
In Lawrence Kasdan's first draft of Return of the Jedi 9/21/81: Obi-Wan tells Luke "you are the last Jedi" and Luke tosses away his lightsaber in anger. Something he would famously do 36 years later in The Last Jedi (From J.W. Rinzler's The Making of Return of the Jedi)
I don’t think this shit will work but i never want to hear about free speech from any trumpers or anti anti trumpers ever again, fuck off forever bsky.app/profile/cram...
There's a hauntingly beautiful irony in these morons thinking that carefully crafted American hegemony was actually weak and woke, and they would be the ones who would do Power and Dominance properly, and immediately bringing everything crashing down
When I was a kid I remember a wave of consultants coming through churches claiming they should be run like businesses and it seemed wrong then, and it sucks that every public good has fallen prey to that logic
i maintain that the 20th century murder-tyrant that is most similar to trump in terms of personality has always been mao.
One thing we can all agree on is concerts should be segmented by height. Short people can go stand with their tall friends toward the back but the tall can not come front. A better world is possible.
I'm sorry ma'am, but your son perished on Kharg Island in a valiant effort to create Wii Bowling meme videos for the White House X account. In the face of danger, he was not cringe; he was based to his last breath. Please have this commemorative Epic Fury challenge coin. Yes that's Punisher, ma'am
If you know, you know
Have you wondered why Donald Trump keeps calling his disastrous war on Iran an "excursion"?
…According to close sources, it's because Trump is confusing the term “military incursion” with a "military excursion."
@swin24.bsky.social and @andrewperez.bsky.social report:
Media outlets bend over backwards to be like, “Politician Uses Charged Language That Critics Say Is Potentially Racially Insensitive” and then that politician will post, “NAH I LOVE RACISM!!!”
The emerging cases of AI psychosis have shown that all it takes to drive some people completely insane is to put them in contact with a sycophantic chatbot who always agrees with them.
Now, what does that tell us about billionaire CEOs surrounded by sycophantic people who always agree with them?
JD Vance leaking that actually he was against this reminds me of when the Wilpons would leak to the press that the Mets were going after a big name free agent too
By what means Sean Penn acquired the style and title of Col. Steven J. Lockjaw.
I explored the Kubrickian aspects of his character, and of the Christmas Adventurers, in ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER.
www.vulture.com/article/if-s...
Here are my Oscar predictions. Not to give too much away, but it’s going to be a big night for MANK
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This is not a particularly satisfying set of findings insofar as it validates neither the A.I.-booster “it’s so over, A.I. writing is better than human writing” side nor the A.I.-skeptic “A.I. can never write like a human” side. What we can say is that people mostly can’t identify A.I.-generated text as A.I.-generated (crowd boos), but they can sometimes distinguish between it and human-authored text (crowd cheers); it’s just that they tend to think the A.I.-generated text is human (crowd boos), maybe because human-generated text is stranger, worse, or more difficult (crowd hesitantly cheers), which readers mistakenly believe is more typical of A.I.-generated text (crowd silent now) and thereby disprefer (crowd sort of murmuring confusedly), unless you tell them it’s actually human, in which case they change their minds and like it (crowd has mostly left at this point).
But all of it taken together suggests that, given our strong bias in favor of writing we believe to be human, A.I. vs. human “preference” tests (or “reads better” quizzes) are often second-order “identification” tests, in each case measuring not “preference” per se but the accuracy of the prevailing heuristics for identifying A.I. writing. Participants in these studies, it would seem, express preference for the A.I.-generated writing not because it’s “better” in some formal sense--cleaner, simpler, more beautiful, whatever--but because their “flawed heuristics” have led them to the conclusion that it’s human-authored, and ipso facto better. If this is right, much of the discourse about quizzes like the Times’ would seem to get the order of operations wrong. It’s not that people see two paragraphs, prefer one based on its quality, and then attribute it to humans based on that preference. It’s that they see two paragraphs, attribute one to human authorship based on style, and then prefer the one they’ve attributed. What’s at stake when taking these tests isn’t quality or beauty or clarity, but style; not “which one is better,” but “which one sounds more like an L.L.M.?”
in this week's newsletter: what are A.I.-or-human quizzes actually measuring? maxread.substack.com/p/what-do-wh...
Ferrari coming through on the Mario Kart for Charles
I think it was useful for the world to see how quickly these red pilled, manosphere-loving men fall apart in the face of actual questions in the real world. Gratifying, even!
New York perfected this decades ago
1. If oil prices have you thinking "should I finally switch to an electric vehicle" my advice is, yeah! Lots of good low mileage used ones to be had.
2. It's not without its hiccups. Here's what I learned after a year of driving an one.
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they're saying it's a clone body. that he needs a [hand gesture] force dyad. they said we shouldn't go to Exegol. should we go, folks? we're going to Exegol
Aaron Rodgers season opener post-loss press conference vibes. Just nothing but complaining that receivers didn't understand the play after a whole week of practice.
NEW: Tons of recent news reports have mentioned the fact that Claude works inside war tech from Palantir to help the Pentagon select its targets.
But how does this actually work? What specifically is Claude doing vs not doing?
I broke down everything we know:
www.wired.com/story/palant...
Su su seppuku.
It would be such an honor to be killed by Sensei Phil Collins
Vindicated at last in my years-long loathing of Grammarly: defector.com/vindicated-a...
