Fopling
@fopling.bsky.social
Baker of bread, maker of wine, lover of philosophy
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Fopling uses Letterboxd to share film reviews and lists. 316 films watched. Favorites: The Lighthouse (2019), Mother Joan of the Angels (1961), The Forbidden Room (2015), Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989). ...
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I feel this way about every "X country has bad food" joke or comment. Usually the Americans say all British food is bad and then the British hit back by saying there are no vegetables or cheeses in America and everyone subsists on Velveeta and snack cakes. It's incredibly tiring.
my main problem with the "british food is bad" jokes are that it's old and really dated material. it's not really true, but more importantly, it's hack
'British food is bad' has been untrue for like a generation and a half at this point but really sticks around in the U.S. U.S. supermarkets are inferior to their U.K. counterparts!
January 6, 2026 at 8:29 PM
I feel this way about every "X country has bad food" joke or comment. Usually the Americans say all British food is bad and then the British hit back by saying there are no vegetables or cheeses in America and everyone subsists on Velveeta and snack cakes. It's incredibly tiring.
Baudrillard continues to be the most right anyone has ever been.
Basically everyone who was synthesizing Marx and Psychoanalysis was on the right track, he was just a few steps ahead of the competition.
Basically everyone who was synthesizing Marx and Psychoanalysis was on the right track, he was just a few steps ahead of the competition.
January 6, 2026 at 5:41 PM
Baudrillard continues to be the most right anyone has ever been.
Basically everyone who was synthesizing Marx and Psychoanalysis was on the right track, he was just a few steps ahead of the competition.
Basically everyone who was synthesizing Marx and Psychoanalysis was on the right track, he was just a few steps ahead of the competition.
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Gender Affirming Foreign Policy
January 6, 2026 at 2:08 PM
Gender Affirming Foreign Policy
How I feel trying to ride my bicycle for the mind
January 6, 2026 at 4:17 AM
How I feel trying to ride my bicycle for the mind
In a good stir fry
where lies the virtue of ginger?
January 5, 2026 at 8:18 PM
In a good stir fry
I feel like this needs to be a future all-timer post here. It's just too widely applicable not to be
I have no idea what's going on. And I will be vindicated by history.
January 5, 2026 at 4:57 PM
I feel like this needs to be a future all-timer post here. It's just too widely applicable not to be
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Guy who has only seen the manifold of sensible experience: Hahaha this just reminded me of the manifold
January 4, 2026 at 10:59 PM
Guy who has only seen the manifold of sensible experience: Hahaha this just reminded me of the manifold
Maybe this is a crank opinion, but it feels like something fundamentally broke when the price of a stock became completely untethered from expected dividends.
January 4, 2026 at 2:57 PM
Maybe this is a crank opinion, but it feels like something fundamentally broke when the price of a stock became completely untethered from expected dividends.
I really don't understand why liberals are so convinced that the far left is losing them elections by refusing to vote. I've never seen any hard evidence for this. It looks like the largest coalition shift between 2012 and 2016 was in voters who were socially conservative but fiscally liberal.
January 4, 2026 at 3:27 AM
I really don't understand why liberals are so convinced that the far left is losing them elections by refusing to vote. I've never seen any hard evidence for this. It looks like the largest coalition shift between 2012 and 2016 was in voters who were socially conservative but fiscally liberal.
Trump kidnapped Maduro and brought him here?
I thought he didn't want any Venezuelans in the US. That guy needs to make up his mind.
I thought he didn't want any Venezuelans in the US. That guy needs to make up his mind.
January 3, 2026 at 1:59 PM
Trump kidnapped Maduro and brought him here?
I thought he didn't want any Venezuelans in the US. That guy needs to make up his mind.
I thought he didn't want any Venezuelans in the US. That guy needs to make up his mind.
People are talking about "Homework Movies", and how most of the great films are actually extremely fun to watch. But I'm taking the bold stance that people should also be made to watch deeply alienating and unpleasant films. I'm giving you real homework!
January 3, 2026 at 1:37 PM
People are talking about "Homework Movies", and how most of the great films are actually extremely fun to watch. But I'm taking the bold stance that people should also be made to watch deeply alienating and unpleasant films. I'm giving you real homework!
Send me you silly Swedish band
January 3, 2026 at 12:56 AM
Send me you silly Swedish band
Chiming in with the other people pointing out that LeCun is obviously right. There just isn't a way for an LLM to become a super intelligence for any of the purposes we actually want one of those. I think complex neural nets are part of the puzzle, but not the entire solution.
Ex-Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun has Lunch with the FT and in one of those instances so rare that you know he didn't sign an NDA, says exactly why as.ft.com/r/e503690d-8...
January 3, 2026 at 12:39 AM
Chiming in with the other people pointing out that LeCun is obviously right. There just isn't a way for an LLM to become a super intelligence for any of the purposes we actually want one of those. I think complex neural nets are part of the puzzle, but not the entire solution.
I love to watch a movie about just a few characters and say it's about broad sociological forces. Then watch a movie about broad sociological forces and say it's about a personal existential journey. That's what film criticism is all about to me.
December 31, 2025 at 4:14 PM
I love to watch a movie about just a few characters and say it's about broad sociological forces. Then watch a movie about broad sociological forces and say it's about a personal existential journey. That's what film criticism is all about to me.
On the Silver Globe is yet more evidence for the superiority of Eastern European film. Also for the fact that great art doesn't necessarily have to make a lot of sense.
December 31, 2025 at 5:32 AM
On the Silver Globe is yet more evidence for the superiority of Eastern European film. Also for the fact that great art doesn't necessarily have to make a lot of sense.
A homeless single father. Somehow a downgrade from my already humble position.
Well, now I'm an English professor...
December 29, 2025 at 11:03 PM
A homeless single father. Somehow a downgrade from my already humble position.
Imagining if "dry county" in the US meant you could only drink dry wines rather than not being able to buy wine at all.
December 27, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Imagining if "dry county" in the US meant you could only drink dry wines rather than not being able to buy wine at all.
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Even after seeing this post, I was unprepared for how much gender is in Revolutionary Girl Utena. It's amazing that gender was nearly perfected right there in its inception.
Honestly, I do appreciate Japan and its cultural contributions to the world, but I am concerned that by inventing gender in 1997 with Revolutionary Girl Utena they may have done more harm than good.
December 18, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Even after seeing this post, I was unprepared for how much gender is in Revolutionary Girl Utena. It's amazing that gender was nearly perfected right there in its inception.
"& Juliet" is a postmodern musical in the pejorative sense. It has no setting, characters, or even fourth wall. It is a soup of cultural signifiers mixed and matched in a seemingly random order only saved from incoherence by painfully unnuanced girl-boss feminism. Utter dross.
December 17, 2025 at 3:17 AM
"& Juliet" is a postmodern musical in the pejorative sense. It has no setting, characters, or even fourth wall. It is a soup of cultural signifiers mixed and matched in a seemingly random order only saved from incoherence by painfully unnuanced girl-boss feminism. Utter dross.
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A fellow of infinite jest btw
December 16, 2025 at 2:39 PM
A fellow of infinite jest btw
Masturbation in two senses: both physical and intellectual
Autoeroticethnography
December 15, 2025 at 6:17 AM
Masturbation in two senses: both physical and intellectual
Autoeroticethnography
December 15, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Autoeroticethnography
If I've been elected to any political office I'd say this book is extremely relevant.
December 10, 2025 at 12:03 AM
If I've been elected to any political office I'd say this book is extremely relevant.
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Striding confidently, and with perfect posture, towards Bethlehem
April 21, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Striding confidently, and with perfect posture, towards Bethlehem