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Admittedly, I'm not really the target audience for this.
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Carlos Fuentes - BOTD
💙📚 #LiteratureSky
💙📚 #LiteratureSky
November 11, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Carlos Fuentes - BOTD
💙📚 #LiteratureSky
💙📚 #LiteratureSky
I don't think tailored suits are the only way for a man to be well-dressed, but this is not a good ensemble.
November 11, 2025 at 4:46 PM
I don't think tailored suits are the only way for a man to be well-dressed, but this is not a good ensemble.
Why can't we have a new faithful-to-canon Holmes series? There must be some lanky, aquiline-nosed actor who can play the role, and apparently there is no shortage of 1890s-looking shooting locations in the UK. I just want to wallow in the old 56 and 4 again am I the only one?
November 11, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Why can't we have a new faithful-to-canon Holmes series? There must be some lanky, aquiline-nosed actor who can play the role, and apparently there is no shortage of 1890s-looking shooting locations in the UK. I just want to wallow in the old 56 and 4 again am I the only one?
There is something about how we do democracy that is basically flawed and helpless against right wing capture.
November 11, 2025 at 4:37 PM
There is something about how we do democracy that is basically flawed and helpless against right wing capture.
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"In an internal memo from September, CEO Sam Altman said that OpenAI’s “audacious long-term goal is to build 250 gigawatts of capacity by 2033.” If Altman achieves this goal, OpenAI will need almost exactly as much electricity as India’s 1.5 billion people"
Great @truthdig.com piece on chips ->
Great @truthdig.com piece on chips ->
The Ecological Cost of AI Is Much Higher Than You Think - Truthdig
As the demands of AI grow, each generation of microchips requires more energy, minerals and water to produce, driving a ruinous cycle.
www.truthdig.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:47 PM
"In an internal memo from September, CEO Sam Altman said that OpenAI’s “audacious long-term goal is to build 250 gigawatts of capacity by 2033.” If Altman achieves this goal, OpenAI will need almost exactly as much electricity as India’s 1.5 billion people"
Great @truthdig.com piece on chips ->
Great @truthdig.com piece on chips ->
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I personally think before any judge sentences a person to incarceration or detention, they should have to spend a night in that facility themselves.
And the same goes for the prosecutor recommending the sentence.
I don't care what the alleged crime is. The defendant is still a human being.
And the same goes for the prosecutor recommending the sentence.
I don't care what the alleged crime is. The defendant is still a human being.
November 11, 2025 at 4:16 PM
I personally think before any judge sentences a person to incarceration or detention, they should have to spend a night in that facility themselves.
And the same goes for the prosecutor recommending the sentence.
I don't care what the alleged crime is. The defendant is still a human being.
And the same goes for the prosecutor recommending the sentence.
I don't care what the alleged crime is. The defendant is still a human being.
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No, using AI generated stuff as a "placeholder" on your crowdfunding campaign is not OK either.
If the visuals are THAT important to getting your project funded, then you need to pay a person up front for those key visuals and deliver a consistent end product to your backers.
If the visuals are THAT important to getting your project funded, then you need to pay a person up front for those key visuals and deliver a consistent end product to your backers.
November 11, 2025 at 1:55 AM
No, using AI generated stuff as a "placeholder" on your crowdfunding campaign is not OK either.
If the visuals are THAT important to getting your project funded, then you need to pay a person up front for those key visuals and deliver a consistent end product to your backers.
If the visuals are THAT important to getting your project funded, then you need to pay a person up front for those key visuals and deliver a consistent end product to your backers.
So...Pluribus is about a Karen raging against collectivism?
November 11, 2025 at 2:30 PM
So...Pluribus is about a Karen raging against collectivism?
In my opinion the genres have a lot in common. Not in a glib 'oh love stories are so scary actually' way either.
Crimson Peak is Del Toro outright telling you, at heart, he's not a horror guy; he's a romance guy.
guillermo del toro's movies r all primarily cute and sort of sad/melancholy. like. people r always trying to call him stuff like "master of horror" but it's not true. he's master of cute monsters. cutie sympathetic little guys.
November 11, 2025 at 2:00 PM
In my opinion the genres have a lot in common. Not in a glib 'oh love stories are so scary actually' way either.
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The bigger problem with James Bond is it's been a franchise in search of a point for decades. Questions about what to do with James Bond elide how we don't need to do anything with him, we don't need him, an Italian family needs him to make money.
November 11, 2025 at 1:50 PM
The bigger problem with James Bond is it's been a franchise in search of a point for decades. Questions about what to do with James Bond elide how we don't need to do anything with him, we don't need him, an Italian family needs him to make money.
This has for some time seemed to me the only way a new Bond adaptation would make any sense.
Seriously, I know what I'd do with Bond. Total reboot, period, young Bond, set in the 50s, Cold War - but with modern sensibilities addressed via presenting Bond tonally as an anti-hero. Let him be the skeezy, reactionary, misogynistic, sentimental, alcoholic speed-chugging mess from the books.
November 11, 2025 at 1:54 PM
This has for some time seemed to me the only way a new Bond adaptation would make any sense.
I once listened to Van Halen at 1.25x speed and it sounded like disco.
November 11, 2025 at 3:47 AM
I once listened to Van Halen at 1.25x speed and it sounded like disco.
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i can handle this one: it is because he is an illiterate boer ape
I know there a thousand other points to make here, but: why did Musk put a picture of the Odyssey in a thread about the Iliad?
*maximum alpha at 1.25x speed* continuously lives on in my head, unfortunately.
November 11, 2025 at 2:56 AM
i can handle this one: it is because he is an illiterate boer ape
Each night I think, perhaps tomorrow I shall make the most of the day. Each morning I sigh and shake my head and proceed to disappoint myself again. It's a way of life and I'm not claiming it's better than any other.
November 11, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Each night I think, perhaps tomorrow I shall make the most of the day. Each morning I sigh and shake my head and proceed to disappoint myself again. It's a way of life and I'm not claiming it's better than any other.
What did vocal coaches do before they could get on YouTube to feign spontaneous reactions to the most famous singers of the last 50 years?
November 11, 2025 at 1:12 AM
What did vocal coaches do before they could get on YouTube to feign spontaneous reactions to the most famous singers of the last 50 years?
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Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
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I walked over to see what this brown mushroom with white specks was, turns out it wasn’t.
#fungifriends #birds
#fungifriends #birds
November 10, 2025 at 2:27 PM
I walked over to see what this brown mushroom with white specks was, turns out it wasn’t.
#fungifriends #birds
#fungifriends #birds
You know what I miss most about college? The fact that I always had someone to hang out with. There was this tree where my friends hung out. We were from different classes and years, and you'd always find someone you knew at the tree, chilling out. Or you could walk down to the nearby
November 10, 2025 at 4:28 PM
You know what I miss most about college? The fact that I always had someone to hang out with. There was this tree where my friends hung out. We were from different classes and years, and you'd always find someone you knew at the tree, chilling out. Or you could walk down to the nearby
Every family has its own myths and legends. Stories, true, tweaked or fabricated. They're of interest to the family. They form part of the fabric that holds the clan together. But they're rarely of any intrinsic interest to outsiders. Because most of us have our own family and its own stories to
November 10, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Every family has its own myths and legends. Stories, true, tweaked or fabricated. They're of interest to the family. They form part of the fabric that holds the clan together. But they're rarely of any intrinsic interest to outsiders. Because most of us have our own family and its own stories to
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Also there are literally two BBCs, in a sense. The news side is institutionally captured by the right, the rest is run by the usual people who make things and so skews broadly left. I think both sides (UGH) fall into the trap of attacking the bit they disagree with as if it's the whole thing.
November 10, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Also there are literally two BBCs, in a sense. The news side is institutionally captured by the right, the rest is run by the usual people who make things and so skews broadly left. I think both sides (UGH) fall into the trap of attacking the bit they disagree with as if it's the whole thing.
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My theory about Joyce Carol Oates is that all her bad posts are her charging up like Godzilla's spines until she lets loose with a radioactive blast that leaves the world's richest Nazi a pile of ash
November 9, 2025 at 2:31 PM
My theory about Joyce Carol Oates is that all her bad posts are her charging up like Godzilla's spines until she lets loose with a radioactive blast that leaves the world's richest Nazi a pile of ash
Tanzer throws marvellous shade 🤭
I think the best part of the del Toro FRANKENSTEIN is when William looks right at Victor and says, “Victor, YOU are the monster!!!!” Boy, if only Mary Shelley had thought to put that line in her book she would have saved us all a lot of head-scratching!
November 9, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Tanzer throws marvellous shade 🤭