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Nolen Gertz
@ethicistforhire.bsky.social
Philosophy professor @utwentephilosophy.bsky.social
Author of #NihilismAndTechnology (RLI 2018), #Nihilism (MIT 2019), #PhilosophyOfWarAndExile (Palgrave 2014)

https://www.nolengertz.com

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Jean Rollin movies are great fun if you like his vibe. And his movies are all about vibe. Dreamy landscapes. Languorous nonsense conversations. Women on the edge of madness. Men thinking they're in control and then dying from hubris. And lots of nudity...
November 11, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Just last week we had an event on campus on "AI in Education" where a teacher from ROC van Twente talked about his students have so much "fun" using AI that they've started using it to create deepfakes to cyberbully each other. AI is not something schools should be promoting...
November 11, 2025 at 9:54 AM
"I think instinctively we know that's bullshit."
November 10, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Pretty wild that this is a movie from 1986 about a boy named Harry Potter doing battle with evil magical creatures...
November 9, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Reposted by Nolen Gertz
You might enjoy these quotes from Falk talking in general about Columbo's "reaching into pockets" business. (In that same interview he told me about directing "Blueprint for Murder" and getting help from Cassavetes and Spielberg.)
November 9, 2025 at 3:42 PM