I block ads everywhere I can, then get frustrated that I don’t know when movies are going to come out.
It would be nice if we could get back to a place where advertisers just wanted to tell us about products in case we are interested rather than stalk us like some kind of a psychotic ex-lover hoping to build the perfect psychological profile to Make us love their product whether we want to or not.
Hands down the best Christmas movie that no one talks about. I love this movie.
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang is an underappreciated gem. It’s minimally christmassy, but its a perfect distillation of Shane Black’s style of buddy cop story telling and humor. Almost a reflection on how everyone else directed his screenplays.
I’m adding The Lion in Winter to my list. Thanks.
Yeah… Then we were all sad and shocked when Sega got out of the console market.
But it was fun while it lasted.
“You’re way more committed than our last dom”.
I hope enough people remain on this AI infested ghost ship that it can keep providing a base for librewolf.
Dreamcast because you could just burn a game to CD and run it on an unmodded console.
Original Xbox because you could slap on a no solder mod chip and boot from the hard drive. Suddenly you could switch up the loader, run modded games, run emulators… Truly ground breaking for the console scene.
Or SNES if you’re the kind of weirdo who buys a console because they like games.
Brooklyn 99 has a whole story line about Rosa coming out as bi. That’s not exactly the same thing as writing her Lesbian, but it’s representation.
Narrow models trained on a task specific data set tend to be very good at their specialization. So protien folding, or material sciences have benefitted from machine learning, but we shouldn’t mistake that for being the same thing as chatGPT.
One of the bigger problems we have with AI at the moment (in my very inexpert opionion) is that they seem to be trying to throw LLMs at every problem and swearing that it’ll achieve AGI soon.
Meanwhile Alpha Fold is more closely related to stable diffusion than it is to ChatGPT.
I actually have some accidentally poisoned data out there. Many years ago I had a job that entailed doing red carpets. There were a lot of photos of me at small to mid-sized events with two of my business partners.
Then for two years in a row my partners went to the MTV VMAs with someone else. The VMAs are MUCH bigger in terms of media footprint. That guy got tagged as me in the photos. So now a Google image search for me will at least be mixed, and often the other guy comes up first.
So the idea is sound.
I had this on my VHS of Christmas specials I taped off TV when I was a kid. I watched it once or twice a year throughout my childhood. Nobody else ever seems to remember it.
And if this headline used Train hero as a name (e.g. Train Hero) rather than a description of a person then we’d be closer to a one-to-one comparison. If they used the train hero’s name in the headline in addition to calling him hero, then you’d be spot on.
Even then they wouldn’t be scare quotes. It would just be a different style choice. I checked the BBC style guide and this is pretty open to interpretation.
No one at the BBC is making a case that an unarmed man stopping a mass shooter is not heroic. This is people looking for stuff to be outraged about.
Those are not scare quotes. they are just quotes. People were just referring to him as hero or the hero because they didn’t know his name.
The headline is stating “that the guy you’ve all been calling ‘hero’… His actual name is Ahmed al Ahmed”.
It is a terrible headline. It can be debated whether it’s intentionally misleading, but if the debate is even possible then the writing is awful.
As someone with a factory job, I agree. Admittedly I have a degree, and I’m doing supply chain work in an office, but a 75k setup machinist or CNC programmer job is pretty good compared to spending 100 grand in student loans to make 75K as an office drone.
I wouldn’t advise anyone drop out of medical school to run a packaging line in a factory, but there are a lot of people who do pretty well. You land in a union shop or an ESOP and you can make real money.
There is, but there is a difference between not admitting you’ve broken a law and impeding an investigation into whether you broke the law or destroying evidence.
The particulars are going to be very important in this case. It’s also possible they have no case and they’ll just use the legal system to torture him, ruin his life, and waste his money then drop the charges before it ever sees a judge.
I didn’t realize it was back in active development. It seemed to be abandonware for years.
That’s awesome. I’ll have to test drive it. Thanks.
Writing screenplays. Movie scripts. At it’s most basic, you can write it in any text editor, and you can format it in markup.
But, because the formatting is very specific and there are a lot of ways a screenplay gets analyzed and parsed they’re mostly done in a dedicated software. The biggest and most industry standard is called Final Draft.
That’s a great suggestion. I’ll check it out. Thanks.
Same. Unfortunately I’m very forgetful and the distance between now and then is often greater than the release window of that movie I want to watch.