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Liberalism of some kind | Open Borders | Free Palestine | YIMBY | Deregulate AI | Free Trade. I like Stats, CS, Movies, Art etc

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@_vonarchimboldi O yeah BAM is screening one my favorite films on the 27th - Memoria

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Sholay is a good movie but Metrograph has such unbelievably troll timings 😛

Every time I have seen them play “Millennium Mambo” it’s at 11 PM. Criminal to do this shit when located in lower east side. It’s either that or classic I want to watch screening at 1 PM on weekday

[Siddhant Adlakha @SiddhantAdlakha]

New York: come watch the Bollywood classic "Sholay" at @Metrograph on Wednesday August 19th at 6:10pm. I'll be introducing the Film Heritage Foundation's 4K restoration—with the original ending!—as part of the theatre's Worldwide West selection. Tickets available.

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@_vonarchimboldi Yeah I have memberships for Film forum (close to JC) and Lincoln center (this one mostly for NYFF). It’s been quite nice, watched Kiyoshi K’s latest, rewatched Third Man etc

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@_vonarchimboldi And yeah I’ve noticed theaters playing the same movie when a new restoration or something hits

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@_vonarchimboldi Oh I’ll do that. For now I just have ChatGPT run a scheduled job. Works decently. But this sounds more expansive and reliable

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Whose opinion should we take more seriously on AI in research: Poli sci undergrad who is self-admittedly scared of math

Obscure researchers Ed Witten, Terence Tao

Very tough choice really

[Sami Gold @souljagoyteller]

Asking AI for generalist responses to basic questions is fine, or asking it to help plan out your day, but you should feel shame if you use AI for help doing significant tasks within research

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@twst12612648 @PriynathBenares @_vonarchimboldi Comically bad really

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Academics thought that they could sit by and do nothing as their students got deported and are now pikachu face when it has came back to bite them

[Lev Reyzin @lreyzin]

IIT just fired 160 people, including tenured faculty, giving them only a few weeks’ notice. Perhaps they can do this legally, and this may even be in the future for more universities, but I won’t be able to recommend IIT as a place to work from now on.

https://t.co/i1pd2FBKAW

[✰ @popcomes]

post a film you watched 5 times

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Well the problem for cinema is there is a pretty low percentage of directors doing this and an even lower percentage of audiences who want directors to do things like this

[✧˖ @colditioner]

Imagine watching transitions like this and thinking cinema is dead.

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@sanatantango I agree. His peaks are arguably better as well

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This blew up huh. I should clarify I don’t hate Nolan and almost religiously buy tickets to his movies. It’s just that he’s a blockbuster director who has some interesting ways to channel the power of the visual medium and also is guilty of doing some very boring stuff with it

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Kubrick has more masterpieces than Nolan has interesting movies

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@cactusmaac Common Kubrick W staying away from superhero slop tbh

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Kubrick has more masterpieces than Nolan has interesting movies

[Towobola @ib63319]

After Oppenheimer and Odyssey, can Nolan stand next to Kubrick amongst the GOAT's? Or not?

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@_vonarchimboldi @doloyeung @twst12612648 I mean idk I don’t really consider standup comedy a worthwhile human endeavour so I’m just going to agree with everything 🤣

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@ShinMarginalScr Perpetual victim mindset. Queen Elizabeth herself came down to destroy Babri according to this guy

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@twst12612648 @FateSailor @_vonarchimboldi It’s not to say that slow and meditative movies are always better but it depends from context to context. There’s no uniform answer to which kind of pacing is better but for the odyssey I definitely lean slow and just generally for any setting with themes of time and memory

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@twst12612648 @goopium @_vonarchimboldi Well it’s only between these two and twin peaks. I prefer the Sopranos but The Wire has the grander scope so can go either way

[Mister Respect @MarxNotNarcs]

What if we replaced the greatest cut in cinema history with a bunch of bullshit?

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@twst12612648 @FateSailor @_vonarchimboldi That’s a good thing. I think Nolans film would also have benefited from being slower and from shots having more breathing space over jarring cutting. In fact the slow sequences are some of the best in it - Circe, siren’s song. Maybe that’s how the directors cut even is tbf