So this completely obliterates the innocent until proven guilty rule. You cannot just predict a crime when no illegal activity has occurred. They’re just gonna use the AI to make up stuff about the citizens they deem “domestic terrorists” so they can charge them with bullshit and lock them up. This is so fucking dystopian.
Ladies, imagine someone doing your cooking, cleaning, running errands & endless invisible domestic labor. Imagine how much TIME that would free up for your career and hobbies. For the average male, that IS their reality. Then they turn around and claim women "contribute nothing."
Watching people in the industry break down TLOAS and talk about how amazing it is makes my heart smile. It really is such an amazing album and TRULY deserves AOTY. There’s no other album out there like it.
“great pop star, not a great artist” then why is she in songwriters hall of fame at 36 yo already? why does she have grammys for non-pop albums? and awards for music videos DIRECTED by herself? why does she have albums across many genres? why is her most recent tour so acclaimed?
Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey’ sparked unexpected controversy when one of the Viking ships used during production, an authentic, hand‑built replica owned by a small maritime heritage non‑profit, was returned with significant structural damage. The vessel, normally maintained through volunteer labor and modest donations, had been loaned out under the assumption that a major studio would treat it with care and cover any repairs. Instead, the organization found cracked planks, warped ribs, and a ruined sail system that would cost more than their annual operating budget to fix.
The non‑profit reached out to the production team repeatedly, hoping for a straightforward reimbursement or at least a conversation. What they encountered instead was silence. Emails went unanswered, calls were redirected, and the studio’s representatives insisted the damage was “pre‑existing,” despite photographic documentation taken before filming. For a group dedicated to preserving Viking‑age craftsmanship, the dismissal felt not just financially devastating but deeply disrespectful.
As the story spread among local historians and maritime enthusiasts, frustration grew. Volunteers who had spent years restoring the ship felt betrayed, watching a Hollywood epic profit from their work while leaving them with a broken artifact they could no longer sail or display. The incident became a symbol of the imbalance between massive film productions and the small cultural institutions they rely on, raising uncomfortable questions about responsibility, preservation, and the true cost of cinematic authenticity.
The damaged Viking ship had actually been restored using traditional clinker‑building techniques, meaning every plank was hand‑shaped and overlapped the next, so repairing even a “small” crack requires a specialist craftsman and days of labor. That’s why the non‑profit wasn’t just upset about the cost; the damage erased work done with skills that only a handful of artisans still practice today.
#archaeohistories
Andrew Garfield sat on a stoop with Elmo and explained grief better than anyone had ever explained it
Elmo: “Elmo’s going around sesame checking in on everybody so Elmo wants to know how Andrew’s doing?”
“I’m thinking about my mum today she passed away not too long ago and you know I just miss her miss her a lot”
“You don’t have to say sorry it’s actually kind of okay to miss somebody that sadness is kind of a gift it’s kind of a lovely thing to feel In a way because it means you really loved somebody when you miss them”
“When I miss my mum I remember all the cuddles I used to get from her all the hugs it makes me feel close to her when I miss her in a strange sort of way’
As an archaeologist of ancient Greece, I finally saw the Odyssey yesterday
All I can say is "Fucking WOW"
I could nitpick for hours about the armor and architecture. I could praise with detailed comparanda the jewelry and pottery and a range of interior decoration. I could find a thousand deviations from the original epic poem and another thousand reasons it stayed true to Homer's story. I could give zero shits about the skin color of the cast
But talk about cinematic storytelling! The perfect musical score (inspired by Albanian polyphony and folk music), the epic battles and elaborately filmed monsters, and all the super well-done at-sea moments. The dialog was sometimes heavy handed (even cheesy) but that suits for an epic myth in any era
But overall. It was just a lot of fun to watch. The Cyclops was scary, Calypso's lotus was tempting, and the final battle was fucking intense. Good chance we go and see it a second time. Definitely go IMAX (we just went to a normal IMAX, not 70mm) for the larger screen and deeper sound
Plus, Circe and the pigs was the best fairy tale-esque scene I've ever seen. Absolutely phenomenal
The Helsinki Court of Appeal has cleared three men who raped a heavily intoxicated 17-year-old girl in a wooded area in Finland. The girl was so drunk that she had actually been taken to the hospital for intoxication just before the assault. The three men then raped her in the woods right outside the hospital.
Both the District Court and the Court of Appeal completely dismissed all charges and let the men walk free without any convictions.
Judges ruled that despite her severe intoxication, CCTV footage showed she was still legally capable of forming and expressing consent. The court decided that the men could have believed the teenager was agreeing to having sex, ultimately freeing them from all criminal responsibility. It is completely fucked up that a court thinks a teenager drunk enough to need a hospital is somehow sober enough to consent to three grown men. Being drunk does not mean consent. Not saying no does not mean consent. If someone is too intoxicated to care for themselves, they cannot give real consent, period.