“9-1-1 what’s your emergency?”
“There’s someone in the house. He’s trying to kill me.”
“Okay, what I want you to do is get to your ballroom.”
“I don’t have a ballroom.”
“…Then may God have mercy on your soul.”
THEY SENT FOUR HUMAN BEINGS 452,000 KILOMETRES BEHIND THE MOON AND BROUGHT THEM BACK TO SPLASH DOWN IN THE EXACT SPOT THEY CALCULATED BEFORE THEY EVER LEFT THE GROUND
THE MATHEMATICS WORKED. THE PHYSICS HELD. THE SILENCE ENDED.
EVERY ENGINEER, MATHEMATICIAN, PHYSICIST, AND PROGRAMMER WHO TOUCHED THIS MISSION IS THE COOLEST PERSON ALIVE AND THEY KNOW IT
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TMZ: President Trump mouths “fuck you” and flashes a middle-finger at a Ford plant worker in Detroit, MI after the worked yelled “pedophile protector.”
Viewing the video from one angle, it looks like an ICE agent murdered Renee Nicole Good in cold blood. But viewing the video from a different angle, it looks like an ICE agent murdered Renee Nicole Good in cold blood. So who's to say what really happened?
Biggest immediate worry is everyone’s job. Long term worries are the creative, theatrical distribution, and physical media. The idea of shortening an already shortened theatrical window is concerning.
As you’re preparing for your Thanksgiving meal, remember the skilled work it took to get that food to you.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
Greta Thunberg: “Israeli soldiers hit, kicked, starved, and tortured me”
• They placed a flag next to me, and anytime the flag touched me, they kicked me
• Whenever I raised my head to look at Ben-Gvir, I was kicked
• She was filmed while stripped naked
• Prison was 40 degrees but no water was given to Greta and her friends for days
• People fell sick. Guards mocked them saying they would gas them, showing them cylinders
• She was kept in solitary confinement for hours with bugs
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"We had a beheaded woman that was 9 months pregnant and had to deliver her by emergency c-section in the emergency room."
AMERICANS: This is the evil that you are paying for daily. This is the evil that your politicians arm.
This is the evil you are complicit in if you are silent
Metaphors abound. Trump destroying beautiful old trees with deep roots that are part of history, just like he’s destroying the foundations of our democracy, which also go back to our deepest traditions.
Because calling it AI was a marketing decision. The real name is Large Language Model, which sums up how it works. It takes trillions of texts and uses them to create sentences that seem germane to your prompt. Nothing in there is "thinking" in the way you understand it.
Watched “Fantastic Four: First Steps.”
From the fashion, color palette, design, cityscape, TV and cartoon shows, to the costumes, spacesuits, rockets, cars—not to mention company names, food items (cereal, soda), and storage media (magnetic tapes, discs)—everything is crafted with a thorough commitment to a 1960s aesthetic blended with a sense of futurism.
It felt nostalgic, like watching “Bewitched” when I was a kid. Or at times, it felt like a live-action version of The Incredibles, with “family” as its central theme. Once I found out it was directed by the same person who did “WandaVision,” it all made sense.
Post-COVID hero films seem to be shifting away from the dark and gritty tone toward a more retro-futuristic, colorful, and nostalgic direction.
One thing the film does well is how it opens with a TV show that efficiently summarizes the Fantastic Four’s feats, role, and current standing.
If it had taken the time to carefully depict how they became superhuman from the very start, it would’ve come off as overly explanatory and slow-paced. Superman skipped that part too. Here, the plot is designed so that viewers are drawn in from the point where “they” gain a new family—marking the beginning of turmoil and crisis. As a “first step” to reboot the series, it’s truly “fantastic.”