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It's way more impactful for the VMax reveal to be "it was just a vent".
Her sister didn't die a hero, the writers didn't invent a farfetched twist to let her live. She was disposable and her last moment was meaningless. That makes Jean's rage feel far more authentic.
ned inventing the spidey-tracker and mj not moving away for a possible job offer because she feels like she should be waiting on something, oh peter you’re still so loved, even in being forgotten
Chicos vayan a fijarse si sus amigos bisexuales están bien porque la veo muy difícil sobrevivir a la idea de estos dos haciendo de una pareja en pantalla. Haga patria, salve a un bisexual hoy✊
one of the twists in real world AI is that, in scifi, it was assumed that the danger would be that we'd raise the machine to the level of a human soul. but to be honest, it seems we're most in danger of debasing the human soul to the level of machine.
knitting has been on the frontlines against ai generated content basically since it became semi-coherent. they’ve been fighting a shadow war in the knitting forums and i’m not even joking.
they’ve gotten good at detecting ai works bc ai knotting patterns (?) are absolute trash.
the people who were mean to arts-y people were not mathematicians. they were tech bros. and to no one's surprise, the tech bros are now being mean to mathematicians too. mathematicians have infinitely more in common with the arts-y people than they ever did with these guys.
we don’t need to halve the population. thats eco facism. we need to get rid of militaries (responsible for 70% of emissions), data centers, companies that produce single use plastic, and switch out of fossil fuels to clean energy. but they’d rather let people die than do that
I don't think I had a full appreciation until recently of the degree to which the study of mathematics is functionally equivalent a religious order for so many mathematicians. The old gods are being slaughtered by the new machine god, and it must be like watching heaven being plundered.
Listen, Christopher Nolan.
I stand with Homer’s Odyssey, not with a modern version created to make Odysseus easier for us to forgive. You say you did not mean to Christianize the story. But when the Trojan Horse becomes a source of guilt, the journey home becomes penance, and a warrior hungry for glory becomes ashamed of who he is, I have to wonder: are we still watching Homer’s hero, or a modern man sent to therapy in ancient armour?
Yes, Xenia matters. But so do kleos, timē, metis and nostos: glory, honour, cunning and the unbearable desire to return home.
Homer’s Odysseus is proud, violent, brilliant, selfish, loyal, wounded and deeply human. He is not asking the audience to approve of him. He is trying to reclaim his wife, his son, his home and the name the world almost took from him.
I do not need Odysseus to be more likeable. I need him to be recognizable.
Perhaps great stories are not supposed to make us comfortable. Perhaps they survive because they force us to face people whose values are not our own.
You borrowed Homer’s seas, his gods and his hero, but gave Odysseus the conscience of another age.
And I couldn’t help but wonder: when we rewrite the past until it finally agrees with us, are we bringing Homer to life or simply putting him on trial?
Maturing is realizing they never burned witches. They burned midwives, healers, herbalists, and knowledgeable women.
Women who understood medicine, nature, and their own autonomy. Women whose knowledge threatened patriarchal control. The "witch hunts" were never about magic, they were about silencing women who couldn't be controlled.
‘WALA PONG PUBLIC CONSULTATION NA NAGANAP’
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It’s remarkable that you can say Jurassic Park has “no big themes” when Jeff Goldblum looks directly into the camera and says, “Worship of technology with no limits or ethical restraints will be the ruin of humanity.”
Hannah Einbinder on being called brave for using her platform to support Palestine:
“I don’t believe what I do is brave at all. It’s rational. And the fact that others are cowardly doesn’t make what I do brave. The people of Gaza are brave. I live with immense privilege. In my view, speaking about Palestine as I do is the least I can do.”
(https://t.co/CVU0udhLLW)
Chinese interview: The concept of atonement didn’t really exist in Ancient Greece and it didn’t exist in Homer’s Odyssey. It exists in your Odyssey. Did you Christianize the Odyssey?
American interview: spin the snack wheel and then read these thirst tweets they called you zaddy