Malcolm Rumbles

3rd AD for Film & TV by day, Director & sometimes actor by night.

[Malcolm Rumbles @malrumbles]

I believe it may have been @JamesGunn who started this, but I thought I’d join in and let Twitter know my #5PerfectMovies:

Miami Connection (1987)
Fateful Findings (2012)
Hard Ticket to Hawaii (1987)
The Snowman (2017)
Cellular (2004)

[Jason Bassler @JasonBassler1]

Cops are monitoring people critical of data centers.

The FBI is monitoring people critical of data centers.

Congress is monitoring people critical of data centers.

I'm starting to think they really don't want us to be asking what all these data centers are actually for.

[The_War_Economy @The_War_Economy]

Just so we're clear on how absolutely stupid the British Government is.

When a petition is signed with over 2 million people saying No to Digital ID, it gets ignored.

When 9000 people answer an online, unadvertised survey, suddenly it's "overwhelming support".

[Tommy Stella @tommy_stella]

I know we all treat him like a creative god on here because he made the cool space franchise, but it is genuinely so cool and inspiring that in his retirement he made a museum love letter to storytelling. Like thank you, George. That's genuinely so important right now.

[Philip Proudfoot @PhilipProudfoot]

So, I have a friend who works at the BBC.

Yesterday, they told me the Tony Blair Institute basically selected the entire panel for @bbcquestiontime — hence why there was no balance and it was essentially dangerous big tech propaganda. Loads of staff pissed off, but silenced.

[alec @podrace_EXPLODE]

rejecting AI is bare minimum requirement to be an artist.

if you use AI you are not an artist.

[Scott Bryan @scottygb]

Are we okay

[Wholesome Side of 𝕏 @itsme_urstruly]

I heard an interview today about AI in creative spaces and the man being interviewed said “AI is data, and Data can only look backwards. Creativity looks forwards.” And I need to sit with that in the best possible way.

[Michael Caine @themichaelcaine]

Why do we fall?
So we can learn to pick ourselves up.
Batman Begin

[Adam Brooks AKA EssexPR 🇬🇧 @EssexPR]

No one voted for DIGITAL ID - no one.
They have NO mandate for this. It wasn’t in their manifesto.
MILLIONS showed their feelings on a Government petition.

Expect protests. Big protests…

[Leah Dionne @leahdionne__]

It makes me sad that he’s been ringing the alarm of climate disaster for decades and everyone is just like ‘aw what a sweet old national treasure’ and ignoring him

[Heidi @HeidiBriones]

every drug dealer ever

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

Can we get this retweeted 10,000 times????

Keep Palantir out of the NHS!

Spread the word!

[ATLAS @XavilonguiF1]

🧵 HILO: Nadie te está contando lo que va a pasar con la comida en 2027. Yo si

1/ Ormuz lleva 2 meses efectivamente cerrado. Todo el mundo habla del petróleo. Nadie habla de lo que de verdad te va a afectar en el supermercado el año que viene.

[Malcolm Rumbles @malrumbles]

It seems Starmer is also excited for #CoyoteVsAcme finally coming out this summer

[harry @haditforamoment]

the “meep meep” 18 seconds in has me crying like where did that sound come from

[St.Brigette @saintBrigettee]

The Strokes displaying last university in Gaza bombed as they finish their set in Coachella.

[Jack Dart @JackWDart]

Why the fuck is a technology company posting a manifesto? Get them out of the NHS, and then out of Britain, immediately.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

The scariest finding in this paper: the subjects couldn't tell it was happening.

UPenn ran this study on 48 healthy adults. One group slept 8 hours. Another slept 6. Another slept 4. For 14 straight days. They tested cognitive performance every 2 hours from 7:30am to 11:30pm.

The 6-hour group's reaction times, working memory, and sustained attention deteriorated on a near-linear curve. By day 14 they were performing at the same level as someone who hadn't slept at all in 48 hours. The 4-hour group hit that threshold by day 6.

Here's the part that should unsettle everyone who thinks they "do fine" on 6 hours: the subjects' self-reported sleepiness flatlined after the first few days. Their brains kept getting worse. Their perception of how impaired they were stopped updating. The cognitive decline was invisible to the person experiencing it.

The researchers found a hard threshold. Any wakefulness beyond 15.84 hours in a day produces cumulative neurobiological cost. That cost compounds every single day you exceed it and does not reset with a weekend of sleeping in.

About 35% of American adults sleep less than 7 hours a night. 40% of those get 6 hours or less. In 1942 that number was 11%. We built an entire professional culture around a sleep schedule that this paper says is functionally equivalent to pulling consecutive all-nighters.

"I'm fine on 6 hours" is the most common response to sleep research. The first thing chronic sleep debt destroys is your ability to notice chronic sleep debt.

[KNEECAP @KNEECAPCEOL]

Israel is now doing to Lebanon what it did, and is doing, to Gaza.

War crimes every single day.

[largest rodent @capybaroness]

largely responsible for a surge in cinephilia among young people that has almost no historical precedent while also helping raise the profiles of older films that would have otherwise gone forgotten and new films that would otherwise fly under the radar. undeniably good for film.

[The Rt Hon Lady Matildamog @Jc62Matildamog]

Couldn’t supermarkets take a little hit for once and instead of raising prices again, just make a little less profit for a bit. Or is that too much to ask 😡