thinking about penelope when she says civilization will rise again serving as the ultimate message of hope for humanity despite the collpase of society and nolan cutting to odysseous watching the trojan horse in flame just like oppenheimer watched the raindrops hit the puddle
lead tampon in me while i eat my listeria meat & cyclospora riddle veggies and wash it all down with microplastic water. afterwards, i inhale wildfire smoke and listen to the serene sounds of the data center built across the street. there’s a flock cam too recording it all
Christopher Nolan on AI:
“I’ve never seen a more rapid wholesale dismissal of a supposedly foundational jump in technology in my lifetime. So much energy has been expended on bringing in AI, but if you look at that generation’s reaction, they’re utterly rejecting it. [My children’s] judgment of AI slop has been immediate and harsh. They see it for what it is very quickly – and it’s much easier for them to identify it, because it grew out of an online world they know really well. And while that doesn’t mean that every aspect of the technology is useless or meaningless, in film-making it’s hitting at exactly the wrong time. After years of driving towards heavily virtual environments, we’re seeing a renewed interest in more tactile, more real forms of storytelling.”
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this actually helped me realize the difference between the original Toy Story movies and the two most recent sequels: the originals were made by people who were referencing and parodying classic cinema every step of the way, but the recent films exist more to reference themselves
I cannot express how positive it is for youth culture that the biggest mainstream “pop girl” is constantly foregrounding punk, grunge, and post-punk music.
The Trump administration has forced the National Parks Service to remove any photos of Harriet Tubman from their website covering the Underground Railroad.
Kane Parsons, director of hit film "backrooms" is 20 years old btw. He first made his youtube channel 11 years ago, at age 9. In line with herr Oberführer Starmer's proposed ban, people like him would be prevented from practicing editing and film-making for nearly a whole decade.
I'm a heart made of wax and I'm melting in the sun, I'm a thread on your shirt that is coming undone, I feel right, I feel wrong, I feel totally insane and I want you more than any stupid song could ever say
Genuinely perfect. Skipless from top to bottom. Completely different from GUTS and SOUR yet still SO her. No song sounds like another. Very experimental with incredible pay off. A true work of art
“The students who cannot read a 20-page article today are the voters who will not be able to read a bill, or the jurors who cannot follow a closing argument, tomorrow.”
Israeli forces intercepted more than 20 boats carrying aid for Gaza in international waters near Crete, which is around 1,000km away from Israel.
Around 175 activists were detained and then transported to Israel.
(https://t.co/TnTzZH8X6I)