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here's that essay on The Prestige, if anyone's curious:
mattdiamond.substack.com/p/t…
Ken Russell's "The Devils" is so good
Oliver Reed plays a promiscuous priest who's accused of witchcraft by a nun that's sexually obsessed with him
the whole thing is nuts in the best way
trailer for the restoration (which I believe is still screening):
youtube.com/watch?v=ImeXlanF…
I wonder if any women have a fetish for 41-year-old neurotic Jewish men suffering from malaise, indecisiveness, and a complete lack of joie de vivre
Olivia Rodrigo's song "Honeybee" is one of the prettiest things I've heard in a long while
I don't know where else to put that information so I guess I'll put it here
cheers
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need to meet a nice Jewish girl who likes good music and appreciates the elegance of the State monad
has anyone else seen an AI make a grammatical error?
Gemini just made one ("she frame her decision" instead of "she frames her decision") and I've never seen that happen before
not sure what to make of it
oh my god how did I not know that Cameron Winter's mom is the woman who wrote that divisive polyamory memoir
what
this might be dumb but I can't figure out if the people in this short film are partners or not
it looks obviously authentic... but then I keep wondering how they have so much wonderfully shot vintage-style footage from their lives
cute film, regardless
youtu.be/1mMeI2Fhk6w?si=rFkH…
the weird thing is that I want to believe in the meaningfulness of various things (love, art, etc.), yet I also don't know exactly what I mean by the word "meaningful"
when I was younger some people were like "you should do stand-up" but I never tried it because I was (and still am) petrified by the prospect of bombing on stage
I don't know if I can survive that kind of humiliation
still, sometimes I wonder if I could make people laugh
is code.claude.com down for anyone else?
@AnthropicAI did you guys forget to renew the domain
you guys know there's already a Following > Popular tab where you can see popular tweets from your mutuals, right?
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Twitter is a giant swarm of moths circling an electric lamp, arguing over which lights are stars and which ones are bug zappers
I have to admit: it's a tough question
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Replying to @KelseyTuoc
everyone's squabbling over narrow empirical claims instead of grappling with the real mystery: how is it possible for human lives to have genuine value and meaning in a deterministic clockwork universe?
everything else is a distraction from this fundamental problem







