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It's a shame Patrick Stewart never got to complete his passion project with Ricky Gervais
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The greatest Werner Herzog clip will forever be the story of how someone pointed a gun at his head and forced him to speak French
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I would like an update to civil law where anyone who makes money posting video of strangers on the internet can be sued by that stranger for every dime they made monetizing on that content (plus pain and suffering)
This is the consequence of reactionary partisanship where team A is like "Hey, we don't like being murdered for our politics" and team B is like "Well I immediately disagree with you on everything so I *do* like you being murdered for your politics"
Paul Walter Hauser was absolutely robbed of an Oscar nom for his role as Richard Jewell. He was spectacular and carried that movie.
It's probably true that experts have *always* delegated their judgement calls to what they think they are supposed to think. Anthropic is just able to track that process programmatically and expose this herd mentality.
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I do like the California Billionaire Tracker
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Mainly because I see stuff like the non-obvious exits from the list, like those who had been 10s of billions at the beginning of the year... then slipped below $1 billion in wealth. Hmm, wonder what happened.
It's extremely funny how many film people are like "you must be a moron if you haven't seen Cassavetes" but literally the first time they have ever mentioned him is to tell me this
The trailers are convincing me that the third Dune movie is just a totally new story on Dune that has nothing to do with the books
Do not fear the end. Dune: Part Three only in theaters and IMAX December 18. Tickets on sale now around the world. fandan.co/DunePartThree #DuneMovie #FilmedForIMAX
OK, I'll bite. If John Cassavetes is so insanely influential and brilliant, why have I not heard about him until recently?
I've been on a side-quest with classic and esoteric movies, mostly through the Criterion collection. I've watched dozens of Criterion closet picks from filmmakers and actors I admire.
They pick Cassavetes films ALL THE TIME. Probably more than any other director except Scorsese. I haven't seen a single Cassavetes film. I don't think I've ever heard anyone talk about a Cassavetes film outside of those videos.
I'm not a slouch on film, I've got a pretty wide spread on what I've seen & what I appreciate. How has Cassavetes slipped through that net so completely for so long?
Anthropic is going to make you take AI risk seriously by having a robot dangle a toddler over the edge of a cliff and telling it to let go
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i think what was actually happening during the Who's On First scene was that she simply wasn't paying attention, because a man was making her watch a youtube video
Hasan's entire argument is that unpopular things are actually secretly correct. This has very funny implications across the ideological spectrum.
“The Matthew Yglesias of 1963 would have been telling [JFK and LBJ] don’t touch this civil rights bill. It’s unpopular.”
I thought this was one of the more fascinating and important exchanges with @mattyglesias, where I challenged him on how far politicians should defer to polls on huge moral issues, and he pushed back on my analogy.
Full interview: zeteo.com/p/matt-yglesias-me…
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Mehdi conflates bill approval with protest approval. "This civil rights bill" was popular in '63. It had +16 approval (54-38) by Aug. '63 & +30 (61-31) in Jan. '64 before its June passage. Desegregation was generally popular w/ >+30 support for SCOTUS anti-segregation rulings
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This warping of economic realities is made even worse in the mass firing of older developers who put decades into companies that are now worth trillions
We're living in a horrifying, fascinating new era of Silicon Valley where:
1. You can build a startup in 9 months, get acquired (but rly acquihired) by OpenAI, Anthropic, or Cognition, and walk away a multi-millionaire
2. You can join the right company at 22 and become effectively post-economic
And I don't think we've even begun to grapple with the degree to which this is warping an entire generation's relationship with money, ambition, work, and success.
When your peers are making generational wealth before 25, what does a normal career even look like anymore