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The People's Republic of North Park, CA
Joined March 2008
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Looking back over my life the only thing I feel absolutely certain about is this was the best song written during the 1990s youtube.com/watch?v=JXkN3nJy…
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I've been thinking about Close-Up since I saw You Can See Everything. I love it, I need to rewatch it ASAP.
starter pack to reshape your understanding of "nonfiction", imo
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Those post US Open blues
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I humbly submit a national ban on adjectives from critics being used in film trailers. You've used them all up, guys.
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👀 Samurai & the Prisoner out this week too
Kiyoshi Kurosawa's five-part series 'Penance' will begin streaming on the Criterion Channel next month: thefilmstage.com/the-criteri…
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The science fiction guys never had the foresight to create a dystopia this awful.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman: "in the next 6 months, we're close to a world where a descendant of ChatGPT can watch your screen, record every meeting and call, and have perfect context of your whole life" We're only one model generation away from this being incredibly useful
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Dark Souls summer in full effect
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The near universal praise for Nolan's Odyssey is extremely disappointing. Where are my haters, my cranks, my nattering nabobs of negativism? Won't anyone talk some shit?
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I've always understood eating at Taco Bell to be putting your life at grave risk, it seems to be a generally understood thing even among its adherents. This news is not a surprise to anyone, right?
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This stuff is all very interesting and despairing because it rests on the fiction we will be able to accurately do this. We won't. Real artistic efforts will be flagged as AI and vice versa and it's all going to be a sad mess. However: lots of old and wonderful books to read.
*Another* apparently AI-generated story wins a literary prize, this time judged by a panel including the novelist Ruth Ozeki. Literary prizes need to start including Pangram checks in their process, or else change the rules to make AI writing ok. It’s very simple!
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