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I'm a senior lecturer of IT, used to be an entrepreneur and a software engineer. Here's I'm just going to post about movies I've liked, but also I would rather talk about weird indie films.
He/him, but as a Finn, I don't really care, so any/all is fine.
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Did the AI decide to make a Lego Darth Vader?
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Yes, Cruise is problematic to put it mildly (the movie, which I saw yesterday, also has a lot of personal myth-making), but he does care about his craft and movies as an art form, and he showed himself to be a responsible producer with his covid responses which probably cost him tens of millions.
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Or, alternatively, our former colonizers are appropriating one of the most important aspects of the Finnish culture.
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I don't write much professionally, but I do write a lot and what helps me is stopping a writing session deliberately in the middle of a section. That way, when I get back to it, I have something in mind already and I can easily get back into it.
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Also, just realized that only one of these is American and I am kind of happy about that.
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(I guess I should note that unions are actually key here as in two of these three long-term jobs I've had, there's been very strict rules on what can be asked of us, and in the third one I was part of the management...)
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That's bleak. Personally, I have liked my colleagues in all of the long-term jobs I've had. They've been smart, educated and motivated people who just get along.
Now, the management, on the other hand...
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I was a kid during the last years of the Cold War, so I my perspective has evolved, but this situation feels much, much more dangerous than the days when we were taught what to do in case of a nuclear strike.
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(Also, 'marginalia' is not exactly safe for work, but still interesting thing to search for.)
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True. Back in the day when books actually cost a shitton, what would people do? They would scribble their notes on them. They would have discussions in the margins. Those are now incredibly valuable to us in understanding the history of science. So, use the books, don't just protect them.
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There's a museum in Lisbon, Museum of the Orient, that had part of Onibaba running as an exhibit.
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I have read all six a long, long time ago, but I don't think I was a leftist back then, so does that count?
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Just a little context: your run of the mill nuclear reactor produces a gigawatt of energy.
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Sure, there's great ROI, but it isn't quite that simple, when you have limited number of screens in the world and weekends in the year, which is the reason why they keep pushing the extremely expensive tentpoles. Also, the theaters need that money to survive. (Or the audiences need to adjust.)
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Depends, but an hour before boarding is what I aim for. Changes based on whether I want to eat there and schedules of public transport.
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I'm not a journalist, but I write and do get occasionally paid for it and I would never imagine letting an AI do it for me, because that's the interesting part. You sit down and think about how you want to explain something and your own thoughts about it become clearer in the process.
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This can't be true. Otherwise some brave soul would have taken the opportunity for Canada to join the Nordics at some point and just sabotaged their own team.
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Indeed, how can I, a person who feels very indifferent about this topic having had both good and bad poutine, help avoid this coming crisis? I will be working tirelessly on new forms of poutine until I can find something that will satisfy Robert Evans himself. Maybe incorporate roadkill?
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I'm reading between the lines that this also means Scottish indpendence and reunification of Ireland. Wales can Wale.
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If your siblings feel Ur-Sibling is too difficult and arcane, just use simpler English, like "the superior sibling" or if that is still too arcane, "the better sibling".
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I might need a pronunciation guide for this.
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So, just theoretically, who would be interested in being my contact if I start smuggling eggs to the US from here Europe?
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That is good. Can we find other good rebrands? Like, shouldn't capital tax be some kind of a compensation for the infrastructure people with capital benefit much more from than the rest of us?
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I don't see any reason not to.
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Why do they need four people to do this? If they really believe the AI can do this, they shouldn't need more than one.
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Oh no, I'm a complete non-Irish nobody and even I got in.
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Wasn't Dick an anarchist?
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You have to remember that we are talking about someone who is mediocre in his profession, at best. He just has a reputation, because he wrote movies for Scorcese half a century ago. But I fully understand if people would like to boycott his movies after this. I already was for other reasons.
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Not to worry (or do worry, depending on your approach and goals) as it did not show up on my recommendations as her videos generally do.
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Well, I am glad he has hidden away his microcompass, because that might be suspicious.
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I think I kind of managed to move someone's worldview to the left on Friday just a little bit. So, just a few billion people more to go, I guess?
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A big part of me wants to say something about that quote but what the fuck can you say to that? Everything about it is so wrong and I wouldn't even know where to start to unravel that.
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Some highlights in ratings differences include two movies freely available for everyone here in Finland: In the Loop and Nomadland. The former doesn't have a rating in the US but the language would definitely make it an R and the latter is also an R in the US based on brief nudity.
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Well, hopefully these won't instruct kids to self-harm, kill their parents or experiment sexually like Character.AI, an app by a company backed by Google.
www.npr.org/2024/12/10/n...
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Ah, okay. I'm old and this was in the early 90s, but we used to make a full meal every week for one school year, I think.
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Did you not have Home Ec at school? Or is that a purely gendered thing in the US?
But yeah, cooking is great. People who don't do it don't understand how important it is for. Also, the experience of making a meal for someone else is just great.
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He can't even smile naturally when doing this?
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Well, us Finnish didn't have colonies...w
But yes, it is funny how some movies that get an R-rating in the US are basically allowed for all in Finland.
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Indeed and that is why I'm in the trenches fighting the war on Christmas.
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My immediate go to, but I would also like expand this to their whole little network of podcasts, but there's the difference. Their not just shooting shit. They actually research topics and have actual expertise. Maybe we should come up with a different names for these different kinds of podcasts.
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This was the exact same tactic the headmistress at my high school used to do back in the day. When something happened, she would make an announcement that they already knew the guilty party and all she wanted was for them to come forward.
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Don't let go of your paranoia just yet. This probably just means that the guy was invisible enough. He wasn't making hours long anti-capitalist statements and spreading them on social media. As far as we know.