dcober.bsky.social
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I saw this with my seven year old this weekend, and the heart of the story is basically the friendship between Elio and Glordon, a character who does not appear at all in the trailers. (The kid loved it).
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That was a family favorite growing up in my household. What an ensemble!
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More research on the cognitive deficit of relying only on AI... you can't even remember the information you called up. That's how learning works! arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872
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Why did you want to ruin my day?
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If history had been just a bit different, we all would be eagerly awaiting the release of the Dreamcast 5 right now.
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Charles Dickens would blush.
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I just imagine that you run into a guy who looks like Wyatt Russell every other block in L.A.
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I guess I underestimated Russell Crowe.
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Celebrity musical endeavors are across the board terrible, but there are worse ways for people with tons of money to waste their time. I'm not listening to 30 Odd Foot of Grunt, but enjoy yourself Russell Crowe.
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I really hope this means that Ana de Armas makes us of a conspicuous, conveniently placed pommel horse.
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I use a lot of OER in the classroom. And if I had the time, I would absolutely print the material out instead of having students pull the readings up on their computer.
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Sluggo was punk before punk was punk.
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This only makes sense if you think that the people and personalities involved in politics don't also dictate policy. If you truly think there's a firewall between these two, then maybe you haven't learned much covering DC.
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They gave him the "You will atone!" speech.
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Readers are already awash with a ton of content. On a given day, I don't get to read all the news stories I want from the newspapers I subscribe to. Even more content won't necessarily help a newspaper.
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I like to call it the "Who do I shoot?" narrative, like the scene from Grapes of Wrath. Republicans tell us who caused our problems. Democrats don't. It would be so easy to simply say it's the fault of billionaires, which has the benefit of being actually true. But they won't do it.
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If you are approaching elections from a social science perspective, then you're right. But this is a candidate honing a message. It's probably best to view this as a rhetorical strategy.
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If politics and the press are any indication, there's actually lots of incentives for the elite to cosplay as "middle class."
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It's a film that's been copied so many times that you expect it to feel dated. But what it does is so tricky that few copy cats have been able to properly accomplish what it's doing. Also, I love when "lightweight" genres like comedies and romcoms look like real films.
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I get that Republicans are the primary antagonist here. Too much focus on Dem failure can get annoying. But they're part of the story too. And there's only so many ways you can say that Republicans are fascists. We need a robust opposition party.
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I also wish that Dem politicians had actually pushed back at attacks on the humanities and the push to see education as solely about job training. This and their capitulation on "free speech" allowed this to happen. It wasn't going to stop at criticizing "underwater basket weaving."
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I wonder if this will get one-tenth of the media attention of the fact that Biden was very old.
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If the debacle at the Washington Post has shown, destroying your reputation as a newspaper can happen quickly and it's difficult to win back that trust.
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It's especially weird since there are authors like George Higgins and Raymond Chandler who wrote entire novels while spending little time on those things.
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"leverage my creativity"
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Okay, but how can I trust a guy who uses the word "nothingburger"?
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What constituency does Shor and Andressen represent? Oh, no. We're no longer going to get the consultant grifter and tech billionaire vote!
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The Shadow deserved a sequel. Or The Rocketeer. Or even The Phantom. Hell, any pulp movie throwback that bombed deserves another chance. I even loved the John Carter movie.
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The abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison believed the Constitution was a slave document and burned it in public. Frederick Douglass, however, believed it could be reclaimed and that the inherent ideals in the Constitution could be turned to fight for abolition. It's an old debate.
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I read an interview with Stahelski, I believe, who said that in order to have longer shots, reasonable budget, more complex choreography, and better safety for performers, digital blood is necessary. After that I have little patience for people complaining about digital blood.
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Madame Web is the better film, so no surprise there.
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I don't think he plays fair. He purposefully throws his subject off by doing things like asking a follow up question.
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I was going to criticize this whole stunt, but then I realize that I've never been to space, so I really have no room to talk.
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Also, The Colbert Report was a straight up brilliant piece of sustained satire. He was so good, some conservatives didn't realize it was a joke.
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We also had about a decade of glowing, uncritical news coverage of tech companies and startups. They were going to solve climate change and our economy. They did neither, and they have made the world worse. The shift in cultural attitudes towards tech is completely their own fault.
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I watched these with my tomboy seven year old, and I was genuinely surprised by how engaged she was with the relationship drama. At the end of 2 she even yelled "Run, Mary Jane, run" as MJ fled her wedding.
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Dems don't want to just be the anti-Trump party. But they certainly don't want to be the party that actually stands for anything either.
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That was my indication that this guy was a moron, and it only got worse from there. Before that, I just kind of accepted that he must be smart.
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But you see, the other side will sometimes cherry pick data, so who's to say who is really lying?
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We all owe the prequels and apology.