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One of the most common arguments you hear from fans of generative ‘AI’ is that it’s not plagiarizing people’s work, it’s just learning like a human learns. So I’m going to break down why that’s just not true, and why it can never be true, with the existing systems. 1/

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The tradition my wife and I have developed for celebrating Valentine’s Day together is pizza enjoyed with a Bollywood movie.

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I need to put this out there. There is no monomyth. The "hero's journey" is not a universal thing, and never was. Its creation relied on cherry picked stories and ignoring everything in them and any context about them or the cultures they were from to work. It was literature level colonialism. 1/4

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Yes, I wonder what the difference is between the two sets of writers that leads them the prefer the one other the other? And I love that “or even Delany”. A queer, black writer whose work draws on post structuralism. Why might reactionary techbros not be interested in his work?!

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While I knew this existed, I don’t think I realised it was an actual pen you can actually draw with. My son is going love this when I show it to him tomorrow!

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In the charity shop where I volunteer, in one of the back rooms where we sort out and price books, there is now a pile of Neil Gaiman’s books and comics which have been removed from the shelves, next to a post it note asking if we should sell these any more.

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Here's the short film Derek Jarman made with Marianne Faithfull for Broken English, it's not a music video, it's art and it is what the song and the singer deserved. RIP. youtu.be/f2tbc81Ujno?...

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David Lynch was a true realist documenting a haunted world. His work was a great act of empathy with all the humans living bewildered on an alien planet called Earth.

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So, welcome to 2025, where everything is true, and nothing will be permitted.

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If you just believe in the fiscal rules hard enough - and leave out some discarded minority rights besides your fireplace - then Economy Santa will visit and fill your stocking with Economic Growth.

submitted 70 days ago • 3 comments

Man if only someone could make a movie of Roadside Picnic and also be one of the canonical great Soviet directors that would be nice

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A good article written by my cousin.

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Rewatching the John Wayne western Rio Bravo, which you might imagine to be a cornerstone of anti-woke, and if you did you’d be surprised how much of the running time is three middle aged men talking about their feelings & how to process trauma. Also ‘horny confused John Wayne’ scenes.

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I am going to say again, the popular aesthetic of cyberpunk as it is now, is hauntological, a lost future that looks cooler than the one we got; the practical material concerns of it, however, are something that we are living through to some degree or another, and getting worse.

submitted 80 days ago • 17 comments

It might just be me, but all the men Trump is nominating for his cabinet all seem to have giant heads, and look as though they’re auditioning for a starring role in American Psycho.

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My father in law has already tried to convince me that Trump is ‘a great guy’. On one level, I think I was expecting it, as he is a very enthusiastic supporter of Modi.

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I’ve seen a few people say they’re reading V For Vendetta. The Alan Moore comic I found myself thinking of last night was PROVIDENCE, where a cabal of repulsive old white men plan for decades to successfully reshape reality in their image. Not a cheerful read but his best late comics work

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This thought was burning a hole in my mind... open.substack.com/pub/joelmorr...

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