Just saw folk who join the uncritical rush towards AI referred to as "LLMings", and I am stealing that.
Vintage Pixel Game: Lemmings
Alt: Vintage Pixel Game: Lemmings
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After every tribute I've read today, I hope Pac knew how loved, admired and respected he was. One of the greatest this country has ever produced and a damn good human. This is incomprehensible.
One of the first things I started watching when I got back into wrestling was early NXT, with Adrian Neville making that show matter every week. He'd been incredible for years already, and he only got better. Wrestling without Pac has a hole at its centre that I can't fully comprehend.
I know I'm late and only just catching up with All In (we had to go home to go to a wedding), but I would like to make it clear that I would die for Willow Nightingale.
Both Tim Curry and Roger Moore talked (fondly) about their affairs with Miss Piggy in their autobiographies. Has there ever been a full accounting of her conquests? It feels like she'd give Beatty a run for his money.
I saw Muppet Treasure Island a few weeks ago in a cinema for the first time in 30 years. Tim Curry is the only actor who could try to out-silly the Muppets and look like he belonged with them. To think he was the nastiest bastard in Criminal Minds too. What a man.
The best tribute to Dolly Parton is that she regularly and repeatedly refused to have anything to do with Piers Morgan
Even if she wasn't a once in a century songwriter, Dolly Parton would live forever in every kid who got to fall in love with a good book because of her.
If I see a single other film this year that is as fun and weird and bloody and horny as Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, it'll be a damn good year at the pictures.
More to the point, Anthropic and OpenAI and all the rest could wink out of existence tomorrow with no particular damage to any ML-based scientific research program, except perhaps that the end of the hype cycle would end an artificial incentive to put the word "AI" in grant applications
"ESPN personality Pat McAfee released an album of original music on Friday. Critics say if the album is played backwards, the listener could hear hidden demonic messages. More worrying still, if the album is played forward, the listener could hear original music by Pat McAfee.
My mother just said the words "Badger badger badger" and I replied "Mushroom! Mushroom!" She looked at me blankly. Twenty years on the internet and there are people who have not heard the whole song.
Part of me thought I was hallucinating this at the time. I've often wondered since.
Richard@sirlariato.northsky.social · 2mo agoMei Suruga being a lil' gremlin, from the Before Times back in the good ol' ResGal.
100 years takes me back a bit earlier than my grandparents, but it's mostly just trains, mines and domestic service until you get to that one guy who was a lay preacher and married his dead wife's sister.
Revan@revan.eurosky.social · 2mo agoEnough “what would you do on the commune questions” If you got sent back 100 years and were given your grandparent’s job, what are you doing?
This is a great read. I really liked the film as an experience but kept butting against choices that made Odysseus a more conventional hero (blinding of Polyphemus aside, which is blatantly just a dick move) - and, of course, getting increasingly mad about the "sea people" and "civilisation".
EMILY WILSON@emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 2mo agoI wrote about the Nolan Odyssey for the LRB. I'll summarize some of my main points below, in case you don't feel like reading all that. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
I saw Muppet Treasure Island and The Odyssey today. So... is sailing fun or not?
Chagos with Ed Milliband! [Am I doing this right?]
Sam Freedman@samfr.bsky.social · 3mo agoEd Miliband is foreign sec
Every film was better for having Sam Neill in it, even if it also had a triceratops. I hope streaming figures for The Dish, Event Horizon and Hunt for the Wilderpeople spike this week.
Try to live your life so when you die people react to the news like hearing about Sam Neill and not Lindsay Graham.
Delighted to report that the first couple of eps of X-Men 97 S2 are just as fun as I'd hoped. A couple of unintentionally hilarious lines but, crucially, lots of Psylocke and punching the air for Jubilee.
Thank you so much for all of your happy birthday wishes. Honestly, I don’t really feel 100. I feel pretty good. I feel like I’m only 98!
Watching Serena play now is so strange. Better than she looked in her last Wimbledon match years ago, but that bit less accurate, that step slower, and more prone to getting furiously stuck in her own head than ever. She'd only just shaken off the rust when the fatigue set in.
Stage 1: sit in on a AAA booking meeting. Tap out and forfeit the next two stages.
Fightful Wrestling @fightful.com · 3mo agoRoyce Keys Names A Three Stages Of Hell Match With The Undertaker As His Ultimate Dream Match