Translator Of Original ‘Minions’ Epic Poem Slams ‘Sexless, Bloodless’ Film Adaptation
Translator Of Original ‘Minions’ Epic Poem Slams ‘Sexless, Bloodless’ Film Adaptation
PHILADELPHIA—In a 4,500-word essay published in Harper’s Magazine, Emily Wilson, known for her popular translation of the Minions epic poem, blasted the latest film Thursday as a “sexless, bloodless” ...
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Followed closely by world leaders who unilaterally closed the Strait of Hormuz
Josh Fruhlinger@jfruh.bsky.social · last wk.ukranian special forces have been the most effective environmental activists of the 21st century
The last paragraph of @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu piece on what patriotism means ahead of our 250th Independence Day. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
When you have a machine that is unbounded by the laws of physics, you are only limited by your imagination.
Note the date that this was posted
The Monarch Diaries@monarchdiaries.bsky.social · 3mo agoHAHAHAhaha! they're making the world's biggest synthetic scum pond!!! The coating is a polyurea used inside pipes. It gels in about 3 seconds, making it non self-leveling. The texture is like an orange peel, the perfect substrate for biofilms. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/u...
EVs = they’re going to crash the grid!! Data centers = “let’s build 3,000 of them!”
I may end up writing a book on 9P if I keep up the pace of research that I’m doing?
Are you a security person trying to secure vibecoded software at your job or for a client? I would love to talk to you for a potential story... DMs open.
95% of programmers do not understand this and/or have stockholm syndrome with the mess. you can SHOW THEM the nice pretty stack of fewer pieces and they're like "but where are the red blocks?"
“There’s a tidal wave coming. You can see it. We can all see it. Are you going to lay down and die, or are you going to do something about it?” Be ready to patch your systems, repeatedly, for at least the next 12 months.
Yael Grauer@yaelwrites.com · 3mo agoWhat happens when amateur hackers have the tools to iterate through exploits at machine speed? I wrote about the neu script kiddies, what happens after Mythos, and how companies can prepare. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia.... with insight from @k8em0.bsky.social Dan Guido, Joshua Saxe, & Tim Becker.
And this is the full 7 min film that goes with it. Never change MA/TW.
Massive Attack / Tom Waits - Boots on the Ground
YouTube video by Massive Attack
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Dr. Damien P. Williams has to go the way his blood beats@wolven.blacksky.app · 4mo agoMassive Attack. And Tom Waits. I mean just holy shit y'all. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVTV...
How it feels to make a joke with the boys about how of course an orange man hates the pope
“A computer isn’t a system without peripherals and software”
[P] There's a Humble Bundle of every Peanuts strip ever for $25. I'm sorry, let me repeat that in a more appropriate tone... THERE'S A HUMBLE BUNDLE OF EVERY PEANUTS STRIP EVER FOR $25. www.humblebundle.com/books/collec...
Humble Comics Bundle: The Collected Peanuts by Fantagraphics
Get all of Peanuts in one bundle from Fantagraphics! Every purchase at the price of your choice helps people in need find their Snoopy with Canine Companions!
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Lawyers, as a profession, make more sense when you learn that many of them are drowning in debt and alcohol.
People do not appreciate what a vast, fundamental sea change batteries are bringing to the electrical system.
Lawrence Vulis@lvulis.bsky.social · 4mo agoBanging on this that batteries met up to 44% of demand on the CA grid yesterday, roughly equivalent to 6 hoover dams. Cheap batteries are powering the grid. www.linkedin.com/posts/nicola...
The movie “Hoppers” is very fun and for the Bill Peet fans out there, it’s basically “The Revenge of Shady Glade”
Philosophers and Writers might be better suited to using and understanding LLMs than Programmers.
Pete Hegseth has a mobile makeup room that he uses when he goes hunting
West Coast folks, how worried are we about retaliatory attacks from Iran? www.sacbee.com/news/politic...
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A handful of Republicans in Congress & Supreme Court can end this nightmare any time they choose, and history will remember them as saviors of the republic, no matter what terrible things they did to US in last 10 years: insane we cannot find a few volunteers for this plum deal!
Ian has a way of getting to the nub. This is basically the kind of thing I wrote to Tim Davie about in 2020, though I had no idea how bad it would get. Most of the media has not the slightest notion how to handle a situation like this, and instead tries desperately to normalize it.
Alistair Barrie@alistairbarrie.com · 5mo agoPretty difficult to refute a single thing in this perfect assessment of where the f**k we are, from @iandunt.bsky.social:
DISASTER: Who will protect America from puppies illegally crossing the border?
Dad: “Thing of school as a video game” Son: “Well, this is the stupidest video game I’ve ever played!”
