Listening to the latest pants-shitteningly terrifying Annie Jacobsen book “Biological Warfare: A Scenario”, and walking around the house saying “buboe”, because it has such excellent mouthfeel.
Ross Floate
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There are no sex scenes, and all the food looks horrible. Melbourne, AU https://rossfloate.com https://glass.photo/rossfloate
American democracy should be halved in quantity but doubled in quality.
An AI agent to scrub my feed of AI images. Directed by Christopher Nolan.
You really need to check for the introduction of slop every time someone new in the chain touches the thing. So kiss version control goodbye.
chat can anyone verify that every single Flock camera has about 2-3 Ibs of copper and about 1-2 grams of gold
Lotta posting about this place in this place and I think that’s neat.
The news today is filled with allegations about Alan Jones, with media types praising the SMH for blowing the doors off it. This, to me is another example of just how fucking vapid the Australian Press is. Chris Masters, one of our very finest, wrote a whole damned book about Jones /
They need to make a Truman Show / Paradise village for people like Carville to live out the balance of their lives in. Tell everyone they've gone to live on a farm. Maybe throw away the key.
William on RATW has so clearly entered “fuck all a y’all” mode. I’m surprisingly here for it.
I used to do some work on the ethical use of satellite and drone imagery for aid and disaster response, and it is genuinely hard to express in words what a dangerous, stupid thing Google is doing by making it easy to use GenAI to create faked satellite imagery:
How to plant a nuclear plant in Iran
The question is: what on earth is Google doing?
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Remember simulation theory? The whole basis of The Matrix? We can now with certainty say that it cannot be true because we never went through a few years where everyone had too many fingers.
My barber today told me I was “giving Jason Mantsoukos” and it made me feel so good I almost didn’t get a haircut.
Hyper-Harry chamber, in memory of the great lost diving PM.
I bet Australian saturation divers call it a hyper-Barry chamber.
Watching the final Mission Impossible film and sure its preposterous but it’s also just a force 10 assault on your brain. There’s one really short shot of Trammell Tillman moving from point a to point b and I’m absolutely certain he was standing on the camera dolly. Pure Spike Lee moment.
If you’re on iOS 27 beta a fun thing to do is ask Siri for driving directions to somewhere choose a route, and then say “Hey Siri, stop navigating”. If @alisterrobbie.bsky.social hadn’t been in the car with me when I did this i would have thought I was going crazy.
If Robert Eggers had made The Odyssey we would’ve 100% seen some cyclops dong.
Weird twist for this season of Cape Fear to end with Max Cady appearing on an episode of The Maury Povich Show but it does give us a cliffhanger to a possible season 2 I guess.
🤣 The nose is totally jarring #filmsky but I like The Hard Word! Pleasant little heist film despite a lot of behind the scenes troubles. 🎬
The Hard Word
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Ross Floate@rossfloate.bsky.social · 6d agoYou think Pearce is too pretty to play a villain, even in a black comedy, so you make him wear a preposterously distracting fake honker that somehow make him look like Guy Pearce's less conventionally-attractive cousin.
I’ve never met anyone as dirt-thirsty as the Chemist Warehouse app begging me to feed it more prescriptions.
A month or two ago, a defence analyst on tv described the profligacy with which the US uses such weapons as “throwing Ferraris at Frisbees”.
ABC News Australia@news.abc.net.au · 6d agoMissiles worth $40 million a shot rack up America's Iran war costs
It's 2002. You're a Australian director on your first feature film — big step up from your previous smattering of writing credits. You've written a script loosely based on 1976 The Great Bookie Robbery, got your funding, and you've cast some of the best young Australian actors of their generation.
