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Sophia Hammett

@soclizzard.bsky.social

Recovering Sociologist

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Ed@ed3d.net · 4d ago

I think this is both likely true and absolutely not in tension with LLMs as useful tools These things require skilled operation and the biggest problem with their release is that nobody had the time to actually figure out how to use them first to not torch normal people. sry @golikehellmachine.com

By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 4d ago

Suresh reports on his experience talking with hundreds of executives (and, more importantly, their subordinates) about what (if anything) AI is doing for business in an essay entitled "AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decisionmaking": hermit-tech.com/blog/ai-mani... 11/

Sophia Hammett@soclizzard.bsky.social · last wk.

Oh no… I haven’t seen it yet, but I have tickets for later this week. Drowning and suffocating in space scenes are the absolute worst 😬

Highlighted text from the below-linked article: “there are long, claustrophobic scenes of drowning and near-drowning” Full paragraph: As in his previous films, Nolan is interested in the discontinuities of space and time, in magic, tricks, craft, technology, rivalry, substitution, masks, miscommunication, what we remember and what we choose to forget. Yet again, survival is portrayed as a kind of triumph. Yet again, there are long, claustrophobic scenes of drowning and near-drowning, and technically impressive episodes in which buildings are engulfed in flames and vehicles explode. Yet again, we watch a male character's desperate quest to recover and/or avenge a female love object. I had hoped that Nolan's affinity with these Homeric themes might push him to new creative heights, and enable him to conjure more believable characters. But The Odyssey features his usual combination of grandiosity and superficiality. Without a tub of wax for my ears - which Himesh Patel's ever anxious Eurylochus, Odysseus's doomed right-hand man, uses to sail safely past the Sirens - I was exposed to the full din of thumping sticks, staffs, swords and clashing armour, thunderbolts, crashing waves, grunts, screams, toppling palaces and burning temples. But unlike Matt Damon, the wax-free Odysseus who is tied to the mast as he is conveyed past the Sirens (naked ladies reclining on some uncomfortable-looking rocks), I gazed at the shipwrecks and bloodbaths without any agony of emotion. My eyes stayed dry, even for Argos the dog - whose adorableness as a puppy is predictably amped up to suit our animal-loving times. If only the human characters had been treated with such serious attention.
Cliff Pervocracy@pervocracy.bsky.social · last wk.

Here's the archive link since the original was down when I looked: archive.is/VOO3p Even having enjoyed the movie I am 100% on board with her criticisms, most pointedly: "We are not shown that war or killing are bad, only that good men sometimes feel bad about it – a very different point."

Denali@denali.bsky.social · 3w ago

Husband just came in to tell me that since the assassination of Abraham Lincoln every American president has been alive at the same time as Herbert Hoover.

Bill and Ted in the parking lot of the circle K in full Whoa
Sophia Hammett@soclizzard.bsky.social · 4w ago

Four Rooms. Over a hundred times. Rented VHS weekly during winter ‘97; purchased DVD in the early 00s and started watching annually for NYE. Switched to streaming during the twenty-teens and finally obtained a digital copy sometime in the last decade (after I could no longer find it online).

Elena Existing@elenaexisting.bsky.social · last mo.

There are probably zero movies that I have watched more than anyone else but having bought The Remains of the Day soundtrack on a whim in high school, I am fairly certain I've listened to that CD more times than anyone on the planet. Wait, do TV movies count as movies? Smurfs' Christmas Special

Sophia Hammett@soclizzard.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I’ve never anguished so hard about a primary vote in my life. ▫️ (a) I personally like and contributed to - but won’t recover from scandal ▫️ (b) is imminently qualified but has zero personality or charisma ▫️ (c) a billionaire somehow endorsed by unions and progressive organizations

Alisha Grauso (She/Her)@alishagrauso.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Our entire economy is being artificially propped up by astrology for men: AI, crypto, sports betting, and prediction markets. It's an economy shaped entirely by male insecurity and lack of impulse control, and we'll all pay the price.