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roland00 / Matthew @roland00.bsky.social · 2h

he said the thing

the thing being “the gaze”, why did the painter artist after we started perspective paintings, choose this frame with the frame-work to do the painting

the painter is inside the painting except is not, absent and present

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 12h

the primitive variables a LLM deals with are words and their positions. these words are first marked either 1 or 0, present or absent, and then mapped into a continuous space (of smaller dimensions than the whole model) where distance is a function of how likely they are to substitute for each other

roland00 / Matthew @roland00.bsky.social · 5h

peace and social trust, or the other thing !

I find it fascinating the econ history from Francis Bacon to Adam Smith via Hobbes, Petty, Locke, Hume etc … but that is also a history of law and ideas of social division of labor

and some form of social responsibility to make it all work

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roland00 / Matthew @roland00.bsky.social · 5h

I enjoyed it yesterday, made me brought up the hesiod with the 3 daughters of Themis and Zeus (no not the 3 fates, the other 3, Good Order, Justice, Peace)

www.languageandlaw.eu/jll/article/...

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Alex Koppel @arsduo.bsky.social · 15h

I feel incredibly lucky to have seen Alucarda on the big screen (at @meakoopa.bsky.social's Dumpster Raccoon series)—it's such a striking film, one I'll definitely see again.

Jayce @jayceb.bsky.social · 1d

Juan López Moctezuma’s Alucarda (1977) is irreplaceably peak exploitation horror, the proudly Mexican parallel to Jesus Franco and Jean Rollin. Half-forgotten dream memories of Universal’s gothic rules and tropes brought to demonic life in cavernous ruins. Loved how hostile this is?

A young woman licking blood off of another’s breast

A crucifix of Christ exploding into flame

A demon clasping to women’s hands together

Alucarda (1977), Juan López Moctezuma

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roland00 / Matthew @roland00.bsky.social · 6h

( I am very agnostic / atheist I trust you to understand what I mean )

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roland00 / Matthew @roland00.bsky.social · 6h

this is why count of monte cristo with the footnotes rocks

now that is 1840s tale, not a classic classic but it is close enough in time but also far enough away in time it feels fantastical yet not

also it is a story of revenge and faustian bargains / the christ temptation 3 times

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 8h

Most "classics" are boring as fuck to a modern reader in no small part because the context of the story is not understood by them and so many of the allusions and "inside jokes" known to then-contemporary readers have been lost in time and in translation

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 19h

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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roland00 / Matthew @roland00.bsky.social · 8h

stop, me repeating what people already said

intrusive thoughts / seeing

roland00 / Matthew @roland00.bsky.social · 10h

adam smith, david hume, others playing in their poker club

this time they black ball members before one member can invite other members they have to ask permission from the others before one can be invited in

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roland00 / Matthew @roland00.bsky.social · 11h

note Jerry Taylor formerly of Niskanen Center was let go in 2021 for he got drunk and assaulted his wife at his kids High School Graduation party and there was a police report

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Niskanen is now pushing abundance as their big issue 😬

roland00 / Matthew @roland00.bsky.social · 11h

Jerry changed his mind and is now we are fucked we need to take care of Climate Change now

Jerry’s brother is James Taylor, who is president of the Heartland Institute formed in the 80s by Phillip Morris and is now one of the big Climate Change skeptic think tanks

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heartla...

Heartland Institute - Wikipedia

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roland00 / Matthew @roland00.bsky.social · 11h

the Niskanen Center guy who no longer works there but formed it was Jerry* Taylor who worked for the CATO insitute and was part of the “skeptic” research group for climate change and global warming

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_T...

Jerry Taylor - Wikipedia

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roland00 / Matthew @roland00.bsky.social · 11h

Justice saying business must get political else all these stranded assets.

Well when Powell became a justice the week of his swearing in he was given a party and the Phillip Morris rep gave him a NASCAR themed judge robe to joke he was bought and paid for by 🚬)

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roland00 / Matthew @roland00.bsky.social · 11h

to that the head of the American Bar Association for a year in the 1960s and he represented big tobacco with his private law firm. Now Powell was also for civil rights but I am gesturing the bad and the good can be mixed together

Well Powell wrote the Powell memo in the 70s before becoming a SC

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roland00 / Matthew @roland00.bsky.social · 11h

Exactly I was trying to avoid jargon words

But me pointing at the text and saying this

(Note this is also why conservatives rose in power 1968 and later the 70s they were funded by the tobacco industry and other stranded assets Lewis Powell which became a Supreme Court justice ... was prior

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roland00 / Matthew @roland00.bsky.social · 12h

yeah fossil fuel companies many want to preserve existing factories and other high capital

and want revenues from that, but they also hate upkeep

the accountants understand eventually it is unjustifiable even if you want to keep an existing already depreciated asset running if it’s positive profit

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 14h

I’ll tell you what’s a treat, whenever you watch a movie and you get Odo when he’s not Odo

René Auberjonois in McCabe and Mrs Miller

René Auberjonois in Batman Forever, this is probably the best hair

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Joe @joeposting.bsky.social · 15h

Dads love to text "Call me when you have a minute" with no way to tell if your family has suffered a terrible tragedy, or if he just needs help with the router.

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 15h

blocking more and more is really satisfying because I had such trouble doing it for a long time

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roland00 / Matthew @roland00.bsky.social · 16h

that’s the imperial gothic for you

Bran Stoker, closeted rich gay, was writing out of abject fear

the fear of non continuous ness auto poetic style , but also the fear of rejection , and the fear that one’s culture deserves to be punished

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Classical Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens @csmfht.bsky.social · 22h

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roland00 / Matthew @roland00.bsky.social · 22h

as war partners like plato’s phadreus metaphor)

roland00 / Matthew @roland00.bsky.social · 22h

also some anime, gotta do some variety in these stories about love songs

(me blah blah blah about therapon the word for achilles and patroclus means living under the same roof, and in spirit meant soul mates but more commonly means slave / ride the same chariot

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roland00 / Matthew @roland00.bsky.social · 23h

are we sure this Sophia girl is good for her ?

( take care ignore my dad joke )

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Raccoons Hourly @raccoonhourly.bsky.social · 23h

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