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Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 9h

It’s actually really exciting what a human brain can do compared to a large language model with rigid rules

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Violet Lucca @violetlucca.bsky.social · 9h

Underrated reply

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Violet Lucca @violetlucca.bsky.social · 15h

You forgot someone

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jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 2d

these people are stealing from you and laughing at you

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Violet Lucca @violetlucca.bsky.social · 7d

Yeah I wish there was a dad bod filter—OK Cupid used to have one. Bring it back you cowards!!!

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Violet Lucca @violetlucca.bsky.social · 7d

I’ve seen it and this is the correct take

Violet Lucca @violetlucca.bsky.social · 13d

Be kind to yourself 🫂

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Violet Lucca @violetlucca.bsky.social · 16d

ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER is a succinct description of organizing/activism, raising a kid, or just trying to exist in this fuckin’ country. I wrote about Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest for @reverseshot.bsky.social: reverseshot.org/reviews/entr...

One Battle After Another

One Battle After Another unapologetically addresses the completely inexcusable injustices of contemporary American life while being incredibly funny, exciting, suspenseful, and poignant, particularly ...

reverseshot.org

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 16d

NEW: I arrived in the U.S. eight weeks ago to report on how the administration’s immigration crackdown was playing out from the front lines.

What I saw Thursday was the culmination of ICE’s aggressive behavior.

By @tilleckert.com

I Filmed the ICE Officer Who Shoved a Woman. It Felt Like the New Normal.

I arrived in the U.S. eight weeks ago to report on how the administration’s immigration crackdown was playing out from the front lines. What I saw Thursday was the culmination of ICE’s aggressive behavior.

www.propublica.org

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Violet Lucca @violetlucca.bsky.social · 15d

Thanks, Peter!

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Violet Lucca @violetlucca.bsky.social · 15d

Wow, I’m excited to hear what you think about how PTA uses your surroundings.

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Violet Lucca @violetlucca.bsky.social · 15d

Oh I thought you meant it was literally a punchline. Nm!

Violet Lucca @violetlucca.bsky.social · 15d

And yeah, the idea that Bob, in the age of the internet, couldn’t look this up reinforces how he’s a piece of shit. But he’s a piece of shit who loves his daughter.

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Violet Lucca @violetlucca.bsky.social · 15d

I recognize the thorniness of that topic, but this is something his wife experienced as the daughter of white dad who grew up without her black mom. (I’m reminded of how the use of “Les Fleur” in Inherent Vice was similarly personal.) That intimacy doesn’t seem like it’s ridicule or a joke.

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Violet Lucca @violetlucca.bsky.social · 16d

Anderson often injects real emotion into an absurd situation, which happens a lot in his movies (and Pynchon novels). Parents can’t give their kids everything, despite how much they love them, and in this moment that’s the first thing that comes to mind for him. That doesn’t redeem or condemn him.

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Violet Lucca @violetlucca.bsky.social · 16d

Yes but the movie goes between a lot of different emotions very quickly. Bob’s mind is racing because he doesn’t know if he’ll be able to get to his daughter, and he thinks about what he’s failed to do for her. Sergio says, “don’t go dark on me, Bob” and makes a joke to stop him from panicking.

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Violet Lucca @violetlucca.bsky.social · 16d

Yes, I read this as a nod to Maya’s father. But not as a joke, more as “Despite all my love for my daughter, I really fucked up.”

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Violet Lucca @violetlucca.bsky.social · 16d

It didn’t seem like a joke at all. It seemed extremely mournful.

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Violet Lucca @violetlucca.bsky.social · 16d

Like…Trump just made “politically motivated” misdemeanors like trespassing acts of domestic terrorism. Sorry that this is the way you find out but it feels like *this* is the movie.

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Violet Lucca @violetlucca.bsky.social · 16d

Yeah it’s quite painful to go out into the world after this, despite how hopeful and energetic it is.

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Violet Lucca @violetlucca.bsky.social · 16d

I mean the dek gave it away

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Violet Lucca @violetlucca.bsky.social · 16d

Also the amazing film I write about at the beginning, Yousef Chahine’s Djamila the Algerian, is on YouTube in its entirety with subs. If you have a better copy, please lmk! www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcfE...

Jamila, the Algerian

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Violet Lucca @violetlucca.bsky.social · 16d

ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER is a succinct description of organizing/activism, raising a kid, or just trying to exist in this fuckin’ country. I wrote about Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest for @reverseshot.bsky.social: reverseshot.org/reviews/entr...

One Battle After Another

One Battle After Another unapologetically addresses the completely inexcusable injustices of contemporary American life while being incredibly funny, exciting, suspenseful, and poignant, particularly ...

reverseshot.org

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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 16d

scrolled down @criterion.bsky.social’s list of underappreciated Altmans to see if anyone got to Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean. @violetlucca.bsky.social did not disappoint.

Deeper into Altman

To celebrate Robert Altman’s centennial, we invited five writers—Howard Hampton, Bruce LaBruce, Violet Lucca, Christina Newland, and Carlos Valladares—to each explore a favorite lesser-known gem from ...

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Violet Lucca @violetlucca.bsky.social · 16d

Ahh thank you Sam!