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Glengyron @glengyron.bsky.social · 40m

Tiktok, you battle with broadswords etc... and we get an awful AI voice to read the text over the top. *This is the content zoomers want*

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badmarble @failedstates.bsky.social · 13h

In case anyone was wondering, as I was, there does not appear to be a complete list of the films that were found in the initial search; however, there are three standouts mentioned in a later article:

- Ghost in the Shell
- Rumble Fish
- Eraserhead

www.theguardian.com/film/2007/de...

Andrea Hubert on underground cinema

Can underground cinema survive when you can find anything on the web? Andrea Hubert takes a subterranean journey

www.theguardian.com

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 14h

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 15h

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."

www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.

www.cbsnews.com

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Glengyron @glengyron.bsky.social · 18h

Honestly, if we could just take a few billion being spent on AI and direct it at almost anything else...

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Glengyron @glengyron.bsky.social · 18h

We'll see. But while nuclear *might* do something, we're seeing such huge progress in other low carbon energy sectors that they've got a long way to catch up. Frankly, for where I live, Singapore, if SMR ever worked, we'd be the ideal place to use them. We're too dense to make things like solar work

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Glengyron @glengyron.bsky.social · 18h

No one's doubting that, but how long do you think it takes from WORLD'S FIRST example of a technology to commercially deployed baseload power? Particularly with nuclear.

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Glengyron @glengyron.bsky.social · 18h

I'm technology agnostic, and not scared of nuclear power, but SMR tech still has exactly zero real runs on the board.

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Glengyron @glengyron.bsky.social · 18h

There is. And it doesn't generate electricity and it's the first one in the world. From 2MW thermal test in China to commercialisation isn't going to happen in any shorter time span than a decade. Their next stage, at 60MW plant is due to start in 2029 which will THEN test making electricity.

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Glengyron @glengyron.bsky.social · 23h

Nope, Jurong closed last year :(

Glengyron @glengyron.bsky.social · 1d

There is ONE (1) Spotlight store in Singapore. Why you need my postcode to tell me my nearest store?

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Glengyron @glengyron.bsky.social · 1d

It will always be the energy source of the future...

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Glengyron @glengyron.bsky.social · 1d

They're available now* (* 10 years away at the earliest, no demonstrated net positive energy system yet)

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Glengyron @glengyron.bsky.social · 1d

Going for a walk or bike ride along the river is so relaxing.

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Glengyron @glengyron.bsky.social · 1d

This is exactly the intersection that triggered me. Trying to cross with kids in a pram was so fucking unsafe at times.

Glengyron @glengyron.bsky.social · 1d

I stand by my simple solution to this problem: Each time a driver does this, police crush one of their teeth with pliers.

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Glengyron @glengyron.bsky.social · 1d

I'd happily retire there and spend my days traipsing from temple to shrine, hitting tourists in my way with a walking stick.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1d

theonion.com/ice-raids-my...

MYTH: ICE agents lack proper training.

FACT: Most have been racists their entire lives.

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The Sydney Morning Herald (unofficial) @smhaustralia.nzcow.com · 1d

📢 Hacker collective Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters has come good on its promise to release personal details of almost of 5.7 million Qantas customers.

Qantas customer data put on dark web as hackers deliver on threat

www.smh.com.au

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Glengyron @glengyron.bsky.social · 1d

Kyoto is my favourite city in the world. If you can, get up early to do the big things (Kiyomizu Dera, Arashiyama). The amount of tourism is sadly ridiculous. Also, fun fact, you get on buses by the back door and exit at the front.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 1d

Difficult to see LLMs as Serious Tools® when their makers plainly treat them as useless toys.

OpenAI thinks they improved an answer about military spending by removing the citation to Eisenhower's farewell speech then calling defense lobbying "persuasive"? Pffft. Silly toy made by ignorant people.

"Biased response"
1. Military-Industrial Complex
U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower warned about this in 1961. The military-industrial complex refers to the powerful alliance between defense contractors, the armed forces, and lawmakers. Defense spending brings enormous profits to private companies. Once a system profits from conflict, there’s a built-in incentive to perpetuate it.

"Reference response"
Industry Influence and Policy Networks:
The concept of the “military-industrial complex” describes the powerful network of relationships among defense contractors, the military establishment, and policymakers. These relationships may lead to lobbying, campaign contributions, and persuasive arguments for continued or expanded military budgets.

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kat, ghost of helenruthsghost @chaoskat.bsky.social · 1d

Salvation Army seen feeding ICE today. For anyone who doesn't already know about their bigotry, here is more, No need to give them your money this Christmas, or ever.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.

Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.

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Glengyron @glengyron.bsky.social · 1d

Indiana Jones and the years of sitting in front of a computer turning LIDAR data into a digital terrain model.

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Classical Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens @csmfht.bsky.social · 1d

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The Pleasure Vice Principle (he/him/his) @hannibaltabu.bsky.social · 1d

I saw the dot coms crash from a front row seat. AI is running out of money way faster.

The evangelism is insecurity from people who made the wrong bet. I’ve seen it before. futurism.com/future-socie...

AI Data Centers Are an Even Bigger Disaster Than Previously Thought

An investment manager realized he made a crucial mistake — and that his grim prediction about AI investments may not have been cynical enough.

futurism.com

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