Paul Duane 🥔
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A very Irish filmmaker. All You Need is Death streaming now, see linktree. “A folk horror masterpiece” (Daily Beast) “It’s filled with dread!” says @kermodemovie.bsky.social He/him. https://linktr.ee/paulduane
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This loops endlessly if you need a constant background sound of fifty thousand people shouting FUCK KEIR STARMER & let's face it, who doesn't
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If you want anything done around here you have to do it yourself
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Hello my friends,we are very happy that the war is over and we will finally live in safety&peace Please help me survive&get out of the Gaza Strip and get out with my family when the crossing reopens to treat my daughter Massa.The arrangements are very expensive.Please support me🙏😔
gofund.me/74c01145
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You are preaching to the choir, Farran
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The Connolly campaign see the Presidency as an opportunity to further Catherine's lifelong mission of helping people. Fine Gael see it as a strategy game to be won at any cost. Straight from the horse's mouth #spéirgorm #Áras2025
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Please, my friends, I am a mother whose heart is torn apart for my child. My only dream is for him to eat and for him to survive. Please help us. We have great hope in you.💔😔
gofund.me/001d3fab
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diplomatofnight.com
Apropos absolutely nothing else there is still a rather rude awakening which is yet to come for those in the Democratic Party and in the camp of liberalism writ large if they think Israel's public image is at all recoverable among young and nonwhite voters and apparatchiks.
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Another €300BN in venture capital will DEFINITELY fix this problem
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Had a look at some of the films featured previously at this festival plus some other AI-produced shorts to see if this aim of 'HBO-level' film was accurate, and at a basic level AI can't yet even create a convincing 1 minute scene of 2 people talking in a room without them regenerating in every shot
A shot from an AI produced short. 8 screenshots show a supposed continuous conversation between two people. On the left a woman in black sci-fi armour, with her hair tied back, on the right a man in a black polo neck. They are in a grey and black room. Every shot of the woman shows a different face and so does every shot of the man.
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People have actually started migrating to mastodon and just wanna say, outstanding job to the management team here. Glad you told your users to fuck off. Real smart moves
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euan.bsky.social
people in Scotland thinking of themselves as British at all looks headed to become a minority position in the not too distant future
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This is a pretty disingenuous bad faith hypothetical question to ask of Catherine Connolly and, I think "would have to think ..." is a v reasonable response. U wud hope any politician wud treat such serious matters as sexual violence with thoughtful reflection rather than shoot from the hip #Áras25
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The Minister for Health has described as "completely unacceptable", comments by presidential candidate Catherine Connolly that she "would have to think about" hiring a convicted rapist to work in the Áras
Connolly comments on rapist 'unacceptable', says Minister
The Minister for Health has described as "completely unacceptable", comments by presidential candidate Catherine Connolly that she "would have to think about" hiring a convicted rapist to work in the ...
www.rte.ie
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It really can't be said enough: the goal of the "anti-woke" movement was always to destroy social norms against bigotry. And it worked. And there's a whole lot of purportedly "left" thinkers & commentators who helped it -- indeed, it couldn't have been done without them.

They should feel bad.
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Yeah, I thought maybe he was dim but he's evil
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These are, I dunno, worse than I thought they would be
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thread of charles amos' (the one on the left) articles
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Someone who I have actually read a book by has won the Nobel Prize for Literature for once, it's a great day for me personally.
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well admittedly I know who Warren Zevon and John Prine are but
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Not a word in this about the plagiarism aspect of AI, but at least the piece ends like this:
He recalls a recent conversation he had with a group of fellow film-makers, one of whom had just seen the 2015 British documentary Listen to Me Marlon. The documentary makers had used what was, in 2015, cutting edge software to create a 3D rendering of Marlon Brando reciting Macbeth.

“In the future, anybody who wants to pay the rights for it can have Marlon Brando in their movie,” this film-maker had enthused to Miller. But another director – “younger and wiser than most of us”, Miller recalls – disagreed.

“[They] replied yes, you’ll have a character who looks like Marlon Brando, but you’ll have nothing close to Marlon Brando. You won’t have the engagement, that performances arise out of the collaborative effort between other actors and directors and writers and so on. You will not have the essence of Brando.

“And that applies to everything – whether it’s a song, a novel, or whatever.

“You won’t have that human essence.”
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You can contact Yahya on +972599701234, her nephew Hassan is starving, help if you can:
gofund.me/05d9bc0a3
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I have nothing to donate, I'm sorry, I will share with your whatsapp number