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Klassick-Moviez @klassik-moviez.bsky.social · 18d

The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988)

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Cameo Wood 🔛 Stowe Story Lab 🔜 Pagecraft @cameowood.com · 5h

Fair. Enough horror out there.

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Cameo Wood 🔛 Stowe Story Lab 🔜 Pagecraft @cameowood.com · 5h

10 horror movies to know me

People Under the Stairs
The Witch
The Serpent and the Rainbow
The Lure
Man Bites Dog
The Lighthouse
The Cell
eXistenZ
Paranormal Activity
The Blair Witch Project
Event Horizon*

Darth Astris (COMMS CLOSED TIL DEC) @darthastris.bsky.social · 5h

10 horror movies to know me

Phantom of the Paradise (1974)
Re-Animator (1985)
Aliens (1986)
Chopping Mall (1986)
A Nightmare On Elm Street 3 - Dream Warriors (1987)
Hellraiser (1987)
Nightbreed (1990)
eXistenZ (1999)
Terrifier (2016)
Pearl (2022)

Maude Zbornak @maudezbornak.bsky.social · 8h

10 horror movies to know me

Poltergeist (1982)
Phantom of the Paradise (1974)
Carrie (1976)
The Hunger (1983)
Aliens (1986)
Misery (1990)
Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
The Dead Don't Die (2019)
The Little Stranger (2018)
Sinners (2025)

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Cameo Wood 🔛 Stowe Story Lab 🔜 Pagecraft @cameowood.com · 6h

Looking forward to seeing this show in a couple weeks.

Lux Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 12h

TFW you paid $1400 to see Beckett’s most famous work without knowing anything about it

One Star Review of Waiting for Godot on Broadway
I recently attended Waiting for Godot on Broadway and spent over $1,400 for two Row C seats (103 and 104). I'm a longtime admirer of Broadway productions and even hold a season pass for Shea's Performing Arts Theatre, so I came in with genuine enthusiasm and high expectations. Unfortunately, this show was unlike anything ! have ever experienced —and not in a good way.
What I encountered was not the artistry, music, or emotional storytelling I usually associate with Broadway, but instead what felt like an endless cycle of nonsensical conversation between characters who seemed trapped in their own madness. I tried-truly tried-to find meaning, symbolism, or even a thread of emotional resonance. I stayed through the first half hoping the second would offer clarity. But by intermission, it was clear: this was a waste of both time and money.
Keanu Reeves is an actor I respect greatly, but I cannot fathom why he would agree to participate in such a disjointed, inaccessible production. His talent was lost in a performance that defied reason rather than provoked insight.
To anyone considering attending: unless you are drawn to highly abstract, nearly incomprehensible theater, I strongly caution you against this show. For the average, educated, thoughtful theatergoer, it is far more frustrating than fulfilling. In my opinion, this was the single most disappointing Broadway experience I've ever had - an unfortunate waste of money and, more importantly, of time.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 7h

a strong case could also be made that if you were confused by why Bill and Ted would cast themselves in WAITING FOR GODOT, you might also not fully understand Bill and Ted

Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 7h

a strong case could be made that in fact, by selecting this play for themselves to star in, Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter have demonstrated that they understand WAITING FOR GODOT better than anyone else alive

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 7h

a strong case could be made that in fact, by selecting this play for themselves to star in, Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter have demonstrated that they understand WAITING FOR GODOT better than anyone else alive

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Cameo Wood 🔛 Stowe Story Lab 🔜 Pagecraft @cameowood.com · 12h

Truly. I hate that there are 35 year olds that want the vax and can’t get it. Nonsensical.

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Brian Keith Jackson @bkjwordplay.bsky.social · 4d

If you are over 40, I implore you, get the Shingles vaccine. You DO NOT want shingles.

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Cameo Wood 🔛 Stowe Story Lab 🔜 Pagecraft @cameowood.com · 14h

Just a reminder that if you’ve ever had chicken pox, you can get shingles at any time, and it’s excruciatingly painful. I almost lost my eye. Get your shingles vaccine from your doctor if <50. Get it from a pharmacy if you are >50.

BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 2d

A new Nature Medicine study analyzing health records from >100 million people in the US offers compelling evidence that reactivation of varicella-zoster virus (VZV) ,the same virus that causes chickenpox and shingles may contribute to dementia risk.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Varicella-zoster virus reactivation and the risk of dementia - Nature Medicine

Large-scale longitudinal health records reveal consistent association of varicella-zoster virus reactivation with dementia.

www.nature.com

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Cameo Wood 🔛 Stowe Story Lab 🔜 Pagecraft @cameowood.com · 15h

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My Email to Tim Cook

It's once again time for Apple's CEO to deliver action as lofty as his language

substack.com

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Cameo Wood 🔛 Stowe Story Lab 🔜 Pagecraft @cameowood.com · 15h

“I hope you recognize how every inch you voluntarily give to an authoritarian regime adds to their illegitimately derived power. We are at a critical juncture in our country’s history where we face the imminent threat of the loss of our constitutional republic. “

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Charming Stranger Films @charmingstranger.com · 16h

Tonight's the night. I've known it all my life. @cameowood.com's THE CLOCK will have its INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE at the Aesthetica Short Film Festival in York, England on NOV 6 at 9 PM, with additional screenings on NOV 8 at 5:30 PM & NOV 9 at 7 PM!

🎟️ Tickets on sale NOW: loom.ly/ey0Lhf0 #ASFF2025

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Cameo Wood 🔛 Stowe Story Lab 🔜 Pagecraft @cameowood.com · 1d

I really needed a stunning sunset tonight. Thank you.

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madison! @madepn.bsky.social · 1d

here is my first rendering of the bread scale of triviality (any suggestions welcome; I love thinking about bread)

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Cameo Wood 🔛 Stowe Story Lab 🔜 Pagecraft @cameowood.com · 1d

Here is a poem from the robot panic of 1797 that I find incredibly exciting and informative. I have a scan of the entire Bath Herald newspaper that contains this poem, and it was a wild time in history.

ART met her sister NATURE late, And seeing her at ease, Inviting her to take a seat At her Androides;
Dame NATURE went—was pleas'd at first, And warmly praised her sister;
Then laughing, till she nearly burst, In seeming rapture kiss'd her.
But as the wond'rous figures work'd
She look'd a little serious,
Whilst envy in her bosom lurk'd—
Her brow became imperious.
"How's this!" to ART she loudly said,
"How's this! ungrateful creature!
Profanely thou hast dar'd to tread
Thus in the walks of NATURE.
"I prithee, base, usurping wench,
No more these freedoms take;
If thus my province thou intrench Thou'lt men and women make."
Anonymous poem published in the Bath Herald, Saturday, 28 January 1797, on the occasion of
"Mr. Haddock's Exhibition of Androides.

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Cameo Wood 🔛 Stowe Story Lab 🔜 Pagecraft @cameowood.com · 1d

Here is a poem from the robot panic of 1797 that I find incredibly exciting and informative. I have a scan of the entire Bath Herald newspaper that contains this poem, and it was a wild time in history.

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Cameo Wood 🔛 Stowe Story Lab 🔜 Pagecraft @cameowood.com · 1d

Here are a few books and and a ToC from ‘AI narratives’ that might be worth looking at if you’d like to assign some secondary sources. Both ‘Edison’s Eve’ and ‘The Restless Clock’ are exciting historical reads.

Contents
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Imagining AI
Stephen Cave, Kanta Dihal, and Sarah Dillon
Part I Antiquity to Modernity
1. Homer's Intelligent Machines: Al in Antiquity
Genevieve Liveley and Sam Thomas
2. Demons and Devices: Artificial and Augmented
Intelligence before Al
E. R. Truitt
3. The Android of Albertus Magnus: A Legend of Artificial Being
Minsoo Kang and Ben Halliburton
4. Artificial Slaves in the Renaissance and the Dangers of Independent Innovation
Kevin LaGrandeur
5. Making the Automaton Speak: Hearing Artificial Voices in the Eighteenth Century
Julie Park
6. Victorian Fictions of Computational Creativity
Megan Ward
7. Machines Like Us? Modernism and the Question of the Robot
Paul March-Russell

Contents
Part II Modern and Contemporary
8. Enslaved Minds: Artificial Intelligence, Slavery, and Revolt
Kanta Dihal
9. Machine Visions: Artificial Intelligence, Society, and Control Will Slocombe
10. 'A Push-Button Type of Thinking': Automation, Cybernetics, and Al in Midcentury British Literature Graham Matthews
11. Artificial Intelligence and the Parent-Child Narrative
Beth Singler
12. Al and Cyberpunk Networks
Anna McFarlane
13. Al: Artificial Immortality and Narratives of
Mind Uploading
Stephen Cave
14. Artificial Intelligence and the Sovereign-Governance
Game
Sarah Dillon and Michael Dillon
15. The Measure of a Woman: Fembots, Fact and Fiction Kate Devlin and Olivia Belton
16. The Fall and Rise of Al: Investigating Al Narratives with Computational Methods
Gabriel Recchia
Index

JULIAN JAYNES
THE ORIGIN OF CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE BREAKDOWN OF THE BICAMERAL MIND
STANISLAS DEHAENE
CONSCIOUSNESS AN BRAIN
DECIPHERING HOW THE BRAIN CODES OUR THOUGHTS
MARINER
BOOKS
CYBERNETICS
Claus Pias (ed.)
CAVE
DIHAL DILLON
AI Narratives
OXFORD
ESSENTIAL SOURCES
in the SCIENTIFIC STUDY of CONSCIOUSNESS
BAARS, BANKS, and NEWMAN,
editors
• MAYOR CE GOINS AND ROBUTS
PRINCETON
UMBERTO ECO
THE BOOK OF LEGENDARY
LANDS
UMBERTO ECO
THE INFINITY OF LISTS
HISTORY OF BEAUTY EDITED BY UMBERTO ECO

On the Composition Of Images, Signs & Ideas
Giordano Bruno
Rosenthal
THE NATURE OF MIND
USED SAVES
BOOKSTORE
LUGER
Computation & Intelligence
昙
dusic Books
FINGER
UTSTANDING
THE MIND'S I
HOFSTADTER AND DENNETT
JESSICA
RISKIN
The Restless
Clock
Meadows
WUE,R口可E
IRWIN
HAL'S LEGACY
2001'S COMPUTER AS DREAM AND REALITY
MINDS BEHIND THE BRAIN
HISTORY OF THE PIONEERS AXD TREAS DISCORENILE
Reading Westworld
Edited by Alex Goody • Antonia Mackay
WESTWORLD AND PHILOSOPHY
The Psychoanalysis of Artificial Intelligence
Isabel Millar
EDISON'S
EVE
A MAGICAL
HISTORY
OF THE
QUEST FOR
MECHANICAL
GABY
Stork, editor
OXFORS
palgrave macmillan
EDITED BY SOUTH AND ENGELS
WIEY
palgrave macmillan
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Cameo Wood 🔛 Stowe Story Lab 🔜 Pagecraft @cameowood.com · 1d

I think reading Alan Turing’s paper, and understanding that it was a simple party game about gender is helpful in understand how AI relates to humanity. Also how the goal posts for ‘AI’ have shifted.

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Cameo Wood 🔛 Stowe Story Lab 🔜 Pagecraft @cameowood.com · 1d

Tickets for Club Drosselmeyer have just opened for sale! I’ll be there Dec 7! Will I see you there? www.clubdrosselmeyer.com

Club Drosselmeyer

www.clubdrosselmeyer.com

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Alex James Kane @alexjkane.itch.io · 1d

Man...

HauntedCantina @digitalcantina.com · 1d

Speaking of awesome trailers
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNFK...

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Cameo Wood 🔛 Stowe Story Lab 🔜 Pagecraft @cameowood.com · 1d

Just bought my tickets for Dec 7- hope I get to see you!

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No Proscenium @noproscenium.com · Nov 6

BOSTON: 'Club Drosselmeyer': The interactive, immersive holiday theater show you've been waiting for | @metrobos <a href="http://buff.ly/2eZp0I5" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://buff.ly/2eZp0I5

‘Club Drosselmeyer’: The interactive, immersive holiday theater show you’ve been waiting for – Metro US

What has the Nutcracker got to do with World War II? Nothing, until Green Door Labs got involved.

buff.ly

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Cameo Wood 🔛 Stowe Story Lab 🔜 Pagecraft @cameowood.com · 1d

Tickets for Club Drosselmeyer have just opened for sale! I’ll be there Dec 7! Will I see you there? www.clubdrosselmeyer.com

Club Drosselmeyer

www.clubdrosselmeyer.com

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Quantian @quantian.bsky.social · 2d

Sora is not the real problem here. The real problem is that in 12, at most 24 months, there will be a Sora clone from Tencent or Alibaba that is just as good and can be run by anybody with a 5099, at which point everyone in society needs to rapidly agree to treat all digital video as fake, period.

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Deth Veggie @dethveggie.bsky.social · 2d

NOT COOL, CANADA. NOT COOL.

Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 2d

Tragic news from Canada where the Canadian Supreme Court has gone from the official dress on the left to the one on the right

Canadian Supreme court. Everyone is dressed in bright red wooly gowns, with a beige trim. It looks sort of like a Santa robe

The Canadian Supreme court. Everyone is dressed in black gowns with a bright white kravat, and two thin red vertical lines on the side of the robe

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