Watched this way too late at night alone in a dark room with good headphones on that picked up the extremely dense soundtrack and when her face changed, I felt an electric pulse shoot through my entire body. I have never experienced that kind of fear watching a movie.

Same. Back when I was studying for quals, his 史记 biography was one of the texts I tried to memorize in full. I always teach it with video of the tidal bore at Qiantang.

(This corresponds to the Warring States-era “Myriad Schools” 百家 unit in the course for anyone curious. All we do is parse arguments for the 2.5 weeks leading up to the assignment.)

Americans love being part of something bigger than themselves. Sports team fandom, mega churches… just nothing that will substantially change their material circumstances or risk bringing the hammer of the state power down on their heads.

Sounds like you found Gregor.

Wait, the question is which movie has “more” terrible sequels and not which movie had sequels as bad as the Jaws sequels, right? In that case, it’s gotta be Halloween. Arguably at least one sequel made sense, but not 12…

Humectant is the solid state of 18th C empiricism.

You can spawn as police or boss (see below) or both (management).

But you can’t raise two trillion dollars to fund the production of a database with a chat function.

Great point. The talk by the AI evangelist I mentioned in my thread shuttled wildly back and forth between two claims. 1) AI is already better than you at what you do and it WILL replace you and 2) AI is a tool that might make some of the things you do easier and faster, depending on what you do.