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Film nerd - the supportive, non-angry kind. Art enthusiast. He/him.
Mostly just a lurker, uninterested in amassing followers and unlikely to post much myself.
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Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...
What’s a technology that you think is overhyped? I’m going to give a sideways answer to this, which is that the venture capital business model needs to be understood as requiring hype. You can go back to the Netscape IPO, and that was the proof point that made venture capital the financial lifeblood of the tech industry. Venture capital looks at valuations and growth, not necessarily at profit or revenue. So you don’t actually have to invest in technology that works, or that even makes a profit, you simply have to have a narrative that is compelling enough to float those valuations. So you see this repetitive and exhausting hype cycle as a feature in this industry. A couple of years ago, you would have been asking me about the metaverse, then last year, you would have asked me about Web3 and crypto, and for each of these inflection points there’s an Andreessen Horowitz manifesto. It’s not simply that one piece of technology is overhyped, it’s that hype is a necessary ingredient of the current business ecosystem of the tech industry. We should examine how often the financial incentive for hype is rewarded without any real social returns, without any meaningful progress in technology, without these tools and services and worlds ever actually manifesting. That’s key to understanding the growing chasm between the narrative of techno-optimists and the reality of our tech-encumbered world.
February 19, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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Buster Keaton in Sherlock Jr. (1924)
July 24, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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JITTERS MOVIE:
Detective Collymore, a single divorced father, stumbles upon a mysterious case involving the death of Tiffany, Digging deeper, he discovers Jitters, psychological twists. Check out the crowdfund

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May 21, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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Top notch doc for a top notch film! www.youtube.com/watch?v=oj-4...
The Fear of God - The Making of The Exorcist | BBC | 1973
YouTube video by Behind The Camera
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March 25, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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The idea of any social obligation whatsoever – attending a funeral, dealing with someone about an office matter, going to the station to wait for someone I know or don’t know – the very idea disturbs my thoughts for an entire day, and sometimes I even start worrying the night before, so that I sleep badly. When it takes place, the dreaded encounter is utterly insignificant, justifying none of my anxiety, but the next time is no different: I never learn to learn. Fernando Pessoa, The Book of the Disquiet, 49 (trans. Richard Zenith)
December 30, 2024 at 5:52 PM