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@jimsallas @ContraPoints By God, you're right! If it isn't an exact translation from medium to medium, it's inauthentic! Honestly, I genuinely hope you're a bot because you're displaying an inhuman level of media illiteracy.

This film is not the Odyssey. It deviates significantly from the epic poem in many ways to numerous to list here. A couple of examples: The Sinon character (played by Page) does NOT appear in the poem. Odysseus’ mother is entirely missing. This film should have been titled something like “The Journey” with the tagline “inspired by Homer’s Odyssey”. If this had been done the film would have been impervious to any criticism of this nature. Nolan didn’t do this because he knew it wouldn’t sell as well. So now we have a film passing itself off as the Odyssey which is like being served a meatless burger when you are expecting the real deal. We all know how good those taste. 😂

So, The Odyssey. Lol. It’s good, maybe Nolan’s best, and not even slightly “woke.” The right-wing hysteria is amazingly detached from reality. It’s a relentlessly masculine film, visually similar to Troy (2004) at times, but starker and bleaker, less flamboyant and less feminist. Circe, Calypso, Charybdis etc. are classic Nolan female chaos dragons. Penelope’s weaving is not dwelled upon. The costumes look good. The soundscape is relentless roaring and clanging that rings in your ears when you wander out of the theater feeling slightly overwhelmed by three hours of torchlit Mycenaean brutality. The brief presence of several black actors and one transsexual feels utterly natural in a mythological setting of seafaring travelers, and the fits of neurosis over it are extremely embarrassing for champions of the Master Race, whose ideological fanaticism and general hostility to aesthetic values has now exceeded the wildest excesses of left-wing media critique.

@Glinner I really appreciate your work, Linehan. Before you I never had a convenient word for the dry bundle of shit which sometimes forms on the fur around a neglected long-haired cat's anus. Now I call it a Glinner

Oh so he is a man. And a fucking unit at that. Thanks for the photo 'Bec'.

@Dremscape @Movies_analyst Yeah! They need to stop making these inclusive movies for kids, shoving this 'be nice and respect differences' agenda on children. Children should only watch Birth of a Nation and Triumph of the Will! Disney should reboot those and cast Kevin Sorbo in both

@Movies_analyst Good call by Discovery, if only Disney had had the foresight to do this with Snow White, Little mermaid and a whole host of other woke tripe they pushed out.

After Batgirl (2022) was canceled, director Bilall Fallah says co-director Adil El Arbi told him to "shoot everything on your phone" before the footage vanished. By the time he checked the server, he had already been blocked by the studio, "everything was gone" — including the scenes featuring Michael Keaton's Batman. Adding to the frustration, Brendan Fraser who was cast as the villain Firefly, later said the film's Gotham, created using Glasgow, was one of the best versions of the city he'd ever seen. It was Warner Bros. Discovery that made the unprecedented decision to shelve the completed $90 million Batgirl movie as a tax write-off in August 2022. Both directors expressed extreme frustration that they couldn't even keep the rare scenes they had shot featuring Michael Keaton as Batman, which were permanently lost to them.

@AGoldmund You should start an experimental dance project called ACAB For Cutie

@JuanIsidro @bigaiguy Hahaha wow, I love that your misogyny is so powerful that you revert to transphobia here. She's a woman who achieved something you never could, and you hate that so much. Who gives a shit what she was born as? You gonna go transvestigate Margaret Hamilton next? Worthless.

@bigaiguy Great story but your left a crucial detail out: It’s a male. That undercuts the whole “her story” angle and all the she she she she mentions. But we already knew that.

A teenager in the United States started publishing software at 14 in 1998, built the entire online infrastructure for the Occupy Wall Street movement in 2011, joined Google as a software engineer, quit in 2018, and then spent five years writing a C library that does something the entire industry said was impossible. Then she combined it with llama.cpp and shipped the easiest way on the planet to run a large language model on any computer. Her name is Justine Tunney. Here is the story, because almost nobody outside the low level systems world knows what one engineer has built. Justine was born in 1984. She started writing and publishing software at 14, back when distribution meant uploading binaries to BBS systems and chat networks. She picked up the handle jart, which she still uses on GitHub today. She did the work most teenagers her age were not doing. She read the systems programming literature. She studied compilers. She fell in love with C. In July 2011 she registered the @occupywallst Twitter handle and the occupywallst dot org domain. Within weeks the protest movement that began in Zuccotti Park in New York had become a global phenomenon, and her infrastructure was the digital backbone of the entire thing. She handled the social media, the website, the donations, the coordination. She built the platform that pushed the movement to reach millions. After Occupy she joined Google as a software engineer. She worked on TensorBoard, the visualization tool for TensorFlow, and on site reliability for Google infrastructure. She stayed for years. Then in 2018 she left Google Brain to work on a personal project. The project was called Cosmopolitan Libc. Cosmopolitan does something most C programmers would tell you is mathematically impossible. It lets you compile a C program once and have the resulting binary run natively on Linux, Windows, macOS, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and NetBSD with no modification. One file. Six operating systems. No virtual machines. No interpreters. No recompilation. The technique she invented is called Actually Portable Executable. The implications are wild. Cosmopolitan binaries violate every assumption about how operating systems load programs. They are at once a Windows PE file, a Linux ELF binary, a macOS Mach-O binary, and a shell script. The same bytes run on every platform. For five years she worked on it mostly alone. She funded the development partly through Mozilla's MIECO program, which sponsored her work on Cosmopolitan 3.0, released on October 31, 2023. A month later she shipped llamafile. llamafile is what happens when you combine Cosmopolitan with llama.cpp. You take any LLM weights file in the standard GGUF format, you wrap it in Justine's binary, and you get a single file that runs on six operating systems without installation. No Python. No CUDA setup. No dependency hell. Just one file that you double click and it works. Mozilla launched it as an official project of their innovation group on November 29, 2023. It went viral immediately. The repository, hosted at github .com/mozilla-ai/llamafile, now has 24,600 stars. The license is Apache 2.0. Justine kept shipping. She added GPU support to Cosmopolitan, a task systems engineers thought would require rewriting the whole thing. She added dlopen support, another thing nobody else had figured out. She wrote whisperfile, a single file version of OpenAI's Whisper speech-to-text model based on the same architecture. Her GitHub profile lists projects most engineers would consider impossible. sectorlisp, a Lisp interpreter that fits in a boot sector. blink, the tiniest x86-64-linux emulator on Earth. bestline, a teletypewriter command session library. redbean, a complete web server inside a single zip file. A teenager who shipped software in 1998 grew up to write the C library that the entire local AI movement now runs on top of. She did most of it alone, and most people scrolling AI Twitter cannot name her.

@AGoldmund You're only saying that because they both star Ashton Kutcher and are wholly concerned with time pranks.

I'm never sure if Arabic is a beautiful language, or if it's simply a language used beautifully. The more I learn, I see the functionality I love in English, but the examples I have are so intrinsically poetic it's difficult to tell.

@Average_Elitist @creepydotorg You're far from a man. You're slime. You sound like you weren't raised at all. Desperate to blame women for everything, especially your own staggering inadequacy. You are beneath contempt.

@Benjamin_Dahls @creepydotorg How could I simp for men? I am a man. You’re the one getting your panties in a bunch b/c a stranger is holding women accountable for their choices. You sound like you were raised by a single mother.

When Charlize Theron was 15, her alcoholic father came home drunk and threatened to kill both her and her mother. Charlize and her mother rushed into a bedroom, using their bodies to keep the door closed as he tried to get in. Then he pulled out a gun and fired through the door. None of the bullets hit them, but Charlize later said they were lucky to survive. Charlize’s mother grabbed her own handgun and shot back, killing him. The shooting was ruled self-defense, and her mother was not charged.

@AGoldmund I notice you didn't mention Boko Yout in this post so you're clearly incorrect.

@Average_Elitist @creepydotorg You simp so hard for men you'll pretzel your own brain to blame women for anything a man does. Pathetic. Maybe one day you'll find a Daddy to take care of you, you sad little cuck.

@creepydotorg She chose a violent man. And because of that she put her own child in danger. Women should not be allowed to decide who they marry.

@solsynarchy @dfranke Didn't you know that anvils were invented by Israel?

@dfranke You buy a Gazan anvil... Immediately Zionists show up to remind you that anvil was promised to them 3000 years ago. They put you in prison for anti-semitism and thoroughly bomb the factory where the anvils were being made.

You buy a German anvil. It contains 83 moving parts and requires winding twice a day. It's forged from excellent steel, holds tolerances across all three striking faces to within three microns, includes a beautifully indexed horn-adjustment mechanism nobody asked for, and requires a proprietary 11-point spanner should you need to replace the rebound calibration bushing. It runs flawlessly for years, but one day it starts up in limp mode because the onboard anvil-management system detects that it's overdue for its 50,000-strike inspection. You search AliExpress for a Chinese anvil, and are presented with a multitude of offerings from such household-name brands as DUKXJYIBF, HDBTGMXI, AND UEJQIP. They're all priced to within a few pennies of each other, appear completely identical except for the nameplate, and obviously all came out of the same factory. You text your blacksmith friend to ask if they're legit. He tells you he got one like that from KIXJBU a few years ago, and that it's been great and a terrific deal. You thank him, but KIXJBU seems to have folded so you buy the one from UEJQIP. When it arrives, it feels suspiciously light. You scratch it and realize it's iron-plated aluminum. You buy an American anvil. It's five times the price of the competition, but it comes from a brand that your great-grandfather used to love. It comes boxed with a warranty registration postcard, twenty pages of safety instructions, assay certificate, and a regulatory slip which lists its FCC certification and ITAR registration. It looks just like your friend's KIXJBU. There's a "Made In China" sticker on the bottom. You buy a Russian anvil. It arrives coated in cosmoline, wrapped in newspaper from 1974, and weighing 40% more than advertised. The finish looks like it was machined with a shovel. The face is not flat, but somehow this does not matter. You drop it off a truck, accidentally leave it outside for six winters, and use it to straighten a bulldozer blade. It's fine. You buy a Swedish anvil. It comes flat-packed in a long cardboard box with cheerful Neo-Grotesk lettering and a line drawing of a smiling man assembling it with an Allen key. The instructions contain no words, only pictograms showing the anvil face, horn, waist, feet, and 112 identical-looking fasteners. Halfway through assembly, you discover that the pritchel hole was installed upside down, but only because you used peg B17 where you should have used peg B71. Once assembled, it is clean, stable, and works better than it has any right to. You immediately wonder whether you should have bought two. You buy a Japanese anvil. It arrives wrapped in rice paper inside a paulownia box, accompanied by a certificate bearing three generations of signatures and a photograph of the first production example being presented to the Emperor. The face has been hand-polished by a seventy-eight-year-old master whose family has made striking surfaces since the Muromachi period. You are given detailed instructions for oiling it with a cloth folded in a specific way. It is the most beautiful object you own. You never quite work up the nerve to strike it.

@Sarah_Alice_X No tears, please

@IsThisA3DModel @iamneubert It looks like a trailer for a film I wouldn't ever watch and would forget immediately.

@iamneubert and it looks like butt

Morning coffee hit a bit hard. 120 total generations, all text-to-video. Created with Seedance 2.0 in 1080p on the Runway mobile app.

@mitrajoy_ It's nice to see you celebrate yourself between the political posts and constant running battles with your army of cretinous haters. Stay you, legend!

I’m a handful but so are my titties

@kankei_arahen @maximumwelfare Typical Muslim, having the most generous and merciful response, shaming me for my violent instincts. Thank you, peace be with you.

@maximumwelfare I am hearing that on his deathbed Bibi received the light of Islam and unhesitatingly recited the Shahada. Even now he looks down on the Ummah from the gardens of Jannah. Truly there is no god but Allah, and Mohammad is his prophet!

Wow. Benjamin Netanyahu has died, according to some posts on social media which I personally read earlier today.

@tomorrowsashes @LindseyGrahamSC Love to hear this asshole talk about leaders living large while their people suffer.

@LindseyGrahamSC you don't get to call anyone murderous you haunted little queen

When it comes to the future of the region and that of the Iranian people, the son of the late murderous ayatollah is not the change we’re looking for. He has lived large as the Iranian people have suffered and he’s been on the front lines of pushing hate because he too is a religious Nazi. I believe it’s just a matter of time before he meets the same fate as that of his father — one of the most evil men on the planet. To the Iranian people: stand firm. Your liberation is at hand.

@weontv123 @AGoldmund It's not naive to suggest the concentration of wealth by individuals who leverage power to increase their share of surplus value to the cost of the societies that support them is increasing inequality and must be curtailed. Absolving billionaires of responsibility is infantile.

@AGoldmund This is literally a childs perspective. There is no single person that could "cure homelessness and hunger" because the governments involved literally want this to happen. If he just attempted to do it, he would be stopped. Your pleb brain doesnt understand that.

@LegalRevolution What the fuck is wrong with you?

Fuck this rich Lolcow of a man. Get a job

@AGoldmund Proud of us both for not making the crossfit joke

@AGoldmund Golgotha sprints.