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Steve Bowbrick

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GROSS is a materialist critique of the immaterial joys of cinema. Header: It Happened One Night, 1934

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Steve Bowbrick
Steve Bowbrick@bowbrick·
In 1913, in the USA, somebody decided to keep track of the rental income the movies were pulling in. This came to be known as the GROSS. I'm telling the story of Hollywood through the top-grossing film of each year since then. It's a FREE newsletter: bowbrick.substack.com
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Steve Bowbrick@bowbrick·
@daveg Do we know for certain that the small windows thing is to do with over-heating? New build housing in the UK has had small windows for decades. I was brought up in a new town called Stevenage in the 1970s - TINY windows everywhere. Pretty sure that wasn't A/C aversion.
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David Galbraith@daveg·
The UK is one of the world's least sunny places, but current default domestic architecture regulations limit the area of windows to levels that wouldn't comply with regulations in the South of France.
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@levelsio@levelsio

🇪🇺 The new trend in Europe now is building new houses with tiny windows, so that they stay cool and don't need to install or use AC to cool them "Less sunlight = less heat = less cooling = less energy use" is their thinking But there's a reason people buy modern design villas that are floor to ceiling glass (I did) You want as much sunlight as possible coming in for your health, because your circadian rhythm depends on it, improving your sleep quality so you produce melatonin at the right time and fall asleep easily and stay asleep all night Sunlight also affects your mood of course, it heavily boosts serotonin and decreases symptoms of depression Having wide views of the sky, nature or ocean also have a measurable effect on lowering your stress So Europe is now building houses with tiny windows all so they don't need to install AC, while the new home owner inside will slowly become miserable, stressed, depressed, start sleeping bad and as a second order effects of that become sick (but of course then you can sell them pills) The conclusion is the same I had during the ongoing heatwave in Europe where tens of thousands of people are still dying every month because they're not allowed to install AC: Europe now cares more about energy use than people's lives Degrowth is a completely delusional cult affecting all of Europeans lives now!

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Steve Bowbrick@bowbrick·
@AndrewOrlowski Don't worry, LinkedIn will shrink to a tenth of its current size when the token drought arrives. No one's going to spend a fiver on Claude tokens generating a pointless LinkedIn slop-boast-post.
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Andrew Orlowski
Andrew Orlowski@AndrewOrlowski·
Hell is a real place and I have the URL: (Teaser, online soon)
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Steve Bowbrick@bowbrick·
@AndrewOrlowski Are you guys going to try to convince us there's something malign about the parade of loons who show up at every by-election count? Or is it just this one?
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Andrew Orlowski@AndrewOrlowski·
“Pretty accomplished comedian”
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Steve Bowbrick@bowbrick·
@thomasforth I hear that in the US and other places where A/C is a big deal they're fitting them with batteries so they can charge during cheap periods, smoothing power demand across the day and even feeding back in when not actually running.
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Tom Forth
Tom Forth@thomasforth·
I reckon there's a 1% to 5% chance that the market pull to invent a really small air conditioning unit that would be easy to retrofit to British homes has never had a reason to exist before and it's just waiting to be invented, like the Dyson vacuum cleaner.
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Greg Jackson
Greg Jackson@g__j·
Can you get this meter reading right? All correct answers go into a random picker and the winner gets a year's free electricity (up to £1000). (One entry per person :) )
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Steve Bowbrick@bowbrick·
New Adorno t-shirt just dropped…
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Steve Bowbrick@bowbrick·
The combined issues 1 and 2 of MIT's hugely influential postmodern culture journal ZONE: ebay.io/m/wAuv9u
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Steve Bowbrick@bowbrick·
Right, book nerds, if I don't shift all these books I'm going to have to set light to them on a boat and push them out into the North Sea or something. There are 101 books currently in my eBay shop, from every genre and at every price. Message me here for MATES RATES!
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GenTXer2@GenTXer2·
Can you name this 80s band? 🤔
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Steve Bowbrick@bowbrick·
@AndrewOrlowski They're speed-running the history of any major new industry: they've got to the bit where regulation becomes necessary to limit competitive pressure on incumbents, only about ten years early.
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Andrew Orlowski
Andrew Orlowski@AndrewOrlowski·
Mythos is just a prop in a psychological operation. Consistent with the goal of regulatory capture. The entire company is an influence operation. Which is interesting in itself, isn’t it? Anthropic’s EA cult leadership has no faith that its engineers can create a superior product. I don’t think it believes AI can do anything useful, either.
Mark Kretschmann@mark_k

It's no coincidence that Claude Fable is so good with cybercrimes. Anthropic has specifically trained it for this purpose, so that they could stage the whole drama about it being "dangerous". To what end? To raise fear and ultimately regulatory capture.

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Steve Bowbrick@bowbrick·
Now if USG decided AWS was a munition…
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