Bubba HoTep
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the quote is cut off but in context it's blazingly obvious that the next words are "The Tank Engine"
Alec Stapp@AlecStapp
Thinking about this Bono quote again
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The 90s were the last decade where Hollywood prioritized new ideas over safe bets. It was an era of boundary-pushing, star-driven, and theatrically-focused storytelling that effectively built the foundation for everything we love about modern cinema.
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@nrken19 Broke: England was colonized by the Normans
Woke: England was colonized by the Vikings
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Great news.
The Norman Conquest of 1066 CE reshaped the political and cultural landscape of England, yet its demographic consequences remain poorly understood, particularly outside elite and urban contexts where historical evidence is concentrated.
Genomic data from 78 individuals from Priory Orchard site, a cemetery in Godalming (Surrey) in use between the 9th and early 13th centuries CE.
"The Genomic Legacy of the Norman Conquest in Rural England"
biorxiv.org/content/10.648…
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@nightwriter22 The Man from Uncle was something like this and it flopped despite being a good movie. The general audience doesn't like period pieces
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Director Steven Soderbergh during his interview with The Playlist revealed that he pitched ideas for James Bond films to producer Barbara Broccoli on two separate occasions, and both were ultimately rejected.
Soderbergh's proposal was for a parallel franchise. A separate Bond continuity or "universe" that would run alongside the main series. The pitch's key aspects were the following:
- Set in the 1960s
- R-rated, with more violence and sex
- A different actor as Bond
- A fictional backstory tied to real historical events
- A more stylized, auteur-driven approach
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@TheStingisBack IMDB rating: 6.4
Letterboxd: 3.1
These seem quite fair.
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RT Recount #2 - Spies Like Us (1989) - THREAD
Rotten Tomatoes is ridiculous. How does Chevy Chase and Dan Aykroyd stopping nuclear annihilation only to land a 35% score? Is Spies actually bad, or is that score way off? This press conference should clear this up
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Pliny's account of early Christian custom around 112 AD:
"they were accustomed to meet on a fixed day before dawn and sing responsively a hymn to Christ as to a god, and to bind themselves by oath, not to some crime, but not to commit fraud, theft, or adultery, not falsify their trust, nor to refuse to return a trust when called upon to do so. When this was over, it was their custom to depart and to assemble again to partake of food--but ordinary and innocent food."
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@LucasDexter1 @scenesthatslap Air stewardess: "Would you like something to read?"
Passenger: "Do you have anything light?"
Air stewardess: "How about this leaflet, Famous Jewish Sports Legends?"
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@scenesthatslap Those Zucker brothers were really good at making fun of different races and ethnicities.
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America has no primate city
𝖓𝖎𝖓𝖊 🕯@atlanticesque
As I often say: There are charitably seven, plausibly four, but really just one city in America
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@TheStingisBack YES. It's hilariously amoral. It also has the greatest stair descent in history.
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MOVIES I’VE NEVER SEEN
#14 The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
Leonardo DiCaprio, Margot Robbie
Some call it a wild, dark comedy about greed, others say it was already dated when it appeared (or is that the point?)
Should I watch?
Convince me: YES or NO—and why.
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@KirkegaardEmil Here's Claude's chart of revenue. Elon claims that Twitter is profitable now (at $2B revenue), so that means that when it was making $5B in 2021, it could've had $3B in profit if the management didn't waste any money. claude.ai/share/ad4854fa…
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@bubba371 I dunno about that. Is there a chart of revenue and expenses over time?
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Good post on social media now and then. It's easy to complain but hard to come up with a viable business model. Twitter in its more golden years of less slop and partisanship wasn't making money.
Nate Silver@NateSilver538
Longer analysis here, with some context about the last decade or so in the media business. natesilver.net/p/social-media…
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@PopcornPlug_ I am no bad guy, but there’s no 10/10 action movie having a female as the lead character. No shades at women pls my mom is also a woman same as my sisters
but you all aren’t cut for the lead role in an action movie
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I highly recommend these two masterpieces.
10/10 Movies. 🔥🍿
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It’s official. The Dune movies are the Green Book of science fiction movies.
Empire@empiremagazine
Steven Spielberg "cannot wait" to see Dune: Part Three and is a huge fan of Denis Villeneuve’s adaptation of the series. "They are among my favourite science-fiction movies," the director tells Empire. "not just recently, but of all time." Read more: empireonline.com/movies/news/st…
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I really liked this book, and the thing that struck me the most was how Japan twice encountered a foreign society it recognized as superior and immediately (without grievance) rebuilt itself. The first encounter was China, the second the AngloAmerican West. But what other society is able to be that objective about its own strengths and weaknesses? No other civilization in history has undertaken that kind of rebirth while preserving its cultural core. An amazing balance of pride and objectivity, a spectacular place.
Bennett's Phylactery@extradeadjcb
Japan punctures pretty much every liberal story about the source of racial resentment Cultural appropriation is cute/encouraged, historical grievances apparently don't matter, we're very different but that's not a problem
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@notcomplex_ The harder it is to get to United States, the more selected the group is for good outcomes
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@rs_parasite Of course Arabs only sodomized little boys the always Allah intended
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@Legal_Fil Follow Clement Molin x.com/clement_molin/…
Clément Molin@clement_molin
After 11 days of war in the Middle East, here is a new MAP UPDATE 🇮🇷/🇮🇱🇺🇸 The Hormuz Strait remains closed, Iran and Hezbollah continue to launch strikes, while the US and Israel intensify their campaign in multiple Iranian cities. 🧵THREAD🧵1/21 ⬇️
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The Iran war is, I think, the first time I genuinely had no idea which outlets to turn to for objective, serious reporting.
The Wall Street Journal is probably the only major outlet that seems remotely willing to just tell you what is happening.
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@dylanmatt The original article newrepublic.com/article/120143… Entertaining. Jefferson Morley is a very good writer. Please note that he didn't get addicted to the drug. Ambitious people are already high on life
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The USSR was so paranoid & secretive that when they sold advanced weapons to other nations, they were usually modified to be either better or worse than the Soviets’ own version. Just so the West couldn’t get a full handle on what they had.
I don’t know if China follows the same practice, but it’s possible. In any case, it’s likely that yes, China’s weapons are as “inferior” as they seem. If only because we’ve had access to the cutting-edge Russian tech shot down or captured in the Ukraine War, so we know precisely what Russia has and how to counter it. And Chinese tech is based off it.
China Uncensored@ChinaUncensored
I could totally believe the CCP would sell Iran, Venezuela, and a bunch of other countries military gear they KNEW would fail because they didn’t imagine the US would ever actually attack and their scam would be exposed. Does that mean their own gear is crap?
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@owenbroadcast What is a rhino without its horn? The facelessness of the masked wealthy observers mirrors the facelessness of the rhino, whose horn was removed (likely for its ivory). Thus the faceless perpetuate their facelessness
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can we take a brief tour of an odd painting. i mean, youre on your phone. i promise this is worth it.
check out this actual unedited detail from a 1750s painting of venice. surreal. now, i am going to show you the rest of the painting.
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