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@waynesfury If I were casting sister actresses.

i need them to play sisters in a movie at some point

1/6 Look at the absolute disaster unfolding right now, and remember exactly who told you to vote for Trump in 2024. The people who sold you this catastrophe should be discredited forever, and you should never listen to their political advice again🧵

@IanFrancisrocks @jonathanbfine Was thinking the same thing. We are essentially just figuring out the next token as we lay out our thoughts.

@jonathanbfine But isn't that exactly the point ! ... that LLMs are actually much closer to the way we think than we care to admit. As EM Forster said " how do I know what I think till I hear what i say"

There’s an essay by the German author Heinrich von Kleist that I think about whenever someone rhapsodizes about artificial intelligence. The title of the essay is “On the gradual completion of thoughts while speaking” (Über die allmähliche Verfertigung der Gedanken beim Reden).

@kevinroose But unlike COVID it is completely unclear what to do to prepare. Toilet paper isn’t going to be helpful.

this chart feels like the those stats at the beginning of covid. "who cares about 400 cases in seattle? and why are all the epidemiologists buying toilet paper?"

@TheCinesthetic Bugsy Malone!

A movie that's in your top 25 list but unlikely to be in anyone else's?

Listen to a very entertaining Recall This Book podcast w/ Peter Coviello, author of VINELAND REREAD, & Ethan Warren, author of THE CINEMA OF PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON on *One Battle After Another* hosted at West Newton Cinema bit.ly/3Md248P @pcoviell @marisa_pag @ColumbiaUP

@emollick Guessing without the original post: Arxiv

Great analogy

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@atareh What debate are you watching?

Are we living in a Sorkin scripted political drama? Well, it seems episodes are dropped every eight days: June 27 debate, eight days later George Stephanopoulos interview, eight days: assassination attempt, eight days: Biden drops out. Expect something on Monday.

@tomedwards 4 is free?

Have to say… it doesn’t *feel* that groundbreaking so far #OpenAI

They had two years to save a beloved community cinema. Then an anonymous donor stepped up. bostonglobe.com/2024/04/29/art… via @BostonGlobe

Osage Dancers on the red carpet of the 96th Academy Awards on March 10, 2024. Photos by Osage News

@AnthropicAI Fascinating. Just did this with Osage providing an Osage-English dictionary. @OsageNews @Osagenation Would be exciting to build an engine for this.

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@IAmDarshPatel Congratulations! Well deserved.

After a screening of #AmericanFiction, excited to moderate a panel featuring @CallieCrossley, @MaddBlackProf, @Nerissa48684591 &…..thanks to @wncfoundation23’s & @NewtonCommPride 2nd Behind the Screen series @WNewtonCinema @Newton_Cinema #BHM2024 eventbrite.com/e/behind-the-s…

Russia has been pulling the equivalent of the "3 kids in a trenchcoat" trick on us for centuries.

@balajis You are literally defining the party through victimization: "First, the Republicans are no longer the party of “white men”, but anti-anti-white men."

THE MEN’S PARTY Republicans are becoming the men’s party. The party of strong men and the women that love them. This is both obvious and non-obvious. Obvious because the Republicans have been attacked for decades as the party of “rich straight white men”, so of course they’re the men’s party! Non-obvious because this actually means a distinct shift in emphasis relative to the recent past. Let us count the ways. 1) First, the Republicans are no longer the party of “white men”, but anti-anti-white men. It’s a big tent; you just need to extend the common courtesy of not attacking white conservatives and libertarians on the basis of race. 2) Second, it’s not *just* the party of men. Because married men, married women, and single men all vote Republican. As of 2022, only single women vote Democrat[1]; the state is their surrogate provider and protector. 3) Third, it’s now the party of strength. That could be actual physical strength in its Bryan Johnsonian or BAPian variations. It could be financial strength like Thiel or technological strength like Elon. It could be prowess with arms like Erik Prince or prowess with words like Vivek. Or it could simply be the moral strength to assert that the X and Y chromosomes exist. 4) Fourth, it’s not really the “multiracial working class party” that Sohrab Ahmari has been talking about. The Republicans certainly are more multiracial and arguably more working class than the past…but that’s because they’ve pulled in men from those groups who respect strength and are repelled by victimology. A Republican today could well be a working class carpenter, but wants to get wealthier some day, and maybe run their own business. And they might be nonwhite, but they don’t *define* themselves by their race nor make a habit of attacking white people as white. In other words, they don’t define themselves by their victimization but by their aspiration. Democrats are the party of victims, Republicans are the party of men. 5) Fifth, modern Republicans are ultra-libertarian. It’s about individual ownership of firearms, redecentralization of power to the states, deregulation, Bitcoin, and anti-institutionalism. There is some continuity with Reaganism, but far less emphasis on military service and far less trust in centralized authority. Much more sigma male than company man. 6) Perhaps the single biggest thing about redefining the Republicans as primarily the men’s party is that it ensures they are always competitive. No matter what happens demographically, the percentage of men is flat at roughly 50% — and everyone has strong men they admire and respect. That gives all-weather traction and global appeal. So, that draws the political battle lines. On one side, strong men of many ethnicities and the women that love them. On the other side…the opposite of that. [1]: washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/178717…

David Attenborough is now narrating my life Here's a GPT-4-vision + @elevenlabs python script so you can star in your own Planet Earth:

Mind blown. You can now create glb 3d files using text prompts using @LumaLabsAI genie.