@constans Realistic sculture is just easier. Every culture's figurative sculptures slightly outpace their paintings in terms of realism.
Also the image youre quoting would not qualify as renaissance-level levels of realism.
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Michael Wheatley
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Going to The Cloisters is a good reminder that “Western Europe didn’t learn realistic art until the renaissance” is a myth. Sculpture and statues had incredible workmanship— they just didn’t care about painting.
Erin Risch Zoutendam@erin_zoutendam
Last week I gave my "how to look at art" talk to some of the students we're taking to Rome and was reminded of this absolute banger. Mary is seated on a throne and is also herself a throne for the Christ-child. Sublime. 12th c., French, at the Met in NYC
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Lord Elgin was justified in taking the Parthenon Freizes to England for safekeeping and display. But modern Britain is a failed state and the Elgin marbles need to be brought to Greece for their own protection.
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Villeneuve deliberately alters Herbert's characters to make them fitting for the progressive consumer.
A bad guy can't be gay. Movie Harkonnens are only ever shown with female concubines.
A woman can't be fanatically in love with her husband. Movie Chani must be a girlboss.
A group of natives can't just consider the European guy a savior. Movie Fremen must have a faction that distrusts Paul from the start, the girlboss included, or it'd be a heckin' colonialism. Can't even wait a little to show the Fremen opposition in Messiah, where the author had it for great reasons.
And you shouldn't imagine that things could be any other way in a fictional universe.
Templarpilled@Templarpilled
Denis Villeneuve committed queer erasure with Baron Harkonnen to avoid making the audiences uncomfortable. So you'll likely get to keep your money.
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@P_Remarks No, women hate that. Her man will be finished in seconds if he hears those words too.
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@LudditeHacker Very strange given how obsessed Trump is with gas prices
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i've seen less scammy devs during the nft craze
First Squawk@FirstSquawk
U.S. ENERGY SECRETARY CHRIS WRIGHT DELETES POST ABOUT NAVY ESCORTING OIL TANKER THROUGH STRAIT OF HORMUZ
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@ALEXEIMARTOV @here4fintwit but surely in the short term they compound at a slightly higher rate than companies not being priced so unforgivingly.
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@here4fintwit i don't hate it, and did consider these. I just sorta figured ... if i'm going for the bigger names i'd rather just buy things that i'm basically positive will slowly compound like EWY or AMZN/GOOG etc.
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I waited a little for software to dip the first time, then went in pretty heavy, buying a basket of positions
$WIX, $CSU.TO, $DUOL, $GTLB, $OPRA, $NOW - 25% of net equity.
They went down much further, so i took the L on most the names and consolidated into the 2 picks i liked the most - DUOLINGO and GITLAB, one consumer, the other enterprise, with the view that $DUOL would have heavily inflecting earnings growth and that fears of AI killing the iOS store was overblown / DUOL would come out ahead of vibe coded competitors, and that $GTLB was an extremely obvious takeout target and that paying up to, even, $10b, would be rational for a larger player like Anthropic, $DDOG, or $IBM.
So that's how my day is going hbu
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@GuiveAssadi @StefanFSchubert Liquour stores are often one of the least dysfunctional parts of government, because you can easily staff it with people who are passionate enough about the subject matter to do their work very diligently.
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The company that Swedes trust the most is the government alcohol monopoly.
IKEA is a distant second.
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@negligible_cap people are too worried about Iran to worry about Claude.
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We seem to be in the midst of a software reversal
Over the last 6 days, $IGV has now outperformed $SOX (semis) by almost 15%
Software has now also outperformed semis for 5 out of the last 6 trading
Probably nothing, maybe something
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@Merridew__ is this because the dispersion of skew entered backwardation or whatever, or is it a vibe call?
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@eigenrobot @Duderichy no we don't conventionally count it towards "wealth," but the point is that that's not obviously correct so much as it's a useful simplification. If people's gov. benefits were an annuity written into a physical contract, that would be considered as quite a good deal of wealth.
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@mbwheats @Duderichy this is very silly no one accounts for wealth this way
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when calculating the wealth of the bottom 99% percent of the population you should be forced to include welfare, disability and social security payments.
Zachary Siegel@ZachWritesStuff
Not an economics expert but I think this situation might be causing problems
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@eigenrobot @Duderichy Those would be income which is not a component of net worth
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@Duderichy i don't think that goes toward net worth although its also notable that much of the bottom 99% has negative net worth so
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you stupid fucks cannot be bidding this shit green again they literally announced it now
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@MetacriticCap idgi, presumably the price goes up but not so much that dual subscribers don't save a bunch of money. Seems good for the streaming services to combine, overall?
P+ and HBO max would be the best single streaming service, IMO, and currently I'm subscribed to neither.
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How does it work? Lots of people subscribe to both. They can't reasonably expect to retain this revenue. $PSKY
Alex Sherman@sherman4949
On investor call, Paramount confirms it plans to put P+ and HBO Max together, making one service from the two.
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@GuiveAssadi @SaladBarFan raw numbers count for a lot in a war.
And per capita still puts them at approx half of the U.S., the richest country in the world
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Chinese propaganda is often very stupid and ham-fisted, but it’s a huge mistake to underestimate them like this. They are a serious opponent.
Rūm@Antiochian_Rum
when China’s time comes, we will see one of the worst cases of a Paper Tiger in recorded history
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@lulumeservey I'll grant you it's a clever piece of spin. As with all spin the question is whether the public falls for it.
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“We are asking the DoW to offer these same terms to all AI companies” is killer
It’s heads-I-win-tails-you-lose, because
1) interceding on behalf of the industry positions OAI as the first among equals, and the adult. “I’ll get that for you” energy
2) maybe DoW doesn’t reconcile with Anthropic, but OAI still gets credit for magnanimity
3) if DoW somehow does reconcile with Anthropic, OAI gets credit for making it possible
3b) that would make this scenario even more grating for Dario which potentially also makes it less likely
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@OnodaCapital Seems like theres a few just-so stories you can use to square the circle, but yeah, the mostly likely outcome IMO is that 1-3 of these sectors rebound.
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Bit of paradox that NVDA at 15x 27, while hyperscalers punished for perma-Capex, while sw and white collar still wrecked
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@MetacriticCap Missile defense is one of Israel's top priorities whereas the gulf was expecting little or no attention from Iran.
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Why Israel can mostly shut down Iran drones but the gulf countries can't? Is it just the distance?
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