@ChloeNumberIII Andy will be 10-20 years older than her at the start of the movie 👍
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@johnoffthebench
burner. left-liberal dude who burned out on having a “real” twitter acct. lurking in replies of TV, sports, dating, politics, and tech tweets. in 🇨🇦
Ottawa, Ontario เข้าร่วม Eylül 2020
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am i supposed to believe annette benning is 20 years older than the obviously 50 year old andy samberg?
DiscussingFilm@DiscussingFilm
Annette Bening and Andy Samberg will star in a new rom-com ‘42.6 YEARS’. The film follows a man cryogenically frozen for 42.6 years who tries to re-connect with his ex-girlfriend who has lived a full lifetime without him. (Source: Deadline)
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Writing is thinking, and people who outsource the full writing process to AI will find their screens full of words and their minds empty of thought.
But also: All writing involves and has always involved “outsourcing”—reaching outside of the writer’s mind to pull in pieces of the world, before and after the work of making words. Writers draw their ideas from other people, books, articles; after writing they often rely on outside copy editors, fact checkers, transcribers.
Some of this stuff is just going to be done by AI in the future, and the boundaries between “good behavior” and “bad behavior” will have some blurry lines, and we should be honest and open about the blur rather than declare everybody with an open Claude window a part of the slopclass.
Anybody who says AI transcription of long interviews obliterates the identity of a writer is being a little silly. But what about copy editing? Claude is a fast and decent copy editor, but it is inhuman to rely on it for that function? Is it moral to google “Econ papers on income transfers for child poverty” but immoral to write the same thing as an AI prompt? What about throwing 500 muddled words into ChatGPT and saying “does this make any sense? what do you think I’m trying to say here?” That’s going to be useful for some people.
At an aesthetic level, I don’t like copy-pasting AI paragraphs into articles and pressing publish. That feels like me cheating myself. It feels like de-skilling. But the idea that “using AI” is anathema to the identity of being a writer is, in a few years, going to sound an awful lot like claiming that “using a computer” is a violation of the craft of writing. (Which, haha, maybe it is and we should all just go back to Steinbeck and his pencils; but talk about ships that have sailed.)
Emily Gould@EmilyGouldNYmag
using AI to "be a writer" is like .. playing a porn video game where you make your avatar cum
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@laurenashastro I think he’s probs not a great human but at a certain point you value your time a lot. 49k for people making these decisions is like 1-3 months of DoorDash orders for most people.
Dating is very time consuming. I can see why someone would hire a Blaine
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so the question becomes why does a guy with so much going for him need to pay $50K to find someone? i’ll bet it’s not just his scope of preferences lol
Blaine Anderson@datingbyblaine
Why is matchmaking expensive? To illustrate, here’s how I’ll lose money on a client’s $49,000 package. Client is 46, 6’2, exited tech founder. He’s looking for a woman 27-33, very specific criteria around match personality, appearance, and profession. Without diving into specifics, she: • Isn’t easily searchable online... • Isn’t likely to reply when we find her… • Isn’t likely to be single… • Often has a deal-breaker trait we can’t screen for without a phone call… • Isn’t necessarily interested in my client… I was expecting this to be a difficult search, so I quoted $49,000. I wasn’t expecting ~100 hours of labor to find each match, not including communication with the client! To date I’ve spent $45,000 on salaries for the women staffed on his search, plus $2,750 on styling and photos, and we still owe the client 2 matches... Before considering overhead (let alone opportunity cost) this will be a huge L financially. Things balance out though. Most engagements are profitable. Some engagements are quite profitable. For example, a new client in NYC paid $30,000 and paused after his first match, because he’s 99% sure we found his wife. That's still a new relationship, and engagements last 9 months (6 months of active matching + up to 3 months of pause), so we could be on the hook for more work in coming months. But you get the point 🙏
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Who can tell me why these stairs are poorly designed? There is only one right answer.
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Btw friends, Aham’s trumpet biopic that Lindy helped him write is free on Tubi. For the good of the culture, someone needs to livetweet. @theashleyray should you see this I’m looking in your general direction, though other comers welcome. tubitv.com/movies/1000099…
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@theashleyray lol have been binging this Lindy saga with gf (Ty for your service) and as lifelong classical musicians I told her he plays trumpet and she was like “ugh that makes sense” 😂😭
trumpet players never beating the accusations.
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thin skin aham movie thread
so far it is very "i am deep, troubled, a true artiste"
i am also sad to report he is hotter when he's playing the trumpet
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i think a large misunderstanding of Send Help was that McAdams character is supposed to ever be “unattractive”. she’s not. she’s just off putting. the character is meant to be attractive, but so goal focused that she loses sight of social niceties and graces.
rose🦋🫧@gigigh0rbani
the craziest part of this entire movie was that she was supposed to be unattractive
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@gigigh0rbani This is incorrect.
As she stays on the island you can see her getting more and more attractive because she is more in her element and not in a place and around people that make her feel small.
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the craziest part of this entire movie was that she was supposed to be unattractive
Horror Syndrome@horrorsyndrome
Rachel McAdams in Send Help (2026) #horrortwt
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@RobMahoney I posited this to gf and she was like “is this like attorneys general” 😭 😭 😭
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I've now spent the better part of a week trying to figure this out. I'm no closer to the answer.
Peter Bukowski@Peter_Bukowski
Listening to @RobMahoney and @jowrotethis discuss whether you unfuck or uncluster a clusterfuck was genuinely one of the highlights of my week. 10/10, no notes.
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@offbeatorbit How is DRUSKI the best at imitating the Erika Kirk stare 😭😭😭😭
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@Baileymoon15 lol how does one “try to get someone to ask who they are”? Did dude just say “you know who I am rite 🤓”
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@katrosenfield A true perspective shifting take, thank you for writing this 🙏
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This quote from a longer blog post, featuring a few final thoughts about Lindy West as both a product of and participant in the vicious classism of coastal liberal spaces during the Obama era
Conor Friedersdorf@conor64
Apt @katrosenfield observation: "Some people will gravitate like moths to the flame of whatever ideology gives them cover to indulge in socially sanctioned cruelty under the auspices of moral correctness, and it will never matter very much to them what that ideology is."
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@SheaSerrano Aw, makes me sad to see you put gray man (yes, bad) in same category as fall guy (solid! And its flaws are not Gosling-shaped)
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The Gray Man and The Fall Guy were not good
Luis Martins@ZecaPipocas
da fuck you mean he’s back? he’s never left
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Reading the comments and QTs, I am in utter disbelief that 86°F is unbearable for a significant portion of the western world
Mountain Cabins@cabinsmountain
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@Molycuddle Reading the comments and QTs, I am in utter disbelief that 86°F is unbearable for a significant portion of the western world
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For the Yanks out there
-30 is insanely cold?!
+30 is a really nice summers day but you don’t want the temp to go much higher
Mountain Cabins@cabinsmountain
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@robertmagicjohn @Shane00 Nobody has mentioned this mf Robert’s replies ☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️
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@Shane00 Check back with me after he’s 20 games and he’s only played eight games since he’s been back and he’s got his spokes person already talking about sending austin Reeves to the bench. It won’t be long before he ‘F’s”up the chemistry on this team.
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Ottawa girl who lived in Texas for a few years confirming that -30C clears so hard
brandon@SiNuTrmon
I’ll say it a million times if i have to but nobody who believes this has experienced real winter
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@DireRavennn @GenePark It feels like all the shorts/tiktoks that make fun of clunky rpg mechanics
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