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Glen
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Likes to talk about movies, sometimes even sees them. Frequent pusher of road cases, occasional pusher of faders. He, him
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Muttering, "There's no discharge in the war," every time life is even trivially beleaguering.
Do you think the movie Frank (2014) came up when they were pitching The Mandalorian?
Perhaps you can extend this thinking to acknowledge that there are no jobs, taxes or generous donations from fossil fuel companies on a dead planet, and act with real urgency.
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Believing In The Science but approving coal and gas expansion anyway is morally worse than sincerely denying the science

(which the LNP has never formally done anyway)

Take a guess why the Labor party doesn't do videos about climate obstruction and delay tactics 😎
Here's the thing LNP: climate change is real and as NASA and others have said "human activities are driving the global warming trend observed since the mid-20th century."
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But surely Trump would happily sell that person out for improved polling.
Watched the fist ep of Talamasca on account of being too anxious to sleep and it sure did cure me of that! Elizabeth McGovern is having the time of her life being a gleeful little secrets gremlin tho, so that's a point in its favour.
One of the best heist movies of all time is centred around a robbery that boils down to the guys just chiseling through a wall (Rififi).
Guessing Jim Jarmusch saw this before he made his first few features?
...you know what, Killer of Sheep lets me leave the house later.
Killer of Sheep is playing at GoMA, Platonic Sex are playing a set at Sonic Sherpa, and I am still paralysed by indecision.
You could hear the woman on the other end of the phone and lemme tell you, there was a PAUSE.

Also her boss was in the lift too.
Did a gig earlier today at the top of an office tower. Tradies were working on floors in between so we rode the lift with them. One apprentice was on the phone to WorkCover telling them she didn't want to progress her claim because, "Her boss was just going to pay it out as overtime."
A fun message to get - while making dinner before heading out to a shift that starts at 11pm - is one telling you the start time for the next day's shift has been moved up.
Complaining about imported culture while rocking a Sherlock avi! (I guess it's publicly funded and thus not so commercial?)
(I should really catch up with First Cow some time.)
(I haven't always been Reichardt's number 1 fan but Showing Up was excellent and Josh O'Connor as a shitty art thief sounds like a great time.)
The Reveal reviewed The Mastermind so I looked it up, fully expecting it to be the usual Australian January/February prestige release... but it's actually out next Thursday!!!
(Mind you, still not as bad as when the teacher who supervised my first prac showed his Year 9 history class a white nationalist YouTube video about Australia's migration history.)
Imagine rocking up to a classroom as a supply teacher and trying to make this "resource" work.
I was already pretty happy about my decision to get out of teaching but having the good fortune to miss all of this bullshit is the cherry on top.
kids teacher just sent this home as part of an assignment he's doing and i want to smash every computer at the school
(Also Altman decided AGI was not actually a useful term around the same time.)
I think the release of gpt5 seemed to do a lot to damage that particular belief. (Imo it is not a coincidence that Zuckerberg switched from talking about AGI to talking about "super intelligence" not long after.)
"Imagine being ratioed by trees." - Emma, expressing sympathy as I die from hayfever.