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Jesse Lansner @jesse.lansner.com · 5h

Dr. Fill is the perfect encapsulation of “AI” – really good at duplicating things that are in its dataset but with no idea of why it works, and utterly flummoxed by anything new.

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Jesse Lansner @jesse.lansner.com · 15h

Looks like a couple of the NYC events last until 2:00 or 2:30 so maybe you can still make it to the end of one?

Jesse Lansner @jesse.lansner.com · 16h

Haul Out the Holly is truly awful, both for the pro-HOA insanity and for wasting Stephen Tobolowsky. But somehow it now has a second sequel.

www.hallmarkchannel.com

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Jesse Lansner @jesse.lansner.com · 1d

Do you pair the good and bad movies?

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Jesse Lansner @jesse.lansner.com · 1d

You’re probably right. I had forgotten that the same guy created both of them, and was thinking that the second bot had to look up what the first one had just posted, instead of them both drawing from the same database.

Jesse Lansner @jesse.lansner.com · 1d

Chapter 103 and 105 also have “No.” as a complete sentence. I’m guessing the bot just returns the first hit, since most of the quotes only show up once.

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Jesse Lansner @jesse.lansner.com · 1d

Further support for my "Yoda and Grover are the same character, just at very different stages in life" theory.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

Blue, Yoda originally was, archival Star Wars sources reveal

Review of screenplay, novel, and comics suggests film-makers made late decision to make diminutive Jedi master green “You must unlearn what you have learned,” Jedi master Yoda instructed his stubborn apprentice, Luke Skywalker. And now Star Wars fans may have to do the same after confirmation that the beloved fictional alien was very nearly blue, or even purple. Reviews of archival sources – and new testimony from a special effects makeup artist who worked on the first Yoda puppets – suggest film-makers made a decision late in the development process to switch the character’s skin colour to green. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Jesse Lansner @jesse.lansner.com · 1d

Rory Gilmore wrote an article about New Yorkers waiting on lines in the Gilmore Girls sequel.

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Reposted by Jesse Lansner

James Poniewozik @poniewozik.bsky.social · 1d

This meeting : An e-mail :: This TV series : A movie

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Jesse Lansner @jesse.lansner.com · 1d

TJ pretending to negotiate with a small supplier and then just copying the product is sleazy, but this claim looks incredibly weak. Smuckers is accusing TJ of copying their box design, but the two packages look nothing alike.

Jesse Lansner @jesse.lansner.com · 1d

This is a trick question; nobody invites JD Vance to their group chats.

Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 1d

lol can you *imagine* the kind of stuff in JD Vance group chats. (i mean, yes very easily)

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Jesse Lansner @jesse.lansner.com · 1d

I’m waiting for the one quasi-Hanukkah movie before I sign up for a free week.

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Jesse Lansner @jesse.lansner.com · 1d

Or Jews who attended a Unitarian Church because there wasn’t a synagogue nearby – though I suspect the stories I’ve heard of this are all apocryphal.

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Jesse Lansner @jesse.lansner.com · 2d

Does that make them scholar-athletes?

Walt Whitman @skeetsofgrass.bsky.social · 2d

I am the teacher of athletes,

Jesse Lansner @jesse.lansner.com · 2d

Such a beautiful city! Are the tents set up on top of the city walls?

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Jesse Lansner @jesse.lansner.com · 2d

I worry they’ll also learn that RCV and public financing are a threat to aging party leaders, and fight those even harder than they have in the past.

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Jesse Lansner @jesse.lansner.com · 2d

I turned off the feature where it keeps suggesting I raise my exercise/calorie targets, but that was two years ago and I don’t remember where that setting is.

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Jesse Lansner @jesse.lansner.com · 2d

My Jewish great-grandfather and his siblings experimented with a whole bunch of transliterations of what we think was something like “לנצר” (and who knows how the Russian govt spelled it in Cyrillic if they ever did) before settling on “Lansner”.

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Jesse Lansner @jesse.lansner.com · 2d

My gentile great-grandfather kept his name when he moved here, but his brothers (who arrived first) adopted an “American” name that was neither a translation or a homophone of their actual name, so my ggf had to use that as an alternate name for a bit when his brothers got him a job.

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Jesse Lansner @jesse.lansner.com · 2d

Tbf, both those movies were kind of ridiculous at the time, too.

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Jesse Lansner @jesse.lansner.com · 2d

I have eaten
the poem
that was in
the icebox

JessicaMCurrall @jessicamcurrall.bsky.social · 2d

@lollardfish.bsky.social Are you familiar with How to Eat a Poem by Eve Miriam?

Eve Miriam’s poem, How to Eat a Poem, reads:

Don’t be polite.
Bite in.
Pick it up with your fingers and lick the juice that may run down your chin.
It is ready and ripe now, whenever you are.

You do not need a knife or fork or spoon or plate or napkin or tablecloth.

For there is no core
or stem
or rind
or pit
or seed
or skin
to throw away.

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Jesse Lansner @jesse.lansner.com · 2d

🐋

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Jesse Lansner @jesse.lansner.com · 2d

A bunch of us did a group read of it on here over the summer.

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Jesse Lansner @jesse.lansner.com · 2d

Three categories: network; basic cable; premium cable/streaming.

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Jesse Lansner @jesse.lansner.com · 2d

I started watching Wargames with my kid, and had to explain how all the tech – which seems so primitive now – was actually far more advanced than anything that existed in 1983.

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