@derekkinsman.com
He/him. Rude mechanical. Award losing maker of things. Social impact tech director. Fan of guillotines. Settler Canadian living on the ancestral homelands and traditional territory of the Attawandaron, Anishinaabeg, and Haudenosaunee peoples (Guelph, ON).
I've not seen Frankenstein, Wuthering Heights I'm keen to along w/ Bride. And would definitely watch Tarsem do whatever and Ana Lily Amirpour can also do whatever. I'd be down for Alfonso Cuarón doing any John Wyndham. David Lowery can keep doing Arthurian stuff. Catherine Hardwicke, Little Women?
Will the old books be getting a reprint?
"Won't someone think of the optics!?"
That Kabuki statue was always a dream, and will remain a dream, collectible for me.
A lot of leftist and progressive writers are using substack as well. Like, hello I would love to throw money at your writing, but I'm not gonna do that via substack. If you need a hosted solution just use Ghost.
Instead of watching the State of the Union, maybe instead pop on the Katamari Damacy soundtrack and hit a bong…or something.
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So much for “elbows up”.
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As a former smoker I really very recommend not listening to wellness influencers that shill drugs. Also, if your employer stocks nicotine pouches in your office vending machine, you should look for a new job.
First thing I thought when I saw this video was “sure was a lot of microplastics that duder just gulped”. 😞
Deep-fried butter from the CNE.
Did I jokingly recommend adding a romantasy fanfic to the upcoming Final Fantasy x Politics issue of @unwinnable.com? Maaaaaybe. Is @nochshorn.bsky.social gonna give us the spicy spice? Maybe, but @stuhorvath.com says we gotta hit the subscriber drive goal first and we're so close.
Even after seeing the video, and dying from second hand cringe, I somehow didn't know that I didn't want to think about RFK Jr. being a never nude or not. 🤣
Because his real job is ”producer” and he uses “filmmaker” to sound cool?
Matt has been “the wrong take” since forever.
The image they use in the post isn't very convincing that there are "no AI black holes".
Happy lap around the sun!
You know what would be cool? If @signal.org could magically (by which I mean lots of hard work and no magic at all) roll in some Discord-like functionality. If group chats could have multiple chat-threads that would effectively mean a group chat could have "channels/rooms". Anyway, Signal is rad AF.
When is OpenAI looking for more money? Whenever Sam Altman claims the next version of ChatGPT is so mindbogglingly dangerous that it's even more dangerous to not release it. More predictable than a Hallmark Christmas movie plot.
Why did it turn into a god? That's kinda easy. Literacy rates are extremely low. Even our literary scoring is like "most of the population has a 6th to 10th grade equivalent or better literary capability". Like, of course people think it's a god.
The unintentionally (I assume) interesting thing about this article is the portrait it paints of Anthropic's business culture: just a full-blown kool-aid drinking silicon valley mindless super cult.
Anyways, saved you a click. Puff piece for Anthropic's word-guessing machine.
A tv sitting on a wooden media console with the title card for the movie “Deep Rising” on screen.
How a definitely hip and cool person spends their Saturday night doing definitely hip and cool things.
Most of my Switch playing is just using the NES & N64 emulators. Super Mario 3, Mario 64, Mario Kart 64. Newer-ish games that I play a lot: Firewatch, Katamari Damacy, Caravan SandWitch, Tiny Book Shop, Jenny LeClue, In Other Waters, Animal Crossing, Cozy Grove, Subnautica, Stardew Valley, Faefarm…
To quote the youth: we're cooked fam.
Thanks for the article share. Horrifying, but excellent long read for a Saturday morning with a coffee. Alright, I'm gonna go cry.
As a fan of being in a constant state of learning new things I'm not convinced modern academia is set up to reward accumulation of knowledge anymore, but I don't understand what experience these kids are getting by going to college/university and not putting in the work. Just massive debt?
“I went from being a bare pass C average to being an A-plus student in 18 months."
(I tracked down the article to read 🏴☠️)
The student (and probably all random word guessing machine students) genuinely believing they're now an A-plus student and not still a near flunk out breaks my brain.
We’re technically foreign as well and should’ve also been blessed with the non-US editions. 😅
Japanese cover of William Gibson's novel "Neuromancer".
It kinda has the Japanese edition vibes.
Yeah. It is definitely good for flipping through with a hot beverage.There’s a comment on the Itch page from a month ago suggesting she might be doing another print run. Would be cool to get the additional expanded stuff in print as well.
