James Keith

Threads thread: thriller_instinct 3d Is it okay to bully 40 and 50 year olds who are on social media just for being on it, cuz like why are you here - 254 Q 3.1K G 28 746 corporateash 18h ••• My ICQ UIN is 7231680. That number is burned into my consciousness. I inadvertently learned that you could see private conversations in public chat rooms when using Telnet instead of a browser on GeoCities. I can tell you the difference in audible dial-up handshakes between 1200, 2400, 14.4 kbps modems. I needed a edu email address to join Facebook after my university was admitted. We were here at the beginning. We made social media. You wouldn't be in my Top 8. I have usernames older than you. 852 Q62 G6 72

“I have usernames older than you.”.
Holy shit

it's that recurrent moment again where awful people are replaced by different awful people and yet I'm still sort of glad to see the original awful people gone

In every Republican presidency of my lifetime there's been a recession and a new war in the Middle East.

my tax dollars attacking with missiles more missiles that are somehow also my tax dollars

funding USAID (an agency which Trump and Musk illegally destroyed) cost each individual American taxpayer about $64 annually while saving millions of lives around the world.

instead, we've got:

A Complimentary Profile Of Jason Lee That Was Surprisingly Difficult To Publish | Defector If you walked down Colorado Boulevard in the Eagle Rock neighborhood of Los Angeles at some point in the past three years, you might have noticed a modest, pueblo-style beige building with “PHOTO” pai...

If you’re looking for something to read make it this excellent profile on Jason Lee which is also about how celebs really don’t like when you do actual journalism.

defector.com/a-compliment...

“We Belong to Each Other Now”: Lessons from Minneapolis “This extreme closeness, togetherness and intimacy — you cannot infiltrate your way into a space where you'll understand that," says May, a rapid responder in Minneapolis.

After months of relentless rapid response in Minneapolis, members of Defend the 612 had a moment to breathe and reflect on the lessons they’ve learned, the grief they carry, and the citywide fellowship they hope will endure. The crisis is not over, and I’m grateful they made time to speak with me.

Happy Robert Young's Birthday!
Charming and good-hearted, too
often under appreciated or underrated!
And as cute as a button at all ages!
So cute, inside and out, that when I start one of his movies or flip on TCM and he's there, I say so out loud with a big smile!
(Photo from Vagabond Lady, 1935.)

you're the man now dog!

Post old memes to confuse young people

Even Tony Kushner Warned Steven Spielberg About Making ‘Munich’ Kushner—who cowrote the screenplay for Spielberg’s controversial, eerily prescient film about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict—recalls telling the director, “You do understand that we’re going to get ...

a few months ago, i talked to Tony Kushner for an hour and a half about Munich

Stochastic Flocks and the Critical Problem of 'Useful' AI Acknowledging that AI systems are advancing does not buy into hype, it sharpens the precision of critical thinking about their impacts, says Eryk Salvaggio.

To acknowledge the ways AI systems are changing does not buy into hype, it sharpens the precision of critical thinking about their impacts. To make sense of what AI does to people, you also need to understand what it does for them, writes Eryk Salvaggio.

I'm in favor of a new Evangelion series. I believe it's a human right that every generation grows up with at least one anime that makes them feel weird and bad and slightly confused.

I can’t think of an actor I love to see walk into the frame more than Delroy Lindo. I think the first movie I saw him in was “Heist,” and then every time after that, you can kind of feel a given movie get more interesting when he shows up. My favorite part of Sinners. Still need to see Da 5 Bloods

the main reason to go after the rich is that if you don’t the entire structure of your society is predicated on the whims of people who are entirely disconnected from ordinary life

billionaires are simply too dangerous to exist, and any budgetary stuff that comes out of it is just a bonus

No, go after them because they're bad for society, like arsenic in the water.

A billion dollars is the socio-economic equivalent of a loose nuke, and we should work to prevent the acquisition of the former with the same urgency and ruthlessness we use to prevent the acquisition of the latter.

DO 👏 NOT 👏 TRIGGER 👏 ENDGAME 👏 WHILE 👏 I’M 👏 STILL 👏 BUILDING 👏 MY 👏 ENGINE

I’m so sick of the toxic players in this hobby. I only needed like eight more turns.

a comment from the r/boardgames post "AEG and Ryan Dancey part ways after comments about AI replacing designers yesterday." someone says: "Ai has replaced almost nothing effectively." to which some doofus replies, "Self driving cars, checkouts at super market, automated customer service on the phones, beating the best chess players but go on"

I laughed out loud seeing people doing the "Ryan Dancey said nothing wrong" shtick, especially when they started listing mechanical turks as AI successes.

"Did you leave Bellingcat on good terms?" No. I even tried to sue. Here's why.

Time to set the record straight all of these years later.

I’ve endured enough stupid rumors and insinuations wrt my departure from Bellingcat.

This needed to be said.

nataliaantonova.substack.com/p/did-you-le...

Very good dog invades course but falls short of medal glory at Winter Olympics A local dog has missed out on a historic medal at the Winter Olympics despite a lung-bursting stretch in the homestretch

Apparently it is Guardian style to specify the goodness of a dog, a very good rule

If these dumbasses stopped putting their time and effort into re-inventing trains from first principles and more time, y'know, building more trains, they might generate some actual enthusiasm!

A photo of an ice cream machine with a sign reading, "Anything is possible with ice cream." Beneath that is a hand lettered sign reading, "No ice cream".

2026 basically

A friend of mine is telling me how his company is using Gemini to turn their developers into "orchestrators" and I realized that this is the convergence of two trends:

1. Codebases that are too large for one person to understand, so organizations have essentially given up. /

Ursula Le Guin wrote a response to this kind of nonsense years ago. Read it instead.

www.ursulakleguin.com/a-rant-about...

there is an extremely simple answer to the "abandon trans rights" folks and it is "no" and also "fuck you"

With each passing month, I hope it is becoming clear to non-Americans why, when we introduce ourselves, we specify the state and not the country.

Letterboxd screenshot Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) Watched by Branson Reese 28 Apr 2022 Abrams isn't a man so much as he's an avatar of cultural entropy. If you make something popular enough eventually you will die or sell it off and and a person in thick rimmed glasses whose main artistic vision is that he loves to have meetings will take it and sandblast it until it's nothing. I hate to see this happen here but maybe it's good that this happened. Maybe every franchise should collapse into a version of itself that makes shareholders nod and shake each others' hands. We should learn to speak in a language that rich people who don't dream can't comprehend.

i often think about this review

You'll notice that I am very carefully riding the line in NOT saying AI is the same as NFT. It's just not.

But the vibes, man. The chucklefuck barnacles. The ostentatious proclamations trespassing even a toddler's understanding.

Excluding these people from the vibes is gonna need to be a Project.

i‘m using it for a column but i want to share here this line from lincoln on jefferson because it is applies to our situation as well. you can find it in his april 6, 1859 letter to henry l. pierce.

I'll start being a lot more accepting of the "conspiracy theorists were right" w.r.t Epstein when I start seeing the same level of credulity given to liberals regarding "Trump is a foreign agent"