Daniel Thron

Oh that’s GOOD

The measurement problem, Zeno’s paradox, and the arrow of time all seem to me like facets of the Hard Problem of consciousness. I’m not a dualist; I don’t believe consciousness is some floating magic gas outside of physics, but our general dismissal of it is now causing us actual moral problems.

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Who I want to replace Prue Leith

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I feel called out by this book every second lol #dostoevsky #reading #books #gabtheory #fyp TikTok video by Gabtheory

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hey #filmsky have you seen this #zombie short?
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an abstract bit of flash fiction wrote from the POV of AI in 2018. I like some of these ideas a lot.
#writing #scifi

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It’s alright by me

I based my Thief II characters on real people in my life. This is one of my favorite characters and friends 💖

He actually wrote the music you steal on the wax cylinder. You should check out all his other music because it's really good! 🎶

It’s all the way downs all the way down

since it’s #bandcampfriday again

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Nation Admittedly Curious To Hear How Trump Pronounces ‘Strait Of Hormuz’

Nation Admittedly Curious To Hear How Trump Pronounces ‘Strait Of Hormuz’ https://theonion.com/nation-admittedly-curious-to-hear-how-trump-pronounces-strait-of-hormuz/

thomas malory was medieval aaron sorkin

some of the greatest, most gorgeous stuff ever made

would love to see this in a theater; as hypnotic as a Malick film. Really blew my mind.

Harabounto PlusMax will definitely be the name of my next d&d character so something good will come of this at any rate

I’ve been wanting to see Angel’s Egg for years, and it did not disappoint; an incredible, unnerving masterpiece. If you loved reading Piranisi or playing Bloodborne- or loved the metaphysics of this director’s other classic, Ghost in the Shell - then check it out right now on HBO!

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Barbara Loden’s Influential and Overlooked Feature Film ‘Wanda’ is Re-Released Rarely screened for decades, Wanda, written, directed and starring Barbara Loden, is a landmark of American independent cinema

2/28/71: Barbara Loden's indie landmark Wanda
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I miss the days when we could just find things interesting, rather than an invitation to combat.

Get Your War On three panel comic from 2001. “Oh yeah operation Enduring Freedom is in the house…”

The Groundhog Day War

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And this is the true meaning, I think, of the line “don’t try to understand it. Feel it.” in one sense, it’s talking about the mechanics of the movie itself. But in a much more true way it’s the best advice you can give about *love.*

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So this is why I was not emotionally involved the first time, but ever more emotionally involved the subsequent times – and I’ve never seen a movie like this.

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- but he can’t *tell* Washington, because he fears Washington wouldn’t understand, and it might mess everything up. Meanwhile Washington suffers from a similar problem – only too late does he recognize his own feelings for Pattinson.

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And this is the magic of the movie to me – it simulates the difficulty that men often have in expressing their feelings for one another: Pattinson loves Washington - he is his best friend, his brother, and he’s known him for years –

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But then on second watch, because I knew the whole story, I got the non-linear emotional experience of Robert Pattinson, and this suddenly made all of the scenes between them tinged with loss.

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And the first time, you can *only* watch it linearly from the protagonist point of view, which is exciting, but not resonant.

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The thing that is fascinating to me about Tenet is that it’s a movie you can either pay attention to as a linear series of experiences OR as a non-linear emotional story, but not both at the same time. 

“Joining a heretical group for many of them is often only another way of shouting their own despair.”

Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

I never stop thinking about this book