Mark Harrison

Robert Duvall in THE OUTFIT (1973)

RIP Robert Duvall. An incredible catalogue of work that people will revisit for generations to come. So it goes.

Lyle Lanley at a chalkboard A = ARTIFICIAL I = LAYOFFS

"...and that concludes our intensive three-day pitch to your employer and/or government"

If children were more politically active they would be quite pissed to be told that their screen time is “the most urgent public health issue” while the largest measles outbreak since the vaccine sweeps their schools because of conspiracies that the adults in their life believed from social media.

[Scene is a domestic kitchen. Night time. The room is all blue apart from warm orange-pink light streaming in from a streetlight outside. In the center of the room stands a woman named BRANDI, standing in pyjamas looking contemplative, the light cast dramatically on her face. At the doorway, leaning against the frame, her partner JOEL stands has woken up and found her in the kitchen.] JOEL: Honey… what are you doing? BRANDI: Can’t sleep Guess I just like standing in the kitchen at 3am thinking about the supernatural threat we temporarily defeated last year. While saying that out loud in a manner which sounds casually ironic but is actually just blatant exposition. JOEL: Brandi… you're talking strange... BRANDI: Dammit Joel. It’s time you knew. You're a Netflix character. [Joel looks shocked] BRANDI: Everybody you know has been forced to speak to you in second screen dialogue. Second screen dialogue helps the people scrolling their phones in front of the TV to follow the - JOEL: Stop explaining, Brandi! [Hands on head, emotional expression, warm pink light cast on his face against the cool blue darkness of the room]. JOEL: So that's why my entire life has looked so glossy and... BRANDI: Yep... Warm/cool colour graded. [Cut to a TV show TITLE SCREEN]: SECOND SCREEN - A Netflix original - [Ends]

this is not an essay about Emerald Fennell's "Wuthering Heights" why can't we cope with ambiguity these days?

This is such a brilliant and withering dismantling of ‘Wuthering Heights’ and the entire Fennell schtick open.substack.com/pub/heatherp...

OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...

"OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits."

This isn't a dead canary in the coal mine, it's a miner. AI doesn't work.

www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

Britain’s Story: The Next Chapter - BBC Royal Charter Review, Green Paper and public consultation

This is the Gov looking for your input on the BBC. It takes a while to complete (15/20 mins) but it’s pretty comprehensive and covers most aspects.

Please share. I’m surprised many people haven’t seen it yet.

www.gov.uk/government/c...

Threaddd!

British journalists are always like "I only had 4 annual european holidays growing up, because my father, the Baron, was a bit of a cheapskate, so really I am working class" then 5 minutes later decree an actual working class person a faker because they drink coffee

Just to reiterate that all you need to know about UK class system is that Lord of the Flies is read as a comment about human nature and not about how inept and bullying public school boys can be.

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

Paul Brand @ @PaulBrandITV .19m X Hugely concerning story about two of the country's best journalists. Westminster whispers are all too commonly used to silence quality reporting - they have my full sympathy. Harry Yorke @HarryYorke1 • 13h @Gabriel_Pogrund and I were the subject of a disgraceful smear campaign —just for doing our jobs I'm proud that The Sunday Times is calli...

Unbelievably infuriating that this is how these swine are finally going to deal with the long Labour ratfucking campaign in which *the same people* deliberately put their thumbs on the scales in a general election campaign.

I think I meant this in the way the mice have their own Queen Victoria in Basil The Great Mouse Detective. But maybe I mean more like Starmer is Graeme's Wario? Fuck, I bet dogs can't stand Starmer.

Graeme Hall, dog trainer from Channel 5's Dogs Behaving Very Badly, with a nicely behaved Maltipoo

Graeme from Dogs Behaving Very Badly is just Keir Starmer for dogs, isn't he?

Roses are red
Vermicelli is thin

elmo from sesame street is making a funny face while sitting on a table . Alt: Elmo, absolutely fuckn done

"I hear Tár quoted a lot."

All these pricks replied to that prompt about which 2020s movie had the biggest cultural footprint with "I think it might be The Lighthouse..."

I see Wes Anderson directed this

this is a metaphor for waking up and logging on

"You're gonna be real sorry for getting us fired."
"Well, I'm sorry now."
"Yeah, you're gonna be."
"I said, I'm sorry now."
"We said you're gonna be!"
"I know when I'm sorry, and I'm sorry now!"

Balance! This one is on E4 right now and it's great.

Oh yeah, that's why it only might be in the running. This is early "they should know better" shit.

Otherwise though, yikes. They made it while the actors were on strike, and it's the last clip show to date, but they don't even pick good clips, and then Kang and Kodos show up, which is never good outside Halloween... just yikes.

You may laugh, but the Macbeths are a much better role model for a marriage than Romeo and Juliet. They discuss their problems (killing the king of Scotland), share their hobbies (killing the king of Scotland), and resolve their conflicts (by killing the king of Scotland).

YouTube video by The Simpsons They'll Never Stop The Simpsons

Gump Roast is on Channel 4, and might be in the running for Worst. Simpsons episode. Ever. Except that it ends with this. youtu.be/swpdhGPXeUk

To make your Emerald Fennell name just combine your favourite gemstone with your favourite misspelled vegetable. Mine is Jasper Carrott.

Jason Statham is set to play Jason Statham in Jason Statham Stole My Bike, a new action-comedy from Bullet Train director David Leitch.

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