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I watched this more than once - I had to, to find anything here beyond an incoherent mess. But I found the ending effective, and the movie impacted my dreams.

I like that at one point every character is worried about a completely different possible explanation of WTF is going on.

Rotten Tomatoes page for Nightwish (1990). Tomatometer - none. Popcornmeter: 22% Auidence reviews include: "They tried, kind of. Overall a near total failure with some cool special effects being the only redeeming factor. It feels very unfinished. Maybe the budget ran dry, which is a real shame..." and "It's the Montezuma's Revenge of 80s horror/sci-fi flicks. I don't want to give out any spoilers in case anyone wants to watch this massive, steaming heap of cinematic droppings for themselves..." Cover image for Nightwish is a profile of a female face emerging from a misty green lake under a full moon. She appears to be asleep with what looks like an electrode on her temple. Movie plot summary is "Coeds (Alisha Das, Elizabeth Kaitan) enter a nightmarish world by way of a deep-sleep researcher's experiments."

Post a movie you like with a terrible Rotten Tomatoes score.

I had to reconfigure my usual holiday fudge recipe when they made the jars of marshmallow cream smaller a few years ago

Last year: Austin Peay State University learns prof is Nazi who went to Charlottesville rally. Admin drags heels, pays him $56k severance to leave

This week: APSU prof posts screenshot of headline - Charlie Kirk Says Gun Deaths ‘Unfortunately’ Worth it to Keep 2nd Amendment- & is immediately fired

Day Break, starring Taye Diggs.

It's a mystery with a (solved) season-long twisty plot and an (unresolved) background series mystery.

And every time I was sure I'd caught a mistake or plot hole or continuity error, it turned out I was wrong, it was deliberate with a clear explanation.

Shout out to everyone only now learning that "Albert Einstein was reclusive at the end of his career, shunning public engagements."

Really meant,

"For the last *20 years* of his career, Einstein opposed US racism by only speaking publicly at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs).

Decrying violence against political opponents rings a bit hollow when you pull Secret Service protection from your political opponents.

California Passes Bill Allowing Omission of Patients’ Names From Abortion Pill Bottles The intent is to protect health care providers who send the pills to patients in states with abortion bans, and to reassure patients who fear they could be identified.

Breaking News: California passed a bill allowing the names of doctors, patients and pharmacists to be omitted from abortion pills mailed to states with bans. The intent is to protect providers and to reassure patients who fear they could be identified.

I know Charlie Kirk valued debate and free speech because he blocked me for fact-checking his lies on Twitter and then put me on his organization's Professor Watchlist for writing a book he didn't like.

Why should I write better when a machine can do it for me? Because actually no one can do it for you, because your voice is unique among all the people on earth. Siri never petted a horse's neck. Alexa has never been ghosted by the captain of the football team. But you have lived, your heart is beating, you have suffered, and you have something important to say. It's a human's job, to use words, and whatever job you give to a machine, that part of your brain goes dark. Maybe it's worth it when it comes to remembering phone numbers and directions, but when that part of your brain that uses words goes dark, that's a vast area that's very close to your soul. Don't let some internet platform convince you that what you have to say and create isn't worthwhile. Words are the echo of your soul. Honing that echo matters.

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

CIA approved tactics for populations under hostile occupation

Humanities and STEM people love to fight with each other while funding for both is gutted to give a tax break to rent seeking car dealership owners who barely graduated high school.

Good morning from Oakland and the Office of Administrative Hearings, where we are resuming the hearing in the matter of the California DMV's complaint against Tesla for misleading advertising of its Autopilot and "Full Self-Driving Capability." First up we will hear from witness Bryant Walker Smith.

What I'm craving is extra salty tortilla chips. Not sure anyone makes those, but if they don't they should.

in February of every odd year, the President should appoint a new Supreme Court Justice and the then-longest serving justice should be retired. That gives a maximum term of 18 years, which is plenty for one person.

this is accurate. Saying the court is corrupt isn’t just a slogan or rallying cry. It’s a critical statement, marker-setting of where we are. A court acting in this fashion has no legitimacy. Acting under its dictates is a purely pragmatic and contingent decision.

There is no such thing as liberalism — or progressivism, etc. There is only conservatism. No other political philosophy actually exists; by the political analogue of Gresham’s Law, conservatism has driven every other idea out of circulation. There might be, and should be, anti-conservatism; but it does not yet exist. What would it be? In order to answer that question, it is necessary and sufficient to characterize conservatism. Fortunately, this can be done very concisely. Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protectes but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect. There is nothing more or else to it, and there never has been, in any place or time. For millenia, conservatism had no name, because no other model of polity had ever been proposed. “The king can do no wrong.” In practice, this immunity was always extended to the king’s friends, however fungible a group they might have been. Today, we still have the king’s friends even where there is no king (dictator, etc.). Another way to look at this is that the king is a faction, rather than an individual. As the core proposition of conservatism is indefensible if stated baldly, it has always been surrounded by an elaborate backwash of pseudophilosophy, amounting over time to millions of pages. All such is axiomatically dishonest and undeserving of serious scrutiny. Today, the accelerating de-education of humanity has reached a point where the market for pseudophilosophy is vanishing; it is, as The Kids Say These Days, tl;dr . All that is left is the core proposition itself — backed up, no longer by misdirection and sophistry, but by violence.

So this tells us what anti-conservatism must be: the proposition that the law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone, and cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone. Then the appearance arises that the task is to map “liberalism”, or “progressivism”, or “socialism”, or whateverthefuckkindofstupidnoise-ism, onto the core proposition of anti-conservatism. No, it a’n’t. The task is to throw all those things on the exact same burn pile as the collected works of all the apologists for conservatism, and start fresh. The core proposition of anti-conservatism requires no supplementation and no exegesis. It is as sufficient as it is necessary. What you see is what you get: The law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone; and it cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone.

I think it's now possible to make a poli-sci course that equips one for modern political analysis better than most classic theory and has a syllabus sourced entirely from random internet posts.

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We are back! #C64 www.commodore.net The first official Commodore 64 in over 30 years is here - a faithful recreation of the original motherboard on FPGA hardware. HDMI, WiFi, USB, but compatible with every existing cartridge and peripheral. Not an emulator - a recreation. Same price as my first $299

I still think the Good Place should have had a breakfast diner called The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelettes.

For me, depends on the situation. Most fresh pizza it detracts.

But for ground beef + bacon, as a cheeseburger pizza, it's adequate. And with (especially slightly dried out) leftover pizza, you can often improve it by adding some American cheese + garlic salt before reheating.

Pretty sure a number of those folks are extremely happy any time the left retakes this ground. But periodically they see the degrowthers take the lead on the left, and that makes them concerned.

Whether they were successful or not I have no way to evaluate.

TikTokers Say They Trolled Trump’s Birthday Parade By Reserving Tickets They Didn’t Use TikTokers Say They Trolled Trump’s Birthday Parade By Reserving Tickets They Didn’t Use

Tiktokers did have a campaign going to reserve tickets for the parade. There were two reasons: to try to make it harder for people to get tickets, and to provide a distorted count to the organizers so they'd set up for far more people than were planning to attend. www.forbes.com/sites/emilyb...

ChatGPT Lost a Chess Game to an Atari 2600 And on the 'Beginner' difficulty level, too.

Deep Blue is 30 years old and was capable of defeating chess grand champions. It could be housed in a single cabinet.

ChatGPT spans untold data centers devouring massive amounts of electricity and it got its ass whipped by an 8 bit gaming console from the 1970s.

Nonviolent resistance should:

Be strategic and well-planned, exposing the moral bankruptcy of unjust laws and systems.
Seek to win the hearts and minds of opponents through empathy and moral appeal, not coercion.
Maintain an unwavering commitment to dignity and respect for all individuals involved.

Some protests cause disorder.

That does not mean all do.
It also does not mean that just because something is disorderly or disruptive that it is effective.

Like even if you accept the premise that AI is super valuable and we need to have it, that doesn't imply that AI companies need to *keep all the surplus* for society to have that value. They could, say, pay some of it to the people whose work they stole!

AI: what if everything was shitty but convenient in the manner of a gas station hot dog?

So the guy leading RFK Jr.'s vaccine-autism study?

A total quack who was previously charged for practicing medicine without a license for using chemical castration drugs on autistic children.