Nolen Gertz

Storm clouds ruining a nice blue sky

#DutchSummer

It Follows (2014) man on roof of a white house, but not Trump on the White House

Maybe Trump is just trying to motivate them to make It Follows 2...

Advisor: "Mr. President, nothing will distract people from the Epstein files."
Trump: "Oh yeah..."

Tulips, tulips, everywhere tulips

Wow can't wait. Hope to learn more about Daria Nicolodi...

Been catching up on @marcmaron.bsky.social's WTF podcast and only just got to the Mulaney episode (1648). Was bummed by his announcement he's ending the podcast but then they started their conversation with a discussion of Derrida, Foucault, Heidegger, and Baudrillard and suddenly I felt better...

No better way to get people to value human life than to use AI to generate fake conversations with simulations of dead people...
#NihilismAndTechnology

ChatGPT dissidents, the students who refuse to use AI: ‘I couldn’t remember the last time I had written something by myself’ Some college students are beginning to limit their use of artificial intelligence, so as not to hinder their own creativity, discipline and critical thinking

Weird. This doesn’t match what I’ve been told—that students are going to use it no matter what.

#NihilismAndTechnology

Thought since my son loved The Matrix and loves anime that he'd love the Animatrix, but I was wrong...

Elon Musk: Teslas can drive themselves!

Sometimes you see a Musk tweet that you just know is going to show up in a court filing one day.

Animatrix (2003) 📽️

Current mood:

#NihilismAndTechnology

Death Drive: The Movie

Friendship (2024) 📽️

Current mood:

AI deep fakes used by Airbnb host to defraud a woman by accusing her of destroying their apartment. Airbnb sided with the host, presumably because Airbnb uses AI rather than humans for customer service. So only because the Guardian got involved did she get her money back...
#NihilismAndTechnology

bsky.app/profile/duhe...

#NihilismAndTechnology

Star Wars Scrabble

I get it when they do this with Monopoly, but Scrabble?

I was confused recently by an article that claimed Moore's Law was driving tech innovation, seemingly turning something descriptive into something normative, but that makes more sense when you take hype into account (hyped growth = investment from people who believe the hype = R&D)...

Meta brought AI to rural Colombia. Now students are failing exams When Meta embedded AI bots in its apps, even students in the most remote corners of Colombia gained access. But rather than boosting learning, it’s getting in the way.

the enshittification of education is underway

restofworld.org/2025/colombi...

a man in a black jacket is standing in front of a green wall with the words `` whoa '' written on it . Alt: a man in a black jacket is standing in front of a green wall with the words `` whoa '' written on it .

Me: "When The Matrix I came out, I saw it in theaters 8 times."
Son: "What? Why?"
Me: *puts on The Matrix*
Son:

The Matrix (1999) 📽️

Welcoming my son to the desert of the real...

#SpoilerAlert
The more I think about the movie the more I don't like it. Hard to think of a non-Snyder movie that had such unlikeable superheroes. They're so condescending. They make decisions for the whole planet. When people get mad at them for being selfish, they lecture them...

Silver Surfer (1998) cartoon

It was cute but my son and I were both very annoyed throughout since we had watched The Silver Surfer cartoon together and this did not live up to that...

Fantastic Four? More like Fantastic BORE 😴
*rimshot*

Fantastic Four (2025) 📽️

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KPop Demon Hunters (2025) 🎥

Been watching KPop Demon Hunters with my son at his request, and am a bit surprised they chose to go with the message "shame is the root of all evil" at this particular point in human history...

For women, the increase of AI use in the workplace may affect their careers: Harvard study Women are using AI significantly less then men and it’s going to have a major impact on their careers, according to extensive research on the topic.

Every. Single. Story. about women not using AI as much as men portray it as bad for their future career prospects (without a shred of evidence) and a result of women being fearful little ladies rather than looking at AI's output and saying "this sucks, it's not going to help me."