Thomas Buchmann

Fit for an Autopsy, live in Glasgow, 15/10/2025
🎞 Ilford HP5+ (shot at 3200)
📷 Canon EOS 5

#shootonfilm #35mmphoto #35mmfilmphoto

Pitching idea: a Chucky movie where Chucky discovers his Irish roots and moves to Ireland to try and win back the 6 stolen counties. It's called Chuckaidh ár lá.

They should really make a film about these

Netflix Is Using AI to Upscale a 1980s Sitcom and the Results Are Borderline Horrific From the very first frames, you can tell there's something's off about Netflix's AI-powered remastering of "A Different World."

Look at this bullshit Netflix is doing futurism.com/netflix-ai-u...

If you've not read it yet, there's another sign you should

7 Conclusion We surveyed 319 knowledge workers who use GenAI tools (e.g., ChatGPT, Copilot) at work at least once per week, to model how they enact critical thinking when using GenAI tools, and how GenAI affects their perceived effort of thinking critically. Analysing 936 real-world GenAI tool use examples our participants shared, we find that knowledge workers engage in critical thinking primarily to ensure the quality of their work, e.g. by verifying outputs against external sources. Moreover, while GenAI can improve worker effi- ciency, it can inhibit critical engagement with work and can poten- tially lead to long-term overreliance on the tool and diminished skill for independent problem-solving. Higher confidence in GenAI’s ability to perform a task is related to less critical thinking effort. When using GenAI tools, the effort invested in critical thinking shifts from information gathering to information verification; from problem-solving to AI response integration; and from task execu- tion to task stewardship. Knowledge workers face new challenges in critical thinking as they incorporate GenAI into their knowledge workflows. To that end, our work suggests that GenAI tools need to be designed to support knowledge workers’ critical thinking by addressing their awareness, motivation, and ability barriers

The Impact of Generative AI on Critical Thinking: Self-Reported Reductions in Cognitive Effort and Confidence Effects From a Survey of Knowledge Workers www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...

using genAI reduces a person’s cognitive efforts and critical thinking, findings from Microsoft Research

Ash Wednesday

I'd forgotten about Stray Dog! Bastard sure was talented.

Along with Ikiru, you've got his two best "non samurai" films (IMHO and all that)

People spouting conspiracy theories on the Pope and all I hear in my head is Erin

The other big problem with using generative AI to help you write is that it makes you a huge fuckin loser

First Aid Kit Live

First Aid Kit Live

First Aid Kit Live

First Aid Kit, live in Copenhagen, 14/01/2024
🎞 Kodak Vision 3 500T (shot at 3200)
📷 Canon EOS5

#firstaidkitband #shootonfilm #35mmphoto #35mmfilmphoto #shootitwithfilm #filmalivemag #bestfilmphoto #analoguecommunity #livephoto #kodak500t #gulabiphoto #ecn2 #kodakvision3

"Papier-mâché heart" would be an incredible name for an indie/shoegaze 90s band.

I can't wait for HBO dark and gritty adaptation of the southside coffee shop drama; "Big Little Lattes"

Photo of the cover of Fragile Animals, written by Genevieve Jagger

Well this was brilliant.
(Follow for more in-depth, insightful reviews like this one. )

Ooooh nice. I think I like this one even more than beauty and the beast. Curious to hear your thoughts

Would pair so well with Tic Tac Garlic

I'm deeply troubled by this proposal, which feeds a bunch of copyright laws that protect intellectual property into the shredder, I think it's short sighted and outright encouraging criminality and theft - I'm emailing my MP this afternoon

so, go ahead & scoff but *do* take them seriously. they mean it. rufo, hanania, musk, alliance defending freedom, SEGM, & their friends at the NYT, the atlantic, the guardian already got a lot of folks in the bobsled of “some humans are less human & icky & we can all agree they shouldn’t exist.”

I wrote something brand new for the first time since October 2021. I'd be happy but it's pretty shit and it came back from the beta reader with a staggering 102 comments. (It's a 4-page short story) 🤡

The "Nosferatu 2024 moustache discourse©️" is one of the most idiotic I've seen online, and that's saying something

Lose all respect for groups or organisations using AI generated imagery. The lack of imagination, the devaluing of art and photography, the corner-cutting and cheapness of it. Would rather have photos of coddle stapled to my eyeballs.

Well my resolution is to start taking more portraits....
My photos have been called "desolate" one too many times

Turns out the best way out of a tattie coma is more tatties

Drop Dead Gorgeous, 1999 (4 stars) The Invisible Woman, 1940 (3 stars) Mortal Engines, 2018 (2 stars) Horror Express, 1972 (3 and half stars)

#lastfourwatched #letterboxdfriday
#filmsky

Monzo yearly wrap up feels criminal. There's simply no need for such violence

Really coming down to the wire on this one.