But which do you watch first?

It's certainly what he wants out of this war.

Who can afford them all?

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Film stat of the day.

Total US Box office in 2000: 8.4billion (16bil with inflation)
Top 20 US grossing films: 2.8 billion

Total US Box office in 2025: 8.6 billion
Top 20 US grossing films: 4.9 billion

Also by the start of WWII Stalin had murdered a million or more people in the purges. Should we have invaded Russia to remove him? Ironically it's the US that is seeming more Nazi German like by the day. So if this is the equivalent of the Nazis invading USSR, that's a more interesting take to me

That's a poor analogy. Nobody sadly went to war with Nazi Germany to stop its worst atrocities. Mostly they did so because they were invaded by Nazi Germany. Or in Britain's case to fulfill a pact. Or Pearl Harbor for the US. And it could easily be argued that the Saudis are as bad as Iran.

Reads like something straight out of Catch 22

Or ambulances!

It's starting to feel like all spice production is being brought to a halt.

Miami mega mansions will have anti drone netting soon.

Which is only to say I know he wants to change this stuff, and there is a reason he's working the way he is. I'm willing to give him benefit of the doubt for longer than this couple of months.

That presupposes the mayor actually has that kind of control over the NYPD. Or that the cost of imposing such a thing wouldn't be far too high on other fronts. The predicament is brutal and spans across all of city government.

Nope but they would sure love the performative aspect. Still trying to drive up stock prices as nimble sabotage is bringing the whole thing down.

Next they'll go deep underground (like nuclear missile sites).

Which is to say likely all manner of authorial intention would be invented. Of course people are guilty of the same but... (It's always the "but" we come to).

Lord knows what an AI agent would say/invent there. But hey it's ok to be partly accurate these days. Really better. It's such a labor to be truly accurate. I regret this attitude has taken hold among many people I note in direct interaction these days.

Other books which also very much back up how grossly misunderstood/misrepresented the Culture is in some discourse.

NY times OpEd "Can you still be human in a post human world?"

As novel as that might be on one level, I doubt I could stomach it. Useful reference data though it might be.

Not including the Culture is quite an oversight however. It's probably the most coherent AI utopia (and most revealingly misunderstood by the technocracy) yet also the most inherently critical of exactly the power structures embracing AI now.

Or one could say sometimes there are indeed conspiracies.

Definitely didn't see that coming.

*Probably not enough attention is paid to the "entropic rot" of words and ideas #entanglementtheory #IanHodder

*That ideas are not Platonic and static, that instead ideas have to be actively maintained, that they crumble and drift, meme-like

Ideally you manage to have all three.

2.39:1 master

Possibly Wexler's best work too.

I fear as cinematic language becomes ever more unfamiliar to people these things are becoming seen as absolutes.

Terrible (playfully used exceptions aside).

Overly composing to picture reinforces this.