tired socialist dad & DJ, will write about music or film for cash // host of @ClassicAlbumSun Sydney
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I wrote about Dolly Parton’s life of solidarity and giving, as well as her towering musical genius and what she meant to me personally from earliest childhood:
underthepavingstones.com/202…
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Is this you @macsween_prue?
It’s come to this. Victorian politician Independent MP @helenhainesmp, a mother of 3, has been deliberately targeted and run down by some bastard. So sad. Thinking of her and her family.
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'To be, or not to be' has been repeated through the centuries to the point of becoming noise. We're at risk, as audiences, of receiving it as a pastiche of itself: grand, posturing, giving-it-Shakespeare.
Andrew Scott's delivery brings it back to something simple, direct, and human. This is a young man letting you into his suicidal ideation.
Andrew Scott delivers this speech too slowly; I know some viewers will hate the way he breaks up the verse. AND YET even in spite of that I think this is the best delivery of this soliloquy I’ve ever seen.
He makes it sound like it’s not a portentous speech everyone already knows but a morally serious real-time deliberation, by a highly intelligent person in extreme pain, considering what it would mean to end his own life.
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I don’t think you have a dog in this fight but if you did you would have shot it.
I’ll take @ellalangleymsic over Kacey Musgraves any day.
And if I’m choosin’ Texas, I’ll take Ken Paxton over James Talarico.
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Maricarmen’s only wish was to die at peace in the house where she’d lived for 71 years.
But a vulture fund decided to buy it.
They jacked up her rent by 500%, evicted her on a stretcher, and she died of acute distress in a hospital instead.
Capitalism at its most savage.
Woman, 87, whose eviction sparked housing protests across Spain, has died, tenants' union says bbc.in/4zkVuQK
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This is fun - in the thread there are a couple of images you can print at home to try this with physical paper vs. screen.
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Incidentally, the claim that AI “thinks” is not really a technical claim about LLMs, but a philosophical claim about thought; behind each such claim is a really dreadful, impoverished philosophy of mind.
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It's a spectator sport in that this administration is only good at producing spectacles. You are a natural fit because you're not a real athlete, just an influencer who's also good at producing theatre. The administration is using you to distract from a foreign war that has made life more expensive in the United States. You are happy to participate because you have no real beliefs outside of self-promotion and making money.
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New cat species just dropped.
Meet Leopardus tilcayo, or the tilcayo tiger cat.
It’s smaller than a housecat, lives in Bolivia’s Yungas forest ecoregion, and is the first new living cat species discovered in more than 100 YEARS. 🧵⬇️
ALT Leopardus tilcayo
