The French Dispatch was such a love letter to craft. Every word, every choice is important in self expression, but also, what did you want to write next? Was that on purpose? Your works are defined by the craft you employ, but equally by the power and scope of your desires. Wanting is not optional.

Abortion should be legal, always. Let’s make pragmatic decisions. People are. Eggs are… possibilities. I wish no child a parent that despises it, or can’t care for them. Intention for a child is necessary. I accomplish nothing by saying this, but I wish that my intention was known, nonetheless.

Hey, billionaires, you know a cheap way to make everyone around you happier, and cause them to treat you better? Pay them more. Pay everyone more, everyone likes you more. It’s called paymaxxing, it’s new, you need it.

Why aren’t all priests scientists? Like, this is what exists. Looking at this, what can I infer? How is this working? What does this imply? Those are formative questions. Those are scientific questions. Why would any investigation of divinity start with assumptions instead of reports or data?

My most conservative take, at least in Canada : you get really good tax breaks for donating to charities and you’re actively redirecting money away from the federal government to wherever you want. That’s a value-based way you can affect the world around you, by directing funds at your discretion.

My top 5 directors, in no particular order : Wes Anderson. Top tier, imminently re-watchable. Paul Thomas Anderson. One Battle is my least favourite. Yargos Lanthimos. Poor things still plays in my head. Darren Aronofsky. Not enjoyable, just good. Steven Soderberg. The Knick absolutely rocks.

I’m happy for everyone enjoying modern Star Trek and Star Wars. It’s not my cup of tea anymore, and that’s fine, most things aren’t 😊

Just finished @meganeokeefe.bsky.social protectorate series. Fantastic characters, interesting plot, genuinely surprising twists. Highly recommended! 😊

LinkedIn, why are you trying to lure me in with games. Do employers rank for time spent on LinkedIn? Make this make sense.

Things move so quickly these days, it’s easy to forget what a tour de force #ArcaneNetflix was. Although it felt like it was 3 seasons worth of material, every POV in the series had a profound transformation, with dialogue, scene choice and animation that stretched the medium. I’m humbled.

store.steampowered.com/app/1290330/... It’s been out for a while, but if you dig survivors games, I put this near the top of my stack. Interesting characters, handmade levels, good meta, never tells you that Luna is the main character, but following her questline is the epic conclusion.

The number of steam nextfest demos I’m trying tonight that have no controller support is just dismal. It’s for accessibility, approachability, and generations of console gamers who might have been your customers. Test against it and make feel good. I’m on my couch, man. C’mon.

We need a world court to force the redesign of this emoji 🤗 99% of the time I want to offer someone a hug, it would be inappropriate to be smiling ear to ear. So, just (hugs) until this travesty is replaced.

Political votes should, for the general public, remain private. A government should not have a list of the specific citizens that oppose them. That’s a right that no one should give up, because you never know who’s going to be in power in the future.

Yes, of course you unmask police. A lawful nation doesn’t want secret police. Law enforcement is about accountability. If the force isn’t accountable themselves, what is it? Military? Militia? Vigilantes?

Just finished Stephen Baxter’s The Thousand Earths. Fantastic big ideas, but the moment to moment experience was so depressing. It was hard to jump back into day to day. On to Chaos Vector, Megan E O’Keefe second in a trilogy. Quite enjoyed the first.

Radiohead In Rainbows Tool Lateralus Fiona Apple When the Pawn Tame Impala Currents Nine Inch Nails With Teeth Evanescence The Open Door Bjork Vespertine The best albums by the best musicians. Not taking votes at this time.

I want murderbot AI. I want Iain Banks Ai. I want Neal Asher’s Ai, really, because it’s human. I don’t want current LLMs, because they’re just stealing from us. What’s the middle position?

I played the main quest all night tonight. No side quests, no inventory hell, no tomfoolery. I’m so proud of myself.

So, he might be a pedophile, but until someone sorts that out, we’ll just keep letting him do what he wants and represent the country and destroy all our international agreements in the meantime. I mean, I guess you could do it that way, but that wouldn’t be my first choice.

Look, I don’t want to sound like a crazy person, and I spend a great deal of effort not saying this to strangers regularly. If you consider yourself a fan of video games, play Nier Automata once. All the way to ending E. I’ve thought about it every week since 2017. It’s not easy, but it’s worth it.

I wonder if it was naive to ask the billionaire president to release incriminating evidence on him and his billionaire friends 🤔

Random thought, I know, but I find audio novels with a full voice cast to be distracting. Novels are generally written like a story is being told to you. A full voice cast feels like there’s a movie going on that I can’t see 😅

I’m sorry English is like that. It’s less of a system and more of a handshake you have to memorize and then riff on 🎸

Soo…. publishing some real things that Reagan said is now “psy-ops”? If the truth is an attack on your position, you’re thriving on deception. Canada needs to decouple all trade from the US and spend more time pointing out uncomfortable truths 🤔

It was exciting to feel like we were transitioning from a gatekeeper economy to one that serviced and enabled creators. It feels more like we’ve enabled new overlords that control the flow of money, diverting ever more of it to themselves. Now with political objectives we don’t support 😔

Incredible 🩵 “Toronto’s multibillion-dollar effort to re-naturalize a major river and the surrounding lands, was advertised as one of the “largest waterfront revitalization projects” in the world. … the discoveries have underscored the resilience of ecosystems in the face of human-led destruction.”

My Internet closure for today. Source: YouTube DjGeetMp3

Does anyone have the number for Antifa HR? I’m worried my checks are getting lost in the mail 😤

In the 2010s, this country's elites were thrown onto social platforms with everyone else and could finally read what we all think about them and it caused them so much psychic damage that they decided to destroy both the internet and democracy to make sure nothing like it ever happened again.

Bjork has a command of emotion so far advanced of mine that it feels like magic.

this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either

We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.

While defending the luddite argument in Discord, I stumbled into this IMO succinct explanation for opposing generative AI: At every step in the process, it impoverishes us.

the thing about amazing art/books/movies/music is the "holy shit, a person made that" whether you're talking about guernica or catch-22 or do the right thing or "a love supreme" and if you remove the human creator from the equation who gives a shit

As a professional developer, former designer and amateur writer, my principled stance is that I’ll just avoid AI completely. My nightmare is that companies are now requiring AI use for developers, and my nightmare is that I just get pushed out of my profession entirely for avoiding it 😬

Telling me "the subway is so dangerous now" is my immediate sign that you need your TV taken away and your news algorithm adjusted www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-subway...?