Made my plot tool mobile friendly plot.fyi#c/%3Dmatch%2...

yes, this! “the ‘unitary executive’ is, quite simply, incompatible with a theory of checks and balances.”

Exactly this! It's like getting a $101.23 total in the checkout line and pointing to a random object in your grocery cart and saying "this being more expensive is why my bill is over $100!" It's true! You are also likely wrong. Everything in the cart is more expensive, anything can be blamed.

As I added more films it got a bit less weird in its recs, but still wonderfully non traditional and bang on

I did not know!

After having seen STAR WARS 500 times as a kid, I remember having my mind blown learning that the entire "the death star is about to blow up the rebel base as its being attacked" beat of the ending was invented in the editing room using outtakes and ADR. variety.com/2026/film/ne...

I changed the URL structure to make this easier to use, if you're just looking for matches you can just put in the film name (no special commands): checkplease.neocities.org/plotwise/plo...

This is paranoid nonsense, for the record. It's largely describing someone who configured a website like a non-federal employee would and then doing a bunch of shadowy insinuation about why that might be.

Literally running the similarity math locally in my phone's browser to get film recs, I wish you all knew how wild this is

This is wild. I can't believe I'm running this as just an HTML page and JSON checkplease.neocities.org/plotwise/#c/...

Watching people speedrun the full gamut of statistical literacy mistakes they mocked in others and trying to keep my mouth shut

My exercising is 95% done. I just need to a) go to the gym, and b) exercise

Is there a single American comedy better executed than The Bad News Bears (1976). The answer is no.

Please for the love of god someone make a labeler. It will be the first labeler super app I guarantee you

Deleted a thread because I realized I didn’t care that much

If you're getting to the point where you're thinking "serves them right" about this stuff, consider you might be in a radicalizing information bubble share.google/8XETN60bztln...

Been watching some dumb 90s films lately and struck how many (red planet, lost in space) imagine going to another planet to solve climate crisis. Just lazy writing but probably had some bad effects on influential people who convinced themselves there was a difference between sci-fi and fantasy.

Is this the weird one that Wired published an excerpt from that somehow Wired, a magazine about technology, could not immediately tell was Claude-slop?

I've actually never seen a DVD hit this high on Mbps, and I'm a little surprised it's for a made for TV 1973 horror film. Still 720x480 of course. (Avg is around 9.1)

no, this is a bad idea. it's two separate problems and tying them together just makes them harder to fix. the problem with low pay in congress is you end up with only rich assholes willing to do it. that makes minimum wage increases less likely.

Fwiw I don't think people are reading this particularly carefully, and a lot of it just has to do with different disciplines. The complaint is clearly "should fourth or fifth authors on papers be banned for the actions of first authors?" In many academic domains that would be untenable.

"There cannot be infinite growth on a finite planet" is, contrary to the claims of its advocates, a /thought-terminating/ cliche - it looks instinctively correct because you play with words in a smart way. But there's no evidence it actually is.

Fun little node/edge similarity graphic with year clustering for a podcast tomorrow checkplease.neocities.org/frighteners-...

Still thinking about this post. How did anyone convince themselves

It's almost like the X-pilled Right has a very specific weakness that creates defeat at what should be their great moment of triumph. If only there was a word for that.

The amazingness of this. A gigantic budget, Chris fucking Nolan. One of the legitimate foundational texts of western culture and they would rather be mad than go to the IMAX and have the time of their lives.

Fun little node/edge similarity graphic with year clustering for a podcast tomorrow checkplease.neocities.org/frighteners-...

How have I never heard of this

Fwiw I think it can be true that Bluesky doesn't suck, is a (generally) healthy space compared to X, is useful to many people in many areas of their life and is also largely exiled from media power and influence. Those ideas aren't in conflict at all.

".. Patel told him the vetting wouldn’t be an issue so long as he wasn’t active on social media, didn’t donate to Dem Party & didn’t vote for Harris in '24 election “It made the hair on the back of my neck stand up,” says Driscoll, who became acting director of FBI..Patel eventually fired Driscoll"

Fwiw I think it's a mistake to shift focus after these things from gun control, which has few downsides, to tech where ubiquitous surveillance of all technical interaction which has many downsides.

If this is a beat sweetener I hope they got a hell of a story out of it

pineapple on pizza is the literal opposite of an IPA in that it tastes good and looks cool which is 2 things no IPA has ever achieved since the earth assembled out of dust

It's this meme!

I’m old enough to remember when only rich people had waterbeds and then when only poor people had waterbeds

"My god, the Dukes are going to corner the entire frozen orange juice market" "Unless somebody stops them" First day of a little vacation and I'm spending it wisely so far.

Not that it should matter but 51% of Americans have multiple chronic conditions.

Not the first to say this but the poptimism shift was not political, but market driven: people used to read music trades to find out what to buy. In a social media world people share things that vindicate their tastes, and the smart move is to write nice things about artists with big audiences.

I think we need to have actual political parties like they have in other countries. This doesn't serve democracy, it makes it a joke.

a key to understanding the reactionary right, for me, is the realization that there are pleasures in cruelty "and no you are not immune." there's something in the human soul that delights in having someone to look down on--or at least, the capacity for this exists in us

look at this photo of whitby harbour by frank meadow sutcliffe in the 1860s look at it incredible

Maybe I Should Stop Eating Walnuts If They Make My Throat Itch Horribly: A Surprisingly Long Running Drama

Ok, top 15 TV shows all time, off top of your head, don't think just go LOST Leftovers Veep This Is Not My Life (NZ) Les Revenants (France) Dark (Germany) Twin Peaks Battlestar Galactica Westworld (through s2) The Killing (through s3) The Wire Black Mirror Seinfeld Happy Valley (UK) Counterpart

“I want to believe (in Kodak Vision 35mm fine grain)”

Are they nostalgic for the 90s or for Kodak Vision 35mm fine grain film stocks with 1990s color grading

15 years ago today, Kate and William killed Osama Bin Laden at their wedding.