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Robert Duvall as Boo Radley in To Kill a Mockingbird. We knew he was a winner from the start 🖤
Eraserhead: zigzag carpet (cf Twin Peaks, and.... Cocteau's 'Orphée')
Harold Pinter on Samuel Beckett The farther he goes the more good it does me. I don’t want philosophies, tracts, dogmas, creeds, ways out, truths, answers, nothing from the bargain basement. He is the most courageous, remorseless writer going and the more he grinds my nose in the shit the more I am grateful to him. He’s not fucking me about, he’s not leading me up any garden path, he’s not slipping me a wink, he’s not flogging me a remedy or a path or a revelation or a basinful of breadcrumbs, he’s not selling me anything I don’t want to buy — he doesn’t give a bollock whether I buy or not — he hasn’t got his hand over his heart. Well, I’ll buy his goods, hook, line and sinker, because he leaves no stone unturned and no maggot lonely. He brings forth a body of beauty. His work is beautiful.
Garland Briggs and Albert Rosenfield in Twin Peaks.
Poster for the documentary Bad Faith, 2024.
Johnny Mnemonic in black and white Blu-ray
The “hope” (for capital) implicit in LLMs seems to be that if the language deployed is sufficiently frozen, it can have a freezing effect on the people subjected to it — that it will help kill the language in their brain that still is alive, in the sense that the person regards it as a tool for expressing as yet unformulated things — as making possible a kind of craft production with language — rather than a reified product, a commodity that must necessarily be purchased on a market. LLMs perform a kind of taxidermy with words, presenting them in a lifelike fashion that mainly serves to remind you that they are dead. Being compelled to consume LLM-generated content is like being stuffed with that sawdust.
Two bananas but the skin is not separate, they will have to be consumed together!
A little round wasps nest just beginning, just inside the shed door so not so great in terms of being able to use the shed myself!
"...if the body had been easier to understand, nobody would have thought that we had a mind." [26 - footnote in next image] Richard Rorty, Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature NB I am not an academic, just haunted by our way of thinking about the Mind and the Body and everything that proceeds from that...
Excerpt from Moravec's paradox Wikipedia article I have linked to
Amazon ad "Bestseller Beste Price" AI illiterate rubbish with a medieval twang.
David Bowie, Aladdin Sane (eyes open) photo by Duffy
Pineapple Lily. Floppy leaves, long stem up to tiny flowers topped by a cartoonish mop of leaves.