🍿 Watched On the Rocks, 2020 - ★★★
🍿 Watched Go, 1999 - ★★★★
Found my new favorite Christmas movie!
We finished watching Netflix’s adaptation of García Márquez’ One Hundred Years of Solitude (Cien Años de Soledad) last night.
While watching I often asked myself “how will they achieve this or that? It simply won’t translate!” only to be blown away a couple of minutes later.
I grew up hearing my uncle repeat over and over that every Colombian needs to read the book once a year so I had to read it a couple of times. I would say even the literary purists need to watch this. Faithful adaptation and amazing production. It is undoubtedly the most colorful history lesson to the country and a visual masterpiece in magical realism.
Today’s tech inverts the value of the creative process by Brian Eno.
Venture capitalist Marc Andreessen’s wildly hubristic visions of the future downplay any downsides, dismissing these as “safety-ism.” I for one wish there had been a few more “safety-ists” around when the algorithms for social media were being crafted.
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The experience of what happened with social media is a bad omen for what might happen (and is happening!) with AI. Two words —“maximize engagement”— were all that was needed to send social media into the abyss of spleen-venting hostility where it now wallows.…
For me, using AI all too often feels like I’m engaging in a socially useless process, in which I learn almost nothing and then pass on my non-learning to others. It’s like getting the postcard instead of the holiday. …
The joy of art isn’t only the pleasure of an end result but also the experience of going through the process of having made it.
Via Damon Krukowski.
🍿 Rewatched The Night of the Hunter, 1955 - ★★★★½
The only sequel to Gladiator I want to watch is Nick Cave’s https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20180810-gladiator-2-was-written-and-its-mad
