deux ou trois choses, 5 february 2023
My gut feeling is that the next decade, the decade we've commenced, is really going to be a high risk, high reward era. I think most people are really aware that the 2010s had some truly miserable features. We all got addicted to a bunch of really pernicious stuff and our behaviors changed in ways that were loathsome. […] The long decade that ended in 2021 was an exhausting, graceless, cringy decade. One strain of emerging cultural commentary I’ve noticed is basically asking, how do we not do that again? […] Certainly the next decade's greatest promise is allowing people to forgive each other for all the strange behaviors almost everyone participated in […] The Smartphone Era made us dumber; I have some hope that the AI Era will challenge us to become somewhat smarter again because we’ll have a substantial competitor to compete with. […] That's an aesthetic opportunity. I think a deeply human poetry is still possible.
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Apropos ‘exhausting, graceless, and cringy’, Jesse Eisenberg’s directorial debut poses a real question mark. Julianne Moore has done nothing to deserve this whiny travesty - who in A24 approved this? There’s much talk lately about same-looking movies, but it should be noted that it’s not just Netflix who’s to blame. It’s not enough to subject a film to that 70’s grainy-come-90’s indie filter, there’s actually supposed to be, erm, a movie there.
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This AI sheep counter was probably not created to make little fluffy unicorns yet that seems to be the end result.