Cinephiliac @SlackerInc

Currently counting down, and doing single-tweet reviews of, my 100 favorite films. Can't stand the suspense? The full list is here: https://t.co/rs5GMI88IW flickchart.com/Charts.aspx?us… Joined June 2008

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Cinephiliac @SlackerInc

4 weeks ago

@patio11 You even said a little later, as I continue to listen to the podcast, that two people writing together is often better than one. But you didn't link it back to how your guest had explained why she refuses to let an LLM contribute verbiage to her own writing.

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4 weeks ago

@patio11 It is that collaboration that in my experience improves my own writing. Nothing wrong with a partnership between human and AI where the human is still the editor in chief, the one with final cut. (FWIW, I did not consult an LLM when crafting these tweets.)

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3 months ago

@SonnyBunch Double "Vanil" on June 26! 😆

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3 months ago

@AlyssaRosenberg FWIW, I have read both The Iliad and the Odyssey in their entirety and recently read Stephen Fry's retelling.

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3 months ago

@AlyssaRosenberg It's unfair and frankly intellectually lazy to claim as you did on the podcast that people who say Lupita is not hot enough are ipso facto being racist. Sade in her prime was a 10. Lupita is an 8. Nice looking woman to be sure, but not beautiful enough to be Helen.

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3 months ago

@SonnyBunch @petersuderman @AlyssaRosenberg I consider it perfectly legitimate to wish they had cast only actors who plausibly look Greek. But NB, that also applies to Matt Damon and Tom Holland! The other problem with Lupita Nyong'o as Helen of Troy is that she is an 8, in a role that inherently requires a 9.5+.

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3 months ago

@ride_enjoyer @MeyerClarkmjnm @Empty_America It has been a trend for people to say this for decades but not an actual trend in terms of something that really happened.

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3 months ago

@SonnyBunch @Jamie_Burkart It's the opposite, Miracle Whip was created as a cheap (nasty IMO) alternative to mayo and then they later started scamming customers by charging just as much for it.

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3 months ago

@IonaItalia My neighbor, who has told me she has trouble paying the rent for her studio apartment on time, had her DoorDasher accidentally come to my door the other day. Standing there was a man with a single item in his hand: a small, mostly melted DQ Blizzard. 🤦‍♂️

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3 months ago

@fortrain47 @Huwbrews @RhyminCarly I eat rice and beans or pasta and vegetables at almost every meal and it taste good to me. I was in jail once and the food was definitely worse than that.

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3 months ago

@RhyminCarly Subway is a terrible example, their prices have gone up so much. The Taco Bell value menu is still pretty cheap.

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3 months ago

@JohnInMSP @RealBrittHughes That's great if you have the money. But there seems to be some kind of argument being made that poor people deserve to be subsidized to get takeout or delivery every day.

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3 months ago

@RealBrittHughes I actually don't claim that the simple meals I make from scratch are better than what's served in a restaurant. But I also don't bankrupt myself by living in a fancy hotel because it's too basic and boring to live in my one bedroom apartment. I don't see how this is different.

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3 months ago

@nmlinguaphile @RealBrittHughes One problem is that restaurants can get a quality of meat that isn't available at the supermarket.

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3 months ago

@neilblock @TaylorLorenz @mattyglesias I was really hoping to see an answer to this. "Previously affordable options?"

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3 months ago

@TaylorLorenz @mattyglesias 1. Boil pasta 2. Nuke frozen broccoli 3. Combine, add a splash of EVOO 4. Sprinkle on garlic powder, kosher salt, and fresh ground pepper You now have a healthy, delicious meal, for maybe two dollars a serving. Miss me with all the excuses. (I am poor BTW: on Medicaid etc.)

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3 months ago

@allie__voss I'm GenX, but poor (to give you an idea, I am on Medicaid despite living in a red state as a single adult with no dependents), and I have never ordered DoorDash. I couldn't afford to do it once a week much less every day. I mostly eat pasta, frozen veggies, and rice and beans.