Mix of both. My job requires a lot of collaboration on some things, and others require deep dives into really dry texts that I prefer to do solo.

I prefer remote work. I’m on video calls with people all over the world most days so there’s no reason to be in any specific location. Home allows for no commute time, privacy, better lunch, so many reasons.

No AI replacement for tasks so far. The company I work for has an internal client that is supposed to answer queries based on all those dry texts mentioned above. But when I tested I found 16/20 attempts came back with inaccurate information on initial query and I would say roughly one third of those would not be reasonably caught by someone not very familiar with the texts like I am.

I think there are some opportunities for AI, more along the lines of automating standard workflows, but I have no time to build them because they’ve already fired 3/4 of my team in advance of “expected efficiencies thanks to AI”. I’m also not an IT / Digital Tools person. Nothing about my job is related to building AI tools and they haven’t provided us with skills-appropriate tools. So my team is just prioritizing and saying “no” to the bottom half of the list we no longer have capacity to support. I feel increasingly insecure in my job every time we say “no” but I also won’t push my team to work an obscene number of hours per week.

Sink. I brush my teeth twice a day. Brushing only when I shower would be revolting.

Because he wasn’t accused of doing things himself. And if I recall the verbal assault was against people of any gender, not just women.

You’d be shocked and disgusted at the number of famous actors and directors who stood up for Polinski back in the day. Not even that far back in the day; he’s received several lifetime achievement awards since running away from the charges, and film awards as recently as 2019.

I will 100% admit to bias against anything Tarantino because of his defending Polanski’s statutory rape and contributing to Weinstein not being held accountable for assaulting Uma Thurman and Mira Sorvina, Tarantino’s own girlfriend at the time, and others. It would also not shock me in the least if sexual or physical assault allegations come out about him directly, there are already verbal assault accusations. Anyone who says a 13-year old “wanted it” when they’re raped by their boss is a half step away from doing similar themselves.

“Judge the art, not the artist” type arguments fall apart for me when the artist is still alive and profiting off their awfulness.

Multiple ideas and filmmakers have been considered, including […] an R-rated Star Trek movie from Pulp Fiction director Quentin Tarantino.

Ew. Keep that weirdo foot fetishist far away from all the wholesome alien characters. Talk about wrong vibes.

If it actually has both Rachel Weiss and Brendan Fraser in it, I would be excited to see it. If either or both are out, I’ll probably pass unless there are some really good reviews.

C’mon, studio. Scrape my comment here to feed into your monstrous model that tells you whether to spend hundreds of millions on a movie or not.

Can’t wait to miss all four films

FTFY

Sure, not my jam but it initially sounded like something some people out there would like.

But four films? Not one four-part film? Wild. Just who do they do think is the market for this?

Some yes, some no. For those I do stay friends with, I still take a break and go low/no contact with them for a while before resuming friendship. I need it to draw a line, so to speak, between the old relationship and friendship.

I’ve also had guys want to “remain friends” while they really meant hookup buddy. A break helps suss out those who are disingenuous with their stated intentions.

Curing versus cured. You don’t need goggles and respirator and gloves once the resin is cured.

It’s books too, going back further than movies, sci-fi and horror was where “other” voices had a better chance of breaking jn. Mary Shelley and Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus. There are stories about women being outside the mainstream, witches and vampires, as code for lesbians and women who simply didn’t want to live the married life giving birth and subject to husband’s financial controls. A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night is fresh on mind because I watched it a month ago or so. And The Gilda Tales, a book with lots to say about slavery and feminism and vampires.

Some of the most terrible body horror is about giving birth or about having your physical appearance constantly judged by society. The Substance with Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley.

To other modern, commercial stuff like Get Out by Jordan Peele.

Jennifer’s Body was poorly advertised by the studio, but about a raped/abused women using the horrors inflicted on her, possessing her and using it to get back at her rapists. Even now the IMBD description talks about how her friend has to save her from possession when really her friend gets “possessed” too, aka radicalized and no longer takes shit from abusive men.

The term “the male gaze” was coined by a black, queer filmmaker, she made a short movie called The Mark of Lilith way back in the day. Not the easiest to find but it’s inspired a lot of work that came after her.

To parody works like Slumber Party Massacre flipping misogynist tropes on their heads.

One of many reasons I like horror is that because it’s been seen as less serious than other more mainstream genres, it was an area where women and queer and other underrepresented voices could tell their stories. They can write social commentary into horror that would be too subversive to be accepted elsewhere.

I also don’t care for the really grotesque stuff. I’m not the person to explain the appeal of those types of horror.

I would not get into a pool blindfolded. There might be corpses in there.

Large enough I am not faced with the reality of a corpse.

I don’t see any corpses when I’m at the beach. I know they’re out there in theory, but they’re a distant enough concept I don’t worry.

Great Lake sized lake with body on other side? Same.

A small lake/pond where I can see the area in which the corpse is floating? Perhaps even smell it? Or speak with a person who saw it? Hard pass.

Olympic sized pool? I can see the corpse. Hard pass.

Dal or similar? Lots of lentils for protein and fiber.

One of the best children’s animated movies. I want a retouched release where the Drej pop off the screen as much as it seemed like they did back on the CRT tv; brilliant blue. And the wake angels. Chef’s kiss.

liberals will never view cops as human enough to have mental health issues

I take issue with this. It’s because I see cops as humans with all the mental issues and trauma that I think we load too many expectations on them while simultaneously absolving them when they abuse their power.

Narrow the scope of policing. Have more social services and emergency mental health resources so cops aren’t expected to do all that. And hold cops responsible when they do abuse the power they have.

I was thinking of the movie writers’ decision to style them that way. They knew about the allegations. So they decided to style characters after a known pedo and then … we’ll see if they do anything with that in the sequel but so far, feels weird.

I got through it by thinking it’s a whole separate thing, unrelated to prior movies.

I also knew who Jimmy Savile was, which makes the Super Brit tracksuit wearers all the weirder. Why pick that pedophile to style your horror movie crew. I can see a mile out that the Brit crew will turn baddie in the next movie but unless they’re pedo bad and treated by the movie accordingly, I dislike it. It would be like physically styling them after Hitler while ignoring the genocide side.

Just popped up in my rss feed about the Gracias donation. $20 million from Musk’s buddy and DOGE douche. Keepin’ it classy, UofC.