It’s unethical for them to withhold research results on problems that many other AI scientists are working on, solely based on the fantasies and thoroughly debunked fears of their boss. It’s a waste of talent and resources and a waste of the entire field’s time. Even with something as deliberately malicious as a virus,…

Fu-uuk this. I hate this. A scar is a sign of an event that happened in the past, and that event can be something shady that the person had a deliberate role in. That is, a scar really can be a mark of badness, in real life, depending on how the person got it.

More importantly, attempting to restrict artistic choices…

I think neither the writer of this article nor anyone commenting on this watched the whole thing— starting around minute 9, there is an awesome short story by Lynch, read by possibly Patrick Fischler.

Once the body dies, it no longer needs its meat. Ants can use it for food, food they need to survive. 

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Sensitivity is not metal.

Mm, before that Kylo says they “threw her away like garbage,” and in the scene in question he pressures her like a bully, “Say it! Say it!” She is just repeating the thought he planted. Then he says, “They were filthy junk traders who sold you off for drinking money ... You’re nothing.” Again, he controls the…

I feel that what you are describing is abusive to the fandom and resembles gaslighting. Instead of just *doing* something new and seeing if people like the new thing as well as the old thing, it has to bluntly *tell* the audience that the old thing was flawed and has to be rejected— that they were wrong for accepting…

The harsh, depressing reality of perpetual conflict with no meaningful progress, in which our beloved heroes die alone— just what everyone wants in a space fantasy, explicitly a fairy tale (“A long time ago ...”), for the whole family! Disney’s next big IP should a grand, CGI-packed adaptation of No Exit!

Also: ah…

Harmon and crew thought they would troll the show’s fans by teasing everyone both with a whole episode setting up the return of Evil Morty and with the season finale title explicitly stating it would be about Evil Morty— but then it turned out that the Evil Morty episode was the best one of the season, if not the…

I find all literalist narrative readings like this of Twin Peaks ridiculous. The reason is that the clear key to appreciating all of Lynch’s other work is to see him as a surreal formalist painter working in the medium of film— clear because this has been the trajectory of his entire career from his beginnings as a…