Maui says “Bacon and eggs?” while holding a pig and a rooster. Don’t think you’ll be getting many eggs from that combo. Although it does bring up the question of why Moana has these animals. Just as pets? I don’t see them showing her slaughtering them for food.

This animated movie is also a musical, though this installment has traded in the Oscar-nominated Lin Manuel Miranda soundtrack for music by Abigail Barlow and Emily Bear (the duo behind the TikTok-popular Bridgerton musical)

I tried to. I watched the first episode. I get what they were doing, but like Lost Skeleton it was just too self-aware to be funny to me.

You’re my favorite customer.

That’s exactly why I could never get onboard with The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra despite loving Ed Wood’s movies and other similar schlock. It’s one thing to make a campy movie not getting that you are doing so and quite another thing to do it intentionally and wink at the audience.

In all seriousness, The Conversation is a great film and it is unfortunate that it is somewhat obscure today.

No. Apparently this was a misconception (not even a marketing stunt the way the movie Fargo was said to be based on a true story)

I hadn’t heard about that, so n=2 I guess rather than either being a weird exec’s idea or some stupid in-joke among MAD writers.

Obviously, the two greatest movies the author was thinking of were The Godfather Part III and Jack.

Although elderly women in acting are still rather rare compared to men. A lot of women performers disappear in their 40s because the public is thought to not want to see older women in things. While men can be cast even as romantic leads long past normal retirement age.

Arguably the whole reason RPGs were created was to create some sort of rules to answer questions like these, as RPGs are basically just formalized versions of those ad-hoc playground games.

One of the things that has not aged well from 1970s/1980s MAD magazine was their repeated joke that Bruce was a “gay name”. I never understood why that should be the case.

There’s some evidence that the first fanbase that was obsessed with continuity was the Sherlock Holmes one in the late 19th century, and would write letters to Arthur Conan Doyle about various “mistakes” in his stories.

Because unless you have an incredible home theater, watching a movie on your tiny ass TV basically sucks?

Sagan was talking about religion and other mystical things in that quote (he was basically Richard Dawkins with a bit more charisma and was a “new atheist” before that term was coined), and certainly would have been in favor of a technology that, as in Alphafold, has absolutely moved science forward.

But a lot of the really useful AI stuff in biotech *is* generative AI. Alphafold is generative AI — it is generating a protein structure based on sequence in a way not unlike how LLMs work — which is why it needs the same sort of GPUs to run.

No, this is sabotage (although I realize that nobody under 45 will recognize this).

If you think that AI is just ChatGPT and DALL-E, then I can see how people can think “what’s the point?”. But there are a hell of a lot of applications in biomedical sciences such as protein-folding and biomarker detection where deep-learning AI is already better than all other methods and where it is only going to…

I always love how people like to bring up reputation economies as some sort of wonderful utopia, but if you look at the one that is actually being implemented (China’s “social credit” score) it kind of makes boring old money seem not so bad.

There are lots of uses in scientific fields. Alphafold (based on the same deep learning technology as LLMs) has revolutionized protein structure prediction. Protein structure prediction used to be crap — and I say that as someone who wrote and published a protein structure prediction program in grad school. It used to…