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🎬 Kinds of Kindness

I enjoyed this. It had me constantly wondering and wanting to know what happens next. I really liked the quirkiness of it all. But then in the end it left me kind of empty and wondering “why all this?” and “what for?”. All the stories had the same subjects it dealt with, but I couldn’t find any purpose (if there is any), and why it had to be three episodes. So I had the suspicion the movie is just weird for weirdness sake. But maybe that’s just Lanthimos’s thing and I shouldn’t complain. What never seems to disappoint, though, is how he films everything. It’s just fun to watch. Emma Stone was superb once again, but so were all the other actors.

Tantek Çelik ●
20 Sep 14:47

Dear Creative Commons (@creativecommons.org @creativecommons@mastodon.social @creativecommons@x.com), Can we have CC-NT licenses for no-training (ML/LLM, GenAI in general), just like we have CC-NC for non-commercial?My previous post¹ reminded me that I’ve been creating, writi...

Tantek Çelik ●
20 Sep 00:35

20 years and two weeks ago, I came up with undohtml.css and unknowingly invented the mechanism of CSS Resets (AKA reboot or reset style sheets¹) which spawned numerous variants, many still in broad use on the web today.https://tantek.com/log/2004/09.html#d06t2354A one sentenc...

Daniel Pietzsch ●
17 Sep 21:15

🎬 Mac and Me

Another Mondo Bizarr flick. Reading the summary, I was actually expecting something way worse than this. This was actually high quality and looked a lot like more famous American movies from that time. But rightly so, it's not as highly regarded: it's just all a bit off and wacky at times. But that doesn't mean it's less entertaining! Just more bizarre. The chase scene is fantastic, the musical part at McD is just great and the ending is just the whimsical cherry on top.

Daniel Pietzsch ●
17 Sep 21:07

🎬 Xaver und sein außerirdischer Freund

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Uff. Ein Außerirdischer hat mit seinem Ufo ein Panne und strandet im Wald unweit eines bayrischen Dorfes. Xaver entdeckt und kümmert sich um ihn. Die Einheimischen sind skeptisch und die Böse-Buben-Gang ist auch noch hinter Xaver her. Aber dann stellt raus, der Mann vom anderen Stern ist eine regelrechte Biervernichtungsmaschine. Damit gewinnt er nicht nur die Herzen der Dorfbewohner sondern auch den Biertrinkwettbewerb im Festzelt. Es gibt Verfolgungsjagden zu Fuß und mit Gefährten und am Ende gibt es ein Heidendurcheinander, aber alles geht nochmal gut aus.

Tja, was soll ich sagen. Hat irgendwie Spaß gemacht das mit der Truppe im Mondo Bizarr zu schauen. Prost!

Tantek Çelik ●
12 Sep 21:22

Happy #8bitday — 256th day of the year! Here’s some reasons to celebrate:bit = portmanteau of binary digit8 binary digits can represent 256 different numerical values8 bits are also a byte, the fundamental unit of computer storage — 'B' is for byte in 'GB' or 'TB' as an amoun...

Tantek Çelik ●
08 Sep 21:22

Came up with and tried a three phase pomodoro technique yesterday for working thru tasks and projects.This three phase pomodoro cycle repeats and resyncs hourly. The three phases I came up with:* physical tidying/cleaning* physical processing* digital processingThis worked qu...

Daniel Pietzsch ●
06 Sep 16:30

🎬 Christine

Another classic where I don't know whether I had seen this as a teenager. But I really couldn't remember any scenes. This was fantastic, though. Apart from obvious technological or cultural clues, you wouldn't think this is such an old movie. It really holds up.

Now, the film actually manages to portrait Christine as and actually evil car. The stunts are top-notch - oh my, the whole scene at the gas station! - and the special effects when Christine repairs herself are an absolute sensation. Great characters, too - it's been quite clever how the evilness progressively affects Arnie's own mood.

Bonus was seeing this on the big screen, getting to fully experience the film's awesome sound and music.

Daniel Pietzsch ●
06 Sep 16:25

🎬 Longlegs

Has tons of atmosphere and Nicolas Cage as Longlegs is actually really creepy. Lovingly filmed. And great acting. I thought the plot pace was a little odd (it's high-paced in the beginning and the end, and in the middle quite slow), and the resolution was not all that satisfying. Overall, though, I was really into it, and didn't notice how time flew by at the cinema.

Tantek Çelik ●
04 Sep 06:11

Tip: use the W3C Link Checker and fix any errors before federating with Bridgy Fed.https://validator.w3.org/checklinkIf you are using Bridgy Fed to federate your posts from your personal site, I highly recommend you first run the W3C Link Checker on a post, and verify there a...

Tantek Çelik ●
04 Sep 01:47

Twenty years ago this past February, Kevin Marks and I introduced #microformats in a conference presentation.Full post: https://tantek.com/2024/044/t1/twenty-years-microformatsAside: This is an even shorter summary of that post from ~200 days ago, which #Mastodon readers never got due to a Mastodon #federation bug (details in https://tantek.com/t5Yo1).Since early 2023, here are the top three updates & interesting developments in microformats:1. Growing rel=me adoption for distributed verification (✅ in Mastodon etc.) * Wikipedia, Threads, omg.lol2. Proposal to merge #microformats2 h-review into h-entry, since in practice (e.g. on #indieweb) reviews are just entries with a bit more.3. #metaformats adoptions, implementations, iteration

Tantek Çelik ●
03 Sep 21:02

Twenty years ago this past February, @KevinMarks.com (@KevinMarks@xoxo.zone) and I introduced #microformats in a conference presentation.Full post: https://tantek.com/2024/044/t1/twenty-years-microformatsAside: This is a summary of a longer post from ~200 days ago¹, which #Ma...

Tantek Çelik ●
03 Sep 05:32

Adventures in IndieWeb / ActivityPub (AP) bridging:While in general my posts are being successfully federated by https://fed.brid.gy/ #BridgyFed, most of my recent posts, and two more earlier this year, were delivered successfully to multiple #Mastodon instances AP inboxes (r...

Tantek Çelik ●
01 Sep 21:51

✏️ I want the Read Write Suggest-Edit Accept-Edit Update Web.The consumer Infinite Scroll Web leaves us feeling empty.Too few of us participate in the Read Write Web, whether with personal sites or Wikipedia.A week ago when we wrapped up #IndieWebCamp Portland and I was readi...

Tantek Çelik ●
01 Sep 21:51

✏️ I want the Read Write Suggest-Edit Accept-Edit Update Web.The consumer Infinite Scroll Web leaves us feeling empty.Too few of us participate in the Read Write Web, whether with personal sites or Wikipedia.A week ago when we wrapped up #IndieWebCamp Portland and I was readi...

Tantek Çelik ●
30 Aug 04:09

Had a great time at IndieWebCamp Portland 2024 this past Sunday — our 10th IndieWebCamp in Portland!https://events.indieweb.org/2024/08/indiewebcamp-portland-2024-8bucXDlLqR0kBeing a one day #IndieWebCamp, we focused more on making, hacking, and creating, than on formal discu...

Tantek Çelik ●
30 Aug 04:09

Had a great time at IndieWebCamp Portland 2024 this past Sunday — our 10th IndieWebCamp in Portland!https://events.indieweb.org/2024/08/indiewebcamp-portland-2024-8bucXDlLqR0kBeing a one day #IndieWebCamp, we focused more on making, hacking, and creating, than on formal discu...

Daniel Pietzsch ●
29 Aug 20:12

🎬 Possessor

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Uff! Brutal! And really menacing and suspenseful. Liked this a lot! The gore effects, that sequence when she enters the other body, and how this looked, sounded and felt in general. A few minus points for missing explanations and the what I felt not-so-logical ending. I'd watch this again!

Tantek Çelik ●
25 Aug 23:00

Nice #IndieWebCamp discussion session with Kevin Marks (@kevinmarks@indieweb.social @kevinmarks@xoxo.zone @kevinmarks) on the topic of auto-linking¹.I’ve implemented an auto_link function² that handles quite a few use-cases of URLs (with or without http: or https:), @-name @-...

Tantek Çelik ●
25 Aug 23:00

Nice #IndieWebCamp discussion session with @KevinMarks.com (@kevinmarks@xoxo.com @kevinmarks) on the topic of auto-linking¹.I’ve implemented an auto_link function² that handles quite a few use-cases of URLs (with or without http: or https:), @-name @-domain @-domain/path @-@-...