Solid horror movie. I liked the obviously Carpenter-esque soundtrack. And also how the "creatures" looked like and how the movie looked and felt in general - more like an 70s/80s horror film. But I found those "creatures" not menacing enough and the story was a bit so-so in the end.
This was really entertaining. I think it all looked great, the Creepers are well done - and are really likeable - and the acting is fantastic, too. Sure, it's over the top, but that fits the movie well. Robert Pattinson's performance it's just perfect IMO. But also Mark Ruffalo's and Naomi Ackie's. I like the whole idea of the film, and its whole vibe. It's funny, too. Would watch again!
👍 Recommended!
letterboxd.com/danielpietzsch/film/one-battle-after-another/
Like these kind of absurdist trip kind of movies. Leo is fantastic, and so is everyone else to be honest. Although I found Sean Penn's character Lockjaw a little too over the top. Two scenes that I will certainly remember: First, how the car chase at the end is filmed. Haven't really seen anything like this. Second: that stunt and whole sequence where he falls down between two buildings trying to jump the gap, then still gets up, only to get tasered around the next corner. As impressive as it is hilarious.
👍 Recommended!
I just sent out the latest edition of the newsletter version of this blog. It's a long one! Turns out I wrote a lot of stuff in the past 10 days.
The newsletter is out two days later than I had planned because I kept running into an infuriating issue with Substack: it would refuse to save my content with a "Network error" and "Not saved" and I couldn't figure out why.
So I asked ChatGPT to dig into it, which dug up this Hacker News post about the string /etc/hosts triggering an error.
And yeah, it turns out my newsletter included this post describing a SQL injection attack against ClickHouse and PostgreSQL which included the full exploit that was used.
Deleting that annotated example exploit allowed me to send the letter!
Tags: sql-injection, security, newsletter, substack
In advocating for LLMs as useful and important technology despite how they're trained I'm beginning to feel a little bit like John Cena in Pluribus.
Given our druthers, would we choose to consume HDP? No. Throughout history, most cultures, though not all, have taken a dim view of anthropophagy. Honestly, we're not that keen on it ourselves. But we're left with little choice.
Tags: ai-ethics, generative-ai, tv, training-data, ai, llms
A year ago, Claude struggled to generate bash commands without escaping issues. It worked for seconds or minutes at a time. We saw early signs that it may become broadly useful for coding one day.
Fast forward to today. In the last thirty days, I landed 259 PRs -- 497 commits, 40k lines added, 38k lines removed. Every single line was written by Claude Code + Opus 4.5.
— Boris Cherny, creator of Claude Code
Tags: anthropic, claude, ai, claude-code, llms, coding-agents, ai-assisted-programming, generative-ai
My new favorite description of Christianity’s God is from Vince Staples (~16:05): “a floating man with a blowout”.
