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I love your "they ring the same bells for weddings and funerals" tag bc I work as a bell-ringer at one of the few churches in my city where you still have to ring the bell manually. and we do ring the same bell whether it's a wedding or a funeral! but ☝️ we also ring it if the local sports team wins at sports (the secret third thing that is neither a wedding nor a funeral)
the three universal human experiences: love, death, and sports
How would you make a movie about Winston Churchill?
My gut reaction to this was "I wouldn't, fuck him", but then I realised that I do actually have thoughts about this.
Open with a white-text-on-black-screen intro that explains that dialogue in this film has been taken wherever possible from historic recordings. Where it couldn't be, it has been constructed from records of the relevant parliament/private discussions that are on record, even if not word for word. Add that all events depicted are real. And, to reinforce this, a huge load-bearing pillar of the marketing for the film would emphasise that this is extremely limited in artistic interpretation, it's all things the man actually said and did. This, the marketing would stress, is the REAL Churchill, in all his complexity. This is the nuanced and complex and very human guy we don't see in the history books, strengths and flaws and all of it.
The first... half, maybe even two thirds of the film would be pre-WW2. A full account of all his actions in power, painting the picture of the man he was. His belligerence disguised as wit, sending in the army against striking Welsh miners, his initial admiration for fascism and eugenics, all of it. All reproduced from things he actually said and did.
Then, the realisation that Hitler included Britain in his fascist plans. The U-turn into hating the guy, all while believing in the same underlying points.
Then, most of the WW2 section would be in montage form. And at this point, the audience sees why he was actually fairly well suited to the task of opposing Hitler, because all those flaws meant he was ego-driven to resist the Nazis or die trying, and that was what was needed at the time. We've set up that ego, that belligerence, that eloquence. Here it is, in context, actually being useful.
But, this would be juxtaposed with all the things we're carefully not told, that are nonetheless historic record. The starving of India to get food to Britain. The lack of bomb shelters in London, and then claiming credit for sending people into the Underground when they thought to do it. The use and abuse of non-British Commonwealth troops in roles kept from the white soldiers. All of that goes in.
And then, once the war was done, the fallout. The rest of the film would cover his fall from power, first of all - the fuck up at the Potsdam Conference, then his continued use of lurid and hyperbolic war rhetoric in the general election campaign that basically made Clement Atlee and let Labour win.
Labour's creation of the NHS, and national parks, and other such things. Churchill's opposition. The fallout to places like India, the Suez, etc.
And then his return for a final term as Prime Minister in which he was unpopular, unsuccessful, and also very unwell; he was 77 and had multiple strokes, which were hidden from the public. He was against the dissolution of the empire, but Labour had already pulled the trigger on it, so his final years were basically a lot of war crimes and whining as countries declared independence; which won't be a surprise to the audience, because we've literally heard his views on eugenics and imperialism already. Of course those didn't go away with WW2. All that congealed ego and imperialist drive, so useful against Hitler while keeping the worst costs away from the UK, made him a fossil unsuited to the role of peacetime leadership in a post-war recovering nation beginning to decolonise.
And finish on how, at the end, he supported the UK's application to join the EEC - the precursor to the EU.
The whole thing would make the Churchill cultists so fucking angry. They'd 100% claim liberal bias and piss themselves. But that's why you'd have to go so hard on stressing in the marketing that all of it is true; he literally said this. He literally did this. It's all real. Even the EU bit. Yeah, you voted against Churchill.
Anyway. All that.
This post is as much a surprise to me as to anyone else; I am not a filmmaker and have no connection to Churchill, so I don't know what inspired Anon's question. I also gave it all of thirteen seconds of thought before writing the response
But I am enjoying how the responses to it are falling neatly into three interrelated categories:
Hey, a Winston Churchill movie I would actually watch!
We should also include (personal anti-Churchill bugbear of the commenter; so far, no two have even been alike, which speaks volumes)
This Will Need To Be A Miniseries
Big Tech has announced $740 billion in capex this year, but AI has yet to show evidence of widespread increased productivity.
Just...stop. Stop throwing money, resources, and particularly water into the abyss, all while hurting real, actual humans. Creators, students, literally everyone, including the people AI replaces - and for absolutely no good reason.
HI LET’S SHARE NICOLE’S WORDS ON THE SUBJECT!
It has been literal years but every time I see Martin’s tweets posted somewhere and his word is shared as truth while her post is not shared it sort of reiterates the fact that we trust men to speak about feminism more than we believe women who experience it.
Interesting, innit? https://medium.com/@nickyknacks/working-while-female-59a5de3ad266
Reading her account of how their boss treated her blows me away. Men are so emboldened that they will literally admit to illegal discrimination casually and face no consequences.
In all the years of seeing this post I’ve never seen a link to her side. Didn’t even know she’d written one.
Adding screenshots of her post. His whole post is there without needing a link. Hers should be, too.
Also, she posted this is 2017! It’s fucking 2020 and I’ve seen his side of this for years, but it took 3 years for her side to make its way to my dash…
I’ve reblogged his story at least twice; it’s time for Nicole’s.
It’s 2023 and i just now learned that Nicole’s response was also out there
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Unexpected smiles …
Always reblog twirling man.
So we're all gonna let the new Harry Potter show die on the vine, right? No hatewatching. No thinkpieces. No videos about how bad it is. Deprive it of oxygen and let it wither away unremarked-upon and unprofitable; make HBO lose their entire investment and prove to the corporate entertainment sphere that the entire IP is poison. And spend that time doing something that brings you joy instead.
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🚨BREAKING: OpenAI published a paper proving that ChatGPT will always make things up.
Not sometimes. Not until the next update. Always. They proved it with math.
Even with perfect training data and unlimited computing power, AI models will still confidently tell you things that are completely false. This isn't a bug they're working on. It's baked into how these systems work at a fundamental level.
And their own numbers are brutal. OpenAI's o1 reasoning model hallucinates 16% of the time. Their newer o3 model? 33%. Their newest o4-mini? 48%. Nearly half of what their most recent model tells you could be fabricated. The "smarter" models are actually getting worse at telling the truth.
Here's why it can't be fixed. Language models work by predicting the next word based on probability. When they hit something uncertain, they don't pause. They don't flag it. They guess. And they guess with complete confidence, because that's exactly what they were trained to do.
The researchers looked at the 10 biggest AI benchmarks used to measure how good these models are. 9 out of 10 give the same score for saying "I don't know" as for giving a completely wrong answer: zero points. The entire testing system literally punishes honesty and rewards guessing.
So the AI learned the optimal strategy: always guess. Never admit uncertainty. Sound confident even when you're making it up.
OpenAI's proposed fix? Have ChatGPT say "I don't know" when it's unsure. Their own math shows this would mean roughly 30% of your questions get no answer. Imagine asking ChatGPT something three times out of ten and getting "I'm not confident enough to respond." Users would leave overnight. So the fix exists, but it would kill the product.
This isn't just OpenAI's problem. DeepMind and Tsinghua University independently reached the same conclusion. Three of the world's top AI labs, working separately, all agree: this is permanent.
Every time ChatGPT gives you an answer, ask yourself: is this real, or is it just a confident guess?
Yet another new study debunked the basis for the anti-trans sports bans. It was never about sports but for creating legal avenues for exclusion and abjection. This is one of the largest analyses ever conducted, involving 52 studies and 6,485 trans people. Read the study here.
post so nice had to reblog it twice and force it down everyone's throats
So funny how the only Christmas song Taylor Swift has ever released is Christmas Tree Farm. What a banger, but I guess that was enough for her.
"But how about - "
*A single gunshot rings out*
Curaçao and Haiti did it! Curaçao become the smallest country to ever qualify for the men's World Cup, and Haiti will play in the tournament for the first time since their sole appearance in 1974.
And Suriname? Suriname were losing 3-0, then scored a 93rd-minute goal that normally would've been a pointless consolation - but not this time. That goal sent them through to the inter-confederation playoff with Jamaica, Bolivia, New Caledonia, DRC, and Iraq. Two of those teams will make the World Cup, so they've got every chance. Football, bloody hell.
Is this all down to the World Cup being expanded? I mean, partly. But Haiti finished above Honduras and Costa Rica, who are both semi-regular contestants at the World Cup. Curaçao beat out Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago, who are much bigger and much better on paper. Their achievements are still astounding.
Next week, Curaçao, Suriname, and Haiti could all qualify for the 2026 World Cup.
At 1am GMT on 19th November, all three teams will kick off their final qualifiers with eternal glory on the line.
That's not an exaggeration, either. Suriname and Curaçao have never made it to a World Cup before, while Haiti's one appearance in 1974 saw them lose their three group stage games by an aggregate score of 14-2.
Curaçao would become the smallest nation to ever qualify, with just 155,000 people. You could fit that entire population into two Wembley Stadiums. Easily. Suriname, with its 632,000 people, would be the World Cup's third-smallest country ever, behind Iceland.
And they're both 90 minutes away from making it to the peak of international football, to play in front of an audience of billions - and ahead of teams with considerable pedigree and much larger populations, including Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Panama, Costa Rica, and Honduras.
What do they all need to do? Well, the permutations are simplest for Curaçao, who go to Jamaica, having beaten the Reggae Boyz 2-0 at home in October. A draw will be enough to send the Blue Wave to the World Cup; lose, and Jamaica go through instead (which, considering the damage wrought by Hurricane Melissa, would also be a lovely story).
Haiti, who are hosting bottom side Nicaragua, must either better Honduras's result in Costa Rica, or if they both win, bridge the two-goal gap between their respective goal differences.
Suriname are heading to Guatemala, where they must at least match Panama's result at home to El Salvador, while also protecting their goal difference advantage of three.
This is the opportunity of a lifetime for these players, and could be a dream come true for tens of thousands of fans.
If @Channel7331 has a million fans, I'm one of them. If @Channel7331 has 10 fans, I'm one of them. If @Channel7331 has one fan, it's me. If @Channel7331 has no fans, I'm dead.
Tommy Robinson is said to be going to Villa Park as a Maccabi Tel Aviv fan. Do the politicians jumping on this bandwagon care what they are
Always good to be cynical about police actions, but stopping racist, violent people from coming to Birmingham to be racist and violent? That sure does sound like a good thing.
As per usual, Jonathan Liew gets it, and expresses it excellently.
