every damn thing that crosses my mind

main is @fairytale-life

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some movies and shows i enjoyed this year

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i think what bothers me the most about the witcher casting is that...

everyone is ~cuter~ than i imagined them to be. like way too cute.

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am I the only one who finds henry cavill's acting...bad?

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when tissaia de vries was like “there’s not a person alive that does not look into the mirror and see some deformity............except for us” reblog if u agree

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Please tell me im not the only one who noticed the cinematic parallels between shrek and the witcher

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YES OMG YES !!! Jaskier is totally Donkey

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everyone is talking about this but...

that scene with pavetta and duny??

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for a while now i’ve felt like david lynch is only impressive to people who never remember their dreams, and i’m starting to feel the same way about some ingmar bergman movies - hour of the wolf, wild strawberries. like, i get it, i’ve had nightmares before, let’s move on already. 

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things that *feel* like pyramid schemes to me but probably aren’t

having kids

education, especially math (”you study math? so you’ll be a teacher?”)

tech startups that are all about getting girls interested in tech 

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been thinking about anna delvey, elizabeth swaney, theranos, fyre festival, wework, juicero - I wonder if there’s a scam--failure spectrum. where do you draw the line between overconfidence and lying? 

- while listening to Everything’s a scam - very ambivalent about the message (isn’t that how you get elizabeth holmes?) but it sure is catchy 

anyway i wish there was a book/essay collection on the subject

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links to things i read or thought about recently

Jordan Ellenberg on word2vec

https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/10/30/new-atheism-the-godlessness-that-failed/  according to this theory new atheists turned into sjws – this fits my personal experience so there’s that

Eydís Blöndal - Tejberizs 

also been thinking about how much data can actually tell you. kaggle has this competition to predict who survived on the titanic based on demographic data - the top entries all have accuracy of 100% (fair enough - predicting past events is a solved problem after all) but i assume there’s plenty of entries with 90-95% accuracy by people who “played fair” - and i wonder to what extent it is a case of overfitting - yes, you can’t “use” the test data that is used to score the entries  but you are allowed as many entries as you wish (10 submissions per day). even with 1 submission per person it seems to me that it means nothing that a specific approach “won”...it just happened to fit the test data best out of all the entries that were submitted. in fact, if everyone submitted a random prediction...one of them would have a high accuracy - doesn’t mean it’s a good approach. how to solve this?

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https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/may/30/chris-kraus-i-love-dick-was-written-in-a-delirium

“You’ve read Foucault, right? ‘Pouvoir-savoir’. That’s it: that’s the basis of many crushes, is that the person seems to have – has, maybe, power and knowledge that you want.”She gives a one-shoulder shrug. “And so, what better way to get it?”

(...)

Acker was also Lotringer’s most recent serious ex-girlfriend at the time he got together with Kraus. In I Love Dick, Chris recalls reading inscribed in one of his books, “To Sylvère, The Best Fuck In The World (At Least To My Knowledge) Love, Kathy Acker”, and realising she was “up against some pretty stiff competition”.

Kraus had admired this author, been influenced by her work long before they crossed paths. In the spirit of pouvoir-savoir and all that, to what extent did Lotringer’s connection to Acker factor into Kraus’ desire for him?

She is momentarily thrown. “Well, I mean – Sylvère had a lot of other qualities besides being an ex-boyfriend of Kathy’s.” And she laughs.

After reading the above article & then realizing American Gods was dedicated to Kathy Acker & Delirium was kinda based on her, I kinda have a crush on her but also like Neil Gaiman more. Chris Kraus was onto something.