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This tweet is almost 3 years old has been relevant since the day it was posted
last line hit like a mack truck
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Amusing that
A. pov cinema is either an ai, or writes like chatgpt, and
B. this is soooooo classist. ‘I don’t care what the mob that pays me my profits thinks, I care about the elite film makers!’ Del Toro really has become an entitled snob. Sad to see.
I mean I kind of get it. In response to any creative endeavor, the masses are pretty much always right when they say they did or didn't like something, by definition. But they're less good at picking out exactly what the actual problem is, and generally shit at actually suggesting what would make it better
What I'm seeing here is GDT talking to people who have the skilled professional eye and insight to the process to say "this doesn't work and here's why." And they will be honest and thoughtful, and he will listen.
Honestly, I respect that a lot.
Also, for the record, there's nothing classist about it, nor does it make Del Toro pretentious.
If people think that an artist is required to take their opinion into account when creating art, it's not the artist that's acting like the entitled snob.
Test screenings gave us MCU and Disney Star Wars so I think Del Toro is doing just fine
Suzume (Makoto Shinkai, 2022)
so happy and free
this is going to be a silly reblog but i have kind of a fixation on animal qualia and the idea of an animal's umwelt, so i ended up wondering whether pudding was actually "enjoying" this.
which meant i went and read about snail brains.
here's the bad news, at least by human standards:
snails do not have anything like a centralized brain. their nervous system is made up of small clusters of neurons (ganglia) that mostly handle very local tasks. they don't have a cortex, they don't build big integrated models of the world, and they almost certainly don't experience things like appreciation, anticipation, or savoring.
pudding is not looking at the sky and thinking it's beautiful.
snail eyes are basically light sensors - they can tell bright from dark, but not form images. snail "taste" is done through chemoreceptors on their tentacles and around their mouth. those receptors don't produce flavor the way ours do; they just detect chemical compounds and sort them into "approach," "ignore," or "avoid."
so there's no evidence that snails enjoy food, or wind, or views, the way mammals do.
and that does sound kind of sad. but then i thought that maybe we are asking the wrong question.
snails do have valence. they detect aversive things (like salt or dryness) and withdraw from them. they detect non-aversive or beneficial conditions (like moisture) and stay extended. when pudding is stretched out like this, it means his nervous system is basically saying "this is safe; nothing is wrong."
if we define pleasure not as our human experience of dopamine and reward chemicals but instead as "the absence of aversion" - a state where the organism is open to its environment instead of defending itself - then this does count as something positive, even if it's extremely nothing like human enjoyment.
pudding isn't appreciating the wind. but his body is registering humidity, safety, and the ability to keep functioning, and that matters to him in the only way his nervous system can make things matter. he does not think "this is great, this is awesome, i love the weather", because he doesn't think in the way we do at all, but the neurological action in his ganglion tell his body that he is safe, that the moisture is an acceptable level, that it's not too dry or windy, and that there's nothing imminently threatening.
i think a lot of the sadness comes from assuming that a good life has to look like ours: full of enjoyment, meaning, and aesthetic experience. but a snail isn't missing those things. its world just isn't built to include them.
snails don't have a sense of flavor. they don't even have tastebuds. this seems like a gimme, right? but again that might be asking the wrong question about what "taste" is. biologically speaking, it's chemoreception. we taste sweet because it indicates high value, high calorie sugar molecules. we taste salty for salt, umami for proteins. so in what way does pudding's chemoreceptors differ from ours instrumentally? we can say "by our human perspective, pudding can't experience "preference" or "savoring" or "anticipation of delicious food"", but from pudding's perspective we have radically overengineered ourselves for the task at hand. pudding can tell what's salty, what's high value, what has the chemicals he needs. the functional outcome is that he can discriminate food souces based on their composition. is that not taste?
so maybe the point isn't "this is sad because he can't enjoy it," but "this is a reminder that minds come in radically different shapes, and value doesn't have to be rich to be real."
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“How would a chicken wear pants?”
- Richard Beale, 1784
Thank you, Richard Beale, for making our opinion of the past slightly more ridiculous.
“but what if you abort the baby who’ll cure cancer?!” sir the baby who will cure cancer is an organic chemistry major who works at a Home Depot because you use AI to go through your resumes
"I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops." - Stephen Jay Gould, The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History
THINGS TO TAKE:
Your time
A nap
A walk
The compliment
Your energy where it’s valued
Deep breaths
Your power back
Your inner child by the hand
Nothing personally
A chance on yourself
It one day at a time
Up space
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@spider-mandaily's Week 1: Your Favorite Spider-Person -> Gwen Stacy (Spider-Man: into the spiderverse, 2018)
Pigeon cap 🧢
I wanted to stitch something onto my new cap, and found this cute pigeons pattern by LaSelvaDesign on etsy🕊️
Fun fact: turned out that the cap had grid-like material from the inside - I was able to use that as a base and didn't have to attach aida/waste canvas at all!
"you are annoying about x & y" okay. this is the being annoying website.
yeah and they’re good games so like??? i will speak
wait