Bowie was Pilate and Keitel was Judas. Apparently everyone agrees that Keitel did an awful job.
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Music by Peter Gabriel, which is:
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I remember Willem Dafoe from "The Last Temptation of Christ". That's where I first knew him from.
But Harvey Keitel was in that movie too. And David Bowie?! How can I not know that??
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I see people sharing advice about where mass deportations are going to take place, which places are unsafe, where agents are mobilizing etc.
I shared one post with a sizable thread below it but then I withdrew it.
I don't know if this kind of post is a public service and just sensible advice, or if sharing it contributes to exactly the kind of fear and self-oppression that the people behind the policies want to spread.
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Last week #NewPipe couldn't show some videos or it could only show a certain video if you tried a couple of times. The download function seemed to work every time.
Now it can't show any video, and download doesn't work either.
Hope they'll figure it out.
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Euphemisms to skirt automated moderation truly is the art of our times. π€£
Term of the day: "painter's tribute"
(to the Austrian failed painter corporal become chancellor)
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Aaargh. "Fear the Walking Dead" is a good series overall, eight episodes in, but it's frustrating how often the writers give someone the Idiot Ball as a way to create tension.
For eleven seasons, "The Walking Dead" managed to stay interesting and challenging, and I can't remember them ever resorting to this. People are human and make mistakes, yes, but it's consistent with their character and their motivations.
In FtWD, I think every episode so far had some moment where an otherwise clued-in person suddenly did something to put people in danger. Did the writers think they screwed up by making everyone too genre-savvy and too quick to pick up on the new rules of the world?
Still, good enough to keep watching and just shout a bit at the screen whenever someone takes off their thinking cap. π€£
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[#]TheWalkingDead #WalkingDead
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There's a "Tron: Ares" coming out this year!
Jeff Bridges is in there, of course. And Gillian Anderson! And ... Jared Leto?
Nine Inch Nails makes the soundtrack!
This could go either way.
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The "Tron: Legacy" soundtrack is so, so good. I come back to it over and over and it's like you're watching the movie again, epic landscapes rolling by.
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Band name:
Preposterous Preventive Presidential Pardons
Or, Preposterous Pardons for short.
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The most favorable interpretation I can make of Biden's actions is that it's a challenge to the Supreme Court: Pardon someone from sentencing for a crime not yet sentenced, not yet prosecuted, not yet investigated, not yet even defined, and dare SCOTUS to set some limit, any limit, on what the President can do.
But I don't believe that interpretation. He didn't say that's what he's doing. It's much simpler, and pettier.
I believe the motivation he provided: He is committing this abuse of power in anticipation of another's abuse of power.
But it's still an abuse of power, and an unprecedented one. Apparently, it's: When they go low, anticipate them and go low first.
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These deeply weird preventive pardons are an abuse of power in two ways: First, the farcical overreach of the type of pardon. Second, the nepotism of who gets it.
Like jury nullification, presidential pardons are a cool feature, an emergency power where a more immediate and personal instance of power can instantly correct a malfunction of the slower legal system or the even slower legislation behind it. Add a human element of mercy to a cold process machinery. But that's not how it has been used for over half a century. It's not an emergency power, it's routine, and the scope is no longer to just revert a court's final decision.
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David Lynch has passed away, 78 years old.
Kyle MacLachlan posted his memory of his life working and being friends with Lynch:
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Our friendship blossomed on Blue Velvet and then Twin Peaks and I always found him to be the most authentically alive person Iβd ever met.
David was in tune with the universe and his own imagination on a level that seemed to be the best version of human. He was not interested in answers because he understood that questions are the drive that make us who we are. They are our breath.
While the world has lost a remarkable artist, Iβve lost a dear friend who imagined a future for me and allowed me to travel in worlds I could never have conceived on my own.
I can see him now, standing up to greet me in his backyard, with a warm smile and big hug and that Great Plains honk of a voice. Weβd talk coffee, the joy of the unexpected, the beauty of the world, and laugh.
His love for me and mine for him came out of the cosmic fate of two people who saw the best things about themselves in each other.
I will miss him more than the limits of my language can tell and my heart can bear. My world is that much fuller because I knew him and that much emptier now that heβs gone.
David, I remain forever changed, and forever your Kale. Thank you for everything.
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"Grapes of math: Quantum breakthrough bears fruit"
Someone had fun writing that headline!
While previous studies focused on electric fields, the Macquarie team examined magnetic field effects crucial for quantum applications.
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I've never heard of Tamora Pierce, but lots of people praise her, I should look into that. TJ Klune seems cool too.
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I know a tenth of these authors, if even that. And I've read five of the authors, but only tree of the books or series.
DWJ wrote a book on wild magic vs formal magic? I need to get on that!
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Benedict Jacka: "Inheritance of Magic"
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James Barclay: "Chronicles of the Raven"
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Anne Bishop: "Black Jewels"
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Michael J. Sullivan: anything he ever wrote, apparently
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