Today, I wrote a little application that when I hit a button I’ve placed on the Mac Finder’s toolbar, it opens all the directories where I’ve stored music, sets the volume to my preferred level and opens Strawberry music player.
Pretty slick and didn’t take long.
I liked the cinematography of Companion in general, but I really thought this shot of Sophie Thatcher’s Iris showering and looking at her burned robot hand was nicely done:
The sterile but slightly-glowy off-white combined with almost-amniotic wetness nods towards a rebirth, an emergence. Remember, everything in a (good) film is deliberate.
I’ve become an expert at hacking, whacking and cracking Mozilla’s anti-user features. Just spent part of the afternoon manually editing a Firefox sqlite database to get around another anti-user feature they claim is for “security” but is really there just because they like being petty authoritarians.
Ain’t no Mozilla clown can hold me down.
Startup founder convicted of defrauding JPMorgan Chase of $175M by faking firm’s success.
I see no problem here. Many more people should defraud JPMorgan Chase.
Apart from any law broken, it’s the buying firm’s responsibility to conduct adequate due diligence. JPMorgan’s audit of the books seems to have been, “Welp, looks good to me.” That wouldn’t mitigate the actual fraud in the eyes of the law, but were I the judge I’d just laugh at JPM and sentence Charlie to time served and let her keep the money1.
Wow, Companion is much better than I expected! Good film. A dark comedy take on what the world would look like if tech like in Ex Machina were to be commercialized.
Best line:
“I am not robo-shaming you!”
Spoilers below.
Such a clever, clever film. There’s a cute part in the beginning. If you go in cold you don’t know the protag, Iris, is a machine. Of course, she does not know either. When the two main characters are exiting their self-driving car, she says “thank you” to the car and won’t let them get out of the vehicle until her human partner does the same thing. This implies that she somehow intuits that she shares more with the car than she consciously knows. Great little detail.
Second favorite line that one of the robots says of his implanted, artificial memories in a more serious moment: “I mean, it may have never happened but my memory of it’s real.”
The movie is actually a better and more incisive critique of “nice guys” and the incel phenomenon than any feminist has managed to come up with. Sophie Thatcher as Iris is perfect, too. Without her, the film would’ve been not nearly as good. The scene where she realizes she’s artificial is particularly affecting.
Recommended.
My dog tore up my blanket and this was underneath.
I bet you wish you did Nazi that.
Intelligent weirdos are very much my jam, so I really like this.
This Is the Land of Wolves Now.
Magnolias are so ancient they’re pollinated by beetles — because bees didn’t exist yet.
DOGE ends America’s golden age of biomedical research. So fucking moronic. Like everything those idiot clowns are doing.
I now see how people become homeless.
Putin’s endorsement of Trump’s Greenland takeover reflects their vision of a new world order.
Trump’s Trade War on Canada Could Devastate Northern Border States.
Trump Could Hand China a ‘Strategic Victory’ by Silencing Voice of America.
The Drone Dilemma: How Unchecked Warfare From Above Threatens the Indo-Pacific.