Iain McNally

@McNastyPrime
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Nerd. Ex film reviewer, still a film lover Co-host of the 
@McYapAndFries
 podcast. Rex from #simulacra2 he/him @McNastyPrime on twitter
Link stuff: https://linktr.ee/mcnastyprime
There should be a Ferengi emoji that is put into play when some jackass uses the word “females”
this is the future they stole from us

This is an extremely useful framework for evaluating automation from Paul Kedrosky’s “AI is not good enough” essay.

I particularly liked pointing out how some automation is high displacement meaning lots of workers get fired but low productivity meaning the gains are incremental. Call center software os a great example. The user experience doesn’t get better, it’s just running call centers gets cheaper.

#RebelMoon certainly looks a lot more promising than a rehash of the Seven Samurai that it had been billed as. Hope all the cool shit isn’t relegated to flashbacks or the opening 5 minutes.
https://youtu.be/_rHLOXbFZtI
Rebel Moon | Official Teaser Trailer | Netflix

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Just listening to the #TwinPeaks rewatch podcast from @nextlander and the audio alone of the Palmer’s finding out about Laura, with Angelo Badalamenti’s iconic score, has me choking up .
Anyway here’s Mandinka the first song Sinéad O'Connor song that BURST into my consciousness many decades ago #RIPSineadOConnor
https://youtu.be/Gf_RHVjPrHY
Sinead O'Connor - Mandinka (Official Music Video)

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There was also the night , while out in a pub crawl in Dublin, that we found her MTV VMA moon man behind the bar. She’d sold it for charity years before and the bar owner had bought it.
Cue ALL the checkout ladies going into simultaneous rapture and fussing over her.
My one Sinéad O'Connor story is that while grocery shopping in Stephen’s green centre years ago, the checkout lady said “God aren’t you the spit of yer wan Sinead O'Connor” to the woman in front of me with the tight haircut and two kids, to which she replied “ I am her”.
"musk bought twitter so he could destroy a vital left/liberal activitist space" - no he didn't. listen to yourself. trump wasn't playing 5-dimensional chess either. malice + overconfidence + incompetence are the only convincing explanation for everything that's happened. the closest to "deliberately ruining the website" he got is clearly wanting to *reclaim* it for white supremacists, incels etc ("owning the libs", etc) and those are distinctly different things.