Going T. Maine

@going_to_maine
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The color of \n a website \n cats and scanners \n –why kneel? (#metafilter, #mefite, he/him, etc.)

Be kind, while there is still time

Ugh, LLMs
this battery holder looks like a sad robot 
I remain unclear what 2/3 of the Eurovangelists wanted from Espresso Machiato and why they were so distressed that it did so well.
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i am not gonna work for a blockchain company, ok

Video Essayist Lindsay Ellis was talking about a movie production and said "the script is on Internet Archive" and I found it was hard to find, so I just assembled over 1,100 screenplays and scripts (and growing) and they have a collection now:

https://archive.org/details/scriptarchive

Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine

But why must there be a TV at all?
PBS executives forced the makers of an Art Spiegelman documentary to cut derogatory mentions of Donald Trump from the film before it could air. “If PBS isn’t going to stand up for free speech, who is?” https://www.documentary.org/online-feature/c-censorship-pbs-cuts-art-spiegelman-doc-and-other-dubious-acts-embattled
“C” is for Censorship: PBS Cuts ‘Art Spiegelman’ Doc and Other Dubious Acts at Embattled Broadcaster

Twelve days before Art Spiegelman: Disaster Is My Muse (2024) was set to broadcast on April 15 across PBS stations nationwide as part of its strand American Masters, the filmmakers were told that a 90-second sequence—which shows the famous artist discussing an anti-Trump cartoon he created for the 2017 Women’s March newspaper—would be cut from the documentary.

International Documentary Association

"A data lake is a centralized repository designed to store, process, and secure large amounts of structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data"

Ah, so my downloads folder