Notices by Todd Vaziri (tvaziri@mastodon.social)

that absolutely amazing and beautiful music video which some folks are claiming is “one uninterrupted take” is NOT one uninterrupted take

We did it! FINALLY an Academy Award for Stunts!

Oscars Add Best Stunt Design Category Starting in 2027
https://variety.com/2025/awards/news/oscars-stunt-category-1236366412/

Ok, I think I now have a system to force photoanalysisd to kick in, thanks to help from you fine folks - basically, force the Mac to be as idle as possible and then it kicks in:

Before I leave my Mac for the night:
- quit all Mac apps
- reboot, make sure no apps are running
- open Photos, then quit Photos

Then we play the waiting game, and usually within an hour it seems to kick in. Screenshot is what I saw this morning, and I've already noticed more faces found. Also THIS IS RIDICULOUS.

OK, in Apple Photos (Mac) I've labeled the face of someone in a dozen different photos several days ago, and I'm still waiting for Photos to recognize the person who is in probably 100 other photos, and yet it hasn't found ANY additional photos of this person. I *am* quitting Photos after each daily use.

What's the consensus of the best way to kick “photoanalysisd” to find new photos of someone already in People?

[“Review More Photos" comes up with zero new photos.]

who is this for

Well this is new and a little odd.

Lots of post-viz/temp VFX/actual bluescreen (not grayscreen!) appear in a promo for “The Old Guard 2”.

https://youtu.be/CCuKoGcYsl8?si=o9V4tFQ9-m_5kTNN

My DeepSeek hot take:

Christopher Nolan’s movies have dialogue that’s hard to understand - in this essay I will use this as evidence that microphones are ruining cinema

A bonkers story.

Gift article:

‘We Can Bury Anyone’: Inside a Hollywood Smear Machine

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/21/business/media/blake-lively-justin-baldoni-it-ends-with-us.html?unlocked_article_code=1.jE4.qipN.gMBc0D--LmPh&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&tgrp=sty

Thanksgiving... a.k.a. the perfect time to stealthily turn off motion smoothing on your relatives' TVs.

universal gave "The Wild Robot" a grand total of three weekends in theaters before putting it on home video and in its fourth weekend it still was #2 at the box office

JD Vance is a gigantic piece of shit.

"A Minecraft Movie" (2025) and their mysterious grayscreens.

Guy Who Sucks At Being A Person Sees Huge Potential In AI
https://www.theonion.com/guy-who-sucks-at-being-a-person-sees-huge-potential-in-1850488022

Watching “Aliens” (1986) with a first-timer.

Remember how Ebert would sometimes screen a film with an audience and if anyone yelled STOP he'd pause the film and they'd talk about it?

I’d totally do that with “Aliens” (1986).

This is pretty good.

Can The Lord of the Rings Ever be Remastered?
https://youtu.be/zkNFZkUHeKQ?si=uke50AhTXZWxV_Mf

BREAKING: Apple apologizes for "missing the mark" when they discontinued their line of Wi-Fi wireless routers, admitting "boy, we should never have stopped making AirPort products.”

GEORGE MILLER IS A GOD

MAD MAX 2 IS STILL A MASTERPIECE

Introducing two first-timers to “Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior” (1981).

(They have not seen the original, and that’s okay.)