Notices by The Corodon (thecorodon@wandering.shop)

Interesting observation from Ursula Vernon on the Coode Street Podcast re: horror vs. fantasy.

Horror is when the creature is singular and inexplicable, i.e. "there's only one monster and it's the one under my bed."

Corollary: Santa Claus is a horror creature.

A lot of things folk wisdom calls "bad luck" are more practical warnings than anything else.

Walking under a ladder? There's probably someone at the top with a hammer or a paint can that I wouldn't want falling on my head.

Opening an umbrella indoors? Good chance I'll knock something over unexpectedly.

Break a mirror? I'll be finding bits of glass in this room for *years*.

Walking somewhere and I see a black cat? I'm probably going to be late now.

No more hamburger menus.
No more kebab menus.
Give me

Happy Boxing Day.

@silverwizard
...and a par-tri-idge in a pear tree!

@inthehands
If someone asks him, what are the odds he'd say he's looking into it? Close to 100%, no?

@hiscursedness
Shire... Baggins...

@silverwizard
In many Olympic sports, the SRO would simply die...
Which is something it would be better if viewers appreciated.

@artemis
POV: You're filming a video and don't know what POV stands for.

@inthehands @KFuentesGeorge
The using student names has me oscillating between "this teacher is trying to get fired" and "this teacher is having a mental health crisis."
In addition to being racist, I mean.

A few years ago I had a dream that Godzilla was attacking. I thought, "Godzilla's not even real!" Not in the sense that I didn't believe it, but it was some real bs for the universe to throw something imaginary at us on top of everything else.

Anyway, Godzilla Minus One is reminding me of that.

As far as I can tell, Godzilla Minus One recycled Akira Ifukube's original theme from the 1954 movie without changing a thing. And that's as it should be. It's perfect.

@inthehands
What you need is something more urgent that you want to do less.

@inthehands
We keep forgetting and then not seeing it happen again.
I was just watching a different conversation with someone explaining how Trump purging the GOP would be good, because it made the party less functional going into an election.
I'm thinking, from your keyboard to God's ears, but the road to fascism is paved with people saying, "Look at these clowns. This latest power grab will only make it easier for us to defeat them."

Anyone want to predict what scam they'll push next to keep the server farms running after AI has gone the way of NFTs?

@platypus
I strongly suspect that there were a few key people on the studio side convinced that LLMs would be turning out filmable scripts in 1 to 2 years, tops.
I'd love to see the experiments that changed their mind, if that's how it went down. Sigh... maybe there will be a podcast about it someday.

It feels like the conversation around "AI" LLMs has reached an inflection point in the past month or so, and I suspect it's no coincidence that the studios caved to the Writers' Guild strike shortly after.

@weekend_editor
"Never quarrel with a man who buys ink by the barrel," said someone other than Mark Twain.

In retrospect you probably shouldn't go up against writers in a contest of who can keep doing something longer while not making any money.

@inthehands
West of the Missouri River the distance between any two points is three times greater.