④ Apocalypse Now 🇺🇸 → El descenso a la locura definitivo. Coppola casi pierde la vida y la cordura rodándola, y se nota en cada fotograma. No es una película bélica comercial, es un viaje filosófico y oscuro a lo peor del alma humana. Esto es lo que separa a los niños de los adultos. ⑤ El Padrino: Parte II 🇺🇸 → La aniquilación del mito de que "las segundas partes nunca son buenas". Es más oscura, más compleja y más cruel que la primera. Un ensayo impecable sobre el poder, la corrupción y la soledad. Si tu película favorita no llega a esta altura, no tienes película favorita. ⑥ El Bueno, el Feo y el Malo 🇮🇹 → La definición de "cine épico". Sergio Leone cogió el género western y lo elevó a arte puro. Silencios larguísimos que generan más tensión que mil diálogos, planos detalle a los ojos y una banda sonora de Morricone que es historia de la humanidad. Insuperable.

Our ancestors had it right when it comes to executions (and many other things). They didn’t try to sanitize it. If you’re convicted of a horrible crime, you’re gonna die. They’ll hang you from a rope or shoot you or chop off your head and that’ll be it. They won’t pretend it’s something other than what it is. It’s ugly and violent, because killing someone is an ugly and violent thing, but it’s the fate you chose for yourself. It’s justice. Don’t want to suffer that fate? Don’t commit the crime. It was much more honest. Much simpler. And I think far more dignified for all involved, especially the condemned.

Human brain organoids are already being integrated in biocomputers. For certain applications their performance dwarfs silicon chips by multiple orders of magnitude. The boundary between human and machine is already a chimera.

Until just a few months ago my retirement hobby was programming my own apps to do stuff like keep track of movies and TV I've watched, remember where I stored my DIY tools, etc. Now I just tell Claude what I want. BUT I still have to explain what I want to the full-blown Internet version of Claude, then copy & paste its instructions to the MS Code-embedded agentic version to actually do the coding. Hopefully before the end of the year, the embedded agentic version will just deal with things directly.

Detecting and handling fractional amplitudes is essentially what quantum computing is all about.  Yet the idea that biological systems may do just that is anathema, to the point of suppressing relevant evidence as an "unknown variation source". tinyurl.com/yck8bn7r

Les lunes de Jupiter. "Pinheiro dit que quand la nuit est noire et le ciel et dégagé, moins d'un homme sur mille peut les apercevoir à l'oeil nu. Autant dire personne. Avant l'invention de la lunette astronomique ceux qui y parvenaient n'osaient pas en parler." HLT, Electrico W.

scientificamerican.com/artic… Yeah, sure. It somehow resonates with the prevailing political mood.

This image of Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein, which currently has 1.8 million views, is AI-generated and fake.

Hi Sergey. I guess you've already seen this; nature.com/articles/s41586-0… Is it for real? @spinespresso

Johnson (mediocre demagogo che cerca di giustificare il disastro della sua politica): “abbiamo più casi di COVID che in Italia perché amiamo la libertà”. Mattarella: “anche noi amiamo la libertà, ma anche la serietà”. Fine dell’incontro per KO tecnico.

Germany? Turkey? Italy?

Ennesima sbrodolata sul mangiare italiano. E #prosciuttopoli? #agorarai

Dark matter is little green men by another name.