I don’t want to give people the impression that Venom (2018) is like a Thor: Ragnarok or something.
A lot of what the critics are saying is true – about the plot, the pacing, the…everything really – and yet
When a sweaty Tom Hardy tears open a bag of frozen tater tots and just starts pouring them into his mouth, while an alien symbiote screams ‘HUNGRY!’ and then makes him eat chicken out of the trash…
I’m sitting there feeling like yes, 10/10, movie of the year, give that man an Oscar
Finally, a protagonist who represents the people.
when he just sits in a lobster tank and goes “alright, i’m okay now” like thats such a mood
y’know something Venom (2018) captured unusually well that a lot of stroytelling doesn’t is what it feels like to be sick and trying anything you can to get some relief
so you know how deep learning & neural network “AI training” is like, “here’s a task, and by trying billions of times the computer will eventually find the best way to achieve that task” ?
Someone is compiling a document of every time an AI ended up achieving the programmed goal in unintended ways, instead of what was actually meant, and it’s an amazing read. (you can also submit your own examples)
Creatures bred for speed grow really tall and generate high velocities by falling over
When repairing a sorting program, genetic debugging algorithm GenProg made it output an empty list, which was considered a sorted list by the evaluation metric.
Evaluation metric: “the output of sort is in sorted order” Solution: “always output the empty set”
Evolved player makes invalid moves far away in the board, causing opponent players to run out of memory and crash
Reward-shaping a soccer robot for touching the ball caused it to learn to get to the ball and vibrate touching it as fast as possible
RL agent that is allowed to modify its own body learns to have extremely long legs that allow it to fall forward and reach the goal.
Just want to come back to this post and add this amazing example as well
Heres an AI that was supposed to learn how to walk using six legs.
After many failed attempts. It decided it was easier to walk upside down
so I found an old post on here where someone coined “stiff” as a slur to use against asexuals. it fits perfectly imo, they’re lifeless, inflexible, and unpleasant to be around. tbh maybe the asexies need a little taste of oppression so they can understand what having slurs screamed at you on the streets is really like.
did op seriously just bring up 2016 discourse so they could satisfy their oppressor roleplay fantasies and compare asexuals to dead bodies
remember that its about excluding the cishets and exclusionists all respect aspec people uwu
Love the assumption here too that asexuals are so privileged for being asexual that they can’t face oppression from any axis ever.
Like, saying that ace’s of colour ‘don’t understand oppression’ is racist AS HELL.
Saying asexuals who are otherwise bi, pan, gay, lesbian, or trans ‘don’t understand oppression’ is homophobic, transphobic, panphobic, biphobic, and nbphobic.
Saying aces of minority religions ‘don’t understand oppression’ is islamophobic and antisemitic.
Saying disabled aces ‘don’t understand oppression’ is ableist.
Most of us actually know DAMN WELL what oppression looks like. We know because we do, in fact, experience oppression from other axis as well. That’s how we know we’re experiencing oppression for being aspec as well.
So if you’re really gonna sit there and tell a jewish, disabled, nb lesbian ace that they ‘don’t understand oppression’ and ‘need a taste of it to understand it’ I think you need to not just take several fucking seats, but also shut the ever-loving fuck up and realize that you probably actually don’t know as much as you think you fucking do, and that you hate a minority group SO MUCH that you are willing to engage in EVERY other form of bigotry just to make sure asexuals suffer a little more.
You do not, and have never cared about helping or protecting anyone. Your only goal is, and has always been, to hurt a minority group. Think about that for a hot minute for once in your miserable and pathetic life maybe.
straight men trying to make Serious war dramas and accidentally making incredibly tender homoerotic cinema is the funniest thing
In his essay, “Masculinity as Spectacle,” Steve Neale seeks to extend Laura Mulvey’s work on the male gaze and to challenge her assertion that the male or male-identified spectator can never look upon the male body as an erotic object. To challenge Mulvey’s assertion, Neale identifies the mechanisms mainstream Hollywood cinema uses to represent the male body as erotic. One way of doing this, Neale argues, is by making the male body the target of violence. In the war film, a soldier can hold his buddy – as long as his buddy is dying on the battlefield. In the western, Butch Cassidy can wash the Sundance Kid’s naked flesh – as long as it is wounded. In the boxing film, a trainer can rub the well-developed torso and sinewy back of his protege – as long as it is bruised. In the crime film, a mob lieutenant can embrace his boss like a lover – as long as he is riddled with bullets. Violence makes the homoeroticism of many “male” genres invisible; it is a structural mechanism of plausible deniability.
elaienar said: That’s terrifying and I approve 100%.
WELL HERE IS THE THING, RIGHT? black holes you basically literally have to be in their gravity like pretty much on top of them to be sucked in. so that’s not really an issue. it’s TERRIFYING sure, but explains a few things which I will list:
my astronomy teacher said if you were somehow able to survive entering a black hole and reached the bottom or singularity, the way time works is that you would be able to see the entire universe laid out – like you’d know when the universe ended if you looked back outwards
which falls into line with the idea that the angels know all of time and everything except when it will all end precisely (or scientifically, the collapse of this universe is unknown, but supposing angels were black holes they would see until this unknown point)
matter falling into a black hole creates a disc of light which is probably among the literal BRIGHTEST things in the universe
there are angels which are supposed to be the wheels of God’s Chariot, so it would make sense if, according to theories, that there ARE massive blackholes at the center of all galaxies which is what cause them to rotate, and those black holes are angels which make the galaxy spin.
black holes were formed sometime after the big bang, which lines into the story of creation, that the angels came after the universe.
angels can choose to physically manifest like humans, but aren’t actually. it’s said that you cannot survive looking at them or hearing them directly. NASA says that the “note” a black hole emits is the deepest sound found in the universe. i am just guessing here but you would probably die if you heard it up close instead of a bazillion light years away. ALSO side note cool fact apparently that “note”: “…It’s worth pointing out that the “sound” in question is 57 octaves (and one semitone) below middle C, which makes it 247×2−57≈1.71×10−15Hz, or one whole cycle every 18.5 million years.” CRAZY RIGHT although apparently some sing other notes and basically if there’s anything people know about angels it is that they DEFINITELY SING. anyways you can’t see black holes but you can see the things around them and the soundwaves surrounding them.
also apparently scientists picked up a death “scream” of a star falling into a black hole but like…
anyways literally every angel is terrifying BE NOT AFRAID “haha okay but i’m crying though is that cool”
black holes are probably angels. i’m just saying.
this is exactly the kind of weird christian gnostic-empiricist apologia i like to see on my dash
Reblogging for the Christian gnostic-empiricist apologia.
this is my post, and it’s based on Jewish theology, not Christianity.
Your jewish theology is my Christianity’s prologue, so still Christian gnostic-empiricist apologia
I’m only making this one response, because I don’t want to cause problems on @brehaaorgana‘s post.
Your Christianity is bullshit garbage and Judaism has nothing to do with it. We are not a “prologue” to you. Your shit is more Greek than Jewish by now anyway. Consider this a “FUCK YOU” from Jews who don’t want to put up with your antisemitic supersessionist nonsense.
I read this post out of order, and I saw this response and thought “nah ah, no way would someone call Judaism a prologue”.
whitemanning critical 