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Meanwhile, over at lowercase vinegar syndrome
Chemistry WorldMaite Maguregui Hernando, a researcher in Spain who has developed bio-based gels to clean cultural heritage items independent of this work, says vinegar syndrome is ‘one of the most urgent threats in motion picture film preservation’. @patdwalter.bsky.social www.chemistryworld.com/news/polymer...
You can pry the em-dashes from my cold, dead hands
Manisha KrishnanAuthors and journalists are doing more first-person (hello 2010s blogging) and embracing "mistakes" in writing to prove they're not chatbots. There's even an “anti-Grammarly" app that leaves in typos and signs off "sent from my iPhone" to create more authenticity: www.wired.com/story/more-t...
"The world's best AI training data is setting on a shelf."
AI Companies Are Buying Antique Books, Ingesting Their Contents to Train Models, and Then Destroying Them at Incredible Scale, Even If Almost No Copies RemainAI companies are quietly obtaining rare books, ingesting their contents, and then destroying them -- even if they're exceedingly rare.trib.al
I pretty much always have low expectations for movies so I’m rarely disappointed? As Emily Wilson said in her review, at least it has people into the humanities?! Also, thank you (as always) to The Onion. I wish I was witty. theonion.com/matt-damon-d...
Matt Damon Defends Dunkin’ Product Placement In Nolan’s ‘Odyssey’BROOKLYN, NY—Explaining that the prominent iced coffees and chocolate-glazed Munchkins were essential to director Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of the ancient Greek epic, actor Matt Damon defended Tu...theonion.comMine: 1. Glad I wore ear plugs! 2. HOW COULD NOLAN NOT INVITE EMILY WILSON TO THE PREMIERE? 3. Unsurprisingly women characters were meh. 4. Adaptations are translations. He made the film he made. Fidelity criticism is tiresome. 5. Imagine backlash if Nolan didn’t rewrite Odysseus to feel bad!
Tanya GoldmanI, for one, am genuinely have a blast reading the Christopher Nolan ODYSSEY DiScOuRsE 🫠 ! Rave reviews, pans, trolls, nuanced reviews, history pieces, podcasts, memes, social media videos. I LOVE IT ALL!!!!!!!!!
I love that @filmforumnyc.bsky.social has a screening devoted to films from the New York City Transit Museum Archives in its NY Transit series later this summer!!! #nontheatricalfilm babbbyyy!
Matt Zoller SeitzGreat series starting at @filmforumnyc.bsky.social today: every Tuesday, they show movies that are set in, or heavily involve, the New York subway system. I took this series as an opportunity to write critical blurbs about a some of my favorites. www.rogerebert.com/mzs/get-on-t...