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@commvt grad | @3304Sports and @SpiritOfTech forever | Unapologetic Christopher Nolan fanboy | Mostly just shouting into the void | Catholic personalist

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NOLANEUVE
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I’m already in the theater
First trailer for the first-ever 70mm film and IMAX release of Christopher Nolan's ‘THE PRESTIGE’. In theaters on January 29.
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A moment for Tom Cruise and the cast of #DiggerMovie 👏 Repost if you saw it this weekend...
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It’s Sunday. Let us seize the means of relaxation
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In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgent to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity.
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“my children’s judgment of AI slop has been immediate and harsh” THATS MY GOAT
Christopher Nolan on AI: “I’ve never seen a more rapid wholesale dismissal of a supposedly foundational jump in technology in my lifetime. So much energy has been expended on bringing in AI, but if you look at that generation’s reaction, they’re utterly rejecting it. [My children’s] judgment of AI slop has been immediate and harsh. They see it for what it is very quickly – and it’s much easier for them to identify it, because it grew out of an online world they know really well. And while that doesn’t mean that every aspect of the technology is useless or meaningless, in film-making it’s hitting at exactly the wrong time. After years of driving towards heavily virtual environments, we’re seeing a renewed interest in more tactile, more real forms of storytelling.” 🔗 telegraph.co.uk/films/2026/0…
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Dear writers, we need your imagination, your narrative creativity and your lively thinking. We need these to create spaces of freedom and authenticity, within which divine grace can make the promise of consolation and peace resound. vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/e…
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3 years ago today, Carly Rae Jepsen released ‘Shy Boy’ as a single.
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When people ask me what today's date is.
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It is Sunday. We must seize the means of relaxation.
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ARSENAL HAVE LOST THE CHAMPIONS LEAGUE FINAL
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THE PENGUINS ARE PLAYOFFS BOUND‼️
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LOOPER (2012), Dir. Rian Johnson
Kirk Cousins is signing with the Raiders, per @MikeMcCartney7.
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Good for future HOFer Mike Sullivan
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Anxious to read about the cultural and societal implications of this deal for the Wizards
BREAKING: The Dallas Mavericks are trading 10-time NBA All-Star Anthony Davis, Jaden Hardy, D'Angelo Russell and Dante Exum to the Washington Wizards for Khris Middleton, AJ Johnson, Malaki Branham, Marvin Bagley III, 2 first-round picks and 3 second-rounders, sources tell ESPN.
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A disgrace
"First, we will be closing the Sports department in its current form." -- Matt Murray, editor of the Post
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It really doesn’t take much courage to say “we won’t fund what ICE is doing right now” so how are we supposed to believe Dems will stand for anything?
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