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I just saw Megalopolis.

Coppola knows filmmakers who use subtext and they're all cowards.

It has the visual metaphor of a Ikuhara piece and the artistry of a middle school play. The most striking visuals you will ever see paired with the most wooden performances. It is a stage play; a melodrama ...

It was grey when I left. A city, once the centre of industry, after the industry has moved on. Collectively, a community and a memory of what was lost. It can be seen in the bridges and the name, the NFL team emblazoned on every other person’s clothes. We made steel here, once. We were great. But ...

I arrived at the airport at 5pm. First thing I noticed was the under construction sign, claiming to be building the airport pittsburgh deserves. There was no subjective mention of inherent quality.

Everyone was lined up outside of a taxi queue. Only it wasn’t a taxi queue, it was an Uber loading ...

Yeah, I think that’s closer, it’s the participation in the shared value system that is key to meaningful participation. It’s echoes of Omelas: the inherent virtue of the value system is irrelevant, simply its participation. And he just doesn’t! But I *wouldn’t either* — his value system is foreign ...

(Also posted on my personal blog )

The following are my notes from reading The Stranger by Camus. Some are universal; some are very personal. As with the work itself, these distinctions will be left to the reader.

He lives his life devoid of context. No past or future, no emotions, no involvement ...

(double post… sorry, it’s been years!)

“An older man was just sitting at the beach with a camera the entire time. It was only when I went closer that I realised that the camera was taking shots by itself every few seconds. He was sitting while it ran through the roll, almost like a fisherman? He would go home and maybe do a timelapse ...

Hi! I'm Jasmine.

I'm mostly a computer programmer, and I am *good* at what I do :) I've always got one or two side projects bubbling, but they're a bit under wraps right now :) Nearly most of my free time is on the computer, doing a project or playing a game or tweaking the homelab or dealing with ...