n2j

fight me (affectionate)

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transitioning nerd to jock

things i love to yell at and about:
pro wrestling, genre fiction, fibre arts



mtrc
@mtrc

Recently I've been approached by different news organisations to comment on deepfaked images and videos. In most cases they already know whether the thing is a fake or not, but they want to know why. It's been a pretty fascinating thing to be tasked with, honestly, and some of the examples completely caught me by surprise (warning: Daily Mail link). Many of us see faked images on a daily basis now, but there's not a lot of writing about how fakes are detected other than one-liner folk knowledge on places like Twitter. I thought I'd write a bit about how I approach the problem.



bruno
@bruno
The Match Factory Girl Review

Absolute masterpiece. Perfect film. Nearly silent. A raw, collapsed little bundle. Kati Outinen has the biggest, wettest, saddest eyes ever committed to film.

Kaurismäki's previous two movies in the trilogy are about unsentimental people falling into surprising, almost instantaneous bonds. This movie is about a sentimental person whose loneliness is so total it is obliterating. The final sequence of this movie is completely perfect. It is shocking and shockingly economical. Kaurismäki does so, so, so very much with almost nothing.

I am grabbing you by the shoulders and shaking you and telling you to watch this.


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humanmorph
@humanmorph

Janine (as Thisbe): I will miss their cereals.
Ali (as Brnine): Oh, yeah. [taken aback] Thisbe, you eat cereal?
Janine (as Thisbe): No, the boxes. I liked to look at the boxes.
Ali (as Brnine): [quietly] Oh. Yeah. Yeah.
Janine (as Thisbe): I enjoy the mazes on the back. 
Dre: Aw.
Janine (as Thisbe): Phrygian made the best cereal box mazes.

I really liked this scene (& expecially this bit) a lot.
The maze is from https://mazegenerator.net/ which I played around with for a while just for fun. I like the round ones, but they are somewhat harder to fit on a box.