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Feel this betrays a misunderstanding about the moral order the epic establishes. Sure some of Rama’s actions are unjust toward Sita, Laxman and indeed himself!
But what is the orientation that produced those actions? The orientation doesn’t go away with a change in POV to Sita
What do the actions of the person whose life is basically a textual interpretation of dharma look like? Especially when these contradictions surface? Is it hence more important to follow dharma or instead sculpt the world in accordance with it? Krishna studies the last question
This hack thinks there actually is a thing such as “median AI”. No wonder his quantitative work is completely worthless.
Playing Slay The Spire 1 again and this is almost the perfect game. Art from emergent property - impossible to achieve the game isn’t sufficiently difficult. When the medium can do something so brilliant why do we care about well-crafted copies of films and novels (Witcher etc)?
This is why paradox games are brilliant as well despite having some feature slop (looking at Stellaris hearts of iron really; EU4 is a near masterpiece)
Tarkovsky is my favorite director but his opinions on any non-humanist and non-spiritual art are basically terrible. Wow a film about isolation and loneliness is cold and alienating even in its form who would have thought
Tarkovsky on science fiction and Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey:
"For some reason, in all the science fiction films I've seen, the filmmakers force the viewer to examine the details of the material structure of the future. More than that, sometimes, like Kubrick, they call their own films premonitions. It's unbelievable! Let alone that 2001: A Space Odyssey is phony on many points even for specialists. For a true work of art, the fake must be eliminated. I would like to shoot Solaris in a way that the viewer would be unaware of any exoticism. Of course, I'm referring to the exoticism of technology.
For example, if one shoots a scene of passengers boarding a trolley, which, let's say, we'd never seen before or known anything about, then we'd get something like Kubrick's moon-landing scene. On the other hand, if one were to shoot a moon landing like a common trolley stop in a modern film, then everything would be as it should. That means to create psychologically, not an exotic but a real, everyday environment that would be conveyed to the viewer through the perception of the film's characters. That's why a detailed 'examination' of the technological processes of the future transforms the emotional foundation of a film, as a work of art, into a lifeless schema with only pretensions to truth.
Design is design. Painting is painting. And a film is a film. One should 'separate the firmament from the waters' and not engage in making comic books."
-Interview with Naum Abramov in 1970.
I feel this kind of academic hand-wringing is mostly misguided. The word “actively” in this tweet is basically useless. It’s okay to argue that in 2026, Israel is a much bigger problem than Pakistan
Pakistan, for all its many faults, is not a settler-colonial state keeping millions of indigenous people stateless, under military occupation, & actively committing a genocide against them.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Pakistan army killed hundreds of thousands to millions of Bengalis & raped ~200k women. Hamoodur Commission confirmed atrocities. Diplomats called it “selective genocide.”
archive.org/details/hamood…
nsarchive.gwu.edu/document/33893
Pedophilia is widespread in Pakistan:
english.alarabiya.net/variety/2014/0…
Eternal illiteracy. Just because a book shows you the POV of a character doesn’t mean it endorses it. It’s been 70 years get over it already
Spanish and South American league football actively encourages this kind of play. When you’d rather that teams play modern football then some people will say this is the only way certain teams can compete
Spanish police have opened a manslaughter investigation after soccer player Jesus de Miguel died following an on-field collision.
De Miguel was running down the field when he collided with goalkeeper Jesús Owono.
The soccer player was rushed to the hospital before he was pronounced dead.
"Broken with pain, with a lump in our throat and unable to believe that this is true, from CD Tenerife we announce the tragic passing of Jesús de Miguel Alameda this Tuesday, November 3, 2026, at 8 am," the club said.
"We stand with his devastated family, with his loved ones, and with the entire Tenerife football community, who today mourn this cruel turn of events..."
De Miguel was 30 years old.
He reportedly died from cardiac arrest.
According to Reuters, which spoke with authorities in the Canary Islands, the investigation is routine procedure.
The only way to prevent things like this from happening is to aggressively card a certain style of “physical” football that prioritizes contact. Kill this worthless philosophy of football before it kills more people already - nothing good has come out of it
How do people end up trying so many subs 💀
I only have ChatGPT, VPN, Spotify, Prime, iCloud / Google Drive, DoorDash
I’m not that interested in this film but it insists on itself is such a dumb line of criticism. How do you know a film is insincere? Are you a mind-reader?
“La Bola Negra,” a new film by Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo, dramatizes gay repression and liberation across three interconnected stories. At first, the year is 1937 and viewers are thrust deep into the Spanish Civil War, where a Nationalist soldier and a wounded Republican freedom fighter exchange furtive glances. By the end, it’s 2017, and a Madrid-based historian need only look to Grindr to satisfy an urge. The movie “wants to be a sweeping historical epic of gay longing—a film about what it means to be a man who desires other men in times of war and peace,” Justin Chang writes. Instead, the directors have produced “a film that insists, arrogantly and aggressively, on its own monumentality”. Even compelling performances from Glenn Close, Penélope Cruz, and Lola Dueñas fail to rescue the extravagantly overwrought film. Read Chang's full review: newyorker.com/culture/the-cu…
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Indian socialists and communists arguing for price controls on a service consumed by the rich, a service with a deeply unprofitable business model, and a service destructive to the climate. This is the India Nehru would have wanted. Not all is lost.
The last two years were noticeably terrible in America (speaking strictly domestically) compared to the past but I think catastrophic predictions about the country are just misguided. Theres a lot of self-correction built in. You can’t just go ahead and do anything really