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Spaceman (2024, March; Netflix)

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Why does Hanuš the space-spider never call Janus the Czech cosmonaut, Janus? And Hanuš instead keeps calling Janus “skinny man”? I don’t protest this about the movie. No, I think I love it.

Also I love how all the dialogue feels translated. As if it’s not natively written in English. The post-neo-Soviet vibe, it fits the narrative so well.

In fact I think I’d love watching the movie with Czech audio and English subtitles. I wonder if that’s possible… I suppose it’s subtle but it would require me hunting for the Czech audio, which I’m 99% sure exists.

I also love the movie’s subtext-dialogue about the notions of love, relationship, loneliness, attachment, self-centeredness, touch, beginning & end, cosmology, and so on and so forth.

So much to think about. It’s like, I myself had to watch this in a couple of sittings, and I just had to watch it like two, three times to catch what I want to catch out of it…

Spaceman (2024 movie) at Wikipedia

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Question: How would you fork Android for Smartphones today, so that such a forked Android phone:

1) could be as far as possible be not dependent on either AOSP or Google/Alphabet owned products and services,

2) could essentially use app binaries/packages designed and/or coded for “mainline/official” Google-approved Android, and

3) more or less participate adequately (or even participate “fully”) in the global mobile Inter-networked Internet and the Internet market-economy?

With advanced in open standards and EU-lead tech delegation, it should be possible now, right..?

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We’re often taught to repress our feelings and behave nicely. But anger has a biological purpose, and psychologists say it’s healthier to embrace it and process it. Here are some steps for working with your anger.

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2024/03/12/1236973762/anger-management-types-purpose-cause

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by Butter Sugoi (at Facebook) via Kyle Hill (at YouTube Communities tab)

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This old Tumblr reshare of mine got a few reblogs a few weeks ago, and now I kinda want to revive my own YouTube Communities tab on my channel…

…Oh and yes of course visit Kyle Hill’s YT Community tab. Highly recommended. Aside from making awesome longform videos and YT livestreams, Kyle also has an awesome & regularly updated YT Community tab, stocked with the spiciest internet Science Memes.

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State of the Union

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So, here’s a question: do State of the Union addresses matter?  Well, umm, not really.

Here’s why they’re supposed to matter: they provide a president with a forum to explain his program to the American people, who are then supposed to rally around the president and pressure the Congress and the other branches of government to pass the president’s agenda.  It’s called “going public,” and State of the Union addresses are one of many ways presidents can try to use their public prominence to do an end run around Congress to get what they want.

But here’s the thing: it doesn’t usually work.  Presidential poll numbers might go up slightly, but this rarely translates into support for the president’s plans.  W was fairly successful at this after 9/11, but by the end of his presidency he was ignored.  Remember how we were going to Mars?  Neither does anyone else.

So the speech last night was well done, and depending on which side of the political universe you stand on you liked it–or didn’t.  But that’s the point: in a highly partisan period like this, there is no way one speech will rally sufficient support to change the party gridlock.  That takes several elections and an American people which has decided to try a new way of doing business.  And it seems to me, I am sad to say, we’re not there yet.  Which will be a post for another day!

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My first Tumblr post, from 2011, reposted on State of the Union address night 2024

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Yes. Relevant today.

…Or this week.

What have you.

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