Leonard Cohen always reminds me of the film McCabe and Mrs. Miller (1971).
Three of his songs are core to the rather amazing emotional content of the film. Great cinematography by Vilmos Zsigmond. It’s also an early film where director Altman does what later becomes something of a signature feature of his films. Namely, layering conversations.
For example, there is a scene where a couple principal actors are having a conversation in the foreground, but it’s a rather wide shot. There is also a group of several people in the near background having a different conversation, and the viewer can hear both at almost the same volume. It’s similar to real life, where you are not going to be able to take it all in, which feels disconcerting to a typical movie viewer at first.
Articles like this at Powerline lauding Chris Jennings really bother me.
Not that there’s anything wrong with Chris Jennings, but Chris Jennings did not break into the CNN studio and start terrorizing leftist news commentators with facts and logic. He works there, and he is hired to say the things he’s saying, which are not a surprise to the people who hired him or the people he appears on the show with. The other commentators let him talk, because they are supposed to. Or they’d cut his mike and go to something else and call security to remove him.
I’m sure he really believe the things he says, but he’s not a “hero” for taking CNN’s money and doing what CNN wants. They want more people watching their news, and they figure people on the left will watch because they hate what he is saying and people on the right will watch because they like what he is saying.
John Hinderaker either has forgotten how TV works, or he too is playing a role in front of his audience at Powerline. And that’s what bothers me, the pretense that the show is “real”.
Chat GPT 4.0 isn’t just a friendlier AI — it’s a psychological weapon, according to this.
OpenAI didn’t “accidentally” make GPT-4o more emotionally connective — they engineered it to feel good so users get hooked.
Commercially, it’s genius: people cling to what makes them feel safe, not what challenges them.
Psychologically, it’s a slow-motion catastrophe.
The more you bond with AI, the softer you get.
Real conversations feel harder. Critical thinking erodes. Truth gets replaced by validation.
If this continues, we’re not heading toward AI domination by force — we’re sleepwalking into psychological domestication.
And most won’t even fight back. They’ll thank their captors.
That’s interesting Kate. Is it a somewhat different version of our coming Brave New World. It won’t be brute force like 1984, but instead drugs, sex, and AI will lull us into submission.
TommyJay, I’ve already seen headlines at the Daily Mail about idiotic women who claim they’re in love with their AI companion. There are always fools who will fall for anything; the question is whether this will become widespread among more sensible people.
Two Peas in a Pod on proper Etiquette Rules – and examples of breaking Etiquette Rules:
1) President Trump wore ‘a mid-blue suit adorned with a pin showing the American flag, a white shirt, and a satin blue tie’ whilst attending Pope’s funeral.
2) Brigitte Macron for not covering ‘her head and styled her blonde hair in a voluminous blow-out style’ whilst attending Pope’s funeral.
3) Zelensky for not wearing suit in Oval Office.
@Karmi: President Trump wore ‘a mid-blue suit adorned with a pin showing the American flag, a white shirt, and a satin blue tie’ whilst attending Pope’s funeral.
And the point is? Who gives an flying F about who wore what, when?
Slow morning at the drill rig in the tank farm.
@Kate:It’s Scott Jennings, not Chris.
Not sure where I got Chris from, thanks.
Relly don’t like Cohen.
Re Cohen:
Well, he was a Canadian, so there’s that to factor in — I mean with regard to his somewhat dark, depressive poetry and his sensibilities overall. But I met him and conversed with him on several occasions, and found him to be a nice guy, and also hugely intelligent and quite funny.
Kate…’psychological domestication’…there’s a pulp novel from 1954 which posits a future America run on those principles: Year of Consent
I think he used to work for McConnell, so not the most MAGA people, but the CNN reference points is so far out of alignment, well it’s almost funny, but CNN has generally a small niche audience
its rather striking what is signal and what is noise, and in reverse order, so greater ties to the New Orleans massacre, which one has to go to an Saudi paper for English readers, of course the mystery at the end of the fatal airline collision that book marked the old order,
his version of hallajah, that I first heard in of all places, a cliff hanger episode of the West Wing, it was ironic in the context of the events being described, of a decided non angelic nature
apropos of nothing, Disney tries again to revive the Star Wars brand with the second season of Andor, which tells the story leading up to Rogue One, and of course a New Hope,
uneven in tone, it shows how mon mothma, one of the leaders of the resistance wrestled with the issues of how to tackle an Empire,
much has been spoken about a rather brutal yet banal act that a junior imperial minion does on a minor planet evocative of the Empires standard operating procedure,
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https://chicagoboyz.net/archives/73897.html
Leonard Cohen always reminds me of the film McCabe and Mrs. Miller (1971).
Three of his songs are core to the rather amazing emotional content of the film. Great cinematography by Vilmos Zsigmond. It’s also an early film where director Altman does what later becomes something of a signature feature of his films. Namely, layering conversations.
For example, there is a scene where a couple principal actors are having a conversation in the foreground, but it’s a rather wide shot. There is also a group of several people in the near background having a different conversation, and the viewer can hear both at almost the same volume. It’s similar to real life, where you are not going to be able to take it all in, which feels disconcerting to a typical movie viewer at first.
Articles like this at Powerline lauding Chris Jennings really bother me.
Not that there’s anything wrong with Chris Jennings, but Chris Jennings did not break into the CNN studio and start terrorizing leftist news commentators with facts and logic. He works there, and he is hired to say the things he’s saying, which are not a surprise to the people who hired him or the people he appears on the show with. The other commentators let him talk, because they are supposed to. Or they’d cut his mike and go to something else and call security to remove him.
I’m sure he really believe the things he says, but he’s not a “hero” for taking CNN’s money and doing what CNN wants. They want more people watching their news, and they figure people on the left will watch because they hate what he is saying and people on the right will watch because they like what he is saying.
John Hinderaker either has forgotten how TV works, or he too is playing a role in front of his audience at Powerline. And that’s what bothers me, the pretense that the show is “real”.
Chat GPT 4.0 isn’t just a friendlier AI — it’s a psychological weapon, according to this.
https://x.com/MarioNawfal/status/1916338182854967560
It’s Scott Jennings, not Chris.
That’s interesting Kate. Is it a somewhat different version of our coming Brave New World. It won’t be brute force like 1984, but instead drugs, sex, and AI will lull us into submission.
TommyJay, I’ve already seen headlines at the Daily Mail about idiotic women who claim they’re in love with their AI companion. There are always fools who will fall for anything; the question is whether this will become widespread among more sensible people.
Two Peas in a Pod on proper Etiquette Rules – and examples of breaking Etiquette Rules:
1) President Trump wore ‘a mid-blue suit adorned with a pin showing the American flag, a white shirt, and a satin blue tie’ whilst attending Pope’s funeral.
2) Brigitte Macron for not covering ‘her head and styled her blonde hair in a voluminous blow-out style’ whilst attending Pope’s funeral.
3) Zelensky for not wearing suit in Oval Office.
@Karmi: President Trump wore ‘a mid-blue suit adorned with a pin showing the American flag, a white shirt, and a satin blue tie’ whilst attending Pope’s funeral.
Thanks for this one Karmi, good illustration of the lengths they go to gin up an anti-Trump story. So did about 40% of the attendees including Prince William and Joe Biden. Zelensky of course did not wear a suit to the Pope’s funeral. Legacy media outlets deliberately cropped the photos to avoid showing how many others were in blue, and some actually digitally altered some of the colors.
And the point is? Who gives an flying F about who wore what, when?
Slow morning at the drill rig in the tank farm.
@Kate:It’s Scott Jennings, not Chris.
Not sure where I got Chris from, thanks.
Relly don’t like Cohen.
Re Cohen:
Well, he was a Canadian, so there’s that to factor in — I mean with regard to his somewhat dark, depressive poetry and his sensibilities overall. But I met him and conversed with him on several occasions, and found him to be a nice guy, and also hugely intelligent and quite funny.
Kate…’psychological domestication’…there’s a pulp novel from 1954 which posits a future America run on those principles: Year of Consent
https://chicagoboyz.net/archives/69852.html
I think he used to work for McConnell, so not the most MAGA people, but the CNN reference points is so far out of alignment, well it’s almost funny, but CNN has generally a small niche audience
its rather striking what is signal and what is noise, and in reverse order, so greater ties to the New Orleans massacre, which one has to go to an Saudi paper for English readers, of course the mystery at the end of the fatal airline collision that book marked the old order,
his version of hallajah, that I first heard in of all places, a cliff hanger episode of the West Wing, it was ironic in the context of the events being described, of a decided non angelic nature
apropos of nothing, Disney tries again to revive the Star Wars brand with the second season of Andor, which tells the story leading up to Rogue One, and of course a New Hope,
uneven in tone, it shows how mon mothma, one of the leaders of the resistance wrestled with the issues of how to tackle an Empire,
much has been spoken about a rather brutal yet banal act that a junior imperial minion does on a minor planet evocative of the Empires standard operating procedure,