oncebce
October 9, 2019, 11:34pm
2199
Its already been done:
Okja is a 2017 South Korean and American action-adventure film about a girl who raises a genetically modified superpig. Directed by Bong Joon-ho and co-written by Bong and Jon Ronson, the film stars an ensemble cast headed by South Korean child actress Ahn Seo-hyun, South Korean actors Byun Hee-bong, Yoon Je-moon, and Choi Woo-shik, and Hollywood actors Tilda Swinton (in a dual role), Paul Dano, Steven Yeun, Lily Collins, Shirley Henderson, Daniel Henshall, Devon Bostick, Giancarlo Esposito, an...
(Although Korean, not Chinese).
Good movie.
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From April, but very much worth sharing. James Mickens announces he got tenure at Harvard. I may have loled on the train.
https://mickens.seas.harvard.edu/tenure-announcement
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Aussies got there first, although, sadly, without Tilda Swinton.
Razorback is a 1984 Australian natural horror film written by Everett De Roche, based on Peter Brennan's novel, and directed by Russell Mulcahy. The film revolves around the attacks of a gigantic wild boar terrorising the Australian outback, killing and devouring people.
Jake Cullen (Bill Kerr) is babysitting his grandson at his house in the Australian outback when a massive razorback boar attacks him, smashing through his house and carrying off his grandson to devour alive. Jake is accused ...
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Scientology whale donor Dennis Romeiser was so threatened by my site running on a Raspberry Pi, that he filed a “Right to be Forgotten”.
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The hyperbole surrounding candidates in NZ local elections is getting way out of hand.
(ETA original source)
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FGD135
October 11, 2019, 9:18am
2208
Something for the Weekend, Sir?
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FGD135
October 11, 2019, 10:17am
2209
Inside Europe: Czechs bid farewell to the “Sinatra of the East”
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Is this graffiti correct?
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Screen-top gaming. Now, if only it was a touch screen that could recognize which miniatures were where…
Tabletop RPGs are back in fashion a serious way. Thanks to a recent tidal wave of podcasts, live streams, and YouTube series, games like Dungeons & Dragons, Vampire: The Masquerade, Warhammer 40,000, and other TTRPG systems have never been more...
(But remember: Let the wookie win!)
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FGD135
October 15, 2019, 3:33pm
2218
What the &% did you just #*&!*# say about me, you little &% #*?
’AI’ to filter Xbox Live chat
“Microsoft did not expand on how its filtering system works beyond the thinly veiled “AI and machine learning technology,” which we all know probably just means humans moderators balanced with a soupçon of heuristics and neural network technology until a proper machine-learning system is fully trained up and the bugs have been ironed out.”
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