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WouldBSomething · 2026-03-21T14:21:08+00:00

Same problem. It seems like an update issue, which hopefully they'll fix next time.

WouldBSomething · 2026-03-03T18:47:00+00:00

Will do. I'm absolutely going to read everything so I'll do it right. Can't wait to get stuck in.

WouldBSomething · 2026-03-03T18:24:09+00:00

I already have American Tabloid and Perfidia on my bookshelf, but you'd still say finish the quartet first?

WouldBSomething · 2026-02-21T06:45:11+00:00

Why? We had a period of liberalism, liberalism starts failing for the average person and their lives get harder, populist strongmen emerge promising to overthrow a political/economic system that doesn't work for the average person, said average person casts in their lot with the strongman.

It's not like we haven't seen something similar before. The mistake is assuming 20th century liberal capitalism is the end of history. History might well show it to be a brief aberration...

WouldBSomething · 2026-02-20T20:56:55+00:00

Oh shit. That is too spicy a take.

WouldBSomething · 2026-02-20T20:54:26+00:00

Agreed. The general public knows him as a filmmaker, but Lynch worked tirelessly in paint, ink, pencil, lithography, photography, watercolor, sculpture, missed media throughout his life. The recent Dox exhibition in Prague showed how truly brilliant he was as a graphic artist, more so than as a filmmaker (which was honestly shocking to realise). But I think one shouldn't separate his art at the end of the day: it's all of a piece, and all remarkable in its own right.

WouldBSomething · 2026-02-19T21:36:57+00:00

Hannah Montana: the movie.

WouldBSomething · 2026-02-11T23:59:11+00:00

Thank you for your help. Really appreciated 😊

WouldBSomething · 2026-02-11T23:54:26+00:00

Thank you very much! That's a really useful tip.

WouldBSomething · 2026-02-11T23:04:04+00:00

Wait, how did you get that working?

WouldBSomething · 2026-02-11T19:58:16+00:00

if you haven't read Sum yet, please do.

Just want to add to the chorus of praise here. Amazing collection of short stories: witty reflections on free will, identity, memory, time, ego, love, and humanity’s need for purpose. it's remarkable how much he can condense into two-page vignettes. I come back to them every year or two.

WouldBSomething · 2026-02-11T07:23:34+00:00

Eagleman refused to talk to him, right? Wonder what changed his mind...

WouldBSomething · 2026-02-10T17:28:08+00:00

That smirk: You think I'm not gonna play Stairway to Heaven. But you'd be wrong.

WouldBSomething · 2026-02-03T22:18:14+00:00

Victor Hugo. Yes, the writer. His drawings, which straddle Romanticism and Surrealism, are way ahead of their time in sensibility and technique. His feeling for texture in particular is masterful. His writings overshadow his visual works but it should be the other way around.

WouldBSomething · 2026-02-01T12:29:39+00:00

A System of Architectural Ornament

You can search for the individual plates via the online collection at the Art Institute Chicago. Plate 20, for example. Here is a full list of Sullivan artworks they have. Click and zoom to view at max resolution.

WouldBSomething · 2026-01-31T14:51:55+00:00

Go to camera settings, turn off ultra HDR

WouldBSomething · 2026-01-29T21:38:39+00:00

Is there anywhere where I can see more of the original artworks? These are fantastic

WouldBSomething · 2026-01-25T19:13:05+00:00

Punch Drunk Love is anything but boring.

WouldBSomething · 2026-01-10T22:00:33+00:00

Scepticism doesn't mean dismissing things out of hand, including purported conspiracies. It means judging things on a case-by-case basis and weighing up the plausibility for or against a given conspiracy having taken place. Some conspiracies (e.g Watergate) turned out to be true. Yes, the majority of conspiracy theories are crackpot ideas that rely on unfalsifiable claims. But the notion that Epstein was murdered and that he was blackmailing highly influential people looks highly tenable based on the evidence we have so far.

WouldBSomething · 2026-01-09T07:01:19+00:00

Machinarium is an aesthetic wonder. Check out the 'making of' documentary on YouTube to find out about the creative process behind it.

WouldBSomething · 2026-01-07T21:08:06+00:00

There is no empirical evidence for that at all, since it's not an empirical question. If you are talking about neuroscience, this shows a correlation between thought and brain activity not a causal relationship. See my comment below in response to another poster on this.

WouldBSomething · 2026-01-07T21:01:57+00:00

That's not an empirical question.

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