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🍿 Ex Machina (2015) - ★★★★☆
I’m guessing this enjoyable sci-fi thriller was intended as a warning against the perils of AI becoming evil and turning against humanity. The humanity in this case, is a narcissistic, megalomaniac, alcoholic social media billionaire recluse and modern day Dr Frankenstein, so I was rooting for the beautiful female robot long before the end. That “she” could plot her escape by out-manipulating and out-murdering “her” creator means “she” passed the Turing Test for being indistinguishable from a human. “She” also left for dead the amiable and sympathetic protagonist she played for a love fool and stole his helicopter ride out of the insane asylum/laboratory/abattoir back to normality and observing humans at traffic intersections (where the poor lovesick fool had agreed to go on a date with “her”).
I couldn’t help feeling that if “she” had really achieved humanness “she” would, at least, have saved her wannabe boyfriend, and they could have lived happily ever after, but maybe that was the whole point?
You’d never know from this headline, of course, that it’s Israel who broke the ceasefire agreement.
US rejects 'impractical' Hamas demands as Gaza truce hangs in balance: bbc.com
Well, well, well.
Ealing Council’s cost-cutting budget includes “improving” the borough’s children’s centre services by cutting them in half.
The “consultation” ends on 27 April…
Think of the children: davidmarsden.info
A Very British Coup.
Watched the first two (of three) episodes of A Very British Coup (also available on YouTube) last night.
First broadcast in the summer of 1988, when socialist Tony Benn came close to being elected as deputy leader of the Labour party, then in opposition to Margaret Thatcher’s Tory government.
Radical socialist and Sheffield Wednesday fan Harry Perkins becomes the UK prime minister, with financial backing for his government’s economic policies from the state bank of Russia after the US, CIA, Labour “moderates” and the British establishment conspire to subvert the democratic will of the people.
Plenty of echoes in today’s political environment, and great acting from Ray McAnally, Keith Allen and others. Doesn’t seem dated at all.
Some things never change.
. @help any idea why my tweet archive seems to be missing ten years of tweets? I’ve tried re-uploading, but it seems to get stuck and never finish?
My boy got his picture taken for the local council propaganda rag when they opened the school street this week.
American values.
Democratic Senator Chris Murphy on the forced disappearance of Mahmoud Khalil
“This is what happens when someone appeases barbarians. More bombs, more aggression, more victims. Another tragic night in
PalestineUkraine.”
