[-] istewart@awful.systems 5 points 4 days ago

I feel like before Redbox went under, it was also a dumping ground for this sort of thing. For instance, that mid-budget Western "Rust" where Alec Baldwin killed the camerawoman on set felt like it was destined for this sort of distribution strategy. Who's clamoring to go out to the theater to see a Western with Alec Baldwin these days? But it might stand out among all the other slop when you're looking to turn your brain off on a Saturday night.

See also the rise of the "geezer-teasers," where a random 80s/90s action star signs up to appear in the first and last 10 minutes of a generic action movie filmed someplace inexpensive, most likely eastern Europe or southeast Asia. There were a lot of those. Perhaps my favorite, that I still want to watch someday, was Danny Trejo and Danny Glover in "Bad-Ass 2: Bad-Asses."

[-] istewart@awful.systems 6 points 5 days ago

I'm guessing these people were JAQing off hard enough that they got kicked out of their local Oxford-style debate org and had to start their own.

[-] istewart@awful.systems 24 points 2 weeks ago

On the other hand, bombing foreign data centers, likely located in densely populated urban areas, would be justified and morally upstanding if it seems like they might be incarnating the imaginary computer god! I'm glad we have such a nuanced thinker guiding our modern morality.

[-] istewart@awful.systems 23 points 1 month ago

Said it before, I'll say it again: if Americans are all temporarily embarrassed millionaires, HN is where the temporarily embarrassed billionaires go to hang out

[-] istewart@awful.systems 19 points 1 month ago

I especially want to be sure that everyone here is aware that the video thumbnail clearly shows that JD Vance was not seated upon, or otherwise interacting with, a couch. JD Vance was calmly seated in a standard office chair for the duration of this interview. Any posts containing out-of-context references to couches will be dealt with vigorously.

[-] istewart@awful.systems 28 points 1 month ago

"Leaking rationalist-evidence-bits" is an unexpectedly top-tier euphemism for the aftermath of digesting Wendy's chili

[-] istewart@awful.systems 25 points 1 month ago

How interesting, a volcel who only thinks he’s an incel. Many such cases

[-] istewart@awful.systems 24 points 2 months ago
[-] istewart@awful.systems 20 points 2 months ago

of course somebody prompted up a LessWrong-specific chatbot

[-] istewart@awful.systems 22 points 2 months ago

crazy people who look sort of like me but younger.

giving away the game a bit, Mr. Schmidt

[-] istewart@awful.systems 27 points 3 months ago

The Hollywood bankruptcy auctions in a few years are gonna be lit

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