The post ranks the 2025 Best Picture nominees, praising James Gunn's Superman for its simplicity while critiquing the flaws of other films in the lineup.
The author is winding down the Mastodon bots used to post sunrise and sunset times due to the platform's limitations. They argue that Mastodon is not a good platform for social networking and asynchronous ephemeral notifications. ...
The author ranks the 2024 Best Picture nominees, offering a critique of each film. They also recommend a streaming series and discuss the flaws and merits of each film.
The author discusses their preference for dot grid paper and their decision to start printing their own. They express dissatisfaction with existing online dot grid generators and describe the features they find important in a gene...
The text is a review of the Best Picture nominees for 2023, ranking them from worst to best and providing detailed comments on each. The author also discusses the decline of the superhero genre and recommends the John Wick series ...
The text discusses the technology side of social media, particularly Twitter, and the potential for it to be used as a universal interface for asynchronous ephemeral notifications. It also talks about solar time and the author's c...
The text discusses the standardization of measurement and the design of the metric system. It argues that the metric system is poorly designed and prioritizes rare use cases, and that the choice of units is arbitrary. It also high...
The author discusses the 2022 Best Picture nominees, ranking and commenting on each one, and also highlights a non-nominee worth watching. They provide a brief review of each nominee, from worst to best, and share their thoughts o...
The 'Blum Mental Hash' is a flawed idea that is not secure. It is a digital signature that produces a digit string of length n given a secret key and a character string of length n. The key and algorithm are easily cracked, and th...
The author discusses the Best Picture nominees for the 94th Academy Awards, expressing dissatisfaction with the films and providing alternative recommendations. The author ranks the films from worst to best, criticizing each one a...
The author discusses the 2020 Best Picture nominees, criticizing most of them for being unenjoyable and lacking depth. He praises Palm Springs and Nomadland, and expresses mixed feelings about other nominees. He also shares person...