Saw Miller's Girl again in the cinema (who knows when I'll see it again) and again of course impressed by Jenna Ortega. Wrote about it with major spoilers in the next post (copied from letterboxd). #JennaOrtega #MillersGirl
Major spoilers for Miller's Girl (2024). Don't read if you haven't seen it.
Miller's Girl (2024)
Watched it again and liked it so much. It's an acting masterclass by Jenna Ortega. That dialog between Cairo and Jonathan, you'll know which one, is so powerful.
**MAJOR SPOILERS BELOW**
Here's my take on Cairo: she's an 18 year old girl who by her own words seems uninterested in sex, or at least not to know yet whether she wants it. The film sets her up as asexual. The extremely steamy story she writes has sex only as a literary device. The steamy scene she has with her lesbian friend is only to distract her and she stops as the photo is taken and sent, beyond the photo she had no interest in it.
In films like this, 'the girl' is often portrayed as driven by her hormones. Even in this film it is said that 'teenage girls are dangerous'. But not Cairo, she is purely intellectual.
She's an extremely gifted writer, much more than her teacher, but initially she thinks she has finally found someone who is her equal, a way out of her intellectual loneliness. But when he fails to live up to her drive to move boundaries, she consid
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Miller's Girl (2024)
Watched it again and liked it so much. It's an acting masterclass by Jenna Ortega. That dialog between Cairo and Jonathan, you'll know which one, is so powerful.
**MAJOR SPOILERS BELOW**
Here's my take on Cairo: she's an 18 year old girl who by her own words seems uninterested in sex, or at least not to know yet whether she wants it. The film sets her up as asexual. The extremely steamy story she writes has sex only as a literary device. The steamy scene she has with her lesbian friend is only to distract her and she stops as the photo is taken and sent, beyond the photo she had no interest in it.
In films like this, 'the girl' is often portrayed as driven by her hormones. Even in this film it is said that 'teenage girls are dangerous'. But not Cairo, she is purely intellectual.
She's an extremely gifted writer, much more than her teacher, but initially she thinks she has finally found someone who is her equal, a way out of her intellectual loneliness. But when he fails to live up to her drive to move boundaries, she considers him mediocre, not even worthy to be treated as a person and she consciously destroys his life.
She's not a nice person. She treats both Jonathan and Winnie as subhuman.
Here's my take on Jonathan: I think he is indeed mediocre as both Cairo and his own wife say. He stopped writing when he got some bad reviews and he shies away from the literary gauntlet Cairo throws down. He's a coward who thought he was more.
I think he actually is sexually interested in this beautiful young woman who flatters him and who he can admire, like normally in 'these kind of films'. He is not the standard victim however, since it is shown that he and his colleague already blur lines, watch nude pictures of students, etc. With Cairo he had the opportunity to draw lines and should have (their classroom talk already went too far, but visiting the poetry reading together was well wrong, not to speak of the kissing, visiting her house when he knew she was alone, etc.). Also, he should have left his wife ages ago since she clearly looks down on him, but that is yet another thing he doesn't dare to do.
Here's my take on whether they did or didn't do it: the film is nicely ambiguous about that. The sex scene we see is part of the story Cairo wrote, not necessarily true. He denies anything happened, but we saw them kiss, so that is a lie already. She denied to her friend that they slept together, so probably they didn't. 'Write what you know' is said, suggesting they did. But Cairo refers to it as 'this fantasy' instead of 'this thing we did', so maybe they didn't.
I think they truly bonded after the poetry night, where they both fell in love with each other. Maybe more happened, maybe it happened the next time they were together at her house. But I'm guessing, with 51%/49% odds, that it didn't go beyond the kiss. #MillersGirl #JennaOrtega
This is why public transport is not taking off in my country. And these two cities even both have a train station. By car: 26 minutes. By public transport: 1 hour and 41 minutes.
@StarkRG That is exactly what it is, thank you. I couldn't find it in the list of channels Amazon was trying to sell me, but it turns out that was (surprise surprise) because I'm already subscribed to it! It used to be called differently, StarzPlay I think, and got renamed.
Now if they only had Paramount+ too in my country like they do in most places...
The blu-ray for Wednesday arrived today! On Wednesday. Starting my umpteenth watch-through.
With recently the great experience of watching Miller's Girl on the big screen and now eight episodes of brilliance to see, these are really Jenna days...
We all know the level of detail Jenna puts in her performances, for Wednesday she got formal fencing and cello training, but on her Instagram posts of that time you can see she also had a mechanical typewriter in her apartment back in Romania. In this opening episode Wednesday is very comfortable typing her novel on the old typewriter, but doesn't really know how to work the keyboard of Enid's laptop.
A few years ago I realized that more companies need to let engineers have some money to contribute to OSS. Say a percent or two of their salary that they can give to free software that is used by the company.
This would help fund software, help get rid of the bureaucracy (don't have to justify it, etc), and put the money where it's likely most needed.
They likely know which projects are under funded or critical to the company.
> Say a percent or two of their salary that they can give to free software that is used by the company.
think of it like the 401k match and then an additional "benefit" of a few % on top of that which you can direct into open source projects of your choosing? That sounds interesting
If you see a long German or Swedish word, first of all, don't panic. It's more scared of you than you are of it. Secondly, take a closer look and you'll see it's actually just three normal words in a trenchcoat, huddling together to deter predators (French and English).
I guess the takeaway from the xz backdoor situation is:
If you’re an open-source project maintainer, and somebody starts getting on your case for not doing enough free work for them, you reply “big Jia Tan energy there” and then block them forever.
We followed each other for years and I don't think I had a single less-than-positive interaction with him. I'll miss him and so will many others. My thoughts are with his friends and family ❤️
Craig was one of the first people who interacted with me on the Fediverse. I’ve been worried about him. He was an incredible friend and human being. I’ll miss hearing from him.
I found Craig’s account one night I was looking for some solace under the cancer hashtag. I learned a lot from his updates: I could tell he was loved and respected, and through it all he was passionate about his projects. Thanks Craig. Hoping your love ones peace and strength.
I was introduced to @craigmaloney via Open Metalcast, an excellent podcast featuring CC works at the heavy guitar end of music, which he put out regularly for many years. I never met Craig in person, yet I feel I knew him and I mourn his passing.
My sincere condolences to his family and everyone who was close to him.
I can't believe that I missed this announcement! I was wondering why I hadn't seen him post anything in awhile... It was Craig's invite that got me into Octodon and I'll be forever grateful for the introduction to this wonderful ecosystem. I was always happy to see his posts show up in my feed. We shared a lot of the same takes on various things related to tech. RIP king. Been missing you! 😟
This is so sad. In addition to his important contributions to P&C. Craig was was always positive and shared a lot to us. Unfortunately all his energy wasn't enought to fight this f***** cancer. We'll miss you @craigmaloney
I never had the opportunity to get in touch with Craig, and don't pretend to have had any relationship with him, but I've seen his name so often in my thirty-ish years around Free Software and Free Culture, and only in the last few years realized how much I've accidentally followed him around.
So sorry to hear about his passing, I heard occasionally on socisl about his fight with cancer, but had no idea how bad it actually was. He'll be greatly missed: ( @craigmaloney
I remember his online presence, but I did not know the extent of his impact on pepper & carrot.
I wish you and all who have also interacted with him in the past to find the strength to allow themselves to grieve — and find their way back afterwards.
This is always sad. Take your time. But also keep in mind that he seemed to have loved being part of the community, and he is loved by the community a lot in return. I'm sure your work has given his life a lot of worth. He will be remembered, and he will be loved. If you feel so, maybe add a special tribute to him in the next pnc. Take your time to properly grieve for your friend.
Dafne Keen as Jecki Lon in The Acolyte can be seen in these first look photos of the character in Entertainment Weekly, together with an interview where Dafne talks about the character, how she played her, and that the horns made hugging anyone on set a safety hazard. ew.com/star-wars-the-acolyte-e…
She sounds like a really interesting character and I have full faith that Dafne makes her amazing. The trailer suggested the role is small though, but I hope we get to really explore this character. After all, I'm not a Star Wars person, I would be watching it solely for Dafne.
Also sharing the blog post by Cory Doctorow related to the latest reshared post, since it is in itself interesting and goes beyond the mentioned article, and because the attached thread seems to be broken:
Here's a fun AI story: a security researcher noticed that large companies' AI-authored source-code repeatedly referenced a nonexistent library (an AI "hallucination"), so he created a (defanged) malicious library with that name and uploaded it, and thousands of developers automatically downloaded and incorporated it as they compiled the code:
> Lanyado also said that there was a Hugging Face-owned project that incorporated the fake huggingface-cli, but that was removed after he alerted the biz.
The fine folks at akkoma released a security update that fixes some things with the diverse ways of putting stuff on your domain (uploads, stolen emoji, mediaproxy). Some of those patches will make it into Pleroma too, but for now:
RUN UPLOADS AND MEDIA PROXY ON A DIFFERENT SUBDOMAIN. That prevents any impersonation issues.
We will drop any support for same-domain setups in the near future, it's just not worth the risk.
Check out the information provided by akkoma for details and more fine grained mitigation steps: meta.akkoma.dev/t/akkoma-stabl…
Hey there, quite an important one for you here today. We’ve got ourself a vulnerability and it’s time to make like a tree and patch. Not sure what that means but that’s neither here nor there.
I'm so surprised by the people in the comments saying they have already seen it last year and are waiting for season two. How? Also this looks like it's US only, so I won't be able to see it? #OrphanBlack #OrphanBlackEchoes
- Affected versions: 5.5.1alpha, 5.6.0, 5.6.1 - Fixed version: revert to a 5.4.x build - Affected distros: including but not limited to Debian testing & unstable, Ubuntu 24.04 (not yet released), Fedora 41 & Rawhide, Gentoo, homebrew - Mitigation: Red Hat recommends you cease using any affected systems, and only redeploy once patched versions are available. Debian recommends upgrading ASAP.
Red Hat Information Risk and Security and Red Hat Product Security learned that the latest versions of the “xz” tools and libraries contain malicious code that appears to be intended to allow unauthorized access.
🚨 ⚠️ Emergency PSA: A critical security exploit was discovered in the xz package recently, used for compression and decompression on nearly all Linux distributions.
Rawhide users ARE impacted and should immediately STOP using Rawhide until the package update is fully rolled back. (1/3)
Red Hat Information Risk and Security and Red Hat Product Security learned that the latest versions of the “xz” tools and libraries contain malicious code that appears to be intended to allow unauthorized access.
The vulnerability may be present in Fedora 40 but it is not believed to be activated. Fedora 40 users are advised to use caution and update their systems soon when the rolled-back version is available, for more certainty.
Red Hat Information Risk and Security and Red Hat Product Security learned that the latest versions of the “xz” tools and libraries contain malicious code that appears to be intended to allow unauthorized access.
More details available from Red Hat's blog on the vulnerability. A special, huge thank-you to our first responders and Fedora friends who have been working long hours to address this issue in top-priority. We couldn't do it without you all! 💪 (3/3)
Red Hat Information Risk and Security and Red Hat Product Security learned that the latest versions of the “xz” tools and libraries contain malicious code that appears to be intended to allow unauthorized access.
I always make up my own mind first about a film, sometimes write it down, only then check reviews on letterboxd. Anyway, I stand by my words:
Seeing Jenna Ortega on the big screen is such an experience... Her acting talent and the intricate script make for an exhilarating watch and that I will have to rewatch it multiple times when it hopefully comes out on blu-ray or 4k to untangle the different strands.
The story of a young girl and an old man is a bit of a trope. I love the film "Noce Blanche" (also a brilliant student and a teacher, though there she's 15, here 18) and both there and here the story is treated better, more real, with a different slant on it. Where in "Noce Blanche" it initially starts off showing her as the predator (the classic take), then questions that, here we dive deep into their psyches and the why while at the same time not knowing what really happened (the problem with "Noce Blanche" is that we see way too much of what happens, not here). The shot of the empty chair was in both films, maybe not coincidentally.
The chemistry between
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I always make up my own mind first about a film, sometimes write it down, only then check reviews on letterboxd. Anyway, I stand by my words:
Seeing Jenna Ortega on the big screen is such an experience... Her acting talent and the intricate script make for an exhilarating watch and that I will have to rewatch it multiple times when it hopefully comes out on blu-ray or 4k to untangle the different strands.
The story of a young girl and an old man is a bit of a trope. I love the film "Noce Blanche" (also a brilliant student and a teacher, though there she's 15, here 18) and both there and here the story is treated better, more real, with a different slant on it. Where in "Noce Blanche" it initially starts off showing her as the predator (the classic take), then questions that, here we dive deep into their psyches and the why while at the same time not knowing what really happened (the problem with "Noce Blanche" is that we see way too much of what happens, not here). The shot of the empty chair was in both films, maybe not coincidentally.
The chemistry between the two main actors is amazing. Not only in the traditional sense, but also how the tension between the characters changes throughout the film and the two actors are completely in sync with each about it. So much is also hinted at that may have happened between the characters that we didn't see, I mean that both of them show up wearing sunglasses next morning after sharing a moment at a poetry night suggests the night lasted longer than we knew...
Also a couple of long emotional scenes without cuts, just focusing on the actors, I like that.
A series of decisions were made at Mini which resulted in what is unambiguously the worst indicator design of all time. It is so bad that after seeing it on the street, I just had to post about it here.
Just found out that Joséphine Jobert is back in Death in Paradise, in episode 13x07. Apparently she's also in the next episode, I don't know whether she's fully back for coming seasons. IMDb suggests she already appeared at the end of 13x06. I had stopped following the series when she left... #JoséphineJobert #DeathInParadise
The juice is loose! #Beetlejuice #Beetlejuice - Only in theaters September 6.Beetlejuice is back! Oscar-nominated, singular creative visionary Tim Burton an...
AI creates video, uploads it to #YouTube without appropriate "contains AI" label.
#Google's #YouTube AI detects the submitting AI's AI submission and labels the AI's AI video as an AI video, notifying the submitting AI.
Submitting AI files appeal claiming that its submission does not fall within the bounds of YouTube's AI labeling rules.
YouTube appeals AI sends submitting AI "appeal rejected" notice.
Submitting AI posts to multiple social media platforms complaining about discrimination against AIs by Google.
Media AIs see social media posts by the submitting AI and write AI-generated news stories about the battle between the YouTube AIs and the submitting AIs, but most of the details wrong.
Users ask AI chatbots for a summary of the current YouTube AI controversies, but give confused answers that are completely wrong.
Currently: every time I, a living human person, log into the Instagram account for a project I am working on, I get a warning popup that they think I am a bot. Which an actual AI would presumably never see.
I have to expect stuff I post from that account would be promoted less than the actual AI's discrimination appeals on social media.
Occasionally apps go through their initial startup tips again. Recently it was a mobile browser telling me that I could use browser tabs to have multiple pages open, the arrow of this tip popup pointing at the browser tab counter button, showing in my case the number 32 of already opened tabs.
I think I know I can use tabs to have multiple pages open.
Disney+ has announced its newest "Star Wars" series "The Acolyte", set in the final days of the High Republic era, will premiere June 4. The cast includes Amandla Stenberg, Jodie Turner-Smith and Carrie-Anne Moss. #StarWars #TheAcolyte #DisneyPlus #Lucasfilm #Entertainment #Television #TV #Streaming
Great acting by Shiri Appleby in this episode. In all episodes of course, but lately the series started to revolve around other characters than Liz more. But this is as of old fully carried by Shiri's very deep sensitive performance of Liz. #ShiriAppleby #Roswell
I'm watching Dafne Keen in the film Ana. It's rather difficult to find outside the US, even when you know it is sometimes called The Guardian. But I can confirm that the US blu-ray disc also plays in my European player.
The film is from 2020, so a while ago, and only the second film with Dafne that I get to see. From the trailer it seems interesting. But I would watch films with Dafne anyway... #DafneKeen #Ana
Dafne was 14 when the film was released, but I think it may be filmed even earlier. She doesn't look much older than she was in Logan and she does look much younger than in His Dark Materials.
She plays a child who seconds after her mother got arrested gets under the skin of a used cars salesman and becomes his problem.
I really liked it, it isn't the standard story you're expecting from the trailer. Dafne is of course the powerhouse you'd expect.
I like the scene over the end credits, where Dafne/Ana shows how to record a proper advert for Rafa's used car business, after Rafa at the beginning of the film tries (and fails) the record a great advert to get some much needed attention for his business. #DafneKeen #Ana
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Watched it again and liked it so much. It's an acting masterclass by Jenna Ortega. That dialog between Cairo and Jonathan, you'll know which one, is so powerful.
**MAJOR SPOILERS BELOW**
Here's my take on Cairo: she's an 18 year old girl who by her own words seems uninterested in sex, or at least not to know yet whether she wants it. The film sets her up as asexual. The extremely steamy story she writes has sex only as a literary device. The steamy scene she has with her lesbian friend is only to distract her and she stops as the photo is taken and sent, beyond the photo she had no interest in it.
In films like this, 'the girl' is often portrayed as driven by her hormones. Even in this film it is said that 'teenage girls are dangerous'. But not Cairo, she is purely intellectual.
She's an extremely gifted writer, much more than her teacher, but initially she thinks she has finally found someone who is her equal, a way out of her intellectual loneliness. But when he fails to live up to her drive to move boundaries, she consid
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Watched it again and liked it so much. It's an acting masterclass by Jenna Ortega. That dialog between Cairo and Jonathan, you'll know which one, is so powerful.
**MAJOR SPOILERS BELOW**
Here's my take on Cairo: she's an 18 year old girl who by her own words seems uninterested in sex, or at least not to know yet whether she wants it. The film sets her up as asexual. The extremely steamy story she writes has sex only as a literary device. The steamy scene she has with her lesbian friend is only to distract her and she stops as the photo is taken and sent, beyond the photo she had no interest in it.
In films like this, 'the girl' is often portrayed as driven by her hormones. Even in this film it is said that 'teenage girls are dangerous'. But not Cairo, she is purely intellectual.
She's an extremely gifted writer, much more than her teacher, but initially she thinks she has finally found someone who is her equal, a way out of her intellectual loneliness. But when he fails to live up to her drive to move boundaries, she considers him mediocre, not even worthy to be treated as a person and she consciously destroys his life.
She's not a nice person. She treats both Jonathan and Winnie as subhuman.
Here's my take on Jonathan: I think he is indeed mediocre as both Cairo and his own wife say. He stopped writing when he got some bad reviews and he shies away from the literary gauntlet Cairo throws down. He's a coward who thought he was more.
I think he actually is sexually interested in this beautiful young woman who flatters him and who he can admire, like normally in 'these kind of films'. He is not the standard victim however, since it is shown that he and his colleague already blur lines, watch nude pictures of students, etc. With Cairo he had the opportunity to draw lines and should have (their classroom talk already went too far, but visiting the poetry reading together was well wrong, not to speak of the kissing, visiting her house when he knew she was alone, etc.). Also, he should have left his wife ages ago since she clearly looks down on him, but that is yet another thing he doesn't dare to do.
Here's my take on whether they did or didn't do it: the film is nicely ambiguous about that. The sex scene we see is part of the story Cairo wrote, not necessarily true. He denies anything happened, but we saw them kiss, so that is a lie already. She denied to her friend that they slept together, so probably they didn't. 'Write what you know' is said, suggesting they did. But Cairo refers to it as 'this fantasy' instead of 'this thing we did', so maybe they didn't.
I think they truly bonded after the poetry night, where they both fell in love with each other. Maybe more happened, maybe it happened the next time they were together at her house. But I'm guessing, with 51%/49% odds, that it didn't go beyond the kiss.
#MillersGirl #JennaOrtega