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  1. Jan 2024
    1. it didn’t mention more recent work on how to make large language models more energy efficient and mitigate problems of bias.
      • for: AI ethics controversy - citations from Dean please!

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        • Can Dean please provide the missing citations he is referring to?
  2. Jun 2023
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  6. Dec 2022
    1. the deer reminds Chris of the trick-ster tales, that it suggests he must use his wiles to escape
    2. First, the conflation of the deerwith the devaluation of Black life nods to the long-standing tradition of usinganimals to speak back to the power structures upheld by plantation slaveryin the form of animal folktales. And second, this deer comes roaring back tolife. He gets his revenge on the family that made his noble head into a trophy.The taxidermied deer is a speaking animal that has a kind of second life, andthere are multiple ways we might read its importance in Chris’s escape

      back to life, revenge, trophy, head, speaking animal with second life, the deer also fights back

    3. they’re taking over”—is the samelanguage used by whites resentful of people of color in their neighborhoodsor cities. It’s this logic that finally drives Dean’s exterminatory agenda.
    4. pivotal moment offoreshadowing and metaphorical significance
    5. plainly legible as having a connection to his nefariousconquest of Black lives, which he considers unworthy of being lived
    6. too many (“like rats”), they are out of place, and they are therefore killablewithout ethical qualm
    7. they’re destroying the ecosystem”—but this rationale seemsso pale in comparison to the intensity of his antipathy toward them
    8. Paraphrasing Joel Chandler Harris, BryanWagner writes that animal stories were “political allegories in which therelative position of the weaker animals corresponded to the global per-spective of the race.”

      thow dean uses deer and how poe uses cat ... not how chris uses deer

  7. Jun 2022
    1. Dean NorrisTonyas Tony

      Couldn't really recognize him through the make up, but his voice in Total Recall gave away that "Tony" was played by Dean Norris.

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  10. Aug 2018
    1. “If you’re not on MySpace, you don’t exist.”

      In prior generations, if you couldn't borrow dad's car, you didn't exist...

      Cross reference the 1955 cultural touchstone film Rebel Without a Cause. While the common perception is that James Dean, portraying Jim Stark, was the rebel (as seen in the IMDB.com description of the film "A rebellious young man with a troubled past comes to a new town, finding friends and enemies."), it is in fact Plato, portrayed by Sal Mineo, who is the true rebel. Plato is the one who is the disruptive and rebellious youth who is always disrupting the lives of those around him. (As an aside, should we note Plato's namesake was also a rebel philosopher in his time?!?)

      Plato's first disruption in the film is the firing of the cannon at school. While unstated directly, due to the cultural mores of Hollywood at the time, Plato is a closeted homosexual who's looking to befriend someone, anyone. His best shot is the new kid before the new kid manages to find his place in the pecking order. Again Jim Stark does nothing in the film but attempt to fit into the social fabric around him, his only problem is that he's the new guy. Most telling here about their social structures is that Jim has ready access to an automobile (a literal rolling social club--notice multiple scenes in the film with cars full of teenagers) while Plato is relegated to an old scooter (a mode of transport focused on the singleton--the transport of the outcast, the rebel).

      The Rebel Plato, with his scooter--and a gun, no less! Plato as portrayed by Sal Mineo in Rebel Without a Cause (1955). Notice that as the rebel, he's pictured in the middleground with a gun while his scooter protects him in the foreground. In the background is the automobile, the teens' coveted source of freedom at the time.

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