my favorite detail about this scene is how he's holding the coffee mug at the end. He has his hand on the hot part not by the handle, almost like a last bit of comfort/distraction, a little warmth, the very thing that brought life in the first place.

people holding warm drinks induce "warm" feelings in viewers.<br /> teddy was alone at the dinner, so the cup of coffee was his only friend.<br /> earlier in the movie, there are at least 2 references to "this technology is the friend we need"<br /> ref 1 at the "bash liif presentation" at 0:25:30 - "all of my life's work, really i see, has been driven by an inexpressible need for a friend, who would understand and soothe me."<br /> "if i feel sad, afraid, or alone ..."<br /> 0:56:20 "lot of fear out there ... parents dont know what to say to their kids ..."<br /> "your words are a great comfort to our viewers ..."<br /> "whenever i feel afraid or alone in this, i think of you, and i just feel better"<br /> ref 2 01:18:40 "And who knows? Maybe, just maybe,<br /> one of our scientists can be that friend we all need to lean on during uncertain times."<br /> its also a personality test. in times of stress, some people prefer company (neurotic types, dependent, followers), and some people prefer solitude (psychotic types, free, leaders).

Florian Krammer [@florian_krammer]. (2021, November 27). Das hat mich jetzt grad zum Weinen gebracht. Es tut mir so leid. [Tweet]. Twitter. https://twitter.com/florian_krammer/status/1464607322303614984

This is something that no living animal should go through ever, extremely depressing. Salvador R.

Ashokkumar, A., & Pennebaker, J. W. (2021). The Social and Psychological Changes of the First Months of COVID-19. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/a34qp

Mentions again how much of a happy person was before creating the monster. He also doesn't mention specifically what the "blight" is, not wanting to think about the monster more than he has to.

Various forms of symbolism are shared here between Poe's "The Raven", and Whitman. While the bird in this poem more directly symbolizes a lament for a lost former lover of Whitman's than the raven in "The Raven" represents the evil gloom of Poe's despair, "risings and fallings" of the Whitman's "sea of despair" relate to Poe's use of the eventual cresting of his despair when the raven arrives in his chamber, "Ghastly grim and ancient Raven wandering from the Nightly shore,— Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore!" According to "The Limits of Whitman's Symbolism" by V. K. Chari, the sea in Whitman's poem, "acquires a subtle symbolic power by the suggested equivalence between its savage undertones and moanings, its * fitful risings and fallings ' and the inarticulate sobbings of the poet's heart."<br> Chari, V. K. “The Limits of Whitman's Symbolism.” Journal of American Studies, vol. 5, no. 2, 1971, pp. 173–184., www.jstor.org/stable/27670641.

Dry grass to me seems so lifeless, basically dead. But as the stanza before, this is like pairing opposites. If dry grass does sing, I imagine it's a sad song.

Shiney.

So what exactly does Hypothes.is get out of this annotation processes?

So its tagging. Or adding on notes.

Basically from what I see you get to add comments as if it were a word document.

Added bonus, you can do LaTeX math: $$\cos (2\theta) = \cos^2 \theta - \sin^2 \theta$$

So, no BibTex integration either.

So a person could add math, but not a BibTeX reference of where that math comes from.

Disappointing.

What it looks like is a method of funnelling users from other web pages through Hypothes.is website for data collection.

To grab user generated content related to external web content.

It would be a powerful tool to map network connections...but, we won't know. Since we can't actually cite anything.