I think suffering is relative: has there been a time in recent history of Russia that wasn’t associated with some degree of struggle for the average inhabitant? And there also wasn’t ever a timeframe long enough where any form of healthy opposition could be institutionalized to endure over longer durations.

Also I’d say that by Western standards even the pre-war living conditions of many Russians would qualify as poor. So their scale is vastly different to ours.

I skipped 2 on purpose. Dune: Part Two (not watching until I finish the books)

When you write books, plural, do you just want to read them all while not having the movies influence your own imagination? which i could totally understand. Because otherwise from a spoiler perspective the two movies just adapt the first novel.

(too overhyped, if you need $150 millions to spend on marketing something, it’s not worth watching in my mind).

I was under the impression that many large blockbuster productions nowadays have similar sized marketing budgets. Maybe $150m is a bit on the high side for Wicked, but from a quick search Dune Part II also seems like it had a roughly $100m one.

I heard of Nosferatu, Inside Out 2 and Gladiator II, but many of the other entries didn’t even catch my eye throughout the year.

Tbh not suprising for some of the reasons mentioned above. And i think particular something like Anora gets a lot of buzz on the critic side, but hardly any mainstream attention. So you’d have to actively pay attention to that.

Looking at my stats, It has been a light year on movies for me. Only 9 movies I saw were released in 2024.

Tbh while i thought that there were some great movies, it probably was a light year for movies in general, at least for me. I’d say it was more dominated by the large flops we had: Joker 2, Megalopolis, Madame Web, The Crow, Borderlands and so on.

I’d say it depends on how much new releases you’ve seen this year. But while I’d say having not seen a single one (assuming you’ve watched a decent number) is maybe a bit surprising, I can totally see reasons how someone could have ended up not seeing a single one of them.

Many are also still just in cinemas (like the brutality) or only available for digital rental, not streaming. With Wicked and Emilia Perez you have musicals that many (me included) don’t care for as much. You probably won’t go see a complete unknown or better man, if you aren’t a fan of the artist. And I could go on and list reasons for all other films.

But I’d be curious: of the ones you have seen this year which stood out to you or would you have liked to see nominated?

Personally from the nominated ones I’ve seen

In cinema: Dune part II, Alien Romulus, Nosferatu

At a festival: the substance, black box diaries

And otherwise I’ve seen Anora, Conclave, The wild robot, gladiator II

The 3 i look forward to the most (2025 releases only)

• “A Big Bold Beautiful Journey”: Directed by Kogonada, who made some of my favorite movies (Columbus and After Yang), Colin Farrell and Phoebe Waller-Bridge? Sign me up

• “Warfare”: With Alex Garlands track record that’s another no brainer to me

• “Mickey 17”: I’m a sucker for good science fiction. Directed by Bong Joon-ho with Robert Pattinson and Steven Yeun? Yep that does it.

Honorable mentions:

• Avatar 3: For the visual spectacle and will certainly go watch it on the best screen possible.

• “Tron: Ares”: Not a huge fan of Jared Leto, but he also isn’t a dealbreaker. He was in the new Bladerunner and that one turned out well anyways.

• “Frankenstein” by Guillermo del Toro should come out this year and sounds interesting

• “Death of a Unicorn”: Purely based on the premise

• “28 years later”: Actually still haven’t come around to watch 28 Weeks Later, but liked 28 days.

Also looking forward to watching “the Brutalist”, but that was already released, just haven’t come around to watching it yet. And ofc there are plenty of movies far out like the next Christopher Nolan movie, but that isn’t coming this year.

edited in avatar, because I forgot we get one this year

Some thoughts (althought not having seen many of the nominations yet, e.g. the Brutalist):

• Considering the critical acclaim it got, i am somewhat suprised by the complete lack of nominations for “Challengers”

• Glad to see Dune Part II and hope it wins some awards, could have maybe also deserved a nom in directing?

• Haven’t seen it, but Emilia Pérez seems to be quite controversial in its reception and got a ton of nominations

• For best international feature film “All We Imagine as Light” might have also been worth a nomination

edit: Totally forgot that Civil War was also this year. That could have maybe been a nominee for sound design?

I only have a rudimentary understanding of LLMs, so can someone with more knowledge answer me some questions on this topic?

I’ve heard of data poisoning, which to my understanding means that one can manipulate/bias these models through the training data. Is this a potential problem with this model beyond the obvious censorship that seems to happen in the online version, but apparently can be circumvented? I’m asking because that seems to be fairly obvious, but minor biases might be hard to impossible to detect.

Also is the data it was trained on available as well at all? Or is it just the techniques on how it was trained and the resulting weights? Because without the former i’d imagine it would be impossible to verify any subtle manipulation in the training data or even just its selection.

I would say yes, because as is the real niche communities dont have the size for larger discussions.

Mainstream communities e.g. about global news already have a decent size. And in many ways it doesn’t make much of a qualitative difference if there are 500 or 10.000 predictable comments. But many smaller communities are still mostly propped up by a few power users providing the majority of content which is not ideal for many reasons.