Feeling secure is being together #mbmar
Notes.
What a great test match between England and New Zealand! And I love that New Zealand won by smallest of the margins. I wasn’t anyway enjoying what England was doing to the test cricket. Not a big fan of Bazball I am. Brilliant start to the day! 🏏
Walked across this cosy little cafe during my evening stroll. The aroma of coffee beans was simply too pure to ignore. I’ve now found another nice spot to read in silence. Yay!
The more that text generated by large-language models gets published on the Web, the more the Web becomes a blurrier version of itself.
Source - ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web →
If you read only one analysis on ChatGPT, it should be this on The New Yorker.
It’s time to shake things up, to turn the ship around. To innovate. Meta’s big, new idea: Charge people for basic support features and … a blue check mark.
Source - Why Would Anyone Pay for Facebook? →
Email really is an amazing, miraculous technology. But at the end of the day, it’s in the hands of humans who are always going to screw it up.
Source: Why Is Email Still So Terrible? →
I thoroughly enjoyed Vaalvi, a Marathi dark comedy thriller. I don’t remember the last time I laughed out this loud while the characters in the movie handled one serious situation after another. I wasn’t laughing at the idiocy of the film or the characters; rather, the movie wanted me to laugh. Therein lies the brilliance of this film.
Is it perfect? Absolutely not. But it’s an intelligent film. Sure, it has moments where it leans towards absurdity. But if you recognise the tight budget for Marathi movies and ignore such rare moments, you can enjoy even the absurdity thoroughly.
I wish this movie was more readily available. Do watch the trailer – I am sure you will enjoy it.
I watched all four episodes of The Romantics today. I loved the first two that documented the early life of Yash Chopra and the Yash Raj Films. I especially enjoyed the references to the early 90’s movies – especially the music. That was also my biggest gripe with the docuseries – it just didn’t speak enough about Yash Chopra’s taste in music. And his love for lyrics.
I remember listening once to Javed Akhtar on how valuable the lyrics, the words, and the poetry was to Yash Chopra. “If music is the body of a song, lyrics are its soul,” Javed Akhtar had said. Yash Chopra understood that.
So as I got nostalgic while listening to all the songs from the yesteryears – Waqt, Kabhi Kabhi, Silsila, Chandni, Darr – play in the background, I wished the makers of The Romantics had spent a whole episode just on his appreciation and quest for good music. There are so few Indian directors left who still value music as a core identity of movies. Yash Chopra was one of them.
It’s summer enough for a nice natural’s ice-cream. With dry fruits overloaded.
Since uninstalling YouTube from my phone, the first result that comes up as I start searching for the app (typing “yo”) is Day One. I take that as a nudge to get away from the phone. I like that! 😎
