Contrarium
TomA contrarian perspective. Film, literature, travel and thoughts on recent events.
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The wrong dystopia
Chapter 1. Superintelligence, or ultra dumbness?
I'm sorry, this is going to be another dark and sad text, but bear with me, because it gets happier at the end.
Many people, even serious, clever people, are talking about “AI” being able...
Waiting for the collapse
Protests and riots spreading across France, Italy, Spain, soon all of Europe. Markets imploding, war at our door. What’s going on? Is this the end of the world?
Well, I am not sure what’s going on in France, to be honest. The French love p...
Genealogy
Recently I was accused of making only bleak, dreary, or depressing texts and videos and so I decided to start this one on a cheerful note. Hopefully the smiles below will cheer you up too:
Alright! The theme today is genealogy.
I have bee...
There is no human solution to human problems
1. Stalker blues
“Life took me under its wing,
Guarding and saving me;
I was truly lucky.
But that is not enough.”
(from a poem by Arseny Tarkovsky, Andrei's father, recited by the Stalker)
In the last text and video I brief...
Fake New World
I do apologize for the lack of texts or videos for several months. I suppose I just didn’t have a lot to say, and I wasn’t feeling specially motivated.
I don’t have a lot of subscriptions here, and as for my channel, Youtube has repeatedly...
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Writer and filmmaker living in Montreal, Canada, since 2013. Author of "Our Pets and Us: The Evolution of our Relationship" (2019) and director of several award-winning short films.
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