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Good film... but OMG my son lost his everlovin' mind watching 'A #Minecraft Movie', screaming at not just the 'Chicken Jockey' but also the 'music', 'mods', YouTubers, 'Alex' & more.
✅ ‘A Minecraft Movie’ Ends Its Theatrical Run. How Much Did It Make?

‘A Minecraft Movie’ Ends Its Theatrical Run. How Much Did It Make?
Jack Black and Jason Momoa’s “A Minecraft Movie” has officially wrapped up its run in theaters. How much money did it make at the box office?

Amazon MGM Studios says it will have a $1B slate in 2026 and release 20 movies; 10 will have theatrical runs and will not be exclusive to Prime Video thereafter (Stewart Clarke/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/06/amazon-mgm-2026…

Amazon MGM Talks $1B Slate And Says “We Are Heavily Invested In Theatrical” & “We’re Not Holding Any Content Back”
Amazon MGM Studios Talks $1 Billion 2026 Slate with theatrical releases and global distribution part of the plan.

Amazon MGM Studios says it will have a $1B slate in 2026 and release 20 movies; 10 will have theatrical runs and will not be exclusive to Prime Video thereafter (Stewart Clarke/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/06/amazon-mgm-2026…

Amazon MGM Talks $1B Slate And Says “We Are Heavily Invested In Theatrical” & “We’re Not Holding Any Content Back”
Amazon MGM Studios Talks $1 Billion 2026 Slate with theatrical releases and global distribution part of the plan.

If you're on kernel 6.15 or greater and still want to use your ThinkPad's power LED as a disk activity indicator, I've got your back. New version of the kernel module out now: https://github.com/theodric/block-led-trigger

Educators' Perceptions of Large Language Models as Tutors: Comparing Human and AI Tutors in a Blind Text-only Setting
Sankalan Pal Chowdhury, Terry Jingchen Zhang, Donya Rooein, Dirk Hovy, Tanja K\"aser, Mrinmaya Sachan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08702

Educators' Perceptions of Large Language Models as Tutors: Comparing Human and AI Tutors in a Blind Text-only Setting
The rapid development of Large Language Models (LLMs) opens up the possibility of using them as personal tutors. This has led to the development of several intelligent tutoring systems and learning assistants that use LLMs as back-ends with various degrees of engineering. In this study, we seek to compare human tutors with LLM tutors in terms of engagement, empathy, scaffolding, and conciseness. We ask human tutors to annotate and compare the performance of an LLM tutor with that of a human tut…

AI Tutors vs. Tenacious Myths: Evidence from Personalised Dialogue Interventions in Education
Brooklyn J. Corbett, Jason M. Tangen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09292

AI Tutors vs. Tenacious Myths: Evidence from Personalised Dialogue Interventions in Education
Misconceptions in psychology and education persist despite clear contradictory evidence, resisting traditional correction methods. This study investigated whether personalised AI dialogue could effectively correct these stubborn beliefs. In a preregistered experiment (N = 375), participants holding strong psychology misconceptions engaged in one of three interventions: (1) personalised AI dialogue targeting their specific misconception, (2) generic textbook-style refutation, or (3) neutral AI d…

Just did a once over on my Vimeo as a portfolio for a lead producer job application.
Mainly, just updated some descriptions. Nice to be reminded of some past work I like: #film

David August
David August is an award-winning actor, acting coach, writer, director, and producer. He plays a role in the movie Dependent’s Day, and after its theatrical…

The roses are doing pretty well, also.

If you're on KDE and Wayland, I'm very sorry to hear that, but if in that case you'd still like to have some XScreenSavers you can try this on:
https://github.com/theodric/input_xss
I don't think I'm catching DBus events in the canonical manner, but it's working well en…

My normal practice area is starting to look a little bit ragged