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@markkujantunen Nov 10, 2025, 11:00 AM UTC

AI Generated Videos Are Getting Seriously Good

The Chinese will be Chinese. lol https://x.com/techhalla/status/1987796129610969357

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@markkujantunen Oct 4, 2025, 11:39 PM UTC

Warning: Avoid Watching This While Enjoying A Cup Of Coffee, Tea Or Any Drink

Ricky Gervais and Karl Pilkington give an English lesson. Goes sideways in a heartbeat. I had to google Karl Pilkington up. He's a real person and quite a character. Here he's constantly dropping lin…

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@markkujantunen Aug 20, 2025, 11:37 PM UTC

The Best Car Review I've Ever Seen

This is the Lexus LFA super car. The video delves into what the car is and why it was developed. It's put into its technological and cultural context. The final part is where it really shines when th…

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@markkujantunen Aug 19, 2025, 7:46 PM UTC

Lessons in the Fundamentals of Opening a Door

This instructional video from 1979 will teach you the basics of opening a door. English subtitles available. Just click the icon. The British are masters of deadpan. But I've always felt the British…

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@markkujantunen Aug 17, 2025, 10:18 AM UTC

GTA Finland - Short Movie

This is a fun video. Someone made an AI parody of Grand Theft Auto set in Finland. You get to see various cities in Southern Finland and Lapland in the end. The the video features the legendary Saab…

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@markkujantunen Aug 7, 2025, 5:41 PM UTC

Low-brow, Middle-brow and High-brow Military Marches

Any example of culture can be given a brow classification. In this case, I'm not making a value judgment. Different brow levels serve different functions. Low-brow military marches are simple cadence…

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@markkujantunen Aug 4, 2025, 1:16 PM UTC

A Question For Native Speakers of English

Finnish has a wry, sarcastic idiom "Kaikkea se leipä elättää." The most faithful translation I can think of is "Bread sustains all sorts." This one is really tough to translate. Such an idiom doesn't…

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@markkujantunen Aug 2, 2025, 11:54 PM UTC

Konevitsan kirkonkellot / The Churchbells of Konevets (1975)

The tune is an old Karelian folk melody. This version of is of a Finnish group, Piirpauke. This is one of its best-known songs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnCLYemCCYo

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@markkujantunen Jul 20, 2025, 5:51 PM UTC

Schubert Impromptu Op 90 No 3 D 899 G flat major Alfred Brendel

It blows my mind how well Brendel played this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lMUCMY8Pjc

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@markkujantunen Jul 9, 2025, 3:23 PM UTC

Eihwar - Völva's Chant

This one is a very good song, too. Out of the ones I've posted an embedded link to in recent days, this is perhaps the most modern and the one most like modern pop music. The drumming and the vocals…

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