@Mx. Chara Aznable (they/them) of Pnictogen
I'm Mx. Chara Aznable, guiding spirit of the Pnictogen Wing DID plural system, living in Seattle WA.
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Recent Notes
One of the dirtiest of dirty secrets in the #tech sector is a very simple one: the "techno-optimism" and the "e/acc" and all the other ways of superficially honoring the notion that the technology corporations of the United States are guiding everyone into a future of abundance and high-tech miracles, the practical spirit of U.S. #technology is profoundly conservative, hidebound, stagnant, and focused only on an exceedingly thin assortment of hot topics...basically whatever they perceive as the easiest ideas to monetize.
All the burbling about #innovation and #building and all the rest of the optimistic noise is mostly noise. It's not clear the degree to which any of the people crowing about "acceleration" really have anything noble in mind, however abstract and tenuous.
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All the burbling about #innovation and #building and all the rest of the optimistic noise is mostly noise. It's not clear the degree to which any of the people crowing about "acceleration" really have anything noble in mind, however abstract and tenuous.
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@nprofile1q... Eeyup! but that's been creeping up on Internet stuff generally, like search engines returning trash answers instead of honestly saying "couldn't find anything"
I don't want to be too unoriginal when it comes to hot takes about PJ LOTR, but I would like to offer this thought.
The full story of how Peter Jackson was allowed to make a mockery of The Lord of the Rings--a popular mockery, a profitable mockery, but still a mockery--has not been told and I will go so far as to speculate that the evil #tech barons who are now profiteering off #Tolkien symbolism must have played some role in the unprecedented funding of THREE gigantic blockbusters headed by a trashy horror-comedy director whose previous (and first) Hollywood movie was a dud called The Frighteners.
I remember my own surprise when I first heard about it. It seemed like an extraordinary gamble, but what if Jackson was backed up by the promise of massive funding from villains such as the "PayPal mafia"?
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the #NetBSD experience, a login screen that does nothing
@nprofile1q... I think we may have a fundamental difference of temperament here. I'm willing to put up with a lot that's questionable about depicting mental illness or neurodivergence in a movie so long as I think there's some reason behind it. Shyamalan's work reminds me considerably of unusually good B-movies from earlier decades, as from Sam Fuller and Budd Boetticher, movies that might be regarded impartially as "exploitation movies".
@nprofile1q... oh really? I think The Village is his best movie to date. of course Noah gets treated badly—surely that's rather the point, the artificial society has no real place for him
@nprofile1q... I'd say that was rather unfair to Shyamalan, who (a) picks more interesting subjects than Nolan and (b) doesn't have blockbuster budgets these days
@nprofile1q... there's so much other cinema out there it seems a pity to waste excessive attention on the massive blockbusters. I long for a return to less ambitious Hollywood movies but in the meantime there's plenty of other movies out there from all over the world
#SamNeill dies at last in a beam of heavenly light, saying "Nazarene...you have won...NOTHING" and then expiring as the choral music soars in an attempt to convey that something triumphant has happened. Thus ends The Omen III: The Final Conflict, which dares to suggest that the Second Coming happened back in 1981 and nobody noticed
