De mon côté, ça doit être 2001 de on-sait-qui, Brazil de Gillliam (qui à maltraité et fais mourir un cheval pour rappel) et Bagdad café de Percy Adlon.
Des films que j'ai vu à 12 ou 13 ans et qui m'ont marqués.
J'ai vu le premier sur France 3 en m'endormant devant... Je l'ai fini le lendemain grâce au magnétoscope.
J'ai vu les 2 suivants sur France 2 pendant une soirée cinéma.
Tout ça était du cinéma, mais tout était tellement différent...🙂
Donnie darko, je n'ai pas accroché, mais je pense que le film était plus novateur à l'époque. Je me demande si je ne suis pas passé à côté vu tout le bien que j'en entend.
T2 🤩
Pour les matrix, les 2 et 3 ont été des déceptions, mais avec le temps, il y a des choses que j'aime bien. Et surtout, j'ai adoré le 4 (surtout la première moitié en fait).
My mom was an executive assistant for two Jewish brothers who ran a construction company in the '80s. They were in competition with Trump on some real estate deal and lost out to him. For some reason they had to make a pilgrimage to Trump Tower to go on bended knee. When one of the brothers introduced mom, Trump his usual graceful manner said, “Which one of these two Jews did you have fuck to get your job?”.
@Wileymiller@GottaLaff I am so sorry. Your mom, however, was the true and graceful person in that situation. She sounds like she was an elegant and wonderful mom. 💕
Isn't it interesting that every killing by every cop is just a single bad apple that should never be thought to spoil the bunch, while every protest by and on behalf of marginalized people must be flawlessly perfect, or all participants deserve the brutality the police exist to deliver to them?
Isn't it remarkable how every white male cishet mass shooter must have some form of exceptional circumstance or cause behind their action so as to separate them from all those other lone wolf white cishet male mass shooters, while every marginalized person who commits (or is said to have committed) a crime like shoplifting becomes the exemplar, the shining epitome of every other marginalized person in that and any other group?
If only there were some way to square that circle, something about differentiation.
Yesterday I had one person say I'm too so pro-tech pro-capitalist and one person say I was trying to force a leftist ideology, and both were responding to A City on Mars. All I can say is I wish people would stop trying to find the hidden motive and just read the words as plainly written!
@flexghost Wingsuit, winter conditions and no helmet… It’s not even the absence of the helmet. Doesn’t make much difference if you crash, but that guy’s forehead ate at least 100 popsicles at 200km/h for a minute at least.
I’m glad Kristi Noem is getting hate for killing a dog, as she should be, and I want to make sure folks know she’s terrible for lots of other reasons too
-Cutting lunch programs for low income kids
-Making SD hostile to trans people
-Banning abortion
-Racism
@webology I have been using Firefox since forever, but then I saw this in your post that makes me think about my choice: "I also don’t trust their parent company because of where their money comes [...]". Any pointers to learn more on this?
@demstavrou Fwiw, this isn't meant to be an anti-Firefox piece. It's an anti-Google Chrome piece. Now that we have that out of the ways, most of their money comes from Google.
@stux Here in the US, not only do lots of people like to roll around in big stupid trucks, but the auto makers are actually incentivized to make bigger vehicles. Fuel economy standards that the government imposes upon them do not apply when the vehicles are over a certain size or weight (likely thanks to the big petrochemical lobbyists).
So less efficiency + public appetite for wankpanzers = higher profit for auto makers and oil companies. Blech.
@thomasfuchs Doesn’t look like the worst list of people possible. The Twitter guy is from early twitter and seems fine? Only the digital assets guy is questionable? All others seem good for a non profit board. Mastodon needs something to sustain itself.
@mekkaokereke@chasseur Exactly. Immigration works for everyone. Immigrants hire others, pay taxes and generally enrich the culture. I've always been more of a fan of the cultural mosaic, where everyone brings their own unique style and identity that enriches the whole, as opposed to the melting pot where everyone becomes the same and folks lose a cultural identity.
@mekkaokereke but Mekka that's not the point they only need more births because they want more worker drones for the factory. Why give the drones expensive things like health, housing and education. When all you need to do is remove their access to birth control and abortion. Force them to have children then workers are plentiful and easy to replace when they die due to awful conditions.
@nixCraft had to mail the press@ address to stop them re-checking every few seconds if I'd changed my mind about blocking them for effectively DoSing my site. Tech bros in a hurry...
One of my weirder and more rewarding hobbies is collecting definitions of "conservativism," and one of the jewels of that collection comes from Corey Robin's must-read book The Reactionary Mind:
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
@avi2022 This is resolved by Robin's formulation: they all agree in deference to authority, but disagree as to which authority is the true one. The conservative alliance is a movement that promotes a hierarchical structure without defining who goes where on the hierarchy. Once conservatives attain power, THEN they fight over who the ordained leaders should be (see, e.g. the neocon split over imperialism vs isolationism)
@pluralistic If you’ll excuse the use of the word as a pejorative, I think that Robin's definition of conservatism might be glossed as a belief in the Divine Right of Cunts (*).
(*) Note for US readers: in UK slang, the word "cunt" is widely used as a non-gendered general-purpose insult filling more or less the same niche as "asshole”.
His toot has been living rent-free in my head ever since.
I had ranted a few times before how "content" is a corporate-y way to devalue art. How "user-generated content" is a term designed to make it easier to deny the significance (not just monetary) of the amazing stuff people create online.
Contrasting this with "AI art" is jarring, and spot-on. 👀
"It's art only if it was auto-generated by a stochastic black box controlled by a multi billion dollar corporation; otherwise it's just sparkling content." 🧐
All the RAM and virtual memory in the world didn’t stop Final Cut Pro for iPad from cancelling an export the moment I switched to another app in Stage Manager for a split second🥴
@stroughtonsmith Just another piece of software on the one-year-and-wait update schedule. Hopefully it wasn't just a promotion vehicle for someone and it'll actually get fixed.
Balaji Srinivasan is the spearhead of the new fascist movement establishing itself in Silicon Valley.
It's easy to dismiss him as a clown given how bad, inconsistent and dumb his ideas are but he's a clown with a lot of followers in tech who listen to his visions of "ethnic cleansing".
@tante What’s definitely worth noting that to miss the tip of the hat toward fascism with ”gray shirts” is completely impossible with the level of education his supporters enjoy.
Just like with Mussolini, just like with Hitler, people can’t wait to dress up in their uniform shirts and start telling people what to do!
I’m going to try something kind of out of character, but Claudia needs air conditioning ASAP and she can't do that until she has 100% of the funds needed.
I have a stack of nerdy photo booth photos of me and/or me and Kev.
If you donate at least $10 to this gofundme, send me a screenshot of your donation along with your address and I'll mail you a photo from one of the strips.
If you donate at least $20 to this gofundme, send me a screenshot of your donation along with your address and I'll mail you an entire strip.
The bonus of the entire strip is that I’m a weird looking person so you're bound to get at least one weird photo of me.
@Alice You won't bother because the only reason I cared is because you cared. Consider it my daily good deed and promise that if you ever grace Germany, we are going for too many drinks and the worst karaoke bar we can find.
Die aktuelle Korruptions- und Spionageaffäre rund um die Nr. 1 und 2 der #AfD für die Europawahl zeigt nochmal eindrücklich, dass wir mit „inhaltlich stellen“ allein nicht weiterkommen. Da können sie noch so viele Gesetze gebrochen haben und noch so viele Menschen mögen sich bei der Wahl deshalb gegen die AfD entscheiden: gewählt werden sie trotzdem. Je länger wir mit dem #AfDVerbot warten, desto größer die Gefahr für unsere Demokratie.
@NatureMC "die "Guten" sind in dem Fall alle Menschen, die demokratisch gesinnt sind und bereit, die Demokratie zu verteidigen, sich daran zu beteiligen etc."
Dazu gehören auch AfD-Anhänger bzw. Wähler.
"Die "Bösen" wollen die Demokratie zerstören/abschaffen."
Wer will das mit Absicht? Manche arbeiten an der Abschaffung der Demokratie unabsichtlich, indem sie Zensur, Sprach- und Denkverbote befürworten.
@mina@intro ich finde die Aussage gut oder sollte in der Politik unbesonnen gehandelt werden? Auch wenn ich mir manchmal wünschen würde, dass er mehr und offener kommuniziert, macht er doch das meiste richtig
