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exocortex, to technology in X users report unlabeled clickbait ads that you can’t block or report

i guess they report outside of twitter that there is no “report” function on Twitter itself.

exocortex, to europe in A New Heatwave is Forecast for Western Europe – Unseasonably High Temperatures develop under the Heat Dome as we head into October 2023

oof

exocortex, to games in Epic Games Cutting 870 Jobs, 16 Percent Of Its Workforce, also selling Bandcamp

Why don’t we buy it?

Could this be a kickstarter?

exocortex, (edited ) to moviesandtv in Martin Scorsese urges filmmakers to fight comic book movie culture: ‘We’ve got to save cinema’

Who in their right mind makes that decision as a producer?

Business-people obviously and sadly. I mean movies have always been a business first, but since there are now basically only 2 or three large companies left with a much larger share of the income they can much better predict the expected income. Everything becomes more efficient. Before with thousands of little studios competing each individual project was kind of hustling around in all kinds of directions. It was hit or miss at random basically. And a small studio doesn’t do focus-grouping in order to increase a movies financial success - that would be much too expensive for a small project. Those things only make sense financially if your movie is fairly large OR your company already has a well oiled marketing-department that focus-groups for basically every movie automatically. But with focus-groups you obviously always aim for what most people like. It’s like the lowest denominator. That’s why so many things feel so boring in marvel/disney-productions. There’s no too room for random happy accidents.

I still have hopes for cinema though, since the incredible rise of the A24 brand in recent years for me is a clear signal that people are fed up with this marvel/disney-monoculture-assembly-line that clogges up the cinemas. One major aspect of the disney-death-star is that Disney basically prevents other productions from materializing. They even prevent some of their own projects from materializing as their planning shows them that N large movies a year is about the most they can extract from the movie-going audience. So they will not produce more big budget blockbusters, because that would only waste money. (If that doesn’t make sense think about this: the more blockbuster you release each year the less it will be watched as you reach a saturation at a certain point. As a studio you try to release big-budget movies at times at which they don’t have to compete with similar movies. Disney being the biggest player - aka the “disney-death-star” that has gobbled up pixar/marvel/star-wars and the entire 20th century fox IP/franchises - is defining what is and isn’t possible to be released during a year (and making a profit with reasonable likelihood)).

Similar with competitors: They know that their big budget movie will have to compete with e.g. Marvels new this-and-that that weekend (or another Disney release at another time) and will not produce a movie. Disney is clogging up the cinemas with their grey goo.

A24 simply made movies that are different and not aimed at everyone. That simple idea was e extremely radical.

exocortex, to fahrrad in Berliner Verkehrssenatorin spricht sich für Helmpflicht für Radfahrer aus

Typische CDU-scheisse. es ist erwiesen, dass Helmpflicht die Zahl der Radfahrer verringert, was gesellschaftlich mehr Schaden anrichtet. Je mehr Menschen einer Gesellschaft Rad fahren, desto besser für die Gesundheit aller.

Statt Radwege zu bauen oder ganz allgemein den Radfahrern mehr Raum gegenüber dem Auto zu geben sollen die Radfahrer jetzt also selbst für eine Unsichere Umgebung verantwortlich gemacht werden. Toll.

exocortex, to fahrrad in Berliner Verkehrssenatorin spricht sich für Helmpflicht für Radfahrer aus

Im Artikel sind die Argumente gegen eine Helmpflicht beschrieben - sie kommen btw vom Deutschen Radfahrclub.

Ist halt so eine typische CDU-Massnahme: Statt mehr Radwege wälzen wir das Problem einfach auf die Radfahrer ab. Schön wird auch “zu schnelles fahren” als Argument eingestreut - als ob es im Berliner Straßenverkehr keine anderen Ursachen für Fahrradunfälle gibt.

Mehr 30er-Zonen oder Mehr Radwege lehnt die CDU ja aus klientelpolitischen bzw dogmatischen Gründen ab.

exocortex, to fahrrad in Berliner Verkehrssenatorin spricht sich für Helmpflicht für Radfahrer aus

Es gibt auch Studien, dass Fahrradfahrer mit Helmen unbewusst riskanter fahren und von Autofahrern auch riskanter behandelt werden. So im Sinne von “hab / hat ja einen Helm, kann also nicht so viel passieren”.

Das andere ist: Wenn in einer Gesellschaft die Zahl der Radfahrer zunimmt, nimmt natürlich auch die Anzahl an Fahrradunfällen zu. Das ist dann natürlich eine Entwicklung, die auffällt und medial diskutiert wird. Am Ende ist immer jemand verantwortlich. Als Verkehrsminister/-senator willst du nicht da stehen müssen wenn Leute doch Beschuldigten durch Nichtstun Menschenleben zu gefährden.

Mehr Fahrradstreifen wären wirklich sinnvoll in Berlin. Aber die jetzige Regierung wälzt das Problem natürlich lieber auf die Fahrradfahrer ab. Ein schlechter Witz.

exocortex, to fediverse in Idea: fediverse of ecommerce. Time to dethrone amazon and ebay. What do you think?

The Federation would provide a great tool of figuring out the best way to build trust. A reputable server will only let people join if they are in some way reputable. Servers that let scammers flourish will become defederated. If course servers have to be comparable in size. If there’s one server with 90% of users it doesn’t work that well.

exocortex, to programming in What to learn next, Swift or Rust

There’s a recent Rust ML framework called “burn”. So maybe there’s also a future for ML in Rust for you.

exocortex, to dach in Es ist MusikMontag! Was ist dein Song der Woche?

Duo Kribo - Uang

exocortex, to asklemmy in What word do you want to take back and repurpose it's definition?

“conservative”

Today people who self-identify as conservative are basically all assholes with a deep hatret towards dignity, humanity, society and nature. They’re proud to be assholes, they’re vice-signalling.

But the actual word - “conservative” - it has lost all meaning. What are they “conserving”? They’re against environmentalism. I’d like to “conserve” nature so that future generations may still live on it. Am I now conservative? They want to burn everything down even the things they claim to uphold. They yell about freedom of speech and ban books at the same time. They shit on rules and all long-standing conventions, norms and just basic human tactfulness. What things are they “conserving”? The word has lost all meaning and means just bigoted loud asshole today.

exocortex, to dach in Reddit: Abschied von John Oliver, letzte Bastionen des Protests geben auf

Generell hat die reddit-situatiin dazu geführt, dass ich einfach weniger Zeit damit (reddit+lemmy) verwende. Auch nicht unbedingt schlecht, denn ehrlich gesagt ist nur ein geringer Zeitanteil davon wirklich sinnvoll. Vielleicht ist das auch bei anderen so. Ist nicht unbedingt schlechter.

exocortex, to dach in Die Finanzialisierung der Gesundheit (Was-Tun-Podcast)

Dann bist du besser informiert, als ich. Dass so etwas passiert, war mir dunkel bekannt, aber wie das gerade los geht hat mich doch schockiert. Daher wollte ich es teilen.

exocortex, to asklemmy in Opinions: What is a movie you genuinely like, that is rated below 60% on rotten tomatoes?

It’s amazing! It’s funny, has a great cast, is visually stunning AND unique. it’s just that some people think movies have to be only about plot.

I happen to own an orange telephone like the one in the movie, an old “Telefon der deutschen Post”.

exocortex, to asklemmy in Opinions: What is a movie you genuinely like, that is rated below 60% on rotten tomatoes?

I’m with you. I liked it too. It was essentially. war movie.

Just one thing: The last Terminator movie was actually OK.

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