I’ve failed to finish reading Neuromancer, twice. I got 2/3 of the way through it, both times, and just bailed.

It’s not for everyone.

Can we please stop wasting resources on this shit?

Not if some tech-bro can convince some gullible coked-up VC.

hang on, are you trying to tell us that money powerhouse franchises like Fast & Furious or Madea are actually not quality movies? /s

Technology did not peak. “News” peaked. We are definitely on a downhill slope for news.

Actual Journalism is much more rare than it needs to be.

Why is The Guardian amplifying this idiocy?

I totally get where Cory is coming from on this. He’s been around long enough to have actually seen these things happen, from a perspective that’s effectively unique. I believe him when he talks about this stuff. I get his point of not putting effort into building up a platform that can hold him and his audience hostage.

but here’s the good part.

People bailing on Twitter to join Bluesky is reasonably easy (there are tools available to find your friends on the new system). If it’s easy to bail on Twitter to join Bluesky, it will be similarly easy to bail on Bluesky to join Mastodon, if/when that becomes necessary.

not that it matters a whole lot, given the context of this discussion, but it’s *eke

yes but if Spotify uses its own GenAI music, they don’t have to pay anyone else when someone listens to it.

Spotify’s plans to take money from subscribers but never pay a fucking dime to anyone else , ever.

I love that they have Ultima 4 available for free. I spent SO many hours in that world. The “what kind of person are you” value judgment questions at the beginning were remarkably heavy for introspective teenage me.

fucking WebEx

(movie trailer music starts) in a world… where online commenters… don’t read articles… ONE HERO… challenges EVERYONE… to do the unTHINKable… (movie trailer music stops)

How night and day work above the Arctic Circle.

Movies and TV and stories talk about how there’s 6 months of daylight and 6 months of darkness. That does not fucking happen. This is still part of storytelling to this day (I’m looking at you, Sweet Tooth season 3).

Days get stupidly long in the summer, and there’s a while where the sun really doesn’t go down. in the Winter days get stupidly short, and there’s a while where it doesn’t really come up all that much. But it’s not 6 months of one and 6 months of the other.

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yeah but a script that sucks the balls of an executive is far more likely to be greenlit.

During the Iraq War, there was a brief moment where a camera crew just happened to be in the right place at the right time to show the world a live broadcast of a perfectly healthy Saddam Hussein out in the wild, being greeted by his troops as a hero. Except the guy really didn’t look much like Saddam Hussein at all. It was the kind of cheap fake that you would think people could never fall for.

Since then, we’ve seen time and time again what people will fall for.

So, yes. Not only are you correct, you are probably more correct than people would want to admit.

because of Stockholm Syndrome

FTA

Industry groups argued that those museums didn’t have “appropriate safeguards” to prevent users from distributing the games once they had them in hand. They also argued that there’s a “substantial market” for older or classic games, and a new, free library to access games would “jeopardize” this market. Perlmutter agreed with the industry groups.

So as long as someone, somewhere, might make a penny off of them, they can’t be free. Insert your own metaphor here.

aw man that site was like Dr Bronner’s took some digital mushrooms

it was written in FORTRAN

I guess these are those “the best people” that we’ve heard mentioned so many times.