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dude who thinks his bluesky bio is driving his discover feed 🙃

toxic environment

and contagious

the impending australian one is even stupider ; it’s not about adult content — user to user communication will require age assurance! $50 million dollar fines!

will they try to fine obscure forums that have nothing to do with australia?

goodbye internet

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yeah i looked into extracting all the heat as quickly as possible, solidifying the core and eliminating the earth’s magnetic field (for reasons)

sadly it’s really hard and you’d need geological timescales 😭

you wouldn’t trust a government

yeah if “gun control” style legislation is the only mitigator, that doesn’t sound great. whee, who doesn’t love exciting times?

i didn’t read that one

i remember reading “foundation and earth” and “robots and empire,”

anything that came out after those i likely haven’t seen

given you’re seeing danger from this tech; is there further tech that could combat it?

would legislative changes help to make the danger at least illegal?

or is it .. little johnny can make a thermonuclear weapon from what’s in his pantry and nobody can stop him?

if its easy to do and the ideas are already out there, that’s game over right?

can you give any clues as to why it’s nuke-level danger?

didn’t manage to pay much attention to 1953 .. that’s on me tho i got distracted. another time.

it’s no “the day the earth stood still” (1951), that’s for sure.

big shoutout to automistake for turning “rubber ducking” into “rubber fucking” for me, that’s the business right there

the third act doesn’t work so well imo.

let’s see how much of the 1953 version i can stand

(nothing will beat Richard Burton’s narration on the Jeff Wayne musical version)

the sets were astounding .. it’s too easy to imagine what the bland CG version would have looked like if it were made recently

they did!

i do wonder if there was something they could have done to make the format less annoying without falling back to “traditional movie”

now rewatching the 2005 tom cruise version; it’s better than i remembered

i think it’s worth a look purely for the unconventional visual style.

brand names aplenty… needing to buy something from amazon so they can repurpose an amazon delivery drone is particularly hilarious

the plot is somewhat tortured and silly; merging the surveillance state theme with the alien invasion .. certainly a choice

War of the Worlds (2025) ⭐ 3.3 | Adventure, Drama, Horror 1h 30m | PG-13

this new 2025 version of war of the worlds is very 2025.

most people are gonna hate it

much of the action is portrayed on the main character’s computer screen

making facetime calls, youtube links, social media, tasking government drones & cameras, giving him a wider view of the invasion

*month

just rewatched Brazil

what a movie!

but now i’m gonna have that tune stuck in my head all week

loved the propaganda posters, i’d forgotten those
“don’t suspect a friend. report them.”

the mechanical typewriters with tiny bare CRTs and big floating fresnel magnifiers, just gorgeous

i’d probably go in the order they were written, just as a general policy, as that’s the experience the readers at the time would have had.

Hypocrisy be their sacrament.
Fear be their harvest.
Ignorance be their shield.
Greed be their gospel.
Control be their creed.
Corruption be their throne.
And over all, Power be their god.

light a man a fire and he’s warm for the night

light a man on fire and he’s warm for the rest of his life

resisting dunking is becoming difficult indeed

ffs

yep 😵‍💫

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a screen full of “thank you for your feedback” badges from a stream of nothing but brain dead politics takes

🙃

enough with this limbo

plausible deniability for everyone and everything, what could go wrong?