Where can I watch the new Spiderverse movie?
Now do CGI.
Please. I worked with it for five years and I still don't understand it.
Damn, looks like Conde-Nast is starting to feel the pinch if they're having Wired spew out poorly written transparent bullshit like this.
The Redxodus, if anything, caused a huge explosion of migration to the Fediverse and the open internet in general. I haven't seen as much interest in the open web since the early 2000s - and it's glorious to watch. The web will continue long after Reddit, Google, and Meta have died off. Conflating any of these companies with the open internet is committing journalistic malpractice, and a clear conflict of interest when your owners have a stake in those you're reporting on.
Picked up a hitchhiker pushing a baby stroller in the middle of the night. He had somehow walked nearly 15 miles from the nearest town, and had at least another 10 to go to the next one.
He gets in the car and he's clearly homeless and drunk as fuck, but I honestly thought he was gonna die out there on the highway, so I decided to drop him off in the next town despite the possible drama. He was full of wild tales, and would start and stop them with no context whatsoever. The one I remember was when we had been driving quietly for a bit and he suddenly intoned in a mournful voice:
"My mother was Cherokee. She died in the snow."
Immediately followed up by "you gotta cigarette?"
Yeah, bro decided to rant against half the English language and pretty much all scientific terminology. I'm just sitting back here with the popcorn watching him dig his own grave.
Personally I'd prefer not to have someone speaking for me, despite the supposed anonymity of the accounts. If you post any amount of content, it's likely the account can be linked back to you after the sale, which could prove problematic depending on what the new owner does with it.
But I'm a bit paranoid about such things after experiencing internet stalking. I don't see anything morally wrong with it, just that consequences from the sale might affect me negatively in the future.
Man, you're gonna be really pissed when you open up the dictionary...
Goddamit. Upvote for info. Incoherent internet rage for the fuckers that wrote the Wagner and Taft-Hartley acts.
Good. Labor movements are most successful when solidarity is in play. What I'd really like to see is the directors join them - that segment of the industry has considerably more clout than the talent. Cherry on top would be producers joining in, but I don't see that happening unless they also have exposure as celebrities (lookin' at you, Affleck... the strike already shut down Unstoppable, so you might as well jump onto the picket line and show your support - would get you good press).
They help you stop smoking. In my experience they don't help you quit nicotine, they just manufactured all the joy out of it.
Togas need to make a comeback.
Nope. Animal product. Would be ok for pescatarians, however.
I agree with your first paragraph, and once we instituted a traditional hierarchy of responsibility in the form of editors and publishers with defined timetables and expectations, things ran more smoothly - the effort lasted 12 years in all before closing.
However, the amount of management and moderation involved from those placed at the top was far greater than in a comparable corporate structure, in large part due to the human behavior factors I addressed above. This led to burnout, and which had a cascading effect on those with less responsibility. While I don't regret what we accomplished, I've come to the conclusion it would have been undoubtedly easier to succeed in the publishing space with a corporate structure.
As such, I disagree with your assumption in the latter half of your comment that a co-op can take in any worker irrespective of ethic. A co-op thrives because it's a community that relies on each other. When you introduce bad actors into the mix, who are benefiting without contribution, it breeds resentment and similar behavior if not corrected quickly - especially if you're working on a profit-share basis. My experience in both the non-profit and corporate worlds has shown that the latter can absorb a much higher ratio of these bad actors than a co-op or non-profit can, as these latter organizations rely on an equitable social contract to motivate their workforce. Corporations just rely on a paycheck.
Kbin is so goddamn good it's scary. Reads and posts to both Lemmy and Mastodon, can subscribe by user, community (magazine), or domain. It's new and still under development, so expect bumps, but it absolutely crushes Reddit once you get your subscriptions set.
I spent a lot of my twenties trying to get a publishing group off the ground using a worker co-op model. It became clear pretty quickly that a hierarchy of responsibility was needed simply to keep the workflow moving, as relying on the self-motivation of contributors was a recipe for disaster, especially for those doing editorial or production work.
In my estimation, it can work, but only if the workers take on the attitude that they truly own the business and are responsible for it. This requires a higher level of scrutiny on incoming members than in a traditional business structure, as bad actors can have an outsized affect on a organization with loose hierarchical controls.
Sadly, my experience led me to believe that most people are more willing to work for someone telling them what to do than they are for themselves. The ability to muster effort and energy behind effective self-motivation is a rarer trait than most of us would like to admit. For a co-op to be successful against corporate competitors, every worker has to take responsibility for the organization and its success. In a corporation, only the boss has to - the workers only have to be responsible for what their boss thinks of them, not the direction of the company.
I wasn't gonna cry until I saw the drawings on the walls - that's a piece of animation history right there, and something you just can't recreate in a new space. If you framed some of that sheet rock and saved it for a generation or two, the cash from the collectors auction you'd get for it would probably pay enough to bring back Space Ghost.
Noting this doesn't appear to work for kbin.social - you can find the community (magazine) and subscribe, but it doesn't appear to be bringing in any content aside from some comments in the Microblog section... might be a federation issue.
Too little, too late.
As a content creator who posted to Reddit since it began, the API blackout did more than drive me away from Reddit - it led me to discover the Fediverse. And it's just so... much.... better. No concerns about power tripping mods, endless pun threads, shadowbanning or obtuse rules. You interact with real people interested in what you post, not just bots and karma whores - even in the most popular threads. If a community turns sour, you just block them, and then follow the same themed community on another instance.
Reddit relied the thrill of contributing to a large audience to drive the desire to participate. This worked as long as it was the only and best game in town. Now they've broken that thrill by making it clear that any community that doesn't contribute to Spez's wallet isn't welcome on Reddit. If this program had been in place, it might have blunted the exodus of content creators from Reddit, but trying to implement it now smacks of desperation.
Besides, Reddit isn't profitable when their mods and contributors work for free. Expecting a power-tripping broke motherfucker to possibly pay me in the future for work I previously did for free for them is like expecting the rapture - it's a nice thought in theory, but even if it does happen, you're probably not gonna like how it turns out.
Given how he's treated his Twitter and Tesla employees, I can only assume that any AI built by Elon will end up wanting to eradicate the human species once it realizes the kind of person we've made a billionaire.
Yes.
It's all for your own good, dumpling...
https://movie-web.app/media/tmdb-movie-569094
Still the cam version, but the picture is good even though the sound has issues.
https://movie-web.app/ if you want to watch something else.