Notices by Extinction Studies (aka_quant_noir@hcommons.social)

I guess the nicest thing you can say about corporations is that they're organized. They're organized to steal your money, now...

@Blueteamsherpa

It's going to take a revolution. We'll have to make threats we're able and willing to carry out.

@jacklaridian

I do appreciate the music as a way to differentiate between normalcy and urgency. It's more than a horror film. I'm going to have to think about it, which is a hallmark of a good movie for me.

@jacklaridian

It's fuckin' weird. I dunno. All these stringed instruments trying to get me in a Psycho headspace, lol.

@jacklaridian It's about dehumanization and the horrors we are able to choose to do, to ourselves and our fellow humans, if we are systematically oppressed or neglected, or treated as others.

@jacklaridian

So far Us reminds me of M. Night Shyamalan. This is my first viewing, whereas I've seen Get Out at least twice and Nope once so far. Great movies.

Decided I'm *finally* going to watch Us (2019), directed by Jordan Peele, starring Lupita Nyong'o, Winston Duke, Shahadi Wright Joseph, Evan Alex, Elisabeth Moss, and Tim Heidecker. It's psychological horror. Peele's just so great.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Us_(2019_film)

After that I'm going to watch Irresistible (2006), directed by Ann Turner, starring Susan Sarandon, Sam Neill, and Emily Blunt. It's a mystery? About obsession?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irresistible_(2006_film)

#film #physicalmedia

Doing what a President says is a norm. Honoring their power is a norm. Choosing to not indict a sitting President is a norm.

Trump ate norms for breakfast last time. Let's eat his norms now. Tell all your friends. Tell the government.

Journalism isn't a relay race. It's not a game of telephone either.

It's about investigation and connecting dots. It's about following the money and winnowing truth from propaganda. Questioning power, not cozying up to it.

Know your metaphors.

#journalism

@WarnerCrocker Yeah, when are we going to do something about it? That's really the question. What's the appropriate and good thing to do? As a country, and as people?

@pluralistic

Of the four Nebraska reps, I know one (or knew), and know who the chair is. Ron Kaminski, not so much. Seems like an operator.

@atomicpoet

The economics will hopefully collapse a lot of these ventures before they do too much harm. Energy costs will have to be realized eventually, for instance. But the costs to the job market may bankrupt so many white collar workers that combined with all the stupidity Trump wants to do, the whole economic system may collapse.

@liztai

For me, I would just ask myself whether I'm more of a cheese tart or more of a scone. But that's what passes for self-awareness in my house.

I appreciate
Each attempt to make better
What's already fucked.

#haiku

@d2718 @pluralistic The industry i work in is aggressively getting bezzled into AI and pitching it to employees as an opportunity to learn new skills. AI to insurance employees is however a black box still; we don't have any windows into what they're implementing and what skills they'll care enough to help us learn, let alone how we'll be able to comply with laws or how our customers will be impacted.

@cstross

Balkanization, with 3-4 nuclear armed regional superstates. Which isn't better, but maybe the most likely. Have you read Christopher Brown's novels? Could be something like that too.

@film_girl @phaedral
Our work was not sufficiently helpful for the voters we knew needed to vote, and wasn't even relevant to the folks watching corporate media.

And the Dems didn't reach the pain that corporate America and it's subsidies continues to inflict.

The WSJ is owned by Murdoch.

The WaPo by Bezos.

The NYT, by Carlos Slim (30%).

The LA Times by Patrick Soon-Shiong.

These are some of our most prominent newspapers owned by billionaires. And if you think this is bad, you shouldn't look into television. No you should not.

@jeffowski

I'm opposed to poly- anything but not for religious reasons.

#3goodthings
1. I don't see ads on social media, except on YT and Tumblr, because I jumped out of Meta a few years back. Even Instagram. YT I mostly download.
2. I don't see ads on TV because I don't watch it unless I visit someone who leaves it on. At home I only watch #physicalmedia.
3. Actions still have consequences, but being slightly out of touch commercially is a feature not a bug. People who force feed themselves live ads are not like me. Never were.