Notices by Rod Hilton (rodhilton@mastodon.social), page 5

"Respect the canon!"

Stop pretending George Lucas gives a shit about canon. Leia wasn't Luke's sister until he decided to stop after Episode 6.

He named the guy that tried to sell Obi-Wan death sticks "Elan Sleazebaggano"

The entire race of alien bad guys in the prequels are called Neimoidians because it's a joke about Leonard Nimoy.

Obi-Wan is canonically from 'Stewjon' because Lucas was asked what Obi-Wan's home planet is called during a Daily Show appearance.

https://gofigure.toys/elan-sleazebaggano-action-figure.html

I've seen so much about how offended these "fans" are that Charlie Barnett is in The Acolyte and said in an interview that "Anakin blew up the death star"

Like what the shit are you talking about, do you think Harrison Ford has any idea who the fuck "Anakin" is? I'd be shocked if he could name both droids he costars with.

He was asked if he was a force ghost doing press for Rise of Skywalker and said "I have no fucking idea what a Force ghost is"

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/harrison-ford-han-solo-force-ghost-star-wars-rise-of-skywalker-a9338686.html

Red Letter Media made an entire career out of a 2-hour takedown of The Phantom Menace. There's a whole documentary about how much Star Wars fans hated George Lucas and what he'd done with the prequels. And most of those same fans *LOVE* Rogue One, which was produced by Disney (and by the way is also bad)

This revisionism where Disney doesn't care about canon but George did, and everything George made was great is full on different-reality shit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_People_vs._George_Lucas

#LOMO

https://www.notus.org/media/elon-musk-x-politics-addicted-twitter

@AnthonyJK @Migueldeicaza @swelljoe because a vote doesn't pick your ideal, it just picks if you move closer to your ideal or further away from it.

Even if closer is closer by a millimeter and that's super disappointing, it's preferable to moving further by miles. It takes forever to undo damage in the wrong direction.

Young Progressives: "We won't vote for Genocide Joe no matter what! His opponent may be worse but we're sitting out the election in protest!"

(time passes)

Young Progressives: "Why is Joe Biden adopting conservative policies on the border in order to sway centrist voters?! He's not even trying to court my vote!"

Pro-tip for first-time voters: if you publicly state as a group that you're not voting for someone no matter what, you left the table.

@Migueldeicaza Yeah, exactly. He's courting conservatives because a good enough chunk of progressives have bowed out of the election.

@Migueldeicaza @swelljoe I had a "red line" issue too and it was "supported the illegal invasion of Iraq"

That's why I didn't vote for Clinton in 2016 and abstained from that election.

I was made to regret that decision, and I wish I hadn't made that choice. Now I don't have single-issue red lines anymore.

@Migueldeicaza @swelljoe 🙄 I don't support genocide, I'm against what Netanyahu is doing, and I wish Biden would stop helping.

I also recognize the reality of the election, that Netanyahu is HOPING for a Trump victory, that this would remove any and all pressure for a ceasefire, as well as implement a number of backwards policies in other areas.

3rd party votes aren't viable, there basically IS no vote against genocide on the table right now. It sucks but that's the reality before me.

@Migueldeicaza @swelljoe fundamentally politics in the US is a fight between two parties for control.

One party is made up of people who agree on very little fundamentally, and will abstain from voting if a candidate doesn't pass their litmus test, and everyone has different litmus tests. Herding cats.

The other party is so far in the opposite direction that there is literally no test, you could be a convicted felon and they'll all still show up and vote just the same. Herding sheep.

@Migueldeicaza @swelljoe Democrats, far more than Republicans, are a coalition of people with wildly different goals for the country. The more of us have breaking-point issues, the harder it is to turn 46% into 51% without losing a different 5%.

Sounds like people just wanted him to accept that he's going to lose, I guess? I don't know, there's a vein of "not accepting reality" that seems to cut through a lot of this discussion.

@Migueldeicaza @swelljoe again, agreed. But I'm sort of not surprised he's adopting policies farther to the right of what I'd like to see, given how much of the progressive left has very publicly stated he's crossed their red line and cannot get their vote. Which is all I'm saying in the post. I don't know what we all expected him to do, there's no electoral incentive to appeal to a block that refuses to vote for him.

Difficult to imagine a level of desperation greater than "post hole"

https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/3/24170352

ChatGPT is down, wonder how many "now with AI!" integrations just got broken. Logitech was stuffing OpenAI stuff into its mouse drivers last time I looked so I imagine the blast radius here might be substantial.

How many days do you suppose we have before Dropbox announces they are selling everyone's documents to OpenAI?

I'm still holding out hope that Barron turns out to be a Ron Reagan Jr figure who fights against everything his father stood for.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68992293

When Jack first started talking about Bluesky, in the very early phases it involved the blockchain. I remember suggesting that I thought the reason he liked the idea was that he could theoretically build a version of Twitter where no tweets could ever be deleted, and therefore there'd be no pressure on him to moderate or ban anyone. He wanted to not have the power.

People always thought I misunderstood Jack's motivations but it turns out I was right about him all along.

https://www.engadget.com/jack-dorsey-claims-bluesky-is-repeating-all-the-mistakes-he-made-at-twitter-234326121.html

Same energy #Necronomicon

Dunno if some dipshit will call me posting this FUD again, a mere week after the last time I said it. But once again: if you build your business on top of anything offered by Google in virtually any way, you are in "fool me seventeen times" territory here. No company has indicated its disdain for the developer ecosystem to the degree Google systematically does.

Everything that doesn't pull the revenue of Ads is eventually killed, and nothing pulls the revenue of Ads.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/google-fit-apis-get-shut-down-in-2025-might-break-fitness-devices/

Honestly at this point I don't understand how anyone puts Google-operated services on their critical path in basically any capacity. I guess it makes sense to target Android given the ubiquity but aside from that I think you just have to assume any Google tech you invest in is going to just vanish one day without warning.

https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/29/google-lays-off-staff-from-flutter-dart-python-weeks-before-its-developer-conference/