@lain I'm not sure your ship is okay.
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Matthew Skala (mattskala@mstdn.io)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Feb-2024 22:56:04 JST Matthew Skala -
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Matthew Skala (mattskala@mstdn.io)'s status on Sunday, 25-Feb-2024 04:39:27 JST Matthew Skala @lain I think the Saudi witchcraft team is unlikely to make the playoffs.
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Matthew Skala (mattskala@mstdn.io)'s status on Saturday, 24-Feb-2024 03:51:47 JST Matthew Skala Best Olympic Flame relay ever
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Matthew Skala (mattskala@mstdn.io)'s status on Friday, 23-Feb-2024 22:37:01 JST Matthew Skala @lain perversely tempted to find out what "waitlist control" is and try it
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Matthew Skala (mattskala@mstdn.io)'s status on Thursday, 15-Feb-2024 15:28:02 JST Matthew Skala @lain "Yes, you tell them you're going to rock them... and then you rock them... and then you tell them they've been rocked."
"Well, we don't really know, right, it's a question,"
"It's true, we've never really written that song; we should write a song, 'Have you been rocked?'" -
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Matthew Skala (mattskala@mstdn.io)'s status on Sunday, 11-Feb-2024 09:25:32 JST Matthew Skala Today I write to the lawyers again asking them to remember that human names are not globally unique and to be more careful about using guessed GMail addresses without confirmation, because I have enough problems of my own without getting divorced in Ohio.
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Matthew Skala (mattskala@mstdn.io)'s status on Friday, 09-Feb-2024 05:46:17 JST Matthew Skala @Moon "Gemory is described in demonological works[...] as appearing in the form of a beautiful woman (though as with all Goetic demons referred to using the masculine pronouns "he" and "his")[.]"
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Matthew Skala (mattskala@mstdn.io)'s status on Friday, 09-Feb-2024 05:04:28 JST Matthew Skala @Moon Actually I think these may be pokemons
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Matthew Skala (mattskala@mstdn.io)'s status on Friday, 09-Feb-2024 04:58:31 JST Matthew Skala @Moon "Nice try, Astaroth!"
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Matthew Skala (mattskala@mstdn.io)'s status on Thursday, 08-Feb-2024 08:04:33 JST Matthew Skala @Moon This is what the bacteria discovered two billion years ago when they invented sex.
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Matthew Skala (mattskala@mstdn.io)'s status on Thursday, 01-Feb-2024 09:43:44 JST Matthew Skala @Moon It's the drink pairing that really makes it. My compliments to the sommelier.
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Matthew Skala (mattskala@mstdn.io)'s status on Sunday, 28-Jan-2024 00:00:47 JST Matthew Skala @Moon What's the libre Web browser that never changes and still works?
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Matthew Skala (mattskala@mstdn.io)'s status on Saturday, 27-Jan-2024 01:31:35 JST Matthew Skala @Moon He was a skater boy, she said see you later, boy...
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Matthew Skala (mattskala@mstdn.io)'s status on Saturday, 27-Jan-2024 00:49:19 JST Matthew Skala @coolboymew Similar experience when I upgraded my (literally 20 years old) 100Mbps wired Ethernet switch. I hadn't realized that my Internet service was actually faster than that and it was the switch limiting it.
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Matthew Skala (mattskala@mstdn.io)'s status on Friday, 19-Jan-2024 01:14:40 JST Matthew Skala @lain Also there are carnivorous plants.
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Matthew Skala (mattskala@mstdn.io)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Jan-2024 05:56:34 JST Matthew Skala (CAT NOISES CONTINUE)
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Matthew Skala (mattskala@mstdn.io)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jan-2024 01:18:00 JST Matthew Skala @ageha @lain @Moon I wonder if this can be linked to McLuhan's "hot and cool media" concept. Books and television demand very different levels of involvement from the audience, leading to different perceptions of the same subject matter.
There is also the issue of scarcity - only a few television networks with high barrier to entry, versus thousands of books and relatively low barriers. This would affect publishers' behaviour even if not audience reactions directly.
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Matthew Skala (mattskala@mstdn.io)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jan-2024 00:49:53 JST Matthew Skala @Moon @lain Notwithstanding that's it's fashionable to say "woke" has no definition, I think "progressive" is even more meaningless. The constant pattern I see throughout Trek is that Trek is performatively inclusive, in whichever directions were priorities in the USA at the time of broadcast. That seems like what I'd call "woke." And even if you want to distinguish "progressive" as a separate thing from "woke," I think they're much closer to each other than either is to economic right/left.
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Matthew Skala (mattskala@mstdn.io)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jan-2024 00:41:48 JST Matthew Skala @lain @Moon Star Trek's producers were proud of the fact that they broadcast the first "interracial" (meaning black/white) kiss on network television.
They did an episode about a planet of black-and-white and white-and-black two-tone people discriminating against each other.
They had Russian and Japanese characters on the bridge at a time the USA considered those nations to be enemies.
In a later series they had an episode about a character we might now call genderqueer or something, (more) -
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Matthew Skala (mattskala@mstdn.io)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jan-2024 00:41:47 JST Matthew Skala @lain @Moon complete with "pronouns," and the only nod to making it science fiction was that they inverted it: she was "she" on a planet where most people were agender and called "one."
I figure Trek was *always* extremely woke, since decades before woke was a thing.
Questions about whether it's left or right in the traditional economic sense are an irrelevant distraction because woke is not about economics.