Notices by Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social), page 2

@Gargron I'm going to end up doing that too, amn't I? The gravitational field at this point is nearly inescapable

I am NOT going to watch a four hour YouTube video about a star wars hotel

@jalefkowit I definitely understand the feeling you're expressing, but I think that the current push by investors towards "AI" is less the final blow for humane computing and more like the final straw. Caring about humane computing and bringing people into the fold of learning the skills to maintain and build towards it requires real energy. Some of that energy will come to people out of frustration with all this AI nonsense. We'll be there to greet them and show them around.

@oration no he is quoting CATS (2019)

@oration I think only technically so, in that time is travelling in only one direction at the usual rate with no looping

#monsterdon I am not entirely positive I'll be able to work my way through two hours of synth soundtrack like this.

(The people being renewed during this carousel sequence are going to the Heaviside layers like in Cats (2019), right?)

#monsterdon GO GO GO GO GO

Get your timed mute buttons ready, folks, #monsterdon kicks off in two minutes!

#monsterdon little Mary 2 there is definitely Newt from Aliens.

#monsterdon I'm really enjoying the set design in this movie so far. It's doing a surprisingly good job of simultaneously projecting that whole faux-future super-clean visual affect but also looking like places where people might actually live and spend time.

#monsterdon This movie isn't great about treating women as people so far, is it? :-\

#monsterdon Why is Jessica suddenly entranced with our confused Ignorant Instrument of State Violence here?

(Good gosh, this scene of chaotic combat is more than a little goofy _and_ horrific.)

#monsterdon Ah, a full 51 minutes until we got to the first slow-motion hallucinogenic orgy sequence.

#monsterdon _extremely Radioactive Man voice_ my eyes! The goggles do nothing!

#monsterdon They went down a staircase and suddenly Jessica's hair changed from feathery to sodden? What happened there?

#monsterdon Ooh look at that huge vat of bubbling green liquid! I'm sure it is perfectly healthy and will definitely not cause harm to anyone before the movie moves on to another set.

(_extremely Radioactive Man voice_ ...real acid..?)

#monsterdon Oh hey, an ice stage! Who has bets on who shows up first, Jadis the Ice Queen or Superman?

(Hmm so the female lead has to get fully nude but the male lead gets to keep his shorts on, eh?)

#monsterdon You know, between Mary 2, that long industrial hallway where Jessica and Logan 5 were being pursued, the locked door, the waist-deep water area, the elevator, there are a lot more parallels in the scene construction between this movie and Aliens than I was expecting.

#monsterdon This scene with the old man and all the cats here makes me think back fondly to the clowder that used to live on Parliament Hill in Ottawa.

OH MY GOODNESS THE OLD MAN IS QUOTING CATS (2019)

If this turns into a musical with a tap-dance number at the end I swear this is my new favourite movie. SKIMBLESHANKS, SKIMBLESHANKS, SKIMBLESHANKS

#monsterdon You know, seeing our two future protagonists flee a society based on a worship of youth, powered by hedonism and ignorance, and perpetuated by careless violence built atop that same cultivated ignorance... and having their eyes opened to a larger world when they stumble into the political relics of _the united states_..? That reads differently now than in the 70s, I think.