Notices by Brian Tatosky (virtualbri@mastodon.online)

The dumbest mfers on Earth are ruining the country.

In the 1973 movie Westworld one scene that always stuck out to me was when the scientists were trying to figure out why the robots were going crazy and they talked about how complex the robots are:

"In some cases, they've been designed by other computers. We don't know exactly how they work."

I mean that's CRAZY, no one would let software be created by other software which could effect PEOPLE with no one understanding what was really going on.

Cut to 2025 and AI. Oh....

#AI #SciFi

https://prospect.org/blogs-and-newsletters/tap/2025-03-27-bezos-attacks-toddler-safety/

Sure. Amazon wants to get rid of the Consumer Product Safety Board. I mean why even pretend to care about society when you're a Billionaire or their spawn.

All that matters is the rich getting richer. Amazing that they want to make the Robber Barons look like fucking saints.

@GottaLaff "The GOP said they will stop your Social Security unless Elon Musk gets access to all your records" seems like a good simple message to get out to the public.

last minute "all hands" meetings are to spread bullshit, or announce disasters.

Sometimes one before the other.

https://mastodon.online/@electrek/114197972015236184

Yeah, what fucking madness Microsoft. No thank you.

https://mastodon.social/@dosnostalgic/114184937238415364

#Microsoft #Windows #Capitalism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2R034rQ9gtQ

You will learn more facts from this livestream than from the State of the Union address.

#USPol #Otters

@w7voa That's all super cool. What are they going to do about it then?

@arstechnica What an asshole

https://newrepublic.com/post/191075/elon-musk-power-grab-server-federal-worker-data

But her emails!

#USPol

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/musk-aides-lock-government-workers-out-computer-systems-us-agency-sources-say-2025-01-31/

The coup continues, with a bonus of massive cyber insecurity

#USPol #CyberSecurity

I mean, how do you go in public looking like this? Doesn't he have a makeup person would would fix this before he walks outside? It's like a child sprayed something on his face and he didn't wash it off? This is the guy leading us?

This picture just stood out more than most.

#USPol

“Kaiju No. 8” is pretty good, but I also wouldn’t mind a story just about people who clean up after Kaiju attacks.

“Planetes”, which was about a space debris cleanup team was one of my favorite anime series.

#anime

@jwz It's the worst combo of they didn't do the real work but the results are entirely being used for their ends.

Billionaire #2's rocket got to orbit. I'm still impressed by it all, but I do have to admit the fun of it is long over because of the owners involved.

It doesn't feel like an achievement for *us* but for *them*. Not to make civilization better but to either line their pockets which don't need any more lining, or fluff their egos, furthering their weird ass ideas of the "perfect" future.

It especially hurts as a sci-fi fan, because it's not even close to the future I dreamed of as a kid.

Something that pops up into my head on occasion: The DOJ was *created* in 1870 by Congress and President Grant, specifically to enforce the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments and stop white terrorism against blacks by prosecuting the KKK. Problems aside, it has been a core element of the fight against institutional racism.

I definitely keep that in mind, considering the source of attacks against it.

#USPol

@jwz I get what they were going for, in a tribute to the character and actor, and they probably could have made a handful of shots look good. But to essentially make him a main character for scene after scene, it didn't hold up, and ranged from "OK" looking to "Bad" sadly.

https://variety.com/2025/film/news/alien-romulus-director-fixed-cgi-ian-holm-home-release-1236271785/

Interesting. Because the version that I saw for streaming really didn't hold up, especially for the amount of time he appeared in the movie. I don't know if that is the *fixed* version but, woof. I was shocked he was in it as long as he was; being prewarned of his appearance. I thought it would be like a 2-3 shot cameo, not a main character.

#VFX

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-01-09/drone-collides-with-firefighting-aircraft-over-palisades-fire-faa-says

Don't fly your goddamn drones over fires. It grounded a plane when no one has enough of any of this equipment during a disaster. There is no conceivable scenario where anyone needs to do this.

#LAFires #Drones #Disasters

@jasonkoebler