Notices by Brian Dear (brianstorms@mastodon.social), page 2

@WarnerCrocker

They only found one?

@WarnerCrocker

No disagreement there. I’ve always been a big fan. Alamo has always been far more forward-thinking than most exhibitors. I had business dealings w/ ‘em a while back and they’re very nice but stuck in a business model that makes it near-impossible to succeed long-term. Partly due to streaming, plus resistance to utterly rethinking the moviegoing experience leveraging the power of web/mobile. Long story, but I have yet to find a cinema that’s not doomed in 2020s.

@WarnerCrocker

Damn. Cinema businesses have always been dumb as fenceposts. This is the inevitable result for any business with slow learning ability and sluggish willingness to try new things. Bookstores, same fate awaits you.

@neauoire

Is there actual *plastic* in the typical tire?

@WarnerCrocker

One must never forget the two ironclad rules:

1) Never get into a land war in Asia,

and,

2) Never expect to make a profit streaming music.

@WarnerCrocker

If it's truly a big story and not just yet another come-on to sign up for yet another newsletter in the increasingly fractured, nicheified journalism landscape, the facts will become known publicly, so I'll wait.

@waxy

Agree. Quora is one of those long-in-the-tooth, crufty Web 2.0 dinosaurs that should’ve gone extinct long ago. Like Flipboard, it amazes me it’s still around.

@Gargron Well the editor’ look and feel obviously changed today (in mobile Safari at least). When I tried to add an image all it did was replot the screen. So I posted just text without an image then went back in to edit the toot, and add an image then, and still couldn’t. Since then, like 90-120 mins later, I tried again to edit, and this time I was able to add the image. 🤷♂️

#Mastodon web-based toot editor all messed up. Can’t add images anymore.

@Gargron

This keeps happening. Is it a bug? or what?

Every now and then in my feed I see a toot by someone I do not follow. The toot contains no hashtags I follow. Nor is the toot boosted by anyone I follow. It just shows up in my feed.

Why?

@Mastodon @Gargron #mastodon

@aral @wellingtonrock

It’s crap posts and comments like these that makes me think, exactly how is Mastodon different from Twitter, eh? Because it sure looks like it’s home to the same kind of pile-ons of ignorance and cluelessness by a tribe of hooligan know-nothings seeking others of similar mind that made Twitter such a waste of time.

(And if you think this toot is defending Musk, no, this toot doesn’t mean I’m defending Musk, you ignorant git.)

@mike

Still baffling. I just don't see why all these places use Flipboard, which is essentially a middleman interstitial page which requires still clicking to the actual content site to get the whole story, so why anyone (except folks who enjoy middleman companies inserting themselves into the flow) uses Flipboard at all. Just so baffling.

Equally baffling: $235 million in VC investments in Flipboard over the years.

@BethanyBlack

TVs are not what they used to be 20+ years ago. They used to be devices that received signal via airwaves or cable, and presented content to the viewer, and that was that.

Then the internet came along, bandwidth got big, and along with the shift to streaming, TVs became platforms for fine-level tracking of consumer behavior in exchange for delivering content, and consumers were fine with that.

TVs are now no different than big-tech social media: you are the product.

@verge Scientists attempting to record the extremely faint sound of a three-trillion-dollar corporation’s wrist being slapped after agreeing to pay this fine. Despite the sophistication of the equipment and their use of the world’s most sensitive (not to mention most expensive) microphones, they were unable to detect any sound.

@verge

Why anyone ever trusted in them, beyond me

@tedu

When the news sites announce federal court decision to break up Google, the photos they run of Google’s CEO and the company’s founders should all show them smiling

@Ruth_Mottram @feditips @micron

"Choose a server and sign up" is the great barrier to entry for mass adoption of Mastodon, imho.

@postfilm

That sooooo does it.

My next band name is Brutalist Sandcastle.

Prog rock? Of course, why do you ask?

@torvalds You see ads on the NYTimes website?

uBlock Origin is your friend.

@Mastodon You just have to pay to have a URL with HTTPS at the beginning of it, otherwise, yeah, free!