There's a tension between helping people who need help understanding the basic concepts of what's happening, and telling them specifically who's to blame for what, in what systems.

The Fiddler gets Kicked Off the Roof

#HouseGuestsLeaveAMovie
#HashTagGames

Alien: Couch Potato

#HouseGuestsLeaveAMovie
#HashTagGames

Odd day. Tonight, two movies again.

First up, Snake Eyes (2021), a GI Joe action film directed by Robert Schwentke, starring Henry Golding, Andrew Koji, Úrsula Corberó, Samara Weaving, and Iko Uwais. Supposed to be bad.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_Eyes_(2021_film)

Afterwards (2008), an English language thriller directed by GIlles Bourdos, starring Romain Duris, John Malkovich, and Evangeline Lilly. I know, I never heard of it either, and but for the cast, I don't know if I ever would have picked it up.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afterwards_(2008_film)

#film #physicalmedia

#3goodthings

1. Didn't leave town and spend a lot of money.
2. Got my mowing done.
3. The cat whines to go outside but isn't running from me when I pick her up before she does something stupid.

This affects the Fediverse.

This affects the Internet.

This is the equivalent of the "rubber hose method" of decryption.

All technical solutions (read: all technology) is subject to politics. To political power. To political interactions.

You cannot rely on purely technical approaches. You have to have social approaches, too. Like. Actual policy and procedure geared around social and political group dynamics.

Like. How will we react when the US Govt requires that @jerry to shut off infosec.exchange servers.

Or how we'll react when a specific Mastodon server is declared part of a terrorist infrastructure. Will federating with it mean any other Mastodon server is now part of the officially designated terrorist network (what then of people that federate with a server that federates with a server that is classified as part of a terrorist network. And so on)

You cannot carry the conceit that tech alone or a purely technical approach will save you.

#AutisticiInventati #fediverse

https://sabot.media/post/ai-shuts-down

The commoditization of art and culture is a consequence of colonialism. The appropriation of cultural value by the wealthy into "taste" as investment would not have happened without the poverty of creatives.

One movie tonight.

The Last Woman on Earth (1960), directed by Roger Corman, starring Betsy Jones-Moreland, Antony Carbone, and Robert Towne is a disaster movie set after all but three humans are killed by something in the air. One of the men is clearly disposable, as is humanity in general.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Woman_on_Earth

#film #physicalmedia

Big instances are too big to enforce rules well on bad faith actors. Small instances are too small to have any consistency or staff able to manage servers well.

What other flaws due to scale or competence are you aware of in the Fediverse?

“ The Fifth Circuit ruling comes as the #Trump admin moves to weaken clean-water-related protections.

Also on Friday, Trump’s #EPA released a supplemental rule to further dilute the Clean Water Act, quickly condemned by environmental watchdogs.”

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/09/drinking-water-mississippi-lawsuit/

I've picked two movies tonight, both from today's haul.

First up, The Grandmaster (2013), directed by Wong Kar Wai, starring Tony Leung, Zhang Ziyi, Chang Chen, Zhao Benshan, Song Hye-kyo, and Wang Qingxiang.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grandmaster_(film)

After that, The Griddle House (2018), directed by Paul Tombarello, starring Amber Benson, Charisma Carpenter, Clare Kramer, Paul Rodriguez, William Sanderson and Luke Perry, among others.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3555514/

#film #physicalmedia

Garage sale and Entertainmart sale #haul. #physicalmedia #dvds #blurays #film #books #movies

Going to try getting through three movies tonight.

The Sense of an Ending (2017), directed by Ritesh Batra, starring im Broadbent, Charlotte Rampling, Harriet Walter, Billy Howle, Emily Mortimer and Michelle Dockery. Family secrets, etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sense_of_an_Ending_(film)

Vamp Father (2022), directed by Stuart Paul, starring Alix Villaret, Danny Trejo, and Tom Sizemore. Family blood, etc.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14590886/

The Thing About My Folks (2005), directed by Raymond De Felitta, starring Peter Falk, Paul Reiser, and Olympia Dukakis. Family illness, etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_About_My_Folks

If I can get through them all I'll be shocked.

#film #physicalmedia

I've picked out another pair of movies to watch tonight.

First up, Mayday (2021), directed by Karen Cinorre, starring Grace Van Patten, Mia Goth, Juliette Lewis, Soko and Havana Rose Liu. It's kind of a nightmare. I don't know.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayday_(2021_film)

Second, The Fourth Angel (2001), directed by John Irwin, starring Jeremy Irons, Forest Whitaker, Jason Priestley and Charlotte Rampling. It's a British-Canadian thriller about revenge. Or justice.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fourth_Angel

#film #physicalmedia

#3goodthings

1. No known decent garage sales in area for me to spend money at.
2. Making some progress at work.
3. Cat spent a few hours lounging about indoors this morning, leaving only after she pooped in the wrong places.

Picked a pair of films tonight.

First up, The Merchant of Venice (2004), directed by Michael Radford, starring Al Pacino, Jeremy Irons, Joseph Fiennes, and Lynn Collins. Persecuted Jews in Venice in Shakespeare's play, if not his time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Merchant_of_Venice_(2004_film)

Second, Never So Few (1959), directed by John Sturges and starring Frank Sinatra, Gina Lollobrigida, Peter Lawford, Steve McQueen, Richard Johnson, Paul Henreid, Brian Donlevy, Dean Jones, Charles Bronson and Philip Ahn, featuring Mako, George Takei and James Hong. It's about WWII in Burma.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Never_So_Few

#film #physicalmedia

Quick video of the finished hurdy gurdy with it's standing strap made from two vintage belts, tune is Sparvens polska #theWorkshop #hurdygurdy #luthier

There should be no new Kirk or Spock until all the currently living Kirk and Spock actors are dead.

Spill the Earl Grey tea.
Sit down in your ready room and
Give me the sit rep.

#dailyhaikuprompt #haiku

Two movies tonight I think.

First up, Our Kind of Traitor (2016), directed by Susanna White, starring Ewan McGregor, Naomie Harris, Stellan Skarsgård, Damian Lewis and Alicia von Rittberg, based on a Le Carre novel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Kind_of_Traitor_(film)

Second, Maggie Moore(s) (2023), directed by John Slattery, starring Jon Hamm, Nick Mohammed and Tina Fey. It's a black comedy murder "based on true" story.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maggie_Moore(s)

#film #physicalmedia