That’s a pleasantly surprisingly diverse set of instances.
The votes are in ... Big Trouble in Little China beat out Dungeons and Dragons: Honour Among Thieves by a hair (1 vote it seems) (see voting post here).
Please treat this as Discussion Thread for the film over the next week or two ... or if you like, write up your own posts about it!
If you have any tips on where to get it, please feel free to share (I'll probably add them to the top post)
I've certainly never seen it and look forward to watching it!
EDIT: A live watch event might happen if it can get organised. Feel free to comment about that below or put your hand up to organise it if you're interested. We could watch it live together, or schedule a time and run a megathread here. Share your thoughts below.
Honourable Mentions
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
- For being rather popular (came a close third in the voting).
- It was my nomination as a nostalgia visit back to popcorn 90s AI action sci-fi, which my partner hasn't seen.
- I'll probably watch it some time soon
Soylent Green
- Also popular in the voting, and keeping up what might be a classic dystopian trend here
The Apartment (1960)
- Easily the oldest film suggested this round! I've never seen it but it seems to be a classic and I really appreciate that someone nominated it (and it was popular in the voting too!)
And there were other films in the nominations too you might be interested in (see the voting post linked above) ... for me personally Underwater (2020) stood out as one I'd not heard of (despite being recent), and, as an Alien fan, I'll be more than happy to give it a watch.
And it feels ever more present to me that publishing things as open-source means maintenance work, which can quickly lead to burnout. People just expect you to provide updates, no matter what your license text says.
David Beazley, big in the python world and one of the OGs of the python ecosystem from back in the 90s, kinda had a moment about this a couple of years ago.
He has or had a few somewhat popular libraries and liked to write things and put them out there. But, IIRC, got fed up of the consumeristic culture that had taken over open source.
I think he put it along the lines of "The kind of open source I'm into is the 'here's a cool thing I made, feel free to use it however you want' kind" ... and didn't have positive things to say about the whole "every open source author is now a brand and vendor" thing.
The result of which, IIRC, was him archiving all of his libraries on GitHub. From a distance, it also seemed like he felt burnt out from a hacking culture in which he no longer felt like he belonged.
I think about this sometimes. The scorecard for the internet. Not sure it’s positive TBH.
In a more sci-fi vein, I wonder if it’s an inflection point for the evolution of society … when mass communication technology develops relative to the educational and political development of the same society.
It feels to me, in the west that is, that we were not culturally ready for mass communication. That we needed at least a few more generations of grappling with society’s problems and framing the role of the individual in the collective. That WWII probably held things back two generations. That we’ve basically squandered an opportunity and may pay the price for centuries down the line.
Yea I try to post from mastodon when it makes sense. You’re seeing the mentions as that’s how mastodon links things together. Here on lemmy, the connections are all more structural and so implicit.
This is about as good as lemmy-mastodon interaction can be: when someone posts from mastodon to a lemmy community.
Though now, with automatic hashtag-ing since v 0.19.4, the two can work together better. See https://hachyderm.io/@maegul/112720255264101773
Been getting (back) into classic 70s Yes!
Made a playlist of Close to the Edge side A, classics from Fragile (if you know you know) and ending with Ancient Giants under the sun ... comes out to be about album length ... peak prog rock IMO ... and a strangely addictive "album" you can just listen to repeatedly.
One area that I am somewhat knowledgeable about is image/video upscaling
Oh I believe you. I've seen it done on a home machine on old time-lapse photos. It might have been janky for individual photos, but as frames in a movie it easily elevated the footage.
Yea this. It's a weird time though. All of it is hype and marketing hoping to cover costs by searching for some unseen product down the line ... even the original chatGPT feels like a basic marketing stunt: "If people can chat with it they'll think it's miraculous however useful it actually is".
OTOH, it's easy to forget that genuine progress has happened with this rush of AI that surprised many. Literally the year before AlphaGo beat the world champion no one thought it was going to happen any time soon. And though I haven't checked in, from what I could tell, the progress on protein folding done by DeepMind was real (however hyped it was also). Whether new things are still coming or not I don't know, but it seems more than possible. But of course, it doesn't mean there isn't a big pile of hype that will blow away in the wind.
What I ultimately find disappointing is the way the mainstream has responded to all of this.
- The lack of conversation about what we want this to look like in the end. There's way too much of a passive "lets see where the technology and big-corp capitalism take us and hope it doesn't lead to some sort of apocalypse"
- The very seamless and reflexive acceptance that an AI chat interface could be an all knowing authority for everything in life ... was somewhat shocking to me. Obviously decades of "Googling" to get the answers to things has laid the groundwork for that, but still, there was IMO an unseemly acceptance of a pretty troubling future that indicated just how easily some dark timeline could arise.
The number of people I've come across who also dislike the character limit, the number of platforms that don't have it, the number of times people write long microblogging threads and the prior and continued existence of the "blogosphere" count against this defeatist pessimism IMO.
The truly dark take here, IMO, is that we shouldn't underestimate the power of a medium's configuration to shape not just the content and culture on it (that's obvious) but the way its users come to think.
Yep this.
It’s gotten to the point where a character limit is itself a seriously toxic part of big-social social media, up there with algorithms and shitty moderation choices. But all of the Twitter people don’t see it.
Sure there are threads through reply chains. No one reads the chain. The first post is all most will see. Context collapse and superficiality is inevitable with this simple constraint. The fediverse should move on. Sadly, mastodon is the only platform still dedicated to it and they’re 80% of the fediverse.
If you like short funny quips and shit posts, that’s fine, there’s no character minimum! With long character limits, short quips still abound. Instead, when necessary, you can opt in to longer form text when necessary.
Edit: oh god, what have I done! Yea, mobile + autocorrect got me good here.
Hopefully corrected version here with original below …
So my hot take since before launch has been that this will be the end of Tim Cook‘s tenure. The more they lean into the product, as it seems they will with the next model, the more likely that seems to me.
Roughly speaking, I get the feeling it’s the first wholly new product pushed by Cook. And a big flop is never good for Apple‘a brand power.
How off do you think I am?
So my hot take since before launch has been that this will be the end of Tim Cook‘s tenure. The note they mean into the product, s as it seems they are with the next model, the more likely that seems to me.
Roughly speaking, I get the feeling it’s the first wholly new product pushed by Cook. And a big flop I’d never good for Apple‘a brand power.
How off do you think I am?
Ha ... interesting ... they don't feel comparable in the same way to me.
Upvote the film you'd like to watch the most in the comments below!
Nominations are in for July's Fedi Film Club (see nominations post here).
Each one in is a separate comment below, which you can upvote.
And, for clarity, they're also in the list below, in alphabetical order.
If you have any handy tips on the best way to get a hold of any of these, please share! Note though that the high seas in general are likely are well known option.
- Big Trouble in Little China
- Dungeons and Dragons: Honour Among Thieves (2023)
- I’m Thinking of Ending Things (2020)
- Soylent Green
- Terminator 2: Judgment Day
- The Andromeda Strain (1971)
- The Apartment (1960)
- The Peanut Butter Falcon (2019)
- Underwater (2020)
- Wacko (1982)
And of course, the point of all this is to crowd-source human curated film recommendations. This is definitely a diverse bunch of films, some of which I didn't know about and others I'd never seen. I'll definitely want to watch more than one of these!
Please suggest a film for July's "Fedi Film Club"!
Anything that either you'd like to watch or would recommend to the community.
Please make sure it's more than a year or two old so that it will (hopefully) be available somewhere.
And if possible, provide a quick description for why you'd like to watch or why you suggest it.
- See the introduction post for "Fedi Film Club".
- We'll take a vote on the suggestions in about a week's time after this. Then we can watch and discuss.
The Idea
- Watch and discuss movies together (kinda like a book club)
- "Crowd source" recommendations for not-entirely-new films (IE, older than a year or so, let's say)
- Aim for generally bettering or curating our film "diet"
How it will work (at least at first)
- 1 film a month
- First, a post to take nominations/suggestions
- Post any film you want to watch, or have heard good things about, or recommend to everyone else
- Second, a post to take votes on the nominations
- And then we watch and discuss the winner
First round will start next month (July)
Please share any thoughts/feedback, though we'll likely run this at least once first before making any changes, just to feel it out
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Yea that's a great idea! I should have mentioned it in the top post ... I wasn't going to try to organise that myself but if someone else was that would be very welcome and they could do it through here.
EDIT: I put a line in the top post about it, asking for people to share their thoughts or put their hand up
Would you be up for organising it?
Otherwise, what we could do is schedule a time and just have a mega thread here (it's what the "monsterdon" crew do over on mastodon)
Lemmy v19.4 fixed the chat sorting of comments so that you get a flat reverse-chron of comments, which could help too.