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2·2 days agoWe’ve enjoyed it. The second season story arc about a charismatic figure who latches onto white supremacy politics as his latest grift is a little close to the bone in the current climate.
(And I personally had a little fun spotting posters for Canadian punk bands like D.O.A. and No Means No in the background, as it was one of those of Stephen J. Cannell shows among the first wave of US productions shot in Vancouver.)
It’s available for free streaming on a few channels but unfortunately, the whole story arc about the record company is just cut entirely as, like a lot of shows from the 80s, they couldn’t license the music rights.
Wait, Severance and Spacey were both in this?
Recently watched Wiseguy for the first time, where they were paired up as creepy brother and sister, must have been only a few months before this was shot.
Look at the character built in those that did spend their time flitting off to Miami condos and casinos somewhere. One even became president!
(EDIT: boy, I need to proofread before posting)
3·3 days agoSo AI is just three Netflix executives in a trench coat?
6·5 days agoBasically, yes. EEE is a strategy developed by a dominant company whose revenue stream came from paid proprietary software and services but which embraced open standards with the goal of vanquishing the threat to their business model posed by that openness and maintaining/recovering their proprietary domination.
Does ActivityPub being open and used by many different projects & organizations pose a threat to Piefed’s business model? Is Piefed a powerful company that built that power on a proprietary model and seeks to preserve that power by embracing, extending, and extinguishing ActivityPub? With the goal of maintaining/recovering proprietary domination?
No. So it ain’t EEE.
“Israel first??? Isn’t Bibi sloppy seconds after Vladimir?”
3·5 days ago中西 圭三 - Woman
Nakanishi Keizō - Woman
(Japanese; my Japanese only good enough to catch a few snippets)
One I came to love because the guy in the room next to me when I lived in Japan kept playing it over and over until I did. Also featured in my first (and last!) attempt at doing karaoke in front of Japanese people.
https://youtu.be/xYe0d9QFLIAВремя и Стекло - Тролль
Vremya i Steklo - Troll
(Russian)
The Ukrainian crunk equivalent of “No Scrubs”? (IIRC read an article explaining how the song is about terrible men hitting on her)
https://youtu.be/q--5Ht49vNYAnders Nelsson - 鬼新娘
Anders Nelsson - Ghost Bride Song
(Cantonese)
From the soundtrack of 殭屍先生 (Mr Vampire, 1985), Hong Kong horror-comedy about the hopping dead.
https://youtu.be/q9DHRNREzlkTabou Combo - Konpa Mania
(Haitian Creole & English; I only know a few words in Creole)
A konpa track I think sampled by Wyclef Jean. https://youtu.be/McUmXoB_9yw
̶A̶c̶k̶t̶u̶a̶l̶m̶e̶n̶t̶e̶ En realidad, se pone la tilde en la o, no la e.
¡Órale!
2·7 days agoNot Trek but with Trek people. Is that OK?
A few episodes of the comedy quiz show podcast Go Fact Yourself, co-hosted by Trek fan Helen Hong and J. Keith Van Straaten, an old friend of Danielle Koenig.
Different guests each show, this week I’ve heard:
- 25: Will & Anne Wheaton
- 40: Anthony Rapp
- 57: Walter & Danielle Koenig (and also Kirk Thatcher, the punk on the bus. Fun guy!)
More:
29·7 days agoI’m in Mexico, and on those occasions I listen to Spotify with ads, for the first time I’m hearing ads in English from universities in Canada wanting to attract students from Mexico to do masters and PhDs there.
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“Boelter helped lead the private security firm Praetorian Guard Security Services”. Frankly, anyone who names a “security” company after the Praetorian Guard should be preemptively arrested.
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Web site still up at time of writing.
Dr. Vance Boelter has been involved with security situations in Eastern Europe, Africa, North America and the Middle East, including the West Bank, Southern Lebanon and the Gaza Strip. He brings a great security aspect forged by both many on the ground experiences combined with training by both private security firms and by people in the U.S. Military. He has worked for the largest U.S. oil refining company, the world’s largest food company based in Switzerland and the world’s largest convenience retailer based in Japan.
Yeah, so he’s saying he worked at a 7-11?
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281·8 days agoGavin Newsom has let L.A. burn to the ground…
Oh god, this old chestnut they keep trotting out. (Remember all those “entire cities burned to the ground” by Antifa and BLM 5 years ago?)
on so many occasions
Wait, what? Now they’re claiming the same governor has let the same city burn to the ground “on so many occasions”?
Well then, he gets my vote! If he’s competent enough to oversee rebuilding a burned metropolis not once, not twice but “so many” times in just two terms, this guy clearly gets shit done!
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31·8 days agoKDE Connect
I’ve used it a lot just to control audio or video playing on my computer from my phone. (Sometimes when I’m sat at my computer with multiple windows and workspaces open, I even find it easier just to hit my phone’s lockscreen to pause the music.)
I’m starting to use some of its other features, too. E.g. copying & pasting and sharing files between phone and computer.
There’s more too I need to explore.
(Unfortunately, sometimes I get a ‘device unreachable’ error when both devices clearly have a working connection to the same router.)
Upvoted for FreeTube.
What do you use to send YouTube links to FreeTube? Personally I’m using LibRedirect https://libredirect.github.io/
73·8 days agoBoth from the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party.
Ah, to let white supremacists proceed with dismantling democracy and human rights without interference from ‘wokes’ in the federal government?
However, in the former Confederate States, many paramilitary groups sought to suppress, often through intimidation and violence, African-American political power and return the South to rule by the predominantly white Democratic Party. Although African Americans were initially supported by the federal government, as Reconstruction went on, that support waned.[2] Following the bitterly disputed 1876 U.S. presidential election and Compromise of 1877, Congressmen and Senators from the former Confederate States returned to Washington and prioritized prohibiting the federal government from reimposing control over their states.
Yep.
Realpolitik is German for “short-term thinking that will eventually bite you in the arse”.
I do like the idea of a P2P system. I used to be on ZeroNet but there were just too few people and too little content to stick with it. I hope something like this takes off.