Notices tagged with movies

“The Stepford Wives” was a horror film, not a blueprint for modern living. But @damemagazine sees it today in the rise of the misogynist tech bros and the use of technology to move the world backwards, not forwards. “Whatever tools and electronics we have lying around, we can use them to make a future of equality and freedom for everyone, or we can use them to make a future of slavery and death,” writes Noah Berlatsky. “For better and worse, those choices are the same now as when Joanna first traveled to Stepford. And they’re the same now as when, against her will, she was bloodily removed from it.”

https://www.damemagazine.com/2025/02/19/prophetic-stepford-wives/

#StepfordWives #PopCulture #Movies #TradWives #Feminism #Politics #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday

The announcement yesterday of David Lynch’s death was a shock to us all. For @TheConversationUS, Billy J. Stratton writes about Lynch’s skill at holding up a mirror to American society. “Lynch’s vital body of work warns that cruelty … isn’t really what we should fear most. It is, instead, those who laugh, cheer or simply turn away,” he writes.

https://theconversation.com/david-lynch-exposed-the-rot-at-the-heart-of-american-culture-247670

#Film #Movies #Cinema #DavidLynch #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday

Last year, “Barbie” was everywhere as audiences embraced the idea of an all-female Supreme Court and the closure of the Mojo Dojo Casa House. Canadian publication @thetyee says that these days, movies from the U.S. hit different — even classics from the past.

https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2024/12/18/Are-We-Baddies/

#Film #Movies #Cinema #USPolitics #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday

Kenya has about 40,000 “shadow scholars” who are paid by university students in Western countries to write their essays. @thecontinent reviews a new documentary, “The Shadow Scholars,” about this industry, which is directed by Eloïse King in collaboration with Oxford scholar Patricia Kingori. “Kingori’s scholarship is interested in teasing out how power dynamics shape the past, present and future of the global order. In this case, she is appalled by how easily the efforts of these young Kenyans are erased as they go uncredited for their intellectual output – an erasure with loud echoes in history,” writes Wilfred Okiche

https://continent.substack.com/p/review-outsourcing-academia

#University #Academia #Kenya #Movies #Film #Documentary #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday

@jasonkoebler of @404mediaco went to a screening of AI movies made for TCL, the largest TV manufacturer on Earth. He breaks down why TCL is doing this, what the movies are like, and how the company is navigating the AI backlash.

https://www.404media.co/i-went-to-the-premiere-of-tcls-first-commercially-streaming-ai-movies/

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Movies #Cinema #PopCulture #Lifestyle #PopCulture #Technology #Tech #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday

So a crazy thing happened. In a crime thriller film called Les chambres rouges (Red Rooms, 2023) there is a scene where the hacker protagonist is attempting to purchase a snuff film in online auction. The auction happens via IRC or IRC-like chatting environment and to my surprise there's actually me @rolle and my wife @mustikkasoppa who are one of the bidders.

1) The nickname of my wife is mistakenly written as "mustikasoppa" (with one k) but if I recall correctly she has used a mistakenly written nickname in the past
2) We are both operators and on the same IRC channel as we've been for the past 17 years

This is not a coincidence. One nickname can be made up by accident but not two with these features and definitely not in a French movie. My wife's nick "mustikkasoppa" is Finnish and means "blueberry soup".

Our IRC logs are more or less public because of open source and statistics so I presume the scene has been made with chatgpt which has scraped our nicks from the Internet so that they ended up in the movie. We still chat via IRC every day together.

The era of AI... Do your background check, folks. I'm glad this wasn't a dramatized documentary film but a complete fiction. However me and my wife are real. Mixed feelings.

#OpenAI #Privacy #Movies #IRC #GenerativeAI #ChatGPT

Hi! Time for my (new) formal #Introduction in #Mastodon

My name is Matteo

Scientist at the World Health Organization (#WHO) in Geneva (#Switzerland#), and Professor of #Geriatrics and #Gerontology at the University of Milan (#Italy)

I post on #Medicine, #PublicHealth, #Ageing (or #Aging), #Frailty, #Care... But also on #Roma (where I am from) and #ASRoma (my favourite/only #football team)

Hobbies: #reading, #movies, #running Sometimes I take #photos

One life, three kids, one #dog

❓ what's your favorite line from any indiana jones movie ❓ #lego #movies

The movie “It Ends With Us” and the book it was based on have been criticized for glamorizing intimate partner violence. @thetyee’s Jeevan Sangha writes about what the film gets right — and where it needs to do better. “I wonder what it would take for celebrity production teams to learn and act on the work that local organizations specializing in addressing and preventing sexual assault and intimate partner violence do every day,” she writes. “If they could, ‘It Ends with Us’ would be a different film.”

https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2024/09/06/It-Ends-With-Us-Review

#Film #Cinema #Movies #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday

I'm not a "Game of Thrones" person but holy forkin' shirtballs, looking at these props I almost wish I was... 😻

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGZU0rQ2t4s #props #movies #HouseOfDragon #Tested #adamsavage

Valid gnu/linux ls command for Thor, LOTR, and simpson fans ;)

ls -thor
ls -lotr
ls -bart -simpson -ruls

#movies #funny #linux #unix

"Saying this looks like garbage would be an insult to garbage.”

TCL prepares to release "the first AI-powered love story”

https://www.engadget.com/tcls-first-original-movie-is-an-absurd-looking-ai-generated-love-story-154142740.html

#AI #TV #RomComs #TCL #Movies

Streaming is so last year, now it's all FreeBlockbuster. 🍿 Only one on the UK map, situated in the well known anarchic tinderbox that is... Midsomer Norton! #recycle #Free #DVD #movies #netflix #streaming
https://www.freeblockbuster.org/

Tributes to Metropolis (1927) within Bladerunner (1982) both movies giants of their era, revolutionizing cinema, esthetics, and story telling.

#scifi #cyberpunk #movies #moviestodon #oncinema #OCATC #PopcornClassic #FiveBags #AndALittleAndroid

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Godzilla Minus One art by Roytaka661 #godzilla #godzillaminusone #monster #monsters #kaiju #geek #nerd #geeks #nerds #graphicdesign #graphicdesigners #movie #movies #cinema #artlover #artlovers #artnet

#moon #india #landing #freemasonry #conspiracy #culture #science #technology #hoax #life #earth #theylive #movies #space #spaceship

Hey wood chuck chuckers, IT’S ROUNDUP TIME! All my miniature creations posted this week in one big bundle just in case you missed any. Hope you’ve enjoyed the selection this week.
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#photo #photography #miniatures #toyphotography #retro #popculture #practicaleffects #movies #films

@rafaelcaricio @grb090423

Great initiative. A #Fediverse app that deals with #Movies similar to #IMDB has been discussed many times. I think there will be a lot of interest for this.

If you have source code available give me a heads-up or consider PR'ing to delightful-fediverse-apps at the https://delightful.club and add it to the list.

Force does not work the way its advocates think it does.

…it reveals the weakness, even the panic of the adversary.

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To look around the #usa today is enough to make prophets & angels weep.

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You can't lynch me and keep me in ghettos without becoming something monstrous yourselves.
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Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
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—James Baldwin

#BlackHistoryMonth #SilentSunday #blackmastodon #saturday #BlackFedi #quotes #film #movies #art