If you want a relatively unmemorable bad movie that's visually very pretty, Section 31 fits the bill I guess but you could just go watch Jupiter Ascending. Then you'd at least have some bizarre bits to tell people about.
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This movie is the annoying Disney Sidekick, but does not even have Eddie Murphy's charisma.
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You know how Star Trek dialogue can be kinda wooden and they won't let the actors improvise or ad lib at all and sometimes it really cramped their performances?
This movie leans into that so hard.
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If this movie were a DVD it would replace Star Trek V in the hall of shame next to Highlander 2.
This movie cuts its own bangs at 3am.
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The most enjoyable part of this movie was writing this scathing post. This movie did not spark joy.
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Oh my god y'all the Section 31 Star Trek movie is so bad. And I'm an unrepentant "will watch the odd numbered films" person.
It's so bad I can't even be mad at the corruption of the ideals of Star Trek that Section 31 represents.
This movie is absolutely a grab bag of success formulas for movies tossed in a blender. It is the pizza steak avocado and orange juice smoothie of movies.
It's like you take the Fifth Element, Ocean's 11, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (the movie), Guardians of the Galaxy, and the JJ Abrams Trek movies, toss 'em in a blender, and take out the good parts.
Michelle Yeoh is not enough to save this movie. Jamie Lee Curtis appearing as a cyborg is not enough to save this movie.
I can usually enjoy any movie even if I come away with notes.
I did not enjoy this movie. It wasn't suffering to watch because it was so bad it was easy to blot out the idea of it ever being considered canon, but it was in fact terrible. This movie is midichlorians bad.
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Been thinking an awful lot about how I'd rather hang out with honest people than people who say true things. Every damn time. You'd think they're the same thing but they're so far from it.
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Something Abbey (https://theopenbookshelf.medium.com/) said on TikTok resonates still: a political regime isn't just the state actors themselves, but the whole schema of who has power.
Right now we're entering a GOP regime, but a lot of these actors have had immense power even under the Democrats. We can't usefully look at the US government or the Trump regime without looking at the whole thing.
Part of the current regime is that Meta is censoring some people’s links to MLK's speeches. The current regime hides much of queer life into the 'adult only' space where it has reduced impact, and critically, divides queer youth from queer adults. When we say that our current regime is in favor of free speech, we have to ask what that really means. Same with anything else.
The regime is changing, yes, but remember that there's a lot of continuity and we've already been surviving the regime as it was.
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This is such a big thing and finding ways to connect humans with each others expertise and help new folks without doing this is something a great system would do. I have seen it extremely rarely.
Wikipedia has this problem.
Stack Overflow has this problem.
OpenStreetMaps mostly doesn't but it has a somewhat higher barrier to entry, and it's mostly mitigated by having weak ways to contact a new editor.
Making space that can accommodate newbies without ire at them being new is hard but that's the work for making systems like this sustainable.
https://mastodon.social/@loufranco/113860728774124955
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Machine translation might be having its moment right now.
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Professional output is the result of an editing process.
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I'm a fan of the sort of thinking behind https://boringtechnology.club/ (though I first heard the idea of a 'novelty budget' from @ceejbot I think)
The older I get the less I want to develop software and the more I want to do engineering: more with less, reliable and solid.
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So very much this. While I will tinker with computers endlessly, my day to day use is very close to the well-trodden path.
https://social.jvns.ca/@b0rk/113816666518578623
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“any of my 15 godchildren" has big "30-50 feral hogs" energy.
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I am Confusion, Destroyer of Dichotomies
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This. And someone with the energy to run rings of admin can find out that you can get a GoodRX price for $20, but it's still more than 6x as expensive retail. (granted, you have someone checking their work, in theory, but still)
https://mastodon.world/@obtener/113794303344726189
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We have yielded a huge amount of control of our information commons to giant, unaccountable corporate entities that have state-sized power. They set public policy in real measurable ways.
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Okay first, the Meta moderation and fact checking thing? That's bad.
The specific carve-out to let politicians whip up fervor around trans folks? Bad.
But also, "they're a private company, it's not censorship for them to delete things"? Bad. Wrong. Meta is absolutely censorious, and this is outlining a change in who their censorship protects and supports.
But the real problem? Meta has taken over a significant part of the public information commons and actively worked around everyone who has tried to do any stewardship of it
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For every Presidential Fitness Test in a gym class in school, there's probably a dozen kids pushed harder and discovering they're capable because of it. But there's also more than likely 6 or 7 who learn to hate moving their bodies, that sports are torture, and that both trying and not trying are punishing.
For every class made to learn multiplication tables by rote in third grade, most of them do. But a good handful will learn that math is hard and painful and not something they want to engage with.
When there's no room for discovery, for finding one's own engagement, so much harm is done
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For all my acquaintances who had a childhood full of being Made To Do Things despite deeply not wanting to, forced on a schedule that is not your own, and who experienced that as a trauma that you still find yourself reeling from:
I see you.
I don't think most people realize just how violent an experience that is for a lot of people. Pressures can mold us, but being constantly overridden and never given space to find what we want to do? Such an injustice, one that often has lifelong consequences.
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