Margot Robbie

Wow, what kind of person would go on the Internet and just pretend to be somebody else online? People these days have no shame anymore.

The guy in this meme looks like he’s really into the patriarchy and horses for some reason.

I sure do wonder what movie this meme is from and on what platform I can watching it on. Hmmm.

This is what a REAL 🤠 looks like:

But there is something to be said about superliminal messaging as well.

Instead of trying to subtly influence people to watch your movie, why not tell them directly to watch your movie instead?

It’s times like these that online advertisements need to get creative to get ahead in this never ending adblocking arms race, just like the very subtle advertisement in the car chase scene in the Academy Award nominated film, “Barbie”, now available on Blu-ray and select streaming services.

At least he was nominated for an Oscar this year, unlike someone else who was also in “Barbie” :(

“Oh yeah, it’s Harding time.”

– Tonya

This is literally me staring at the Best Actress Award at the Oscars in 2018.

It’s like I could play her in a movie or something.

The Japanese car companies put all their eggs in the hydrogen basket, despite their early head start in EV with the Toyota Prius and such, and as hydrogen looks to be more and more of a dead end due to transportation and safety concerns, of course they are going to be sandbagging EV adoption to buy time and catch up.

1. Ok, I assume you are familiar with uBlock Origin right? In uBlock, you can select from any combination of first and third party filter lists, or make custom filters, as long as they follow the same format. There is no one central authority that approves every filter list constantly, and the uBlock maintainer are only responsible for their own filter lists. Does that make sense?

2. Yes, like sharing a particular list only with certain people that you choose.

To me, the biggest advantage of a federated tracker like this is the ability to self host without relying on any centralized service, so in no particular order

1. A community maintained repository based database system, so when someone initiate an instance of your tracker, it starts off completely empty, and then the admin can pull from a “seasonal anime” repo for the tracker to track seasonal animes, an “anime movie” repo, a “j-drama” repo " a “Hollywood movies” repo or any combination of the above, or pull from an URL for a custom tracking list.

2. Local/global average rating/rating distribution.

3. Some kind of upvote system for reviews to discourage short, low effort reviews that plagued Letterbox. Lemmy’s “active/hot” sorting algorithm is pretty good and you may be able to use just that.

4. User created lists and also the ability to share them publicly or privately.

Boeing has generally been one of the lynchpins of China-US trade relationship, and with both the current geopolitical climate and the ongoing quality issues of Boeing aircrafts, of course the Chinese airlines would want to hedge their bets and take a risk on domestically produced jets, even if it is new and relatively unproven at this point. It doesn’t mean that they will stop buying from Airbus or Boeing completely, though.

The C919 uses many American/European produced components/subsystem, most notably the CFM LEAP engines, which is also used by both Airbus and Boeing.

Those darn celebrities, always ruining people’s fun on social media.

I wonder when one of them is going to show up on Lemmy…

Word of mouth. Friends. Internet.

Speaking of which, have you seen Barbie yet? I heard it’s pretty good.

If they only appreciate me enough to hand me my Oscar this year…

Instagram had slowly morphed from a website to share artsy filtered cell photos to an advertisement platform, where people are turning themselves into characters living the perfectly imperfect life on social media, in an attempt to turn themselves into living advertisements, to buy and sell products, Every photo (especially the natural looking ones) is carefully shot, curated and edited by a team to imitate authenticity, no different than shooting a movie or a TV show.

So then, what happens if that role of a living advertisment can automated by machines, equally as heartless and unrealistic as these performance of perfect daily lives on Instagram? Why go through the efforts, the hours and manpower, to conduct the photoshoots and Photoshops for that one perfectly imperfect targeted post, when anyone with a modern GPU can effortlessly make thousands of machine generated pictures with way less work in the same timeframe?

Why should the role of “social media influencer” even exist then?

I’ve been unhappy about the state of social media for a long time now. But as it appears, the role of the social media influencer, as the lowest common denominator of photography, will be the first to be rendered redundant by AI automation, which brings me hope that in time, social media can be brought back to what originally was: a place for people to talk to people.

Love it. Unions got us to where we are, and we are thankful for them.

Strikes work.

Great episode.

Have you watched the ending of that movie? Refusing to participate in a broken system is always an option.

If you would like to support your favorite creators, buying their merchandise or donating to them would be far more effective.

Most industries should do remote work as much as possible, specifically the ones that involves sitting in front of a computer all day: less traffic on the road, no commute time, more commercial office real estate that can be converted to housing/shops…

I don’t really see the downside to any of this except to micro-managers.