By my understanding, people are watching it for its ridiculous self-seriousness. Audiences are laughing at it. I don’t quite get how that alchemy works, but somehow it’s working enough for Apple.

I suppose somebody is watching it.

After I watched this I went looking for a crappy recorder version of Toss A Coin To Your Witcher, but it sadly doesn’t exist (yet).

I looked into this a bit and didn’t find much.

This is from Wikipedia: The union is perceived as having two factions. The larger faction (“United for Strength”) says it is focused on creating job opportunities for members. A second faction (“Membership First”) has criticized the current administration for being too quick and soft when it comes to negotiations with studios.

There is reportedly a “unity” coalition between the factions that Astin received backing from (after many years of union service as a board member handling negotiations). He managed to win with 79% of the vote, which is pretty darn decisive.

Chuck Slavin appeared to be his primary opponent who argued Astin was a monied-establishment figure who was out of touch with the non-movie-star working actors who lacked his privilege. Though it seems Slavin had ruffled some feathers online which could have hurt his changed.

That’s what I could find with my phone.

😬

You’ll love the bronze statue of him then.

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There’s quite a few of those to be sure, but having been for many years and no longer going, the vast majority of people there are either going mindlessly because it’s part of their personality or folks who’ve never been before and are in search of something.

The originating ideas continue to be intriguing, but I wouldn’t say it’s much more than a pricey escape from the troubling default world. I was lucky enough to be able to enjoy it when the world didn’t quite seem as doomed as it does now.

Also, seriously, everyone there should be wearing an N99 during dust storms. The playa is full of silica dust and silicosis is a real thing and really really bad.

From the article…

The fuel switches were “designed to be intentionally moved,” according to CNN safety analyst David Soucie, who said cases in which all fuel switches were turned off accidentally are “extremely rare.”

“Throughout the years, those switches have been improved to make sure that they cannot be accidentally moved and that they’re not automatic. They don’t move themselves in any manner,” Soucie said on Friday.

And the photo of the throttle (middle) and fuel cutoff switches (bottom):

https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/c-gettyimages-951922648-20250711223914009.jpg?q=w_1160%2Cc_fill%2Ff_webp

There’s just one-level-deeper of questions I’d have here. How were the switches designed such that they prevented accidental activation? Because it looks like they just get simply flipped down. Could it be pull-out-and-down? Or maybe there’s a lot of resistance during the switch action?

This is very valuable context.

For citations, the only references I see to “pronouns” in their github project is in a section called “Human language policy” in CONTRIBUTING.md (link). Here’s the relevant part:

In Ladybird, we treat human language as seriously as we do programming language. The following applies to all user-facing strings, code, comments, and commit messages: … Use gender-neutral pronouns, except when referring to a specific person.

That sounds pretty cash-money to me.

There’s one additional reference in a pull request discussing whether or not to use “we” when referring to recommendations of the engineering team (as in “we recommend” vs “it is recommended”). Minutia.

I’m not as interested in litigating this matter than I am in putting it to bed (along with any and all definitive citations and evidence such that I can refer back to this comment thread in the future when the question inevitably comes up again.)

I think this may be the issue to which you are referring:

https://hyperborea.org/reviews/software/ladybird-inclusivity/

While this is troubling to read about, this narrative’s lack of evidence or references keep me from accepting it at face value. Old mastodon chatter (and perhaps deleted posts or scuttled instances) may be difficult to retrieve, but GitHub discussions shouldn’t be hard to find.

So I’m withholding judgement for the moment.

UPDATE: Commenter lime!@feddit.nu wrote this terrific comment that provides confirmation of the above narrative, corrective action that the LadyBird engineering team has taken taken, plus some vitally important context of the entire kerfuffle. A+ work.

For those holding out for a hero: https://ladybird.org/

Ladybird is a brand-new browser & web engine. Driven by a web standards first approach, Ladybird aims to render the modern web with good performance, stability and security.

I could not be less interested in what the New York Times has to say about this topic.

Vote results for “a motion to table Impeaching Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, for high crimes and misdemeanors” can be found here (where “yay” means a vote to shut down impeachment proceedings and “nay” means a vote to continue with them): https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2025/roll175.xml

Representatives are listed by last name only in this list (without state affiliation unless there are multiple). Find your rep and let them know what you think about their choices.

There’s a GitHub project for that: https://gist.github.com/joostrijneveld/59ab61faa21910c8434c

The dude is tired of playing the same character for a decade. That’s fair.

Give me more deeply weird Frankenstein’s Monster’s Monster, Frankenstein David Harbour.

A prodigy of a filmmaker and VFX artist barely out of high school, Parsons shot his YouTube following into the stratosphere with the viral success of his mysterious short, “The Backrooms (Found Footage).” It’s the first in a series of found-footage horror videos which have garnered many, many millions of views online and will now be adapted for the big screen by A24, Atomic Monster, Chernin Entertainment and 21 Laps.

Parsons will direct from a script by Roberto Patino. Shawn Levy, Dan Cohen and Dan Levine will produce for 21 Laps, along with James Wan and Michael Clear for Atomic Monster, and Patino. Alayna Glasthal is overseeing for Atomic Monster, with Judson Scott exec producing for the company alongside White.

So it’s actually being directed by Kane Parsons, the person who made the original shorts. I’m very glad to hear this. And written by Roberto Patino who wrote several season 2 episodes of Westworld.

This all bodes very well.

Frustrated by Guy Ritchie no longer making Guy Ritchie movies, Darren Aronofsky tags himself in.

Duplicate of https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/26262996 – removing…

Yah, I don’t know if this HBO show that banks on the creepiness of a scary clown is going to get deep into Dark Tower lore.

That said, HBO is the ideal venue for a proper Dark Tower universe adaptation.