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@rastinza

Also, regarding Spike Jones specifically, how many of his feature-length films have black people on screen as main characters? How long are they on screen for? Just count how many white actors on screen vs black characters on screen in his feature-length films.

I'm sure you'll see a bias.

@kamakazi152

>"I feel like technology allows people to have more access to Hollywoods products than ever before."

A decade ago, when this film was released, streaming services for film were not really a thing. I think only Netflix was out there and maybe Amazon. At that time Hollywood viewed them as competition. Now there's a lot of streaming services out there, which is a new distribution channel, but they view Netfix as competition for production. And anything that takes eyeballs away from watching TV and movies is considered competition for old media.

Old media was anti-internet for years, ever since they realized that it could deliver content. Nearly every newscast that talked about the internet was a negative story. They still do it today, talking about how social media is bad, porn, fake news, Russian disinformation, you name it, they constantly bad-talk the internet.

@kamakazi152

If you're looking for a touchy-feely relationship film, ok, but it's a lousy sci-fi. I think the film's commentary on how tech causes more isolation is just a competitive tactic by Hollywood, and old-media generally. New media competes with Hollywood and they don't like that, so you will see more negative criticism about tech from Hollywood and TV -- apocalyptic plots, etc.

@rastinza

Hollywood is pro-racist in their films generally.

See this thread for a discussion about it.

https://qoto.org/@Pat/107140410303609143

Retro SciFi Film of the Week…

Her (2013)

This one's about an ambiguously gay man who interacts with an AI through his mobile device. This is a really boring movie – practically the whole thing is just this guy talking to the AI in his mobile device. It's supposed to be set in the future but there aren't many sci-fi techie devices and the cars look like they were made 10 years before this movie was made.

This film has essentially an all white cast. There's only one very minor bit part at the very beginning of the film played by a black actor, Lisa Renee Pitts. This technique of literally marginalizing black actors in movies, placing them at the very beginning or very end of the film has been used by pro-racist Hollywood for a very long time, at least since the 1980s.

There’s one Chinese character who is the girlfriend of the character played by Chris Pratt. That character, a minor supporting role, is played by Laura Kai Chen.

Because of the racial bias in the composition of the cast, I'm not recommending this film at all. Also it's just a boring movie. I’m including it here in the Film of the Week series because AI is a popular topic right now.

#science #fiction #ScienceFiction #SciFi #FTW #film #movie #cell #AI #race #racism #641 #mobile #letters

@freemo

If this is a two-dimensional projection of a three-dimensional placement of people within a spaceship that's traveling at 98% of the speed of light, maybe.

@AmpBenzScientist @trinsec

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It's a Wonderful Life

Bank Run

#svb #FirstRepublic #WesternAllianceBancorp #JPMorgan #GoldmanSachs #FDIC #Fed #corruption #confidence #BeenThere #DoneThat
#revolution

@2ck

>" I don't think this is "neo-luddism". The article makes pretty clear that the issue is about pay and workers' rights. I'd also venture that it's about the integrity of the creative process"

Concern about AI taking their work away is a big part of it. Here's a link to a video of a discussion by some guys who work in the industry talking about the strike. (They start talking about AI at about timecode 1:25:00)

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1810857836?t=01h25m00s

@lupyuen

@admitsWrongIfProven

>"How did my sarcasm to speech bridge do?"

I can't identify the sarcasm, so...

@nullifidian

There were also three bit players in this unauthorized trailer; Irma St. Paule, who plays the woman reading poetry, Fred Strother, who plays the crazy guy from Pluto, and the guard at the elevator, whose name I’m unsure of because the credits are unclear.

The magical realism in this film comes from the very subtle or ambiguously unreal things that happen. Magical realism doesn't include things that are acknowledged to be unusual by the characters or the narrative. The filmmakers of 12 Monkeys used magical realism to create a feeling of unease or confusion in the audience.

In this trailer, there are three examples; the bear suddenly appearing behind the guy in the hazmat suit (there wasn’t enough time for the bear to walk into that position), the woman’s shoes changing from black to silver, and the guard’s face changing at the elevator. They could easily go unnoticed by the audience. (Although I suspect women are more likely to notice the woman’s shoes changing color than men would.)

When Willis looks at the guard after the guard’s face changes, he appears to be looking suspiciously at him, but the motivation for the look is ambiguous because he could be questioning why the guard is not trying to stop him from escaping, or he could be questioning why the guy’s face changed. (The first face looks like it may be the same as the face of another character from the future.)

There are a lot of weird and unusual things that happen in this film that are not magical realism because they are part of the narrative and the characters of the story acknowledge that they're weird and unusual, like all of the animals running around in the city, or the crazy actions of Pitt’s character. Or time travel itself, which is unreal in this film, but is a main part of the narrative.

@/piggo@piggo.space

>"I'd much rather watch a real movie than some ai hallucination with 6 fingers on a hand, tyvm"

The Outer Limits, Episode 5, October 14, 1963

(Hint: you need to actually watch it to understand)

@lupyuen

Actually, I don't think there will even be a need for scripts at all.

https://qoto.org/@Pat/110308449885773137

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"ChatGPT, please produce and show me a romcom about a laid-off writer and an actress set in early 21st-century Hollywood. Begin playing the movie when I get back in the room with the popcorn."

#AI #neoluddism #hollywood #film #romcom

@lupyuen

This is just the beginning. We're going to see this kind of neo-luddism across the board -- visual arts, writing, medicine, programmers, sales, support -- everything. What a mess.

@MessengerFlats

>"...I shipped out that year...."

I didn't realize they were sending guys over there in '75. Glad you made it back safely.

I saw Grace Slick perform White Rabbit in an intimate setting (fewer than 100 people) about a decade or so after that. Didn't get a chance to meet her, though.

@TruthSandwich

Welcome to qoto.

@nullifidian

>"Loss of face and mild opprobrium is not sufficient for either poisoned soft drinks or deep societal harm."

I'm not sure what kind of accountability you want. The original post said "shut down scammers", which to me sounds like preventing those people from speaking again or worse.

I think if there's a stiff penalty for telling a lie when discussing public policy in a public forum it will have a chilling effect on the free expression of ideas. People may be afraid to share their ideas for fear that at some point in the future they may be interpreted as a lie and possibly have consequences assessed against them, so they will not express those ideas. If that happens, then there will be less sharing of information and we would be less likely to find the truth.

@nullifidian

<'...large parts of our political system rely heavily on “gentlemanly” conduct...'

I agree that cultural norms are just as important as formal political structures for a functioning society.

>"...bad actors are held to account for falsehoods in both commercial and political spheres..."

People need to be held accountable for what they say. In public debate that should happen immediately via responses and counter arguments. If someone consistently lies, then they pay for that with a loss of credibility.

If someone's speech causes direct harm, like saying, "There's no poison in this Koolaid", then they should be held legally responsible for that.

Or if a public official lies about something of public concern, such as whether a cloth mask or an N95 mask is more effective, and people suffer and die because of that, then that public official should be held accountable.

>"Education would help instruct both."

Free speech facilitates acquisition of knowledge.

@nullifidian

The US and the UK share our core fundamental values when it comes to democracy, even though the specific implementation may differ.

In the case of scammers, that's just contract law and criminal law. If someone offers to sell something and someone sends them money for the thing and they don't ship the item, then they breached the contract, and if they did that with intent then that's a criminal violation.

In the civics space it's not a contract, you're expressing an opinion about an issue or candidate. The more information that is allowed to flow, the more likely that the truth will prevail in that debate. So restricting speech often results in a less informed electorate.

Also, having a select few who decide what is true and what is not in public debate about issues, is fundamentally unjust. Each person needs to decide for themselves what they believe.

@Blenster

What does OF mean?