A jaded, substance abusing, joe average asshat, with superpowers he doesn't really want. Getting wasted and nonchalantly and incompetently saving the day - kind of - out of some combo of guilt trips and habit. Saves the life of a well-meaning but kind of clueless social enterprise PR guy, whose job is trying to convince corporations to give stuff to the needy. The two form an unlikely partnership, the PR guy helping Hancock scrub his public image, and Hancock eventually paying him back.
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Because if you deconstruct it furiously enough, amongst the many, mismatched moving parts that knock together inside Hancock, there's the seed of a potentially really good movie. Maybe even a series.
Bear with me.
When I saw Hancock back in... (checks theMovieDB)... 2008, I loved the premise.
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You know an old superhero movie we could actually do with a reboot of?
Not a gentle, nostalgic remake either. A complete from-first-principles rewrite. Strip that thing down to the chassis and reassemble from scratch. No, further, right down to the compounds its made from, if not the molecules. If not right down to the quantum realm with the not-the-Stars-Wars-cantina alien wierdo bar and the quarks and shit...
....I'm getting off-track.
Anyway. You know what movie I'm thinking of? #Hancock.
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> the expiration could be the goal-oriented activity we need
I reckon. This sprouted mainly out of recent on-the-fly use of matrix, but from the compost heap of the horror stories about groups being used by Slack. They assumed they'd always have their chat room histories for reference and apparently they sometimes failed to document important stuff elsewhere.
Epic fail : /
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> Narratively I found it utterly infuriating
That's pretty standard for musicals. What plot they have is just a contrivance, chaining together a series of thematically linked songs.
By the time I watched it, I was *desperate* for escapism, so I turned off my higher reasoning faculties completely, and strapped in for the ride. The combo of nostalgia and emotional payoff was just right for that. It may not have been the Star Trek we deserved, but it was the Star Trek I needed right now ; )
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> Narratively I found it utterly infuriating
That's pretty standard for musicals in my experience. What plot they have is a just a contrivance for chaining a series of thematically linked songs together.
By the time I watched it, I was *desperate* for escapism, so I turned off my higher reasoning faculties completely, and strapped in for the ride. It may not have been the Star Trek we deserved, but it was the Star Trek I needed right now ; )
You can find Shepherds Reign's music here. They've got one full album, and bunch of singles:
https://shepherdsreignband.bandcamp.com/track/le-manu
#music #metal #ShepherdsReign
Continuing my journey into indigenous metal fusion, now I'm #listening to Le Manu by Shepherds Reign, a kiwi metal band of Samoan heritage. Like the Alien Weaponry music videos, the video for this is full of imagery from Samoan traditions.
I remember back in the 90s thinking that heavy guitar music with singing in Te Reo Māori would be epic. Turns out that's just as true of Gagana Sāmoa.
This is awesome, more of this please!
#Aotearoa #NZ #music #metal #Samoa
The only thing I didn't love about the SNW musical was the way it treated the Klingons.
There was a *fantastic* and totally missed opportunity there to regale us with some epic Klingon opera, full of fire and fury. Instead they went for a lame gag, where the Klingons dialed in a whiney boy band bit, making a serious hole in the hull of the final number.
The second song with Number One and Kirk was my least favourite of the Enterprise crew songs, but compared to that Klingon gag, it was great.
I am absolutely loving the songs from the ST #StrangeNewWorlds #musical! : D
It's my new favourite thing, and I've been obsessively listening to Apologies since I saw it. The way Ethan Peck pulls off a confused Spock crooning about the warp core, then wondering in song why he's doing so, is *priceless*. They all do an incredible job with the singing, but Christina Chong - who plays Security Officer La'an Noonien-Singh - is the standout for me. Both in the ensemble numbers and her solo. Gold.
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> Similarly the recent Dune move changed "jihad" to "crusade"
Lame. Like everything about that extended yawn of a film. Give me Lynch's version any day. It's ludicrous but at least it's fun, and gives us a complete story.
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> However, the literature has not shifted away from this model
All generalisations are false ; )
A number of established journals have had their editorial team quit en masse, and go off and start new Open Access journals. But you're right that the critical mass hasn't been reached yet. As with Titter and Deddit, a minority leaving in disgust still leaves them in a dominant position. For now.
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The question is what can we, as the Open Access/ fediverse movements, do to speed the demise of the Elseviers and Titters? What do those still trapped by the network effects of the dinosaur platforms need to help them escape the DataFarms too?
Coming back to the OP, getting the govt to exclude exploitative pay-to-publish models from Open Access publishing obligations would be a good step. An achievable one too, I reckon. The politicians may just not know.
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> However, the literature has not shifted away from this model
All generalisations are false ; )
A number of established journals have had their editorial team quit en masse, and go off and start new Open Access journals. But you're right that the critical mass hasn't been reached yet. As with Titter and Deddit, a minority leaving in disgust still leaves them in a dominant position. For now.
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> We had some differences in approach that would make merging non-trivial
Oh well, at least you tried. It's not a bad thing to pursue your own dev paths and see where they lead. But I hope you're both keeping an eye on each other's work for insights, and to guide each other away from gotchas, dead ends and booby traps.
Further to this, here's a video of Elnor Musk singing about the troubles at his new company...
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> Watch here: https://twitch.tv/defcon201liv…
Any chance of getting this streamed into the fediverse using OwnCast as well?
While I'm making unsolicited suggestions, it would be great to have the conference talks up on a PeerTube too, with a channel on an instance like conf.tube too. That way we can follow the channel from any PT instance, or from any other fediverse account on instances of Mastodon, FireFish, PixelFed etc
#DefCon #OwnCast #PeerTube
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> Wahhabists would be the sort to be offended by a
band naming themselves that
That's their problem. All the more reason to do it really ; )
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> technical details and source code are available now ;) https://veilid.com/
What's your thoughts on how this compares to SSB and Nostr nostr:npub1eu5yg8uclgwnqgvgxmt59kn674qmws0qsqdl4fdvx480cq7xraaq943nau?
Imagine an interface where I can control all the notifications on a device, from the notifications control panel in the system settings. So when I install an app, it gives the system a way to alter its notification options. It can have its own notifications controls in its own settings panel too, no problem. But when I go to system settings > notifications, I see a list of all apps with notification permissions. Clicking on an app name allows me to modify the notification from there.
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HX
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> They are also terrible for ADHD because they so so ephemeral
Good point. I find notifications incredibly handy for assisting my ADHD coping mechanisms. But to make this work, whenever I get a new device I put a lot of effort into learning how to control the various layers of the notifications systems. I also replace all the default stuff with apps from F-Droid that allow me to manage notifications in ways that work for me.