I’m glad people like my crappy doodles and shops. It’s usually fairly ugly, but it’s quicker than getting an AI pic I like, and at least you’ll know I did it myself.

Yeah, I think there’s the same feeling in the meme community. It’s better to see something a lot “rougher” that an actual person made, than something that looks more polished, that an AI made.

Hmmm… lemme think this through… I guess there are three categories:

• licensed stream provided by a company. i.e. tubi (which is free and adblockable) and I guess Fawesome but I never used Fawesome so dunno. ofc Amazon Prime and those other “stream rental” places like Disney and Paramount fit here.
• companies that provide places for you to upload videos. like Youtube and Dailymotion. I guess Archive fits here.
• sketchy websites that provide free streams of movies that are almost always pirated. I think these are ad-driven? I dunno much about them.

Now I distinguish btween these because of the following use cases:

• a) the community [email protected] only allows posts in the second category. you don’t really post Tubi links or sketchy website links there.
• b) on Mastodon, the Monsterdon watch party requires that any movie have a free (possibly ad-driven) viewing option in the first category. ofc it’s great if there are also options in the second category.
• c) This community’s sidebar says “If posting links for people to watch the movies let them be legal ones. (Free is best but not when it’s shady, you dig?)” Clearly the first category is OK bc it’s legal and not shady. Clearly the third category is NOT ok bc it’s not legal and it is shady. What about the second category? hmmmm… it might vary by country. I’m not a lawyer but I think the US law is that the company (like youtube) cannot be sued by the copyright owner for hosting a movie that someone uploaded, IF they appropriately respond to a request to take it down. I don’t know for sure what the legality is for the viewer, and for the uploader. I think that: whether the uploader has monetized the video plays a part, maybe? And it seems odd to expect the viewer to confirm that all the media (including the music) has been properly licensed, in a video that they are about to watch. For that reason, I think youtube videos are OK. And I think archive is in the same category as youtube, right? I believe archive does respond to copyright takedown requests, so they are a legal and not shady place to find media.

I’m not 100% sure about any of that tho.

oooh, good to know!

Glad to hear it. I think it’s common for scholars and activists to ignore self-care, but it’s not superfluous.

Takashi Miike’s Dead or Alive

This might be it? https://archive.org/details/dead-or-alive-1999

I hope things get better for you, fam.

hey there finally getting around to subbing to post-lemm.ee communities.

• [email protected] is going pretty well, multiple posters most days; posts usually get at least 3-5 upvotes if an unknown artist, or 15 plus or minus 3 for a known artist. I’ve been posting goth-adjacent cartoons there and those usually get 20+ upvotes. Not a lot of comments, but I guess that’s bc we don’t tend to make “open question” style posts.

• still posting weekly on [email protected] regarding the weekly “monsterdon” movie watch party on Mastodon

• looking forward to the next sumo tournament for [email protected], starting in 3 weeks!

everyone is still stopping by and liking things, but maybe they don’t have anything to say.

yeah I usually upvote at least 1 post when I see them, I just don’t have anything to say usually.

AI stuff I’ve played with. That seems to get people angry.

kek yeah lemmy is pretty AI-hostile. I noticed that on [email protected], even tho it explicitly allows AI art they disparaged someone for posting a fanfic that had AI art in it.

That’s so awesome. She had an interesting life, as did many of the other actors in that movie (besides Hoff and Plummer).

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadia_Cassini
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marjoe_Gortner
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caroline_Munro
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judd_Hamilton

What I like about this video is that it shows not only people dressed up (goths, historical costumers, cosplayers, etc) but also the swarms of photographers surrounding them and the hordes of tourists – to be fair, it is a tourist town. So it gives you more of a feel of what it’s like to be there, for better or for worse. The Whitby Goth Weekend technically refers to a series of concerts, but this video focuses on the people walking around the street one day that weekend.

FUN FACT: Whitby is apparently mentioned in Dracula and recall that there’s a Dracula Readthrough going on in [email protected]. @[email protected] is posting a section at a time as it occurs on the calendar (because it’s an epistolary novel, mostly letters and diary entries, and it all happens in the space of a couple months, see?) Anyway there’s a bit of a lull so now’s the perfect time to catch up so if you’ve ever wanted to read Dracula, you can read it here.

omg this looked interesting so I’ve started reading from the beginning lel.

kinda reminds me of when they’d sell valueless non-functional hardware on e-bay, but you’d get a Windows OEM CD/license with it. Because they couldn’t just sell the CD/license without some kind of hardware.

Schrodinger’s Grandma.

Plus, you’ll sleep better from your body being truly tired.

It really varies by person. I sleep best on a foam matress on a futon on the floor. When I go to a hotel with the ultra-soft bedding it just seems weird.

TIL the term “wardialing” (referring to the technique of automatically dialing numbers) was named after the 80s film WarGames, which showed it at work.

In not too distant future, in a universe not too dissimilar to ours, the world is barren. Vast sprawls of arid deserts and inhospitable jungles cover the face of the planet, while the majority of its denizens persist in gigantic walled-off Metacities, governed by the omni present gov-corporations. These cities are home to many beings living under the tyranical regimes of their watchful overlords. This is the age of technocrats, transhumanists and digisophers, all slaves to meticulously crafted closed hardware, deceptive software and cyber practices designed to enthrall all who wish to persist on this new frontier of the future.

https://analognowhere.com/wiki/analognowhere/

As you probably know, this is considered a very plausible future. (cite, pg 34, “Barbarization”)

I was gonna say something similar, then started reading OP’s substack and I think they might agree: https://ghostofcarnot.substack.com/p/is-humanity-on-a-mission

I just wondered if you had a link to a story or analysis summarizing that, since I wasn’t aware of any of it. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction, I’ll look it up.