Negotiations on the Twitch Streamer Union Contract has ground down to a halt this past week as the members of the fledging union were unable to agree on the amount of slurs they can say live before disciplinary action would occur.
[ashing a cigarette in the energy drink I’m holding in my other hand as the world around me collapses into fascism]: yeah I think if I just start eating better my mental health will improve
the legendary Hayao Miyazaki was pitched an AI animation demo in 2016. his reaction was brutal:
It's an awful insult to life.
I fear the world's end is near.
Humanity, created by God in all its grandeur, is today facing a pivotal choice: either to construct a new Tower of Babel or to build the city in which God and humanity dwell together. In Jesus Christ, this humanity in its grandeur becomes the Way, the Truth and the Life, opening the path for each of us to grow toward fullness. #MagnificaHumanitas
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And even then Eiza Gonzalez's character is shown doing the hard work of one on one conversations and other organizing methods! The deus ex machina of the film is still very much saying you have to do the hard work to get the results.
I disagree yes there is a magical plot device that accelerates conflict and contradictions in this film but at the same time the film literally says that this plot device does exactly that via dialectical materialism, it only cheats the audience towards the efforts not the method
Leads politcal education & labor work in the rank & file from the shop floor to intl solidarity (in China workers STILL need a union!) turns to the camera at the end & explains the unique revolutionary potential of the working class! @breadrosesDSA coded, brave enough to say it
Teacher, organizer, democratic socialist, and Bread & Roses member Robert LeVertis Bell has won the Democratic Primary for KY State House District 43. Robert’s campaign centered fighting for a Kentucky that works for working people and building the mass movement to deliver it.
The actual threat of the Supes wasn’t them taking over the world with force, it was Vought being embedded into the US Government the way, say, Israel is. Comic book guys often don’t understand this because they’re powerscaling apes.
Steven Soderbergh on George Miller's "Mad Max: Fury Road" (2015):
"Interviewer: You never storyboard?
Soderbergh: No. The ability to stage well is a skill and a talent that I value above almost everything else. And I say that because there are people who do it better than I’ll ever be able to do it after 40 years of active study. I just watched 'Mad Max: Fury Road' (2015) again last week, and I tell you I couldn’t direct 30 seconds of that. I’d put a gun in my mouth. I don’t understand how [George Miller] does that, I really don’t, and it’s my job to understand it. I don’t understand two things: I don’t understand how they’re not still shooting that film and I don’t understand how hundreds of people aren’t dead.
I could almost see that’s kind of possible until the polecat sequence, and then I give up. We are talking about the ability in three dimensions to break a sequence into a series of shots in which no matter how fast you’re cutting, you know where you are geographically. And each one is a real shot where a lot of things had to go right. I’m going to keep trying; I’m not going to keep trying in the sense that I’m going to volunteer to direct the next Mad Max movie. I’m going to keep trying in the sense that when I have sequences that demand a certain level of sophistication in terms of their visual staging, I’m going to try and watch the people who do it really well and see if I can climb inside their heads enough to think like that.
But he’s off the chart. I guarantee that the handful of people who are even in range of that, when they saw Fury Road, had blood squirting out of their eyes. The thing with George Miller, it’s not just that, he does everything really well. The scripts are great, the performances are great, the ideas are great. He’s exceptional. I met him once for about 30 seconds at the Directors Guild Awards in Los Angeles the year of Fury Road. But you don’t want to say that stuff to somebody’s face; it’s embarrassing."
(Steven Soderbergh's interview with Gavin J. Blair, The Hollywood Reporter, 2017)
P.S: On this day, 11 years ago, "Mad Max: Fury Road" (2015) premiered in Hollywood, California.