jasonharitou

Head of Design

[jasonharitou @jasonharitou]

@ItsJamesHall Yep. Couple of years ago we went to Cyprus on holiday and it was cleaner, nicer, and had more going for it than where we lived in the UK. After landing in a rainy dark Leeds at 2am, my wife turned to me and said, “we have to get the f out”.

Since then we’ve made plans for the US

[jasonharitou @jasonharitou]

@heelvsbabyface Seeing that movie as a kid was the first time I realised hero’s could die.

[jasonharitou @jasonharitou]

@thewolvenhour I wish more people would talk of Diomedes. Dude was an absolute killing-unit!

[jasonharitou @jasonharitou]

Now *this* is a fucking trailer!

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

The first trailer for ‘I PLAY ROCKY’ has been released.

The film follows a young Sylvester Stallone & the dramatic journey it took to get ‘ROCKY’ made.

In theaters on November 20.

[The English Remnant @Englishremnant]

An American soldier, Iraq 2005.

"Those Brits are a strange old race. They show affection by abusing each other, will think nothing of casually stopping in the middle of a firefight for a 'brewup' and eat food that I wouldn't give to a dying dog. But fuck me, I would rather have one British squaddie on side than an entire battalion of Spetznaz! Why? Because the British are the only people in this world who when the chips are down and it seems like there is no hope left, instead of getting sentimental or hysterical, will strap on their pack, charge their rifle, light up a smoke, and calmly and wryly grin, 'Well, are we going then you wanker?" 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇬🇧

[Chubby♨️ @kimmonismus]

Today is a dark day for freedom and democracy in Europe. General chat surveillance has been implemented in Brussels. A disgrace.

The so-called Chat Control 1.0 cleared a crucial hurdle in the European Parliament today. This means platforms may once again be allowed to scan private messages, officially on a “voluntary” basis, but in practice this marks the return of indiscriminate monitoring of private communication.

What makes this especially bitter is that a majority of the MEPs who voted were reportedly against it. According to Patrick Breyer, 314 MEPs voted against the regulation, 276 voted in favor and 17 abstained. And yet the rejection failed because it was not enough to have a simple majority of those voting. An absolute majority of all MEPs would have been required.

That is the democratic scandal.

When a majority of those present votes against a proposal and it still passes because a formal threshold is not reached, it does not feel like democratic decision-making to many citizens. It feels like a procedural trick.

And it becomes even more problematic when you look at the context: Chat Control had already been rejected before. Yet the issue was put back on the agenda shortly before the summer break, through an urgent procedure, at a time when absences could become decisive.

This is not just some technical regulation. It goes to the very core of private communication. It is about whether digital messages remain fundamentally private or whether platforms may systematically scan content again, without concrete suspicion, without a court order and without any individual cause.

A free society must not turn private communication into a potential surveillance zone. Anyone who takes digital fundamental rights seriously cannot accept millions of innocent people being placed under general suspicion.

Today, a dangerous signal was sent: fundamental rights can be hollowed out through procedural logic, timing and political tricks. Not through an open, clear and honest majority, but through a system in which absence effectively helps the supporters.

This is a dark day for Europe.

Not because the fight is over, but because today showed how easily digital fundamental rights come under pressure when surveillance logic, symbolic politics and institutional tricks come together.

Anyone who wants a free internet, anyone who wants to protect private communication and anyone who takes democracy seriously should talk about this.

Share this issue. Inform yourself. Look at who voted how. And never forget: freedom rarely disappears all at once. It disappears step by step, often in technical details, often in complicated procedures and often exactly when too few people are watching.

[jasonharitou @jasonharitou]

@holland_tom It’s not though. Folks disagree with the fact it’s a Greek story with no Greeks, a story that while made up, takes places at a very specific place with specific peoples. Not seeing it because you disagree with how it was made and what it represents is a stance, not a tantrum

[jasonharitou @jasonharitou]

This is the most American thing ever and I’m here for it

[jasonharitou @jasonharitou]

He-Man / Masters of the Universe is amazing. Lots of fun, lots of laughs, bunch of heart, and an absolutely banging soundtrack.

[demonflyingfox @demonflyingfox]

I was curious how an authentic Bronze Age representation and an accurate portrayal of the mythical beasts from the Odyssey could look, so I went deep into the research and pushed my AI filmmaking knowledge for this one.
Created with Kling 3.0 with the new Kling AI native 4K mode.

[jasonharitou @jasonharitou]

A reminder that in 1993 Gordon Brown sold 395 tonnes of UK gold for $3.5B when gold was slumping.

That gold today would have been worth at least $59.6B.

[jasonharitou @jasonharitou]

@vikare06 The direction of the eyelids seems an odd design choice also (looks like female genitalia tbh). I assume with the tilted nose they’re sadly just going for “general deformity”.

[jasonharitou @jasonharitou]

@hneyvoiced I think they are supposed to be the Laestrygonians (I can’t remember any other giants that attack the crew), but the medieval armour looks wildly out of place

[jasonharitou @jasonharitou]

@TheSoxe @woodywoodinton @DiscussingFilm Not in any way. As someone else said it’s Charybdis, an underwater sea monster that sucks down water and spits it back up.

The scenes with Odysseus digging in black sand is when he’s in the underworld.

[jasonharitou @jasonharitou]

I am sick of vague posting. My entire timeline is full of drifters vague posting just to get clicks, then hundreds of “@grok what is he talking about?”

Grok should be appended at the end of every vague post explaining the context

[jasonharitou @jasonharitou]

@massive_com is it possible to be added to the flat file for futures beta?

[jasonharitou @jasonharitou]

@netflix @NetflixUK the situation for streaming Netflix on Linux is an absolute joke. As more people flock to Linux to avoid AI and privacy issues, what’s your response?

[jasonharitou @jasonharitou]

@massive_com Sweet, thanks!

[jasonharitou @jasonharitou]

@massive_com any update on when the flat file format for Futures will be out of beta? https://t.co/3j1Cw3pYAI

[jasonharitou @jasonharitou]

@lukejcr Great to see you’re working hard for York outer. How’s that ring road coming along? Or the lack of infrastructure for the news houses?