I've always thought that an APS census of highschool type by department and level would be hugely revealing

but then again medium still exists so I have no idea how any of this works

they built an amazing news desk globally, but I feel like monetisation was always a worry about it later problem until it was suddenly later and there was no money.

welcome to the doubling in speed every week phase

very good take

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jar 'o ghosts post stays winning bsky.app/profile/hiki...

This rules.

Source: www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8xYY78p/

this made my soul ache

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oh, dang. that's a loss

last week I had to upload an image of my tax file number with a picture of a piece of bread next to it because the commercial software I was using didn't have a text input and uploading just an image of a number was "too small"

if our flag sucked less I imagine there'd be less pressure to draw inspiration from the trees

golden wattle flowers

I mean, they do

Letterboxd screenshot Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) Watched by Branson Reese 28 Apr 2022 Abrams isn't a man so much as he's an avatar of cultural entropy. If you make something popular enough eventually you will die or sell it off and and a person in thick rimmed glasses whose main artistic vision is that he loves to have meetings will take it and sandblast it until it's nothing. I hate to see this happen here but maybe it's good that this happened. Maybe every franchise should collapse into a version of itself that makes shareholders nod and shake each others' hands. We should learn to speak in a language that rich people who don't dream can't comprehend.

i often think about this review

Wilcannia Mob - Down River (Music Video) YouTube video by The Archiv15t

e.g. youtu.be/Cq8ePLUdnT8?...

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what a loss. vale

There has always been a huge corpus of slop in every genre of publishing, children's entertainment, gaming etc. where high volume, low cost is the way to profit on low margin - AI is just making this extremely visible

Bo Burnham: Inside - Jeff Bezos YouTube video by Lord Vader

youtu.be/lI5w2QwdYik?...

Excerpt from a blog post "We are essentially watching the mainstream video game industry transform from a creative powerhouse into a high-end museum gift shop, where the primary business model is selling us souvenirs of experiences we had twenty years ago rather than creating new memories. The tragedy isn’t that these remakes are bad games, as I said before, many of them are technically brilliant productions; but that their dominance signals a complete lack of faith in the future of the medium. The industry has become so efficient at monetizing our past that it has forgotten how to invest in its own future, creating a feedback loop that feels increasingly claustrophobic.”

Loaded up this week's Critical Distance and was immediately hit with this oof

A sampling of show broadside posters for McKie's Lounge.

this is easily one of the funniest things I’ve ever read. it’s so funny I’m willing to actually post something on bluesky

rivers of london?

yes! as someone who just moved from Aus to the cold it's totally different. winter there my little one would be running around in shorts and gumboots, here it's a half hour negotiation about gloves vs mittens after you've got all fifteen layers on

absolutely feel this every day