How does the saying go, “Nutty as a fruitcake”?

Thanks 🙂👍

I recognise a lot of this. I was in a temp teaching position within creative arts as the “AI” hype mounted and rolled out across departments. Although I insisted that “genAI” was not permitted in my courses, it was discouraging to see official rules and guides promoting its use by students.

I’ve worked as an artist for thirty years, and the suggestion that you can skip creative processes with a prompt and a click severely devalues that work. Or rather, it indicates to me what value people were always attributing to creative work. It’s as insulting as it is depressing that “AI” users think some slop generated in a split second is equivalent to careful, considered mastery of a craft…

…so I channelled my energy into vintage stereo equipment instead 🙂 Not the fancy audiophile stuff — I’m not that wealthy — but good, sturdy thrift finds. And buying old and cheap meant having to figure out how to fix things. I never had a great understanding of physics or electrics, I was too busy drawing throughout school. But I’m picking up stuff, soldering away at 40 years old circuit boards and switching out parts so I can enjoy my records again.

It’s not a methodical way into a craft, I learn what to do as needed, but it’s a manual, surprisingly analog pastime that stimulates and satisfies me.

BTW @alyasa@beehaw.org, the entire OP is quote formated, is there a source link for it?

My guess is, they aren’t going to reconcile anything. It’s a “small screen, small scale stories; big screen, SO MANY MONSTER FIGHTS” rationale.

I’m watching the movie now, and it’s as bad as I remember. Never mind the inner inconsistencies, but every line from Bernie is insulting. Nothing against Brian Tyree Henry, it’s the writing. On the heels of awful DIY covid remedies, here is a character that advocates showering with bleach.

Oh, and I had to look up one of his looney phrases, “breakaway civilisation”… I wish I’d used a VPN, I’m on so many watchlists now.

It’s a weird movie, in the sense that it’s really not very good, not even by Hollywood kaiju standards. Personally I’d rather rewatch the Roland Emmerich farce than this one.

But at the same time, as the linked article says — maybe that was just the sort of mindless action everybody needed after lockdown. We were just emerging from our homes again, unsure how to deal with the world, and there was Kong Lebowskying around Skull Island like nobody’s business.

It’s so goofy and dumb you almost disregard that some of the main cast play actual tinfoil hat conspiracy theorists who get proven right that, yes, the Earth is in fact hollow, and also Atlantis is right there. Plus Kong somehow stands a fighting chance against big G, in what scenario does that hold water?

There’s a time and a place for everything, and boy, did this ridiculous spectacle hit a dry spot when it was needed.

Actually, I changed my mind. I’m going to rewatch GvK tonight.

Odo was a lover, not a fighter. Just check out those bedroom eyes!

Crime 101 author Don Wislow hit back at Weir on X, writing, “Congrats on the success of Project Hail Mary and The Martian. I’m a real fan. But when you have your moment don’t use it to crap on other writers’ work. For the record, Alex Kurtzman is a visionary writer, creator, producer and you owe him an apology… writer to writer.”

Ugh. I didn’t watch The Martian because of Matt Damon and his face, but I’m going to continue not watching it because of Weir.

Is it okay, in the context and company of a Trek community, and on the sole basis of that quote, to say that he sounds like a bit of a petty entitled prick?

I’ve never read or watched any of his stuff that I know of, but come on. Somebody rejected a pitch you did, so now you’re going to gloat over the franchise’s misfortune the second you have a mic stuffed in your face?

Well, I’ll be damned. The hate campaigners seem to have won, despite solid signs that the show was actually doing quite well with the target group — internationally, if less so in the US?

This is very sad news, the show seemed to go from strength to strength in its first season.

Um, although I don’t want to cast aspersions based on my own ignorance — who the hell even is Anthony Martino? Is this his first shot at actually making money off his music, by suing a nonprofit?

I will say I did the most basic research into the guy, and according to his wikipedia entry his songs have been featured in some TV shows. Wikipedia also notes that “It is proposed that this article be deleted because of the following concern:lack of notability. Tony seems to have created pages for himself and related projects”, so draw your own conclusions.