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Why Disney Bailed on Turning Terry Pratchett’s Discworld Into an Animated Film | …spoiler: they wanted to drop the character of Death + would have had to buy the rights for all Discworld characters a-la Winnie the Pooh
In this piece, Blue Sky Disney reaffirms that Mort was dropped because of rights issues, with the writer illuminating that the project died because Disney needed to buy the film rights to the entire Discworld saga just to make Mort. That plan proved unfeasible for the studio and Musker and Clements were already at work on a new project. https://collider.com/disney-terry-pratchett-discworld-mort/
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Do a Twitter search for “goes against openai” and then dig into the Bot accounts which get trawled up, to see what else they are posting…
(excusing the comedians reposting the same term for lulz) https://twitter.com/search?src=typed_query&q=%22goes%20against%20openai%22
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Susan Kare, Iconic Designer | Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation | … I saw and used these in the late 80s and it was wonderful
We were using a Macintosh for layout of UCL’s student magazine “Pi”, having previously spent squillions of pounds on Letraset. It was magic… although some of that may have been the fumes from the Scotch “spray mount.” https://invention.si.edu/susan-kare-iconic-designer
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The old testament for Unix nerds…
https://bitsavers.org/pdf/att/unix/7th_Edition/
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The Third University of Cambridge: BBN and the Development of the ARPAnet
History of BBN, the contractors for the ARPAnet / proto-internet: https://www.freaktakes.com/p/the-third-university-of-cambridgehttps://www.freaktakes.com/p/the-third-university-of-cambridge
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I wish that we could go back to calling it “shunning” – it’s a good word, focusing on the active individual rather than the passive medium
Quoth: A new preprint from Manoel Horta Ribeiro, Shagun Jhaver, Jordi Cluet i Martinell, Marie Reignier-Tayar, and Robert West reveals the results of a first-of-a-kind “longitudinal, quasi-experimental study of 165 deplatforming events targeted at 101 influencers.” It finds that deplatforming works in reducing overall online attention paid to norm-violating figures. https://www.techpolicy.press/deplatforming-reduces-overall-attention-to-online-figures-says-longitudinal-study-of-101-influencers/ https://mastodon.social/@justinhendrix/111710522460431891
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So after reading this marvellous posting by @Teri_Kanefield@mastodon.social, this is how I think Trump is going to win the next US election
Stop here and read this, it’s a great little explainer: https://terikanefield.com/section-3-and-the-spirit-of-liberty/ So here’s my theory:
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Remember that thing in the Online Safety Bill re: how it was needed to stop anonymous abuse of footballers & other sportspeople? It seems they’re perfectly good at abusing each other…
Literally, one guy with 2.8 MILLION FOLLOWERS attacking another with 5.5 MILLION FOLLOWERS and a bunch of TV pundits, too: Up-to and including apparent “we shall fight them on the beached” anti-German sentiment?
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Is someone at mastodon.social actually doing “Trust & Safety” work, or are the crims merely self-censoring and avoiding danger
So I woke up this morning to my Mastodon client notifying me of a message from an obvious Fake Hot Girl In my caffeine-deprived state, I missed the highlighted alerts that this was a cached, possibly-deleted message and so I drafted my usual sarcastic response to such things (above) and only when I attempted to…
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Peak Parenting with a DYMO Labeller
Part 1 in a series of indefinite length…