As someone who works in tech I occasionally point out to people that if Jeff Bezos decided to go full supervillain he could hold the internet hostage. If you disabled AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud individually the cascading failures on the various systems would take weeks to fix, which we might not have with a supply chain collapse. Genuinely, I think there’s a real chance it could trigger the collapse of human civilization

I was really confused why this was news because I remembered trying mad max mode. It’s fucking batshit how aggressively it merges on that mode. I turned it off immediately. Although the speeding thing isn’t new, all the autopilot modes will let you set the speed to 15 over or more by default

Rise certainly wasn’t as comedic as Army of Darkness but it wasn’t super dark and serious either. I’d say that the closest comparison recently is M3GAN

He misheard and thought Satan was calling him home

Hey, I was one of the people who recommended The Life of Chuck! Glad you liked it, consider giving it a re-watch soon. There’s a lot to pick up on a second viewing

From Dusk til Dawn 4/5: Regal is doing throwback horror all month and this was my first. It’s crazy how quickly the tone shifts but it is crazy fun. Also I want to hear the conversation where QT convinced Selma Hayek to pour booze down her leg into his mouth

Army of Darkness 4/5: More goofy horror but the original Evil Dead movies are just so much fun. I love how deadites are just shitty assholes, it’s so much funnier than a serious villain

The Matrix 5/5: What’s there to say? It’s incredible, I love every moment

Death Becomes Her 4/5: More horror camp this week, and I hadn’t seen this before. At first I was trying to understand why these women were fighting so hard for Bruce Willis then I got that this movie is crazy. This movie walked so The Substance could run

The Mastermind 1/5: This was a mystery movie Monday dud. Some audience reviews as the movie ended “what the hell?” (x3) “that was the worst movie I’ve ever seen” “you know, maybe we should know what movie we’re going to see before we go in”. It’s not the worst thing I’ve ever seen, there’s some funny moments and it is very deliberate. Unfortunately they’re deliberately telling a dumb story. Watching a guy make progressively shittier decisions as his life unravels around him requires him to be compelling in some way, or the audience has no reason to care. His wife seems to aggressively avoid being in the movie which is weird considering she seems to be a co-conspiritor in the scheme. It’s frustrating, slow, long, and dumb. Which are bad ways to describe a movie

That’s an irresponsible place to be standing. There could be a mine there Better yet the revealed squares are pretty risky too

Where’s your head at? by Basement Jaxx

People forget vitally important details every day . You’d think that medicine you need in order to live, mandatory government hearings, gigantic family events would be impossible to forget but people do it all the time

I’m going to be honest, I didn’t even read it. I just clicked the first link that confirmed what I already knew

Lana Del Rey married some random gator boat tour guide

Gotham is so perpetually fucked by so many supernatural phenomena that it’s actually rare for that to happen

I’ve had this same problem discussing it. I was really surprised by how much I liked this movie and I think it’s because I didn’t know anything going into it. I also know everyone hates getting recommend anything described as “go in totally blind”. I re-watched it within a month and it’s really good the second time around too because:

Out of curiosity how did you watch Megalopolis? I imagine that impacts the experience

That movie is so crazy and I’m glad it exists. My criticism is that it seems to be arguing that utopia is a solarpunk libertarian commune, which are certainly contridictary words to describe something. It’s like it believes in the “free market of ideas” while ignoring that ideas inevitably become actions. Like there was a way to connect Driver’s desire to achieve perfection with the fall of the Roman American empire around him but instead goes for a goofy handwave ending. I think there’s something here but you’d need to do a lot of work to drag it out

Superman/Batman Apocalypse 2/5: despite all the words in the title, this is a super girl movie. I’m not opposed to having a supergirl movie but it’s goofy to get Darkseid involved in the story but make the stakes basically a magical brainwashing. That’s like getting in a property dispute with Thanos

Pirates of the Caribbean: the Curse of the Black Pearl 3.5/5: I got to see this with a live orchestra playing the score. The first one really holds up, and the theme is so good that having a live version is cool. I don’t think this is a must see performance but it’s worth $45

7 Days in Hell 4/5: Basically an ESPN mockumentary. I love getting a mix of real athletes and sports presenters with the actors because sports people can be surprisingly funny in context. It’s a great pregame while everyone gets ready

Roofman 4.5/5: This is a local story so I was pretty excited for it. Channing Tatum is funny and charming while Kirsten Dunst really pulls off a tired southern mom who is just trying as hard as she can. It leans in a little on the whole “reality is stranger than fiction” thing by tying together a few things that didn’t actually happen but nothing that substantially changes the plot. Bonus half star for actually filming on location for a lot of it

Avatar: the Way of Water 3.5/5: There is just so much to talk about with these movies. James Cameron loves the ocean more than I will ever love anything in my life, and you go through a whole journey with him. From “yeah the ocean is cool” to “Jesus Jim, you are corny as hell” to “Alright, I guess I’ll go sign up for snorkeling lessons”. Truly, nothing else looks like this movie, he put so much money and work into building a truly alien world and it’s breathtaking at times, especially in imax

Although, I’m knocking half a point off for the variable framerate. I noticed it a lot during the movie and had to go online to confirm my suspicions but apparently the movie alternates between 48 and 24 FPS in action scenes and dialog scenes. Except it kinda does what the LotR extended cuts do and mixes those styles within a scene. So you can have a shot in 48 fps, cut to someone shouting in 24 fps for half a second and then back to 48. If that sounds jarring that’s because it is

Lots of things theoretically exist: a reasonable terms and conditions, a functioning DMV, a unified charging standard, etc. I’m going to focus my energy on things that are real and not hope someone decides to be morally upstanding. If you’re arguing that the bullshit machine that spreads lies that actively harm people could become so ubiquitous that it fits in any electronic device if we just keep giving it money, then I’d say you’re making my argument for me

Would it? I run a science fiction book club and there’re a lot of arguments that if something achieved human level intelligence that it would immediately try to kill us, not become our perfect servants

Ah, but you see, I never claimed AI isn’t useful. In fact, you can check my comment history. I’ve agreed AI is a very useful tool, I still think it shouldn’t be used for ethical, social, and personal reasons

A problem with nuance is that people want to discuss the specifics and nuances of what they care about but for the most part won’t do that on subjects for other people. So you need to tailor your responses to your audience. FWIW on Lemmy I see a lot more instances of people with specificly opposed takes where both sides have similar vote counts. So while it’s not perfect it’s better than most

AI is untrustworthy and shouldn’t be used

I have management talking about copilot usage rates and I hear people casually refer to “what ChatGPT told them” in conversation

Because famously illegal immigrants spend $3,000 on sports tickets all the time