Kinda like Black Lion going 'and I'll form the head.' Like, didn't anyone else on Voltron go 'hey, I wanna be the head today!'

"The intent is to provide mods with a sense of pride and accomplishment for unlocking different mod capabilities."

I pay close attention these types of issues since as a writer I'm constantly thinking about how future tech could impact culture.

I love how William Gibson built entire plot arcs around fax being the future standard of communication when email was literally right there. Doesn't matter - I still love the Sprawl series - just illustrates how futurology works sometimes.

It’s still pretty derivative, in an open way, with nods to everything from Terminator, Blade Runner and District 9, to Apocalypse Now, among others, the connecting themes being the confrontation between humankind and technology, American militarism, fear of the other. Usefully, all of this chimes with the current, fiery and fearmongering debate about the advance of artificial intelligence.

Everything you can say about The Creator's 'lack of originality' you can say about Edwards' 'Godzilla' and 'La La Land.' Those other films are scored at 76% and 91%, respectively. Additionally, Godzilla - that tired old reboot of the same movie we've re-watched for the past fifty years - made $524,976,069 worldwide. La La Land - that stale celebration of Hollywood musicals - $151,058,124 at the domestic box office.

Shame on Gareth Edwards for making accessible science fiction for a worldwide audience - wasn't he thinking about the poor, angry nerds who want 'original scifi' despite the fact that they refuse to articulate what 'original' means and they refuse to create their own 'original' scifi and subject it to the same hostile market they make up?

I'm being sarcastic for a reason - The Creator is AMAZING scifi. It doesn't matter if TheArtsDesk.com dunks on it - If I'm still carrying a 2012 award on the banner of my website, the LAST thing I'd be doing is casting aspersions on anyone with the guts and the grit to go out there and actually try to do something that celebrates everything we love about the science fiction genre. I'm not a marketing guy for Gareth Edwards, but credit where credit is due - we need to support original, imperfect scifi if we want to see more of it.

Deride The Creator at your own peril - lest you be damned to another 10 years of MCU and Fast and the Furious movies.

What a strange way to say "I have no idea what I'm doing - somebody please stop me."

@fchaverri I wrote him an epitaph to do one thing that forty years worth of law enforcement and media hype never seemed to do: Look at Kevin Mitnick as a person.

has sent a letter of apology to the local prosecutor’s office

Oh cool, a written confession - thanks for making it so easy for us - the cops

Ozymandias
BY PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

I met a traveller from an antique land,
Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal, these words appear:
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.”

Let’s understand that Reddit has spent over a decade enjoying its status as a world-leading platform while kicking the ‘we’ll figure out how to monetize later’ can down the road. Along the way, some important social questions have arrived and Reddit is still failing to show leadership in this matter. Let me explain:

Those that say Reddit ‘will continue on’ aren’t looking at the situation through the lens of history. At its core, ‘Reddit is a rare social product that has seemed to become more relevant over time, as a growing user base comes to appreciate its distinctive, human-centered approach to digital conversations.’ A digital third place, built on mutually-shared beliefs and principals of digital altruism – Reddit existed to Give People Voices – aiming to create a safe space for all viewpoints.

So that’s what Reddit is supposed to do as a ‘platform.’ What about Reddit as a ‘company?’ Sadly, boardroom shenanigans have pursued Reddit throughout its entire lifecycle. Reddit lost the public-spirited people like Aaron Swartz, and gained trolls, hate groups, and the soap opera that was the Ellen Pao debacle. As Will Durant said: ‘A great civilization is not conquered from without, until it has destroyed itself from within.’

Actions this year by Reddit have pushed it much farther down the path of ‘less user-oriented.’ Worse, public statements and private actions by the company leave nothing to doubt when it comes to their intentions. “We’ll continue to be profit-driven until profits arrive,” Steve Huffman the CEO of Reddit, wrote in a recent AMA.

Spez' decisions have ripped the guts out of Reddit's understood social identity and community intent. Those public statements and private actions by the company I mentioned earlier? They aren’t there to make Reddit a more human-centered place. Monetizing API use won’t increase Reddit’s stature as a ‘a safe space for all viewpoints.’ Like when managers decided to launch the Challenger space shuttle, “the concerns about the O-rings that ultimately led to the explosion were buried in a vast sea of thousands of other decisions … leading up to the ill-fated launch.”

Risks don’t rely on your perspective for existence. “Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away,” as Philip K. Dick famously said. This recent Reddit move to monetize APIs creates major cracks in its foundations of digital altruism and human-centered behavior. As I said last year with Twitter: “Twitter has every chance to prove to us that it can be a safe, responsible place for us to interact with our readers if they want to. In the meantime, it’s getting too weird around here. I’m mustering at the life boat station now, in case we must abandon ship.”

Originally posted here

If I was the employer, I'd want to know what my employee is still doing on Twitter. "Don't you know about Mastodon?"

Smart. What's interesting about it is that the redditors who have left are pretty salty, so I've been accused of being a content farmer for posting content to m/todayIlearned. I was like, dude, there's no karma for posting links. I'm just doing this to be kind, no karma involved. People have a lot of PTSD from the culture of reddit.