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I respect the Jackson LotR films but I hate how they unintentionally caused fantasy's aesthetic to be hyperrealistic swords, warriors, and towns all the way down.
Tolkien’s art style has more in common with Mary Blair's Disney work & Moomins than most modern fantasy portfolios.
any insights @DICTgovph @ciccphmedia
The baby boomer generation is the first to enter its most vulnerable years with unfettered access to the internet and, like the rest of us, it has trouble looking away. Americans over 60 now spend more than half their leisure hours in front of screens. But unlike millennials and most Gen-Xers, who have spent years navigating engagement bait, stealth marketing, and AI slop — and have developed a working instinct for what to trust — older adults tend to have little idea of what they’re looking at. This susceptibility is creating an entirely new type of responsibility for the adult children of these suddenly very online parents.
These adult children describe watching their relatives — call them iPad parents — ingest content they have no context for, slipping into a zombified state of consumption that their loved ones often believe is exacerbating their decline. “It seems like an addiction,” says Beth, a 51-year-old lawyer, who says she has watched her 84-year-old mother’s attention span atrophy over the past few years. “It kind of has the same symptoms — getting fussy if she’s not online or just constantly going back to try and get online.”
Marti DeLiema, a gerontologist at the University of Minnesota, likens the process of regulating a parent’s internet access to getting an adult to give up driving in their later years. “Driving is part of your identity. It’s like a mark of freedom and independence,” she says. The online world is “also a source of your social connection.” All this amounts to a particularly tricky balancing act for adult children: figuring out how to preserve their parents’ independence while protecting them from an ever-advancing slop-filled ecosystem.
Read Jessica Lucas’s report on how adult children now have to save their retired parents from slop-filled, scam-riddled feeds: nymag.visitlink.me/FQ9dBi
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AS FEARED: "The world’s clouds are changing. They are covering less overall area and are dimming, with the effect that they reflect less solar radiation back into space. This increase in solar absorption is a major cause of the accelerating warming we are now experiencing."
ALT To determine how close the relationship between Earth’s surface air temperature and cloud area is, we can look at the monthly comparison of temperature versus CAF. Figure 2 below shows that relationship, and it shows it being remarkably linear. This strongly suggests that there is a direct feedback between global mean surface temperature and cloud cover. This is the cloud-temperature feedback. It suggests that as we continue to warm, cloud cover will continue to diminish, pushing up the absorbed solar radiation and continuing to accelerate warming. It doesn’t support the theory that the recent acceleration is temporary and will exist over a limited time period of aerosol adjustment, this feedback is here to stay.
Great piece by Tom Harris on cloud feedback
The world's cloud cover is reducing, which makes the planet hotter
This may be why Miocene Climatic Optimum temperatures were 7 - 8C up on pre-industrial for CO2 levels of just 400 - 600ppm
Very, very, scary
substack.com/home/post/p-220…
i thought the unrealistic brainrot dialogue was already efficient at killing my neurons but then i heard a version with multiple voices and a narrator just going "said" in between dialogue set it on fire burn it all down
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HONTIVEROS SEEKS PENALTIES FOR VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN IN POLITICS
Sen. Risa Hontiveros on Wednesday, October 21, has filed a bill seeking to define and penalize violence against women in politics, including physical, psychological, sexual, economic and technology-facilitated abuse.
Senate Bill No. 2567 also proposes protective measures for women in politics, addressing forms of online abuse such as coordinated harassment, threats, gender-based disinformation and AI-generated sexual images.
magkakaalaman na (2) xitter.cf/Scott_Helme/status/211…
Damn, this is really bad.
Mainstream browsers will probably be fine, but there is a long tail of other stuff that will be affected by this:
scotthelme.co.uk/eight-bits-…
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Unfortunately, it seems that mitigation is not enough folks. Update or mitigate by taking your public facing server offline...
-> phpc.social/@Girgias/1174764…
#php2shell
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a crowded art market is not a tasteless one; it's an open one. abundance is not the same as a lack of taste. craft and merch are not opposites--many of these are made carefully and in small amounts, unlike fast fashion. fine art is also trend-driven so that analogy doesn't work.
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“Rapper-economist” is hella dope
Rapper-economist Cielo Magno confirms she will run for Senate
Economist Cielo Magno announces she will run for senator in the 2028 elections.
Full story:
rappler.com/philippines/rapp…
A conversation with Gopal Divan (Dr. Fareed Bhansali, Interview with the Vampire/The Vampire Lestat).
youtu.be/70DqJ3Ou5aM
#gopaldivan #interviewwiththevampire #thevampirelestat #drfareedbhansali
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American Morality
jonathanpie.com/londonlive/