@jake4480@c.im2026-03-15 17:34:02
David Cronenberg, master of body horror movies, was born today (March 15) in 1943 (during World War II!)
I saw his films 'Crash' and 'Naked Lunch' early, around the same time, in 1997 or 1998. Since then, I've seen many more of his- I just counted, I've seen 13 of his 23 films, and I've loved all of them. I'm a huge fan. My favorite was Shivers for a while. I'm not sure what it is now. Gotta see those final 10!
Happy birthday, David. We love …
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-03-17 08:50:44
A look at Neon, one of the most successful indie studios of the last decade, which makes most of its money from licensing its films to streamers and TV networks (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/20…
@gray17@mastodon.social2026-03-16 08:51:40
one reason recommendation systems seem terrible to me: I used to go to bookstores basically to read the bookshelves, not really looking for a book to read. similarly, I often open up netflix with a vague feeling of "maybe I'll watch something", but really what interests me is the browsing, and I'm unsatisfied by the weird browsing experience. sometimes I do hunt and want something to pounce on, but most of the time I'm just exploring
@steve@s.yelvington.com2026-04-16 15:09:10
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-admin-cancels-catholic-charities-contract-miami-pope-leo-feud-11837718
It's looking like Trump has a vendetta against the Catholic church.
@UP8@mastodon.social2026-04-16 03:01:02
One of my favorite cherry trees on campus next to the A.D. White House garden with a student and family -- taken with the Laowa 9mm
#photo #photography #flowers
@bourgwick@heads.social2026-03-15 00:58:18
just dislodged a memory of attending the original 2002 auction of jerry garcia's guitars, at studio 54 for some reason, & guitar maker doug irwin (who garcia willed them to) literally cackling/laughing from the back of the room when tiger went for almost a million.
@floheinstein@chaos.social2026-03-15 06:03:18
Unser altes Haus hier hat ne Ölheizung. Der Brenner zeigte seit Freitagabend einen Fehler an. Handwerker hat erst am Montag Zeit. Draussen einstellige Temperaturen, gestern Abend im Haus nur noch 16 °C. Meine Frau so: "Kannst du da nix machen?"
Bin dann mit "Verdammt Jim, ich bin Arzt und kein..." Einstellung zur Steuerung gegangen.
Oh, da gibt's nen Knopf "RST". Ich frage mich...
5 Minuten später hat das Kesselwasser 56 °C.
Ich: "Ic…
@digitalnaiv@mastodon.social2026-03-13 08:51:00
Die Abhängigkeit von Microsoft hat einen Preis – und der steigt rasant.
Christoph Schmees zeigt: Bundesbehörden zahlten 2023 noch 274 Mio. €, 2025 schon 481 Mio. €. Mit angeschlossenen Stellen fast eine Milliarde jährlich. Transparenz? Fehlanzeige. Digitale Souveränität wäre offensichtlich günstiger.
#Microsoft
@inthehands@hachyderm.io2026-04-09 19:42:51
RE: https://thepit.social/@peter/116376219055579156
I know a lot of people, in software and otherwise, who are feeling things along these lines.
Hold on, whatever tools you’re using, just hold on to your sense of purpose and meaning. There are a lot of forces at work in this world that want to rob you of that. Your feeling of losing that is not recognition of some new fact of our reality; it is you experiencing a psychological weapon.
@Archivist@social.linux.pizza2026-03-07 15:18:13
This is the most stupid commit I had to make in a while
