@bilbo_le_hobbit@mamot.fr2026-01-15 11:00:00
Je publie des photos ratées parce que... Pourquoi pas. #raté
@castarco@hachyderm.io2025-11-16 12:05:17
I have the distinct impression that we could use most American "sci-fi" TV series (which seem to have a kink for post-apocalyptical scenographies) as a diagnostic tool for the autism spectrum.
For a moment, let's leave aside the tons of right-wing propaganda "hidden" in plain sight, and their excessive reliance on boring & worn out tropes (religious & cultish bullshit, irrational lack of communication & excess of anti-social behaviour, all vs all, ultra-low-iq characters*, psychotic & irrationally treacherous characters*, ultra-inconsistent character development used to justify "unexpected" plot twists, rampant anti-intellectualism...).
What could be used as a diagnosis tool is the incredible amount of strong inconsistencies that we can find in them**. It throws me out of the story every single time; and I suspect that it takes a certain kind of "uncommon personality" to feel that way about it, because otherwise these series wouldn't be so popular without real widespread criticism beyond cliches like "too slow", "it loses steam towards the end of the season", etc.
Many of those plots start in a gold mine of potentially powerful ideas... yet they consistently provide us with dirt & clay instead, while side-lining the "good stuff" as if it was too complicated for the populace.
Do you feel strongly about it? Do you feel like you can't verbalize it without being criticised as "too negative", or "too picky", or an "unbearable snob"? Do you wonder why it seems like nobody around shares your discomfort with these stories?
* : I feel this is a bit like the chicken & egg problem. Has the media conditioned part of American society to behave like dumb psychopaths as if it was something "natural", or is the media reflecting what was already there? Also, could we use other societies as models for these stories... just for a change? Please?
** : Just a tiny example: a "brilliant" engineer who builds a bridge out of fence parts and who doesn't bother to perform the most basic tests before trying it in a real setting and suffer the consequences: the bridge failing and her falling into the void. Bonus points for anyone who knows what I'm talking about.
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-13 02:23:17
Former Alaska representative
❤️#Mary #Peltola announced on Monday she is running for Alaska’s US Senate seat,
handing Democrats a major recruitment victory as the party battles to reclaim the chamber’s majority in this year’s midterm elections.
Peltola, who served as Alaska’s sole House member from 2022 un…
@krone@frawas.de2026-01-12 12:56:12
Hohe Lawinengefahr - Minus 29 Grad! Hier ist es kälter als auf Grönland #News #Nachrichten
@iam_jfnklstrm@social.linux.pizza2026-01-13 09:55:44
Gjorde jobbets interaktiva AI utbildning. OM AI vore så smart som de säger har de antagligen inte använt AI för att ta fram underlaget. Först kommer användningsområden som att ex 'analysera saker en inte förstår' senare kommer varningen att AI inte kan värdera svar, att den har bias den inte är medveten om, att den kan hallucinera och att den bara jobbar med sannolikhet - inte förståelse. SEN kommer områden för användning som i anställningsintervjuer, lönesamtal och i framtaganden av…
@carlos@perceptiveconstructs.com2026-01-05 05:25:23
Los Gobiernos de España, Brasil, Chile, Colombia, México y Uruguay ante la gravedad de los hechos ocurridos en Venezuela y reafirmando su apego a los principios consagrados en la Carta de las Naciones…
@carlos@social.perceptiveconstructs.com2026-01-05 05:25:23
Los Gobiernos de España, Brasil, Chile, Colombia, México y Uruguay ante la gravedad de los hechos ocurridos en Venezuela y reafirmando su apego a los principios consagrados en la Carta de las Naciones…
@mcdanlj@social.makerforums.info2025-12-07 00:07:53
I packed for #POTA before heading out to do the weekly grocery shopping, even though it was only 40°F / 4.5°C with low clouds. I decided it was too cold to sit in the helinox chair without insulation, so I drove past US-3867 and went to US-2755 Umstead State Park instead, where I could sit at a picnic table. I took a floor mat out of my car to sit on. As it was, it was cold enough that I co…
@krone@frawas.de2026-01-09 16:34:54
Erhöhte Lawinengefahr - Schnee, Eis und Sperren: Österreich im Winterchaos #News #Nachrichten <…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-11-05 05:37:52
Republicans hold a 219-213 majority in the House,
but they could lock in more seats if reapportionments go their way
Normally, redistricting only occurs after the US census counts residents in each state every 10 years.
But a demand from Donald Trump to lock in more Republican-leaning districts in Congress,
together with a changing legal landscape around partisan gerrymandering,
set off a chain of mid-decade reapportionments.
Republicans and Democrats have…