@ginevra@hachyderm.io2025-08-30 00:56:10
Thinking about #DiscoElysium succesors(?), including ones with heavy ethical concerns. A lot of them have gone for female protagonists: Good! There could have been a couple more leading women in DE. But the reveal trailers are mainly voiced by men... men berating or mocking the central character.
Longdue's Hopetown has a father figure voice over, berating the protagonist: "Who do you think you are? [...] You don't understand the forces at play" Infantalised, she doesn't get to respond.
ZA/UM's Zero Parades VO is also a man, initially flattering the spy protagonist "brilliant, relentless" ... then saying she came after him and "everything she touched, written into failure". Again, no chance for the female spy to tell her side of the story ... And there's an objectifying/threatening section about how her fair hair is like a dandelion. Tangeant: what's with the heavy/bad pseudo-German VO accent?
Do I bother mentioning DarkMath's XXX Nightshift? Yes, for once a woman's VO, but (as you'll have guessed from the name) a porn-like, male-gaze view of what a woman would say and think.
So, don't be fooled that a female protagonist means we're actually getting a woman's POV. It's just a cosmetic change. Dora Klindžić's https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:rx3zlqzbjylvtyg6siikaouq experiences as a writer at ZA/UM show how women struggle to have a voice and stay employed in these types of studios. Many of the senior men she mentions are still at ZA/UM.
@awinkler@openbiblio.social2025-06-30 11:57:29
As @… 's 5 principles of civilized AI have popped up again at #bibliocon25 I was wondering if they are published somewhere in a reliably quotable form?
There's a recording of the talk on Youtube (
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2025-07-27 23:01:33
Bengals rookie Shemar Stewart says there's 'no bad blood' with team after contentious contract standoff
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/bengals…
@bici@mastodon.social2025-07-29 02:05:57
'One hour a day for better moods, less anxiety and feeling closer to their friends and family, all of it achieved by something as enjoyable as play.
Perhaps by fall, a zest for outdoor fun with phones left indoors will become a habit.
... encouraging children to go swimming or play street hockey is hardly a horrible way to give such a boost to their physical and mental health.
Open the door. Go outside and play. Put down your phones. Summer is calling."
@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz2025-08-29 00:12:58
I'm right chuffed! Even just after watering it, and having the door open for a while, our greenhouse is between 25-40 degrees C, in the last week of winter. We've already got a bunch of seedlings coming up. I think it's going to be a good summer for veggies in our household. Now if I can just find a good spot to plant that Avocado tree... 🤔
@arXiv_astrophGA_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-09-01 09:08:53
Subaru High-z Exploration of Low-Luminosity Quasars (SHELLQs). XXIV. 54 New Quasars and Candidate Obscured Quasars at $5.71 \le z \le 7.02$
Yoshiki Matsuoka, Kazushi Iwasawa, Masafusa Onoue, Takuma Izumi, Michael A. Strauss, Masayuki Akiyama, Kentaro Aoki, Junya Arita, Xuheng Ding, Masatoshi Imanishi, Nobunari Kashikawa, Toshihiro Kawaguchi, Satoshi Kikuta, Kotaro Kohno, Chien-Hsiu Lee, Tohru Nagao, Camryn L. Phillips, Mahoshi Sawamura, John D. Silverman, Ayumi Takahashi, Yoshiki Toba
@shriramk@mastodon.social2025-07-27 15:00:16
Perfect way to end the middle of summer: at the same time, an interesting parcours for the final TdF stage (with the usual scenic Paris shots), and a *gripping* cricket match finale. Very little comes close to a 5th day rearguard action: the excitement of a game that has no result! (Maybe.)
@pre@boing.world2025-06-20 22:54:36
There's a woman I know who, when she was pregnant, was very keen to hear the opinions of crystal diviners and homeopath medics on what sex her new baby would be but wouldn't let the ultrasound-scan technician that actually knows tells her because Spoilers.
On that note, I'm happy to watch #doctorWho #badWolf #tv
@hikingdude@mastodon.social2025-07-18 18:47:09
Uff finally I wrote the blogpost for a hike I did in May (and you've probably seen the video of it already). But I haven't shared the #photos ans some more background story from it.
I don't know why but this time I found it really hard to write. Maybe I'm a bit out of practice or I just didn't find the right mood for it - I'm not sure.
Anyways, I hope you enjoy…
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2025-07-25 23:24:11
Stewart to join Bengals as rookie reaches deal https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45824885/shemar-stewart-bengals-hammer-home-language-reach-deal