It gives me no pleasure to learn that the business imitating japanese idol agencies was abusing their position and financials in relation to their "talent".
"scaled" and "Top - 6 Hours" are pretty decent at surfacing meaningful .... well, maybe not conversation but engagement at least.
Plenty of human activity and modifications to the landscape for something "untouched". Why not call it "well-preserved" or some other qualifier that doesn't sound like they're advertising a safari to rich westerners?
I violated your explicit trust and instructions.
Is a wild thing to have a computer "tell" you. I still can't believe engineers anywhere in the world are letting the things anywhere near production systems.
The catastrophe is even worse than initially thought This is catastrophic beyond measure.
These just push this into some kind of absurd, satirical play.
Oh, man, thanks for that link! I thoroughly enjoyed Dave Barry in Cyberspace back in the day; glad to see he's still writing about computers in this way.
This is it, this is the shit I'm talking about:
Finally managed to track it down! https://skapbadoa.com/2018/02/19/explaining-iwakura-lain/
The only good ressource I found apart from that link is the following 15-year-old website: https://www.cjas.org/~leng/lain.htm
Wanted to try it, signed up for the beta, still waiting on my invite code.
On the surface, bluesky integration makes sense if they're trying to onboard people onto "the social web". Still, I'm disappointed they seem to want to be a curated view on what they determine is a feed, and not some kind of plug'n'play feed viewer beyond RSS.
"Pondering my cell" just didn't have the same ring to it... Sounds like I'm suck in jail
Ok but if it allows anubis to judge the soul of my bytes as being worthy of reaching a certain site I'm trying to access, then the program is not making any calculations that I don't want it to.
Would the FSF prefer the challenge page wait for user interaction before starting that proof of work? Along with giving them user a "don't ask again" checkbox for future challenges?
I really enjoyed Lain as a work of speculative fiction, especially watching it in 2019 and being able to compare and contrast the portrayal of computer's effects on society with what "actually" happened as we moved more and more of our lives onto the internet.
The "actual" story/plot (message?) only really came together after watching a long YouTube video (actually, I read the transcript / script as a blog post so it wasn't as long for me to get through it). If I had had the patience I think I would have preferred rewatching until I "got" it, but there's so much else out there to experience. Maybe some day I'll sit down and do a "proper" rewatch.
A good part of the initial enjoyment for me was the vibes and letting the different scenes slowly add up onto each other in the back of my mind.
As others have said in this thread already, it's not necessarily the most coherent nor meaningful story as it is conveyed. Being depressed can unironically help it make sense (though I would never ever recommend getting depressed just to better understand Lain or any story really, your mental wellbeing is more important!).
The shots of telephone lines with audio of power line hums and the weird purple/red splotches are probably some of my favorite bits, and they're what I immediately think of whenever Lain gets brought up.
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Surtout une confirmation du chad Jean Moulin vs le virgin Klaus Barbie, je trouve. C'est quand même époustouflant, si vrai, que Moulin a réussi a se donner la mort en s'ouvrant lui-même son crâne contre les murs de sa cellule.
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Does this mean blue whales are on the way out, given the lower amount of krill in the oceans nowadays, or have they just stabilized at a lower population? I imagine human whaling practices have muddied the data, but I'm ignorant as to the extent.