Mark Goody @marramgrass@nitech.online

Pillaged from BlueSky:
"20 years ago we were suing teenagers for millions of dollars because they were torrenting a single Metallica album and now billionaires are demanding the free right to every work in history, so that they can re-sell it.
The law only ever serves capital."

I don't know enough people that would appreciate this joke/meme. #StarTrek #STTNG #Aha #80s #Music #Picard #Riker #Humor #TakeOnMe

It's like that embarrassing thing where you go to the supermarket and buy a six-pack of large free-range eggs because you want to make a tortilla and when you get home they start hatching and the baby velociraptors eat all the pancetta you were going to add to it and look at you with googly eyes like, "mooom! hungry!" and now you have a kitchen velociraptor infestation and they love you and refuse to move out

It fascinates me that stories spin different ways depending on who is involved.

Ex 1: Hillary Clinton calling people on the other side deplorable was in the news for a while as disrespectful and just awful - but Donald Trump calling people on the other side vermin was barely noticed.

Ex 2: Apple taking 30% from people selling on their platform has been in my newsfeed many times a week for years and yet Amazon takes 70% of books I sell for more than $10 and I hear nothing about that.

Amazing hand-drawn, redo of the animated intro of the 80’s kids cartoon Thundercats. This took the artist about 2 months to complete, everything is hand-drawn, even the effects. I feel bad that all I can do is give this a thumbs up on YouTube so I’m sharing it here so you can appreciate it as well. 🥰😸 https://youtu.be/UHxtOkrTZKQ?si=vFNcO-feP_p0xLFO

#Edinburgh peeps, the lovely Cameo Cinema has a season of Powell & Pressburger movies coming up in Feb https://www.picturehouses.com/event-details/0000000140/powell-pressburger

Simply some of the most exquisitely beautiful films in British cinema, well worth seeing again on the big screen, such a different experience from watching on television

Already booked to see A Matter of Life & Death, one of my all-time, top ten favourite films.

#film #cinema #PowellAndPressburger #BritishFilm #ClassicFilm #Edimbourg #AMatterOfLifeAndDeath

I'm worried by this story: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/jan/11/fujitsu-repay-post-office-scandal-horizon-it-software

Yes, Fujitsu must shoulder some blame for the faulty technology, and possibly more for being in denial. But Fujitsu did not choose to pursue the users for the "missing" money and prosecute them. There is a considerable human side to this story. We must not let the Post Office offload all the financial responsibility onto Fujitsu.

"We only acted like complete bastards because their software fucked up." won't cut it.

One of the most beautiful things in the world remains the moment in one of the final Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 cutscenes where Tim Curry _barely_ holds it together. Both that it exists, and that that's the take they went with.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_U59u69tys

You know when people are at a gig and they have their phone out all the time?

Well that's fine. People can do whatever they like. They paid for their ticket so it's up to them how they enjoy the gig. 😊

The AI strategies of both main UK political parties: "Let a thousand Post Office Horizon IT scandals bloom!"
1) the opacity of deep learning erases due process
2) the harms caused when these brittle systems fail will fall on the least powerful
3) politicians believe AI can solve social problems

Horizon was raised in Parliament in 2012.

CW report in 2014. PO discontinued prosecutions in 2015. Civil litigation in 2017—2019.

Inquiry was set up in 2020. In 2021, Court of Appeal quashed a large number of convictions.

Turns out, the combined power of investigative journalism, Parliament, the courts, and public inquiries aren't enough to prompt the government to actually do anything about the biggest miscarriage of justice in English legal history—that requires an ITV drama, apparently.

Seems the only way to get our government to actually do anything useful is to broadcast a dramatisation of it on ITV.

Seriously, the miscarriage of justice around the Horizon / postmaster scandal has been known for… years? And yet it’s top priority now just because it got a drama on TV?

OK then; if that’s how it works, let’s have some dramas for climate change, treatment of refugees, and corrupt fucking Tories chasing the latest headlines.

Take care of yourself this holiday season.
- close your eyes
- take a deep breath
- give your old bones a rest
- wander the trackless moors at midnight and follow ghosts to the crumbling ruins of forgotten kings and magic untold
- have some tea and cake

Petition to make it so that any gig you buy tickets for has to publish all 3 times:

1. doors
2. support (if any)
3. main act

STOP CONFUSING US. 👍