@sarahjamielewis the people are still there, and most feel the same loss that you do. It's our job to rebuild that community on a more solid foundation.

@carnage4life

The press doesn't need to attend a Dana White presser (if one happens).

They can choose not to platform unserious people and liars.
#MediaMustDoBetter

@georgetakei
The sharks are circling. 🦈

semanomaniac (n)
one who has an excessive desire to signify

@mcc Is this just an elaborate plot to make us all look up and learn the meaning of “liminal”.

Also that pill made my life more liminal.

historical first-person alternate history mech combat game

Early today I read someone discuss working at Microsoft and how the slow deteriation of the support staff - the janitors, HR staff, assistants, etc. - signified the deteriation of the company as a whole.

In my time working in the cinemas throughout the USA in the 90s and 00s, I identified another type of tell for a company heading towards its own demise. It was the simple trash bag.

I worked for some rather well established and prestigious cinemas. The well run ones all had the good thick 3mm trash bags. Only one was needed for containing the night's refuse. Then when the bean counters or a district manager was looking to make a name by cutting corners the bags would become thin and cheap.

The good managers would double and tripple bag their garbage. Others who didn't know better, or didn't care, or who were limited on their quotas of bags remained with just the one thin bag per trash can.

The one bag would rip. They always ripped. The ushers dragging the trash out inevitably pulled a snail trail of spilled cola behind them on the way to the dumpster. The carpets took a beating.

From that single ply garbage bag the demise of the cinema was written. I'd watch as well maintained cinemas became poorly policed and cleaned in the name of cost savings. Cinema chains would bleed off theaters in their control. A buyout would happen and more cinemas would close.

I'd watch it time and time again. The crappy trash bag was but a bell weather for things to come.

Okay actually the domain name was first registered in 2014 so I guess that probably is what happened. But I have no idea where they were located before they took over the 8 Ounce space.

Also FWIW the 206 Burger menu is nothing like the 8 Ounce menu. 8 Ounce made *amazing* high-end burgers that cost $20 and were worth every penny.

@neil If it helps, Godzilla Minus One is great.

Apple’s M5 MacBook Air is down to its lowest price since July
https://www.theverge.com/gadgets/1029019/apple-macbook-air-13-15-inch-m5-deal-sale?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Apple News @apple-news-theverge

“AI is the single most powerful technology ever made!”

And yet, I still have to see one (1) thing that has been unambiguously made better by “AI” in my life.

@georgetakei hmmm, I don’t know. He’s still ugly any way you look at him.

Translations? Worse. Looking at pictures? Worse. Reading the news and staying informed? Worse. Carbon emissions? Worse. Looking for new books or video games? Worse. Customer service? Worse. Moderating content on Mastodon? Worse. My favourite fucking card game? Worse.
There is not a single fucking aspect of my life that has not been made worse by “AI” in the past three years while I’m still looking for a *single* thing it improved.

shout out to the lemmy developers for not making us be stuck on the other site

shout out to mastodon devs for making us have a better life than on Twitter

shout out to the pixelfed devs for allowing a actual photography platform to exist

shout out to the peertube devs for helping us not be stuck on youtube until the end of time

ETA: Shout out to the server operators who make the stuff be done

Its because of Lemmy being built by pro-genocide, pro-authoritarian, anti-trans communist Republicans.

for my current gig the client sent me a brand new macbook pro with 24gb ram and using it feels exactly the same as my older computers, except that the UI is ugly as hell and the ports are in more annoying places

art of the package configuration

Speaking of art, I really enjoyed photographer Taryn Simon's solo show Father Country I Do Love You at the Guggenheim NY. It's a bit controversial (the NYT art critic panned it), but I thought it was terrific, weaving together themes of memory, loss, and PTSD in the context the major events of the last half century.

Hint: start at the bottom and work your way up the spiral (some Guggenheim exhibits go the other way).

Every X-Files episode ever

longitude (n)
the quality of being long