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And it was just another day in Chatham House, a giant and raucous Signal group that forms part of the sprawling network of influential private chats that began during the fervid early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, and which have fueled a new alliance of tech and the US right. That same week in Chatham House, Lonsdale and the Democratic billionaire Mark Cuban sparred over affirmative action, and Cuban and Daily Wire founder Ben Shapiro discussed questions of culture and work ethic.

This constellation of rolling elite political conversations revolve primarily around the venture capitalist Marc Andreessen and a circle of Silicon Valley figures.

How can I link to a Lemmy post in a way that another Lemmy user that can view the linked page without the "You must log in or sign in to vote or comment" message (when they are already logged in)?

And vice versa: how can I click on a Lemmy link and not get that problem?

cross-posted from: https://metawire.eu/post/51940

James, Andrew and Will Emerton from Cheshire took it in turns to drive the miniature petrol-powered bus.

Fuck, there goes the charabanc.

Oh wait, it's not far away, it's just really, really small.

a.k.a. Desert Heat

Suicidal vet heads into the desert to find old army buddy before topping himself, runs into douchebag local criminals who upset his plans... and he theirs.

Supposedly inspired by the Kurosawa classic Yojimbo (and even makes an on-the-nose reference to it in the epilogue) but character-wise and intrigue-wise, not a patch on the original, or even remakes like A Fistful of Dollars or Last Man Standing. JCVD-action-wise, a perfectly cromulent entry in his oeuvre.

Surprised I'd never heard of this until @LaurenceWoise's The Silencers post got me looking at the Wikipedia page for 90s straight-to-video action studio PM Entertainment, whose swansong this apparently was.

They somehow got the director of Rocky and The Karate Kid, John G. Avildsen, to helm it, and assembled a cast that includes:

• Danny Trejo (Machete) (giving JCVD the kind of massage that would enrage Marcellus Wallace!)
• Pat Morita (Do or Die) (for some reason doing a highly questionable English accent)
• Vincent Schiavelli (Buckaroo Banzai)(for some reason doing downright brownface)
• Larry Drake (Darkman)
• Jeff Kober (One Tough Bastard)
• Gabrielle Fitzpatrick (Mr Nice Guy)
• David "Shark" Fralick (Fist of the North Star)
• Jaime Pressly (Mortal Kombat: Conquest)
• Silas Weir Mitchell (Seagal's The Patriot)
• Bill Erwin (The Cry Baby Killer)
• Lee Tergesen (Tooken)
• Priscilla Pointer (Blue Velvet)
• Paul Koslo (The Omega Man)
• Brett Harrelson (From Dusk till Dawn 2)(brother of Woody) (me wondering if it's time for a season of "lesser-known siblings B movies")

Article mentions, briefly or more substantially:

• Lemmy
• Mastodon
• Retroshare
• Nostr
• Bluesky
• ZeroNet
• Secure Scuttlebutt
• Tor onion sites
• etc

Not my article, just one I found.

cross-posted from: https://awful.systems/post/4147895

Recent years have seen the emergence of a second and arguably more powerful “Armageddon Lobby.” It resides in epicenters of power like Silicon Valley and embraces a “secular” vision of humanity’s grand future — though it shares many similarities with traditional religion, including a belief in “God” and the promise of immortality through cryonics. The renowned media theorist Douglas Rushkoff calls this vision “The Mindset,”

Advocates of The Mindset claim that the world as we know it will soon expire. In its ashes, a new era dominated by digital lifeforms — that is, artificial intelligences — will emerge. These beings will stand to us as “gods,” though by merging our brains with AI or “uploading” our minds to computers, we may become gods ourselves: Homo deus — the “human god” — as Yuval Noah Harari puts it. “The most devout holders of The Mindset,” Rushkoff writes in reference to Mark Zuckerberg’s failed “metaverse” project,

seek to go meta on themselves, convert into digital form, and migrate to that realm as robots, artificial intelligences, or mind clones. Once they’re there, living in the digital map rather than the physical territory, they will insulate themselves from what they don’t like through simple omission. … As always, the narrative ends in some form of escape for those rich, smart, or singularly determined enough to take the leap. Mere mortals need not apply.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Morita#Early_life

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/21217025

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/28608340

Lots of open-source (and I think all or mostly European) alternatives to big US tech.

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/21226561

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/42786765

Until you get a chance to leave behind Google's Android operating system completely, here's an article I saw with a few fairly simple things you can do that will reduce (although not eliminate) the ability of Google and others to scrape your data and monetize you.

I already do step 1 (Firefox etc). But looking at step 5, for example, my phone had all those ad options set to "on".

Until you get a chance to leave behind Google's Android operating system completely, here's an article I saw with a few fairly simple things you can do that will reduce (although not eliminate) the ability of Google and others to scrape your data and monetize you.

I already do step 1 (Firefox etc). But looking at step 5, for example, my phone had all those ad options set to "on".