Rewatching Dark Places because I recorded it off tv recently and it has Chloë Grace Moretz in it somewhere. Though you have to wait until 30 minutes into the film for her to show up, but then it instantly feels less dreary.
I can't quite remember the story from the first time I saw it, except maybe that it was indeed 'dark'. Chloë did much dark stuff in her youth (in films I mean).
#ChloëGraceMoretz #DarkPlaces
Also, why does a post get federated with the wrong accounts of people tagged as well, even though I removed these before posting and these tags don't show up in the post on the origin server?
And why does Mastodon show images of a cw'd post even though the cw is collapsed, while Pleroma does it right?
And why don't post scopes work properly between platforms...
So many little incompatibilities can pop up in this fediverse thing.
@dansup fyi, and I don't consider it a problem for me, but the Pixelfed Android app installed from f-droid (1.0.0.37) triggers a warning by the Lookout scanner. It says the signing key is accessible to multiple developers. I guess this is just a result of releasing via f-droid. However, I'm not getting this message on any other apps I got from f-droid.
For the warning, see screenshot.
#JennaOrtega #DeathOfAUnicorn
'Death Of A Unicorne' Movie Adds Richard E. Grant, Will Poulter, More
A24 has wrapped production on Death of a Unicorne, its new film starring Paul Rudd (Ant-Man franchise) and Jenna Ortega (Wednesday) that has been at the center of the online rumor mill for months. …Matt Grobar (Deadline)
Excellent story on how HBO execs used an army of secret fake accounts on Twitter to harass TV critics who gave poor reviews to their shows
It shows why people shouldn't just write off anonymous comments online as just "trolls" — some of them are coordinated campaigns by extremely powerful people with an axe to grind.
rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-…
HBO Bosses Used ‘Secret’ Fake Accounts to Troll TV Critics
Casey Bloys ordered staffers to create fake accounts to fire back at critics, according to texts reviewed by Rolling Stone as part of a new lawsuit.Cheyenne Roundtree (Rolling Stone)
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In related news: in the past you needed to type well into her last name before type ahead search results on the various sites considered you might be meaning "Jenna Ortega", but I can report that now for IMDb "Jen" is enough and for Netflix a simple "Je".
The autocomplete on my phone needs nothing more than "J", or in fact just a #, but that's years of training...
#JennaOrtega
#JennaOrtega
Now watching Karen Gillan twice in Dual. I haven't seen this before but from what I gather the premise of this film is that in some sci-fi future, before someone dies, they can have their whole being copied into a new body. Karen's character is in that situation and does that, but then she doesn't die but her copy also doesn't want to go away. Karen plays both the original and the copy.
Karen Gillan is of course known as one of the great companions from Doctor Who: Amy. (There have been many... Clara, Rose, Martha, Yaz, Ace...)
#KarenGillan #Dual
#KlarizaClayton #FoxTrap #DontBlink
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From that post I recently shared, with the interview with Queen Rania, I also like to highlight the quote:
There can never be a resolution except around the negotiating table. And there's only one path to this: a free, sovereign, and independent Palestinian state living side by side in peace and security with the state of Israel.
These are words I can get behind. Better worded than some loaded slogans.
“I have never seen a Western official say the sentence: Palestinians have the right to defend themselves.”
– Queen Rania of Jordan
jordantimes.com/news/local/que…
Separate clip from her interview with CNN:
edition.cnn.com/videos/tv/2023…
Via @bebatjof
#israel #palestine #gaza #rania
Queen Rania decries Western double standard and deafening silence on war on Gaza
AMMAN – Her Majesty Queen Rania on Tuesday relayed the Arab World’s shock and disappointment at the world’s “glaring double standard” and “deafening silence” in the face of Israel’s ongoing war on the Gaza Strip, emphasizing that, despite the prevale…Jordan Times
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@ButterflyOfFire So we close the door after Israel… did I get that right? Only Israel has a right to defend itself?
(So not the US, for example? Or are they also exempt? It feels like they might also be exempt. Is there a list somewhere of who is and who isn’t allowed to defend themselves? Would be useful to have for reference so the foolish among us don’t inadvertently make inferences based on flawed notions like human beings everywhere should have the same rights.)
This time of year:
*looking up from my monitor after a debug session* Who made it dark?
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Trailer for Finestkind is on YouTube. The film will be on Paramount+ from 15 December. The great thing: Jenna Ortega is in it!
youtu.be/O8aPzwMl37g?si=tO0afB…
#JennaOrtega #Finestkind
Finestkind | Official Trailer | Paramount+
Finestkind tells the story of two brothers (Ben Foster & Toby Wallace), raised in different worlds, who are reunited as adults over a fateful summer. Set aga...YouTube
#DoctorWho
Are you ready for The Star Beast?
25th November.
Followed by Wild Blue Yonder on 2nd December.
The Giggle on 9th December.
Then it’s not long until the festive special 😄
doctorwho.tv/news-and-features…
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Just saw Pearl, the prequel to X, and it's quite a good film. It's not a prequel in the traditional sense, but something they made on the back of filming X while they were at that location anyway. Basically it seems like after the actress playing Pearl and the director had worked out the backstory, they figured why not film it.
There's an amazing monologue in that film, as well as other great things.
Interesting that they basically put the whole cast and crew of X in the thanks session in the credits here, acknowledging how connected making these films were. (So yeah, technically Jenna is in the Pearl credits)
#Pearl
Looking for an Emilia Clarke film to watch... The Pod Generation is still not available here and neither are the other films of her I still have to watch.
I was already thinking to rewatch Voice from the Stone for Emilia's 37th birthday today, so that one it is. From my own blu-ray, since this one is also not available on the services of course.
#EmiliaClarke #VoiceFromTheStone
She speaks a lot of Italian...
It's a beautiful story, beautifully made. It's surprising how completely different Emilia's characters are, there's not a hint of Daenerys in Verena yet this is still someone you would like to get to know.
#VoiceFromTheStone #EmiliaClarke
Opened a substack reader account as yet another rss-like app to probably ignore over time and have new buildup of stuff to read.
From what I can tell so far it really is just rss but with better looks. Except they also have non-free subscriptions, but since credit card is the only option, probably not.
Now trying to remember who of those I follow here said they had a substack.
In honour of Katie Douglas' 25th birthday last Thursday, I'm rewatching Believe Me: The Abduction of Lisa McVey. It's moved from Netflix to Disney+, where I've nicely searched for the film via Katie's name so the statistics show why people are watching this (as opposed to any recommendation by algorithm). I've got my tea and popcorn ready.
It's a harrowing story played intensely and touchingly by Katie. The deep misery her character Lisa is in even before she's abducted, then the strength of character Katie portrays to fight her way out of it, make a lasting impression. And it's a true story.
More films of Katie should be released in my country, she's certainly made more.
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Yasmin Paige is an actress I wish I'd hear more about. She did some great things. She was in the Doctor Who spinoff The Sarah Jane Adventures as Maria and also in Pramface and the film Submarine. She was the reason I watched Ballet Shoes, a film with the very talented trio of Yasmin, Emma Watson (yes, the Hermione) and Lucy Boyton (who I've recently seen is still very good). I saw her first in The Mysti Show (yes, I knew Maria before TSJA).
Now I'm watching this film from that same early time, Tooth. Her name may not be on the cover, but she is as the title character, presumably a young tooth fairy. I like how sparkly this cover is! It changes colour with the light falling on it differently.
#YasminPaige #Tooth #NowWatching
#Tooth #YasminPaige #SallyPhillips
As a lifelong Helena Bonham Carter fan I've of course seen Wings of the Dove already (in the cinema even I think). It's long ago and this is the first time watching it from my own blu-ray.
#HelenaBonhamCarter #WingsOfTheDove #NowWatching
letterboxd.com/film/the-wings-…
The Wings of the Dove (1997)
Kate is secretly betrothed to a struggling journalist, Merton Densher. But she knows her Aunt Maude will never approve of the match, since Kate's deceased mother has lost all her money in a marriage to a degenerate opium addict.letterboxd.com
#HelenaBonhamCarter #TheWingsOfTheDove
I hope someone somewhere finds a solution for the Israel/Gaza problem, but the only ones I can make up are utterly unrealistic. Of course the militants and instigators of the 7 October massacre need to be brought to justice (not necessarily by Israel). And of course the Israeli military needs to safeguard Palestinian civilians and definitely not block water and food. But with Hamas operating among civilian populations and no other Palestinian authority being present in Gaza to arrest and try them, any military action by Israel against Hamas can only be (and already is) disastrous. So hoping that Israel will stop its military actions and its siege is hoping for a miracle, but hoping for a miracle is all I've got.
And eventually, will Israelis and Palestinians be able to coexist? Will the factions that want to eliminate the other side give in? Or is this also an impossible dream of mine.
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#DoveCameron #Alchemical
You need to listen to Dove Cameron's Lethal Woman on better head/earphones. So much is lost on the cheap ones I had attached to the pc, I assume the same is true when playing it as background music (I guess if you're a streamer you're going to need to use TIDAL instead of Spotify for the sound quality). Now done my standard copying to phone, tablet and nas, and listening to it on my tablet.
She already said this song is quite different from what the other songs on the album will be. And indeed, it sounds somewhat chaotic in a way that I like and doesn't seem to have an obvious hook that her popular songs had (again, I like that).
#DoveCameron #Alchemical #LethalWoman
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Google-hosted malvertising leads to fake Keepass site that looks genuine
Google-verified advertiser + legit-looking URL + valid TLS cert = convincing lookalike.Ars Technica
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Then those would be 2nd class domains… I mean, it would be the role of browsers or intermediaries (like that obscure ad service) to make sure it's *not* invisible to the user.
I didn't know it until now, but I hereby stand by Latvians who chose to use a k-with-cedilla ķ!
A separate issue is that the ad displayed one domain but led to another — some kochava[dot]com.
Matt Blaze
in reply to Taylor Lorenz • • •Coach Pāṇini ®
in reply to Taylor Lorenz • • •The pseudonymity of Twitter - particularly 2007 through IPO - enabled for a lot of context sharing by people being authentic in public.
It’s what made early Twitter such a valuable learning tool for autodidacts, the curious, and motivated.
@taylorlorenz
Zelmo Ziggy
in reply to Coach Pāṇini ® • • •Will Clark
in reply to Taylor Lorenz • • •🍸Pooka🥕Boo🍸
in reply to Taylor Lorenz • • •🍸Pooka🥕Boo🍸
in reply to 🍸Pooka🥕Boo🍸 • • •Oh yeah, I want to see a bunch of entitled rich white a'holes.
Jeff, Cat Herder
in reply to Taylor Lorenz • • •Phil Rees
in reply to Taylor Lorenz • • •I wonder what a Googler or ex-Twit would do if they found themselves on the advisory board of a company that pulled that kind of fakery for SAP, HWA, Nasdaq and the like. Hopefully some enterprising journalist will ask them one day.
thesocialarchitects.co/advisor…
postmodern
in reply to Taylor Lorenz • • •⚡️ axeshun ⚡️ :toad:
in reply to Taylor Lorenz • • •Hypx
in reply to Taylor Lorenz • • •Virginia Murr
in reply to Taylor Lorenz • • •Happens in a ton of situations ... coordinated trolling. One example during my years of tracking the fake account networks, I even came across a small financial company hiring trolls on a micro-job site to troll a competitor.
I've seen it all. Coordinated trolling w/ fakes in politics (probably the most obvious), but also across think tanks, in the music biz, movie biz, "influencer" biz, crypto (in spades), ... etc. etc. etc.. Basically any and every industry you can think of.
Dark Matter Zine
in reply to Taylor Lorenz • • •flere-imsaho 🇺🇦
in reply to Dark Matter Zine • • •flere-imsaho 🇺🇦
in reply to flere-imsaho 🇺🇦 • • •mind, that was at the time that you mistakenly thought that jemisin wrote people with albinism as villains (she didn't), assumed that theodore beale's very visible harassment of various sf-f authors was done to increase publicity for these authors (it wasn't) and used the lovely phrase, and i quote, ”i understand jemisin’s need to write coloreds for colored audiences.”
you should really reflect on whether it's appropriate for you to accuse other people of harassment, nailini hayes.
flere-imsaho 🇺🇦
in reply to flere-imsaho 🇺🇦 • • •for the record, because ms. haynes decided to block me after demanding proof – here's my reply:
nalini haynes in her dark matter zine persona said:
indeed, you “only” claimed that jemisin made her villains extranormatively white, and that by doing it she had vilified people with albinism of all races.
this on top of a rhetorical manoeuvre commonly known as accusation of reverse racism (“making only one of 5 boroughs white is non-representational and problematic. it seems that ‘all white people’ are racist, selfish and evil”, followed by the language that even a bloody aussie should've known for being completely unacceptable in the the third decade of xxi century).
pretend hard
... show morefor the record, because ms. haynes decided to block me after demanding proof – here's my reply:
nalini haynes in her dark matter zine persona said:
indeed, you “only” claimed that jemisin made her villains extranormatively white, and that by doing it she had vilified people with albinism of all races.
this on top of a rhetorical manoeuvre commonly known as accusation of reverse racism (“making only one of 5 boroughs white is non-representational and problematic. it seems that ‘all white people’ are racist, selfish and evil”, followed by the language that even a bloody aussie should've known for being completely unacceptable in the the third decade of xxi century).
pretend harder.
Matt Clifton
in reply to Taylor Lorenz • • •This is so incredibly cringe. This whole story is crazy.
Why do rich people get to act like this and keep their jobs?
Matunos
in reply to Taylor Lorenz • • •unrelatedwaffle
in reply to Taylor Lorenz • • •Monina6969
in reply to Taylor Lorenz • • •How did these people reach that level in an organisation ? Do they really think people, (the critics), would accept a sm response as honest , fair, and thought changing comment ?
If I thought a programme was poor I wouldn't change my mind when someone on social media contacted me and said I was wrong.
We made this world. Bloody hell.
JacobRPG❌👑
in reply to Taylor Lorenz • • •Peter Butler
in reply to Taylor Lorenz • • •The only reason I stopped reading after a few graphs is because I think this sort of malicious sockpuppeting is endemic to the internet, for a looong time now
What’s interesting, of course, is the evidence of it (who writes that shit down?!) but eh, TV execs … hard to get much lower
EVERY (almost) PR/agent/label/studio/publishing house is using sockpuppets
It’s 2023. They’ve been doing it for at least 15 years
bassplayer
in reply to Taylor Lorenz • • •kurtsh
in reply to Taylor Lorenz • • •Kinda like how eBay's CEO & executive leadership launched a campaign to intimately terrorize a couple that wrote a newsletter.
The megalomaniacal Machiavellian-types think they can immorally get away with anything they feel like.
"Inside the eBay Stalking Scandal: How a couple became the target of a stalking scandal" - 60 Minutes
youtu.be/yUf9ID2Gnfw?feature=s…
Inside the eBay stalking scandal: How a couple became the target of harassment | 60 Minutes
YouTubewraptile
in reply to Taylor Lorenz • • •corporate astroturfing is not even the scariest part imo.
Imagine what unscrupulous governments do with their troll farms especially in countries with no transparency and accountability laws like Russia or India. Sure, HBO influences me to watch a show but the real trolls are shaping the world politics and by far the biggest source of cruelty spread through information.
Oblomov
in reply to Taylor Lorenz • • •Jonathan Hendry
in reply to Taylor Lorenz • • •"some of them are coordinated campaigns by extremely powerful people with an axe to grind"
I think we knew that already, we just assumed the powerful people were higher up than "executives mad that nobody liked the ending of Game of Thrones".
MessagingMatters
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in reply to Taylor Lorenz • • •This asshole Casey Bloys canceled Vinyl AFTER it was given a renewal for a second season.
And for what? The kind of dreck the Rolling Stone article describes that TV critics rightfully crucified.
He also didn’t allow Westworld to have their final season in conjunction with the asshole who took over the role as CEO David Saslav.
Just like that scumbag Eddie Lampert who deliberately destroyed Sears to steal their real estate I think Zaslav intends to sell Warner Bros. for parts.
CGLambdin
in reply to Taylor Lorenz • • •Anders Puck Nielsen
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in reply to Taylor Lorenz • • •Clinton Anderson SwordForHire
in reply to Taylor Lorenz • • •This is exactly why you SHOULD "write off anonymous comments".
Identity Verification should be a necessity online, especially anywhere trying to be"The Public Square".
The entire internet would be a much better place if Identity Verification was coupled with something like a One Account Per User policy
Beeks
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in reply to Taylor Lorenz • • •Artemis
in reply to Taylor Lorenz • • •I hate the cynicism on display by the HBO folks. The concern-trolling. Like, "you didn't like our show? I think it's just terrible how you hate veterans and don't care about trauma."
And they KNOW it's not a real defense of the show, because if it was a legitimate response that had validity and merit, that exec could have just tweeted from his own account.
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in reply to Taylor Lorenz • • •Paul Guinnessy
in reply to Taylor Lorenz • • •starfrost
in reply to Taylor Lorenz • • •Andreas K
in reply to Taylor Lorenz • • •You don't say.
The UK Tories' more crazy policy proposals were cheered on Twitter by crowds that used statistically unlikely uniform language.
Yeah, ordering 5000 reply tweets. Easy. Coming up with 5000 different, positive sounding replies to an utterly stupid idea? Not that easy.
And 5 different texts, each 1000 times (or similar numbers) often had to do.
onreact
in reply to Taylor Lorenz • • •IMHO this is what cyber warfare departments routinely do.
Not surprised to see businesses embrace this unethical practice.
DamnKimberlee
in reply to Taylor Lorenz • • •Peter Brown
in reply to Taylor Lorenz • • •And there used to be an incredible number of paid trolls fighting Scottish against independence.
FinalOverdrive
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