Theres a great documentary on Goff if anyone is interested.
Readit Newswizardforhire commented on The Oklahoma Architect Who Turned Kitsch into Art bloomberg.com/news/featur... · Posted by u/MarlonPro
wizardforhire commented on Film students who can no longer sit through films theatlantic.com/ideas/202... · Posted by u/haunter
Counterpoint from the article:
> A handful of professors told me they hadn’t noticed any change. Some students have always found old movies to be slow, Lynn Spigel, a professor of screen cultures at Northwestern University, told me. “But the ones who are really dedicated to learning film always were into it, and they still are.”
The article doesn't actually give any evidence attention spans are shortened. Many of the movies you study in film school are genuinely excruciatingly slow and boring, unless you're hyper-motivated. Before mobile phones, you didn't have any choice but to sit through it. Now you have a choice. I suspect that film students 30 years ago, despite having a "full attention span", would also have been entertaining themselves on phones if they'd had them.
I love movies. But I also make liberal use of 2x speed and +5s during interminably long suspense sequences that are literally just someone walking through a dark environment while spooky music plays. It's not that I suffer from a short attention span, it's that there's nothing to pay attention to. There's no virtue in suffering through boredom.
>Many of the movies you study in film school are genuinely excruciatingly slow and boring…
Case in point [1]
Yeah. Example: stripper poles. Or hitachi magic wands.
Those poles WERE NOT invented for strippers/pole dancers. Ditto for the hitachis. Even now, I'm pretty sure more firemen use the poles than strippers. But that doesn't stop the association from forming. That doesn't make me not feel a certain way if I see a stripper pole or a hitachi magic wand in your living room.
To be fair to the magic wands, thats why “massagers” were invented in the first place. [1] [2] [3]
[1] https://thefactbase.com/the-vibrator-was-invented-in-1869-to...
[2] https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/first/m/ma...
wizardforhire commented on FBI is investigating Minnesota Signal chats tracking ICE nbcnews.com/tech/internet... · Posted by u/duxup
If those shooters don't get presidential pardons, they're going to get prosecuted sooner or later. No statute of limitations for murder, right?
But pardons only apply to federal crimes… murder is a state offense.
wizardforhire commented on Dark Mode vs. Light Mode: Which Is Better? nngroup.com/articles/dark... · Posted by u/seanwilson
Funny enough, I use HN as a gentler flashlight when I enter my bedroom after my spouse is asleep as it’s one of the few sites/apps that doesn’t have a dark mode.
Same
I suggest you start converting your writing into short digestible Tiktok dance moves...
Joking aside, paper is resilient. Share your digital writings everywhere, then make paper copies that you can donate to libraries. If this fails, that's fine. You won't be around to see it.
Yes and… may i suggest turning the website into a religion… then it may last several thousand years
wizardforhire commented on System: Control your Mac from anywhere using natural language system.surf/... · Posted by u/handfuloflight
Nothing more like playing Russian roulette with your own machine, hoping that when it needs to delete, move or rename a file, you sure hope it doesn't begin running either (especially do not run with --dangerously-skip-permissions):
rm -rf ~/
rm -rf /
mv ~/ ./
Or even creating a faulty symbolic link and above your home directory and suggesting to remove it, then it actually removes everything in that folder including your files in the home folder.
Or it decides to rsync your drive along with keys to who knows where
wizardforhire commented on Utopian Scholastic wol.fm/blog/utopian-schol... · Posted by u/birdculture
\ \ \ V A P O R W A V E / / / meets education
This only holds up for the "small" number of human interactions the average person gets. If my neighbor comes and rings my doorbell to say hello, I'm fine answering and shooting the shit, maybe invite them in for a quick coffee.
If every 5 minutes a strange comes in and rings my doorbell, I'm not getting up and answering it. And some people visiting will get angry and start pounding on the door and coming to my window and pounding on it glaring at me inside. And say, hey, I drove all the way from hours away to come visit you, the least you could do is open the door and say hello.
For them, it's their first human-2-human interaction that day, with someone they slightly admire even, and they're expecting basic human courtesy. To me, they're just the 42nd doorbell ringer today.
The challenge is in how to manage and and maintain the interest, less one falls back into the realm of obscurity or worse be tarnished reputationally so as to never recover.