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I did not try fermented oats. They smelled nasty.

@Pat
le shrug. you're probably right that there is racial bias in cinema, historically and today, but I don't think picking a few films somewhat at random and counting whichever uses of photographic techniques you find to support your point is an effective way to argue that case. to do something like that, you'd have to 1) ensure your movie selections were unbiased but popularity (if Hollywood is making films that's are more racially diverse in the principal cast, but Americans aren't going to see them, is that the fault of the movie makers?); 2) preselect the indicators of bias and count them for every film -- probably good to count the counterexamples too; 3) control for the fact that some actors are protagonists, so of course they get more lines, screen time, etc. -- basically, you have to make metrics like "black person in supporting role", "screen time for black person in supporting role" -- and somehow figure out how to do stats with that shit...

all that said, I guess I don't care that much about who is in movies as long as they can act. i like movies that tell a good story or make me think differently. beyond that, what matters is who's making them, who's profiting since that dictates the kinds of stories that I can hear and see in this medium... but that's more a concern for the industry, and I'm not an insider, so my only input to that process is the movies I watch.

@khird

going to try fermented oats for the first time tomorrow. hope I don't poison myself!

I kinda dig this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BeQ7hLA3Vk

#music #africa #southafrica #video

electrophiles? superacids? chemical hardness? I swear I never learned any of this in school

haha, awesome! I was wondering what Carrol's take on this film might be

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: 193 | Daniels on Everything, Everywhere, All at Once
https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2022/04/18/193-daniels-on-everything-everywhere-all-at-once/
https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/chrt.fm/track/9EE2G/pdst.fm/e/rss.art19.com/episodes/56aa5a8d-2084-4382-82ce-c960dcb72b13.mp3?rss_browser=BAhJIg9BbnRlbm5hUG9kBjoGRVQ%3D--bba5bdd77df5f5806138bf3e7d4615ea7f8e6a75
#podcast #film #science

@JRLarsen is that a bad thing? I realize I "missed" movies, but then I see what I missed, and I usually don't feel I missed much.

I'm confused by the people I see with their business addresses at their home addresses on Google Maps. How and why?

@dantheclamman oh, I get it. NASA's public education and outreach mission is foundational, and this kind of thing is relatable to the public regardless of whether it was scientifically important.

It's just that fault-finding is my speciality 😁

Podcast: https://www.nasa.gov/johnson/HWHAP/seeing-the-future

Company website: http://www.lambdavision.com/

Awesome stuff. They're making artificial retinas. They've done some of their research and product development on the International Space Station: the microgravity environment allows for fewer defects in the deposition of the artificial retina's layers. They're also looking forward to actual production in space, which is awesome because we're getting close to the time that space-based enterprises, beyond research and communications, are becoming affordable. It's still hella expensive, but floating factories are gonna happen.

#space #smallbusiness #medical #prosthesis #vision #nasa #iss #commercialspace #podcast

@dantheclamman well, we already could do that in a vacuum chamber on earth. I'm turn between appreciating the impulse to have a bit of fun exploring the new frontier and being somewhat miffed that they spent really valuable time doing something trivial like that

I bet there's room for "disruption" in the market for network jacks. I'm probably not appreciating the engineering that goes into them, but $6 a pop seems high

@readsteven looks like blocky Mickey mouse pants too me