bonifartius 𒂼𒄄 @bonifartius@social.cleverlibre.org

"Recently published research analyzes the types of people who benefit most from freedom of speech. The research found people with more resources place greater priority on freedom of speech. However, people with fewer resources (i.e. lower incomes or education levels) benefit most from free speech. The results support the hypothesis that free speech empowers those with fewer resources in society compared to those with greater resources."
https://phys.org/news/2023-06-economics-free-speech-benefits-poor.html

bgm：“啊～资班尼丫～撒哇地吉娃娃～”
https://weibo.com/5876277672/N7PYz9pkK
Source: https://weibo.com/5876277672

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Retro SciFi Film of the Week…

THX 1138 (1971)

Starting out as a student project, this film was George Lucas's first. Apparently Warner Brothers thought it was good enough and decided to back it. Francis Ford Coppola who was already seeing a lot of success by that time also joined the project to help produce.

The film didn’t get many rave reviews when it was first released, but when Lucas went on to make Star Wars just six years later, THX 1138 enjoyed a significant bump in its esteem.

One of the features of the dystopian world depicted in this film is a drug to suppress everyone’s emotions. This is an idea loosely borrowed from A Brave New World, except in Huxley’s story the controlling drug is a happy pill not an emotion-suppression pill. This same idea of a society with suppressed emotions has been used from time to time in science fiction, more recently by the film Equals (2015).

It’s been released in several different cuts (some parts of the original release were censored by Warner Bros). Generally, I’d say the longer cuts are probably closer Lucas’ vision.

There was a director's cut released in 2004 by Lucas himself which is a true director's cut, however if you watch that one you'll be looking at his vision in 2004, and may not be what he would have done 1971 as director’s cut.

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some people get cosmic insights, this guy gets "I hate real estate agents"

In 1989, we published the GNU #GPL. It is at the core of software freedom and it protects users' rights to run, copy, modify, and share. Read more about free software licensing https://www.fsf.org/licensing

Nice

Got my hands on this dual Pentium 2 motherboard.
Now that's nothing you see everyday

#retrocomputing

19-year-old rioter who fell from Lidl store in northern France declared brain dead, making it the 1st death linked to riots.

Maximum size of a PDF, version 7: 381 km × 381 km.

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i just realized i have a plant that eats more meat than gleason

"In other news, the mostly peaceful riots in France seem to have been getting even more peaceful lately with the French police union threatening to strike if the government doesn't provide adequate measures for the situation. Observers note that Macron is now in a dilemma between who to surrender to first."

internet hurry up and collapse so I can go back to playing on a MUD over packet radio

When an eel lunges out
and it takes a bite of your snout.
THAT'S A-MORAY!

@SuperDicq @mangeurdenuage @Johann150 we dont do that in germany

@mangeurdenuage@shitposter.club Dumb bureaucracy aside on other hand you have this: