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Angus Paterson

@AngusTPaterson

Freelance writer. Electronic music obsessive. Displaced leftist. Amateur political commentator.

Hamburg, Germany Se unió Ağustos 2010
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Angus Paterson
Angus Paterson@AngusTPaterson·
One of my favourite pieces for @screenrant last year. A chance to dig into what fascinates me about horror soundtracks; how they "embody the provocative themes of their respective films, abrasive & experimental... similar to horror itself—a misfit genre forever on the fringes."
ScreenRant@screenrant

This is the Screen Rant tribute to horror cinema’s most memorable soundtracks: bit.ly/48LjySV 🎵 Psycho 🎵 Halloween 🎵 A Nightmare On Elm Street 🎵 Tenebrae 🎵 The Thing 🎵 The Shining 🎵 Alien 🎵 Rosemary’s Baby 🎵 Candyman 🎵 Hellraiser

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Angus Paterson@AngusTPaterson·
I'm pretty sure this isn't only data point to measure a broken, unravelling beurocracy. Since return to Oz from Germany, I've taken joy in the small things, for instance ticking a single box on a digital form, instead of printing 100 pages and mailing them off to the local Amt.
Andrew Chapman@chapman_auspol

@AngusTPaterson if they were above Australia I reckon The Economist would have included them in the chart:

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Angus Paterson@AngusTPaterson·
Well, I just returned to Australia after 15 years in Germany, what I've observed is a country markedly more modern, agile, and digitised than where I'd been. If you think the public service is bloated in Australia, relative to Deutschland at least, I can tell you it is not.
Casey Handmer@CJHandmer

When I was in Australia last December, I found it impossible to transact with any business where there weren't latent government price controls or subsidies of some kind. I came to the realization that with the public sector growing about 5x faster than the private sector, Australia was well on the way to an effectively government run economy, communism by stealth. I dug deeper - the point of no return occurred in about 2013. caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2026/04/16/aus…

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@Dr_Tad Agreed, it's kind of an artless application of the technology. Though the tech does genuinely appear robust enough that there are potentially a lot of different use cases for filmmakers on a budget.
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Angus Paterson@AngusTPaterson·
@Dr_Tad The use of the term "authoritarian," and sentiments like "threat to democracy" etc, these things are just said and never actually properly argued for, am I wrong? Establishment politics seem like the far bigger "threat to democracy" to me.
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ᴅʀ ᴛᴀᴅ@Dr_Tad·
Desperate attempt to maintain a concept (“competitive authoritarianism”) used for moralistic denunciation despite its inability to helpfully explain anything going on in the real world. All governments try to make life hard electorally harder for oppositions — gerrymandering & state-media coziness are common features of Dem as well as GOP behaviour in the USA, for example — but that doesn’t require a new category of regime to describe it. All this kind of nonsense does is turn healthy criticisms of “unfair” behaviour into a hollow culture war about existential threats to democracy.
Zack Beauchamp@zackbeauchamp

I've seen a lot of takes that Orbán's defeat means that he was never an authoritarian in the first place. This is completely wrong — and, in fact, betrays a complete misunderstanding of both Hungarian politics and modern authoritarianism. Here's why.

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Angus Paterson@AngusTPaterson·
@vaampyraa The Resident Evil franchise is full of thrills, chills, jump scares, white-knuckle tension etc. Loads of fun. But the scares in Silent Hill games are psychological, there's a deep sense of unease, and it's often haunting and quite disturbing.
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Angus Paterson@AngusTPaterson·
@immalkwalahi Toluca prison broke me, I had to put the game down for a little while.
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@akarlin @phl43 @elonmusk Sure, but I don't really believe there weren't alarm bells going off internally about the longterm prospects of the platform, when it's in decline in most metrics while most of their other initiatives are failing. Eventually it will hit their ad dollars.
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Anatoly Karlin 🧲💯@akarlin·
@AngusTPaterson @phl43 @elonmusk This seems to suggest that beyond a certain scale engagement becomes less important. Also, I'm not sure it's that catastrophic. Few people in my demographic class are still active there. But the boomers are happily reposting AI slop and marketplace is popular with bargain hunters
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Philippe Lemoine
Philippe Lemoine@phl43·
This was such a dishonest post. Bier was pretending that, if tweets containing a link tended to get lower reach, it was because of some UI problem, but to the extent that this problem was real it had always existed and tweets with links only started getting less reach after the algorithm was modified to penalize them, which we know because Musk literally said they did that! People keep avoiding links to this day because they believe, I think correctly, that this is still the case. The truth is that Bier knows perfectly well that it's why posts with links are being deprioritized, and he also knows that everyone hates that, but he can't say it because Musk made the decision to deboost links and he doesn't want to antagonize him, which is why he has to beat around the bush and post nonsense about how that was because of the UI.
Nate Silver@NateSilver538

That isn't really what the tweet you're self-quoting says. It says it's hard to establish the quality signal associated with a link and so each tweet should "stand alone", and also the platform design makes it hard to engage with such tweets. Maybe fix that?

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Angus Paterson@AngusTPaterson·
@akarlin @phl43 @elonmusk Because they're rinsing it with their ad dollars and how much they've monetised the platform. Engagement over the past 5 years though has plummeted, absolutely cratered. I'm guessing this would be of major concern internally.
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Angus Paterson@AngusTPaterson·
@phl43 @akarlin @elonmusk It slowly degrades the quality of the platform. There's perceived benefits to creating a silo that seals up your user base, but if you look at Facebook's trajectory since doing the same... it's been a death spiral. Following incentives like these is just so corrosive.
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Philippe Lemoine
Philippe Lemoine@phl43·
@akarlin @elonmusk I don't think it's obvious that deboosting links is even good for profitability in the long run, but even if it is, I don't like being bullshitted.
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People eventually change their minds on AI when they discover a use case that actually automates the tedious side of the work they're doing. Until that point, it's all indistinguishable from the terrible AI slop that is bombarding our feeds. I'd reccomend keeping an open mind.
Scott Barry Kaufman ⛵@sbkaufman

I don't know why I'm so resistant to using AI. Everyone tells me Claude is amazing, and I can do so much with it. I don't want to make things easier. I want to struggle for my creativity. I like going through an impasse, and then having an insight. Will AI make it unfulfilling?

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ᴅʀ ᴛᴀᴅ@Dr_Tad·
There’s always been a section of the western left that favoured Iran’s murderous Islamist regime over any popular struggle against it (because “anti-imperialism”). Clearly now they feel they can nail their colours to the mast.
Aaron Maté@aaronjmate

Trump confirms that the US (and Israel, by definition) armed anti-government protesters in Iran. This is what the Iranian government responded to in January, just as any other government would have done.

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Angus Paterson@AngusTPaterson·
@morpho_j Ha, don't listen to the haters. This moment obviously an intentionally designed troll, it's like a literal "Chekhov's gun" that leads to a payoff later on when you actually get to wield it. Anyone who claims they weren't frustrated is a big fat liar!
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@Sherylynn_R2 I personally found it a bit of a carcrash in the sum of its parts, but oh boy those slasher set pieces... This epic scene, plus those home invasions! Some of the best put to film IMO.
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@EckhartsLadder I'm not watching any of this slop, for what it's worth.
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EckhartsLadder@EckhartsLadder·
I've a routine of checking the top performing Star Wars vids of the week on YouTube. More and more it's AI nonsense. I really do think "Star Wars YouTube" as a big thing supporting many fulltime creators is mostly at an end. Was a fun run. Maybe to return upon the next trilogy lol.
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@woggerman1974 I wouldn't necessarily disagree, but I'm not sure it's any different amongst new-media influencers covering gaming on YouTube and the like? There's a wealth of superb voices, but also, the incentives for engagement-farming, troll baiting, general grifting are arguably far worse?
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Woggerman(Alex Sherak)@woggerman1974·
Man, the "mainstream" video game media has become so jaded and biased. That and they rarely research the subjects they report on. There are exceptions, but some personalities I used to follow and listen to, have forgotten the joy of gaming. many have and it's so sad. you can have preferences and still be fair. That's why many outlets are shells of what they once were. Just play games.
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@PeterP_1985 This kind of simulated real-time rendering is undoubtedly the future; it's just taking hardware a painfully long time to catch up (particularly with this generation of consoles).
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Peter@PeterP_1985·
I disagree. Ray Tracing, when done well, adds a layer of realism that heightens immersion for me personally. Not the obvious reflections necessarily, but GI, lighting, shadows. It can transform a games visual presentation. Then of course, if you have high end HW, Path Tracing takes that to another level. This is not even factoring in how RT can help in game development when used as a baseline (Indiana Jones, Doom Dark Ages for example). Resi Requiem was also clearly built around RT as a baseline imo, with it stripped out only on HW that can't run it.
Pyo 5️⃣@mrpyo1

Hot take but ray tracing is one of the most unnecessary things implemented to games. It destroys FPS and gives nothing to add to the story or gameplay IMO

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Angus Paterson@AngusTPaterson·
@Darren_Mooney I think there's an actual valid point here that you're choosing not to see. The Wall Street Journal story is good, I'd reccomend a read (if you haven't already).
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Darren Mooney@Darren_Mooney·
What’s wild about this take is how completely nonsense this is if you know *anything* about the early Pixar movies. The magic of *every* Brad Bird movie is that they are about his experience being a child prodigy who got hired to 1980s Disney and was not allowed to create.
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@Chris_Dring This is so true, made all the more tragic by the fact that an onslaught of incredible games finally arrived past 1-2 years. Nonetheless, I've had an incredible generation with my Xbox Series X.
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Christopher Dring@Chris_Dring·
I do hope they’ll have some big games for the launch of the Xbox PC. I still can’t get over how they launched the Series S and X. They did everything right except for the one thing you can’t get wrong
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@Dr_Tad I've never heard of that film, it looks very intriguing.
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ᴅʀ ᴛᴀᴅ@Dr_Tad·
A true “lost” masterpiece. Dreamy & disturbing in equal measure. Amazing work @Karaszewski — a labour of love comes to fruition. 🥰
Larry Karaszewski@Karaszewski

I’m ecstatic to announce that Eleanor & Frank Perry’s brilliant & controversial film “Last Summer” has been beautifully restored to its 1969 theatrical cut. Premiere screening Sunday 3/29 at the American Cinematheque’s Areo Theatre. Q&A with stars Barbara Hershey & Bruce Davison!

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