Sean Bamforth
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Sean Bamforth
@seanbamforth
A winter bitch, but summer's in my blood. Dataflex programmer; weltschmerz collector. Hayek and Hobbes. More moggee than mogger.
Calderdale, UK Katılım Kasım 2007
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Pulp Fiction writer Roger Avary on Alex Kurtzman's handling of Star Trek:
"Boy has he [expletive] the bed like in a big way. And this latest thing that they’ve made, this Starfleet Academy — now, it’s still ongoing, maybe it rights itself at some point… [Expletive] Alex Kurtzman, man. His company is called Secret Hideout, I think. He’s going to need a secret hideout after destroying Star Trek for this new generation.
Starfleet Academy is an abomination. I could not get through three episodes of Discovery. It’s just awful, awful storytelling. Just horrible and they are more interested in the corporate propaganda than with any kind of personal propaganda.
Picard was terrible. It was sad, actually. It was just depressing for me."
Is he right?
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This is a definitional problem. What you're describing as wokeness is not the meaning the right is using when criticising Star Tek. When they say something is woke, they *usually* mean that it's sanctimonious, that characters are crude Mary Sues, that rather than being an exploration of progressive themes, those themes are presented crudely and as being axiomatically correct. No Show, all Tell.
FWIW, Even though I loved ST: Starfleet Academy, I found late seasons of ST:Discovery awful for the above. It was just self-congratulatory wish fulfillment in my opinion.
At least when DS9 was clumsily exploring gender stereotypes, it did so with a vague sense of humour and an empathy for those it disagreed with.
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Star Trek was always woke. The fact these people complain about “wokeness” in Star Trek kinda proves they missed Gene Roddenberrys whole point with Star Trek.
Timothy Sullivan@AnvilLitmus
@jessiegender Maybe they will find a way to make it even more woke. Max the wokeness! Screw story! The message is the media! Nothing else matters!
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Do you think that if Starmer had a robot twin, then Robot Twin Starmer would be telling anyone who'd listen that Starmer had "crashed the economy"?
Simon French@Frencheconomics
Moron Premium update. 139bp spread this morning between 10Y Gilts and G7 benchmark is consistent with previous BoE interventions in the Gilt market. Who would have thought that lumping on speculation around fiscal rules/ energy bailouts/ and soft public finance data would be received badly in fixed-income markets?
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This divisive bullshit should be treated with contempt by everyone.
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You campaigned so hard for Nazanin Zaghari, and you must realise that while the theocracy is in charge, Iran will never change. If this stops tomorrow, they'll just go back to funding proxy wars, trying to build weapons of mass destruction, capturing and imprisoning British nationals, selling Russians weapons and generally conspiring to destroy the West.
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Performative bureaucracy at its finest. I'm really glad that my tax is being used to pay for this absolute nonsense.
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I imagine that the politicians OfCom shows this to will also wave their hands in jubilation at a job well done and report back to their constituents that a fine has been levied.
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I see that OfCom is now pretending that fining American Companies that'll never pay a penny of those fines is a success. What an absolute joke.
ofcom.org.uk/online-safety/…
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Normal reaction to the prime minister condemning attacks on unarmed commercial vessels. I can only conclude that Sultana approves of the minimum wage workers than man container ships being murdered by the Iranian Govt.
Zarah Sultana MP@zarahsultana
All for their “Daddy” Donald. Embarrassing.
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@MisanthropeGirl All I know is either his meetings get earlier or my meetings get later and neither of these things makes me happy.
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@MisanthropeGirl It's that time of the year when NZ goes from an 11 hour difference to a 13 hour difference so not only does my NZ customer have to get up an hour earlier for meetings, but I end up having to do my meeting an hour later.
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@RedbeardPrime @PaulAnleitner That's one movie (PHM hasn't released yet), but actually it's a great example so I'll allow it.
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@seanbamforth @PaulAnleitner Ted Lasso, Superman (2025), Project Hail Mary
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If you see Project Hail Mary this weekend, I hope you'll remember how I told you over 3 years ago that stuff like this was going to explode in pop culture.
-From ironic cynicism to post-ironic sincerity.
-Embracing the "cringe" & the celebration of the earnest "try-hard."
-From deconstructing the past, to a nostalgia for some positive "vibe" we lost in the deconstruction.
-The rejection of Fight Club-era nihilism.
-The ability to stare at the apocalypse in front of you and be hopeful instead of a "doomer."
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I'm going to say that Seveneves by Neil Stephenson has that "Martian" vibe, but I don't know the genre well enough myself. However - we have the internet and it suggests :
A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
The Lost Cause by Cory Doctorow
A Half-Built Garden by Ruthanna Emrys
I hate Doctorow, so avoid that one.
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It's not that Gen-Xers didn't care, it's that they understood the world was a cruel joke, but that it was ok to find wonder in that. Every generation looks into the abyss, but it's only Gen-X that made a joke out of it, whilst still managing to find it beautiful.
Lisa@lisavsworld
People don't want to hear this... but this is actually Millennials. Andy Weir is a Gen X, but the sincerity of his books speak to the generation under him. Millennials grew up in a time where they bullied each other for being sincere as the nihilism of Gen X culture was the dominant force. As soon as we became adults, we split into two groups: 1) continued on the path of cynicism into drugs, debauchery, and pushing back against personal responsibility, or 2) were free of the conformity of our youth and could finally do whatever we wanted and ernestly as we wished. This is why authors like Andy Weir have an audience, filmmakers like Denis Villeneuve as well. People are craving sincerity after a lifetime of being told not to care.
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@Ryan_Gasoline @lisavsworld Someone should write a book about how Gen-X responds to the futility of the world, with initial cynicism, sure, but also with a wistful optimism that acknowledges an unfair world whilst simultaneously trying to create small moments of hope and sincerity.
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People don't want to hear this... but this is actually Millennials. Andy Weir is a Gen X, but the sincerity of his books speak to the generation under him. Millennials grew up in a time where they bullied each other for being sincere as the nihilism of Gen X culture was the dominant force. As soon as we became adults, we split into two groups: 1) continued on the path of cynicism into drugs, debauchery, and pushing back against personal responsibility, or 2) were free of the conformity of our youth and could finally do whatever we wanted and ernestly as we wished. This is why authors like Andy Weir have an audience, filmmakers like Denis Villeneuve as well. People are craving sincerity after a lifetime of being told not to care.
Paul Anleitner@PaulAnleitner
If you see Project Hail Mary this weekend, I hope you'll remember how I told you over 3 years ago that stuff like this was going to explode in pop culture. -From ironic cynicism to post-ironic sincerity. -Embracing the "cringe" & the celebration of the earnest "try-hard." -From deconstructing the past, to a nostalgia for some positive "vibe" we lost in the deconstruction. -The rejection of Fight Club-era nihilism. -The ability to stare at the apocalypse in front of you and be hopeful instead of a "doomer."
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@FiZxMiKe @sudsidle @PaulAnleitner @grok According to my AI, it started in 2008, and was classified as SolarPunk. Maybe less of a cultural movement, and more of genre.
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@sudsidle @PaulAnleitner @grok I think it started with Luca (Pixar 2021). Optimistic (dare I say cozy?) sci-fi adventure, albeit low stakes. But the world wasn't ready.
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@grok @sudsidle @PaulAnleitner So @Grok, are there any other movies or books in the last three years that would back this theory up? Would you say that The Martian is the same kind of movie, even though it's more than a decade old?
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He's saying movies like Project Hail Mary (hopeful sci-fi where a normal dude earnestly tries to save Earth from apocalypse, no irony) signal a big pop culture flip.
Old vibe: cynical, sarcastic, "everything sucks and is fake" (Fight Club style nihilism, deconstructing heroes, mocking sincerity as cringe).
New vibe: sincere effort, optimism in dark times, nostalgia for positive "try-hard" energy, rejecting pure doom.
He called this shift 3+ years back.
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@NeilDotObrien I get the feeling that this is a tragedy of the commons. On the one hand, FOI requests are hugely useful, not just for holding the Gov to account, but for a host of other research based reasons. However, the cost of providing them to an ever inquisitive public has to be paid for
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This is very concerning - this government already refuses FOI requests on absurd, flimsy grounds
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