Notices by tomasino (tomasino@tilde.zone)

I made a #video to help with the #introduction to mastodon for new people, specifically about what "federation" is and how to think about all these different servers. Don't worry, it's quick!

https://tilvids.com/w/srPbUTAWxgJzdRgPyB8BBJ

Just saw a bullshit headline claiming Disney lost $600M on the Black Widow film due to piracy. The BS napkin math on this is that it was downloaded 20 million times. Then the article declared that each download is somehow a lost Disney+ subscription with $30.

This is obviously ridiculous logic. There's no evidence that a pirated show would have been purchased if not downloaded, let alone that a platform subscription would have happened. Nor do we even know that 20 million downloads represents 20 million individuals.

This isn't a matter of technical ignorance. These facts aren't hard to understand. They're intentionally misrepresented to benefit rich companies that want penalty payments in lawsuits. What utter hogwash.

I really liked the first 3rd of the new matrix. After that it lost direction and cohesion. I was no longer sure what the stakes were and the continued info-dumping felt like Jupiter Ascending all over. The W's had too much story for a film and rather than focus it they just tried to squeeze it all in.

What was left was a fun romp with lively action scenes, humor, callbacks, and nostalgia. The promise of the first third doesn't materialize, though. There's no questioning of realities to be found this time around.

3/5

@sexybiggetje I wrote you something a bit more involved than a toot-reply over on gopher:

gopher://gopher.black/1/phlog/20211218-a-purpose-in-life