Overworked And Underpaid

Blender Dumbass
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We all heard by now that the situation in Hollywood is not very good at the moment. A lot of Visual Effects artists are overworked and underpaid resulting in some atrocious CGI like in The Flash 2023. Studios even considering replacing those overworked and underpaid VFX artists with AI technology. Because it can make better images and complain less about its conditions at work.

WTF is A Clockwork Orange?

Blender Dumbass
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There are 2 types of rebellious code-era film-makers: You have people like Alfred Hitchcock who's career is based on walking on the very edge of the censorship rules, and then not knowing what to do when these rules are lifted with the introduction of the MPAA rating system. And you have people like Stanley Kubrick who makes fucking Lolita under the code and then rejoices when the rules are lifted and makes fucking A Clockwork Orange. Yet, the question still stands: WTF is A Clockwork Orange?

#aclockworkorange #stanleykubrick #kubrick #film #movies #cinemastodon #cinema

That Insidious Feeling of Working a Job Below You

Blender Dumbass
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Something along the lines of 75% of all humans are tasked with mindless work, which is often pretty much decorative and is there only to facilitate a certain governmental goal of employment. Basically non of us are doing anything actually useful and we are all struggling because of it. And I often feel depressed doing such jobs, yet there is seemingly no obvious road to escape them.

#Depression

Copyright Made People Do Useless Work

Blender Dumbass
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Oh the copyright! The system that many believe is there to "protect" artists from exploitation. But the system that is quite clearly one big exploitation in and of it self. I hope that my readers here have a job. Since I want to draw a very interesting parallel. Would you work if there was no contract? Would you do anything if the person that supposed pay you, would not pay you if he didn't want to? Or you would first sign a contract and then do the job? In the world of copyright, there is no contract to sign. There is no boss that will pay you. You have to risk everything to do something that might or might not interest other people in the first place. And no copyright will save you if you did something so utterly uninteresting that nobody will even pay you for it. Let's explore this!

How an Industry Was Created for a Single Film, The Glassworker (2024)

Troler
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Suppose you live in a war torn country, where there are military stops in every major road. The economy is in shambles and there's a smell of gunpowder in the air. The people go to watch low budget produced films and are most valued in the global market for the cheap labor.

#TheGlassworker #UsmanRiaz #Pakistan #Animation #Japan #Music #Ghibli #Ted #film #review #movies #cinemastodon

Why Age Verification cannot work even for its intended use?

Blender Dumbass
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Short answer People are stupid. But seriously, even though we have a lot of talk about why Age Verification laws are bad ( for human rights ) and how we can fight against them ( EFF just made a comprehensive guide on the issue ) nobody seems to realize the underlying logical fallacy, or multitudes of them, that even brought us to this point to begin with.

#ageverification #pivacy #age #kids #development #philosophy #law #stupidity #stupid

Images Don't work on older articles

trueauracoral
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http://ttauyzmy4kbm5yxpujpnahy7uxwnb32hh3dja7uda64vefpkomf3s4yd.onion/articles/Steven_Spielberg_Promotes_Sharing.md?

How Much Money Am I Losing

Blender Dumbass
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When people see my film, or how versed I am in computers, they are often confused. I work a minimum wage job as a cashier. And before that I worked a number of jobs all of which were minimum wage, or slightly above minimum wage. Those jobs aren't particularly challenging, unless they are physical. So I don't have very much to complain. As a cashier I actually enjoy working. I get to talk to various people. And get to sit in front of a computer all day long. So what is there to complain about? Yet, whenever people find out that I know programming or that I can do movies, they often assume that I should not "waste my time" at a job like this, and instead work something a bit more prestigious.

Gelatiere - Software for Ice-Cream Makers. Or how I'm trying to convince my boss to use Free Software.

Blender Dumbass
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Some time ago I wrote an article about fighting the WhatsApp monopoly via my work-place. In that article I explained how I managed to make a simple matrix-to-whatsapp bridge thingie that makes it possible for me ( a Free Software user ) to communicate with people on the WhatsApp side of things. And how I made it specifically to advertise matrix to the WhatsApp useds. But... that was just a simple tiny little program that barely works. This... on the other hand... this, is much bigger. This is probably a little bit insane. So buckle up...

#gelatiere #software #freesoftware #python #gtk #gnu #linux #icecream

The Psycho-Sexual analysis of Blender Dumbass

Blender Dumbass
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People change. People change! People grow. People adopt. People change their minds about things. People learn new things everyday. People form opinions. People change. And so have I. I notice something rather strange about people that come into contact with me without prior knowledge of what I do and how I think. I remember the other day on mastodon being bombarded with hate for seemingly no reason what so ever. I either said something good about Richard Stallman, or said something slightly too vague about one thing or another. I know I held opinions that I'm not proud of today. I know I probably have opinions right now that I will change in the future. People change.

Therefor I decided that it would be a good idea, both for the sake of my mental health and just as an example of said change, to talk to you about myself. To psycho-sexually analyze what I stand for. What I believe in. And most importantly: how I got to this point. How I changed to be where I am today. Yet, in a strange kind of way I am slightly afraid of strangers when it comes to my psychology. It is my private life, after all. And I don't want to reveal everybody everything about me. The good, the bad and the ugly. And then the ugly, the bad and the good. I don't want to give haters the platform to hate. So I suppose this is the perfect excuse to use the fediverse gimmick I came up with, the other day. Basically you have to be at least somewhat of a fan of me and / or my work, in order for me to feel okay with sharing with you all this private, highly emotional, stuff. Don't worry about it. If you are a fan, this is going to be a piece of cake for you. The website will just check that you are, and everything is going to be okay. For everybody else, perhaps, this article isn't for you.

#biography #psychology #philosophy #story #sexuality #love #gnu #linux #computers #blender3d

How I am fighting the WhatsApp monopoly

Blender Dumbass
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WhatsApp, fucking WhatsApp. The app that everybody uses without thinking twice, that makes no sense being used in places that I have seen it being used. Fucking police officers share police-work-related stuff via WhatsApp groups for the entire user-data department of Meta ( and their data-brokers ) to see. This has to stop! WhatsApp has to be defeated!

So I made a bridge.

#whatsapp #matrix #whatsapptomatrixbridge #bridge #freesoftware #opensource

Con Air 1997 is Bayhem! but Rick-Rolled

Blender Dumbass
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Producer Jerry Bruckheimer didn't only work with the legendary Michael Bay. He worked with other legends too, like Tony Scott and in the case of Con Air Simon West who directed the Rick Astley music video Never Gonna Give You Up. Yet probably due to it being the first collaboration of Bruckheimer and West ( because it is West's directorial debut when it comes to feature films ), Bruckheimer steered him a bit to copy a style of another director he worked with. Michael Bay.

#conair #nicolascage #simonwest #film #review #movies #cinemastodon

The Police-Force Paradox

Blender Dumbass
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In 2011, French writer and director Maïwenn Le Besco went to the police station in Paris in order to try to get some information about how the police works. The research she ended up gathering, ended up portrayed in her 2011 film Polisse about which I already wrote a review. But one thing about this movie suck with me. And if the intention of the film was to shine light on the police-work, this means that to some extend that thing that stuck with me shows a certain, very depressing truth about the world that I don't know how to process quite yet.

#police #paradox #law #freedom #humanrights

Sheiny The Hacker

Blender Dumbass
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Sheiny The Hacker is a book long in making. If you read my article about "How I Started Using GNU / Linux", you know that this book originally was started as a movie project. But slowly I realized that this type of material is technically legally un-film-able.

Subscription

Blender Dumbass
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Though unfortunately Subscriptions in software today are the norm, they are a malicious functionality. Any software that you already have installed should work whenever you want it to work. Having a timer implemented in it, so it will refuse to work, unless you pay every once in a while, is malicious.