Don’t let the folks from !taneggs@lemmy.ca see this video

Interesting that faster cuts don’t impress the Academy

Before we go, one more fun fact - Oscar voters haven’t sped up with the rest of cinema. In the 1990s, the median Best Picture nominee cut at 9.7 shots a minute, compared with 12.0 for all films. In the 2020s so far, the Best Picture nominees in my data cut at 9.4 against 15.1 for everything else.

“If it weren’t for my horse, I wouldn’t have spent that year in college.”

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His name is Marshawn Lynch. He played gridiron football for the University of California Golden Bears and the Seattle Seahawks. Beast Mode was his catchphrase.

By extension, you think a working class Taylor Swift would have been more successful?

I’m working my way through The Art of Fermentation by Sandor Ellix Katz

It’s interesting – Mr Watts clearly wants to say “no” but mostly can only come up with “there’s not really a good way to objectively compare,” which is surprising because, in music history terms, the time between the Beatles and Taylor is pretty short. More than anything, I think we’ve had enough time since the Beatles were active for their cultural influence to seep into literally everything, and it will be a lot easier to compare once we’ve seen whether Swift’s oeuvre has the same cultural relevance down the road

To reach No 1 in the 1960s, The Beatles had to sell hundreds of thousands of copies each week. Records such as Meet The Beatles! and A Hard Day’s Night sold more than a million copies within weeks of release, illustrating the very different commercial environment in which The Beatles operated. For obvious reasons, no artist today sells in anything approaching those numbers, making like-for-like sales irrelevant. Instead the Billboard 200 is nowadays calculated by a complex system that begins with physical album sales and then adds what is called track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA) – 10 downloaded song sales, or 2,500 ad-supported and 1,000 paid/subscription audio/video streams are considered the equivalent of one physical album purchase.

Doctors can still prescribe cocaine as a topical anesthetic, and ADHD patients regularly get prescriptions for amphetamines. But I thought you were a nurse?

You do you, but an automated teller machine does not dispense tellers.

“Oh hey Jim, did you see that our LLM test filed fake tip in an open homicide?”

“Sure did, Jeanine. I was thinking of letting em know what happened, maybe some time next week?”

“Yeah, that seems reasonable. Maybe by then it will have gotten bad enough that we can get a good headline about rogue AI causing the apocalypse that’ll help the share price.”

Anthropic didn’t discover the incident until Sept. 28 and notified the department on Oct. 7. Officials from the company and police met the following day.

This study out of Duke University discusses some effects on births of 9/11. As best I can tell, the effects are mostly a reduced number of men relative to the number of women, increased prematurity, and reduced weight at birth, mostly attributed to the stress the mothers experienced during pregnancy.

I actually added some of the recs to my bookwyrm, which I did not expect

Bobby “Bobbo” McMann may be new to Seattle, but he is absolutely not new to serving looks. He stepped out of that Kraken-logo-adorned Toyota and the fans (and media, let’s be honest) drew in a collective breath. A simple black turtleneck paired with tuxedo loafers and cargo pants, and a typical hockey player beanie was all it took for me to know he’d be my best dressed of the night– and he was.

Bobby’s Rec: We Breed Lions by Rick Westhead

A raw, honest look at toxic hockey culture and how it came to be. Westhead does an excellent job laying out the facts, interviewing people who experienced everything within this novel, and not sugarcoating. It’s an extremely hard read, but one that every hockey player and fan should read.

There is also !washington@lemmy.world

I blended a 7 day ferment in 2.5% brine of sweet red, habanero, red onion and garlic (the peppers were from our garden) with the juice of one lime today and then strained and bottled it, and it is excellent. I’ve done longer ferments in the past but I think I prefer them greener. The hab/scotch bonnet/ghost/reaper sauce sounds like its gonna be hot as hell. Scotch bonnets are my favorite peppers to work with, and while no-one round bout these parts sells starts, I successfully got peppers from seed this year for the first time so I think I’ll try to grow a batch next season. I’m also drying the lees – they go great on pizza.

Look, I’m all for whimsy but let’s be honest with ourselves, this is clearly a vending machine and not an ATM. It doesn’t even take cash, let alone allow salmon deposits.

Fake outrage aside, this whips and I dunno who’s out here buying 200 gram portions of frozen salmon after midnight, but they seem fun.

Which, notably, is how most people describe their music tastes as well.

Nose goes 👉👃

It’s definitely the case the fediverse requires a lot of specific, technical knowledge to really grasp, and that the onboarding story for new users is pretty confusing, especially since the most significant decision you make (what instance to host your account on) is the first decision you make, before you even see any content. It’s a problem I’ve been thinking about for many years, and still haven’t found a good solution for. Other some bland reassurances that “you’ll get the hang of it eventually,” all I can say is that every time I talk about instances, it feels like the scene from Mean Girls where Lindsay Lohan’s new friends explain the various high school cliques.

I quite like quokk.au, especially their sports community; I don’t really recall why rimu is beefing with them, though I have a vague recollection that I thought it was somewhat overwrought. I don’t think you’re really missing out being defederated from lemmy.ml though. Most of all, though, I think you should avoid default instances whenever possible.