Claiming American culture wasn’t built on schemes and scams is especially galling coming from a Florida Republican.

My impression is they are talking about role-based structure, so a “circulation desk employee” would move library to library, instead of cultivating subject or collection-level expertise. I don’t think the faculty is paying much attention but it doesn’t sound very helpful, research-wise.

So it’s probably just that one FX shot was missing from their list of things to redo? Seems closer to that trailer for The Mummy with the wrong audio than the comprehensive mauling they gave The Wire, embarrassing but no big deal.

Oh, I wasn’t gonna ditch them anyway, the audio beats streaming.

Are you following the similar plans underway to centralize the library staff?

The issue in this case, as I understand it, is that they scanned the original camera negatives but didn’t redo the FX, which had been painted on in HD? Did they miss this one shot or did they skip that step entirely?

Imagine hearing it every time your clock radio goes off, in every car ride, in every store with canned music, over and over for about three months. Groundhog Day’s “I’ve Got You, Babe” would have been paradise.

As co-opted as the label became, it was called “alternative” music because other options, now mostly forgotten, were really really bad.

Well, then, again, Von Braun was a terrible, derailing subject for me to have brought up, so I apologize for the bad metaphor. I think the main point stands: You are not going to get people to see what is interesting or useful about this technology while those guys are its public face.

Well, if the technological products of Silicon Valley circa 2025 cannot be rendered separate from the ideologies of Silicon Valley circa 2025 without killing a ton of people, it is probably more ethical to just abandon the products.

OK, bad example. I still think the big problem is that so many people have spent years poisoning the well by publicly fantasizing about using this technology to fire workers, and/or explicitly marketing their technology as a vital tool for building a fascist panopticon.

If the leading figures of an industry are all racist assholes who enjoy hurting other people, who cares what their product is? The last time we overlooked ideology for technological advantage we ended up with ICBMs holding the planet hostage while Werner Von Braun did TV for Disney.

I appreciate you trying to save the baby while the bathwater gets thrown out but there’s an awful lot of bathwater. People like Sacks and Calacanis have caused genuine outrage, on purpose, because they view the humanities with contempt. The tech industry will not get around that until they’re gone.