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  While Digger is a critique of the complicity and willful negligence of those in power (both in business and those holding political office), it isn’t just that. The meta-narrative framing begins to reveal something else, something even more incisive: a glimpse at a world, several decades from now, being actively ravaged by the full effects of climate change. Unlike in Don’t Look Up, which makes the narrative choice to not explore the world after the consequences of the crisis have seriously mate...

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  Very fun list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_featuring_fictional_films

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  Incredibly funny that animators at Dreamworks working on The Prince of Egypt who were misbehaving or underperforming were sent to the Shrek mines

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  @keydelk @jwcph The quote I’ve heard that I liked better is “technology is not good, nor is it evil, nor is it neutral” it is subject to human politics just like everything else humans do: denying that is a centrist position meant to obfuscate the effects of power

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  @InternetEh @starwall also precisely why reviewing stuff made by it sucks so much. it’s custom designed to fit Goodhart’s law as much as possible, things that match our various loose signals instead of the underlying abstractions we actually care about

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  lmao