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Like it (I guess surprises and thus) upsets me every time (whereas I’ve become fairly numb to pre-rolls and even midrolls)
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I had YouTube premium from when it (“YT Red”) launched up until late Feb of this year, and
I’m not sure why, but it’s the existence of /post-roll/ ads that’s really driving me crazy
(Even though they are also e.g. the most escapable.)
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S4E5b - “Down by the River”
per IMDB:“[Star’s parents] are living happily in the woods doing nothing, after a new family comes near them after they were kicked out of their home by monsters.”
Per me: “refugees displaced by manifestly-just-but-hastily-implemented Right of Return / reparation policies start the semi-woke Lib centre-right’s gradual slide towards embracing reactionary violence
—spurred less by bonafide concern for the collateral major harms to the settler working class than by the way this in turn create lesser discomforts, fear, and opportunity for the middle+upper class” -
≥2nd rewatch, I remain ~awed by Disney channel cartoon Star vs the Forces of Evil [2012–19;4 seasons = 77ep × 22min, most split into two 11m segments]’s pivot
from “Kick-ass :3/XD-Magical Girl Fish-out-of-Water Slice-of-Life antics” S1
into “Settler Colonialism of Past is an Ongoing, Violent Evil, & Inseparable from Our ‘Good’ Institutions [the titular protagonists & her closest allies]“ as central driver of serialized plot from midpoint to end
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2758770/
it gets there more smoothly than you’d think, and once there, spends some time on all of at least:
- the ways in which prejudice is taught as intrinsic, is reinforced by lack of exposure to the vilified
- settler and indigenous population’s dehumanization of one another
- the capriciousness of caste boundaries (for the bourgeois in comparison to the proletariat; and where “passing” is concerned)
- the leveraging of biased history & science into material harms, as well as martial violence
- key roles some technology plays in both enabling & entrenching (normalizing) outrageous cruelty…I mean … it’s still a children’s (TV-Y7) cartoon, and it’s far from perfect and it rushes to a half-baked less than satisfying conclusion. But i would still recommend if you are into the hopepunk-ish cartoon thing . It’s On Disney+ & Hulu, inter alia
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I spent a while fixating on trying to discover why the macOS iCloud/“CloudDocs”/“Mobile Documents” daemon is named bird, w/ a cli in /usr/bin named brctl
After some digging I’m /pretty/ sure the b stands for uBiquity— an internal codename for what was marketed as “iCloud”; this is supported by e.g. [1]’s equivalence between ubiquityIdentityToken and com.apple.bird.token
I’m still pretty at total guess on r, leaning “record” (maybe also as rc → record since bird is code-internally BRCDaemon ; though it also seems likely c = container. I don’t think rc → runcom by way of initrc, bashrc, etc)
secondary theory is br is for “barrier” based on a loose symbol or two.
I’m pretty strongly guessing that “i” in bird stands for nothing so much as “OMG [ swe coworker], it’s not pronounced Bee-Arr-Dee, it’s pronounced BIRD” (cf gif, sql, … cuddle vs c-t-l [by rights hachyderm is ku-bECK-dl / ku-Bechdel territory] )
Anyway if anybody happens to know the answer, plz lmk. #apple #icloud #macos #brctl #clouddocs #daemon #engineeringhistory #lore
[1] https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/qa/qa1935/_index.html
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Do you like #porterrobinson ; do you like compulsively (dramatically-ironically) performed #closereading of music videos? Do you like art about #parasocial and #sarapocial relationships?
Then … pick your poison and enjoy:
https://cohost.org/donaldguy/post/5189628-a-close-read-of-the
https://www.reddit.com/r/porterrobinson/s/PuPamaoJMR
[ the cohost version includes some more links (that I assumed the /r/porterrobinson crowd wouldn’t need) and a touch more explination of a couple things ]