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Prime Video unveils "Blade Runner 2099" full trailer at NYCC. Also: a new trailer for "Godzilla Minus Zero," the sequel to Takashi Yamazaki’s kaiju epic, "Godzilla Minus One" https://arstechnica.com/culture/2026/10/prime-video-unveils-blade-runner-2099-full-trailer-at-nycc/

@glecharles true but also not the whole list. The BBC and Canadian tv also. I'm Interested in broadening where I look for media.

@Firesledge et pardon pour le "Est-ce que le tambour a du jeu par rapport à la cuve", j'ai justement l'impression que le tambour est désaxé, sur certains angles ça frotte et sur d'autres ça tourne librement... du coup le jeu ça dépend ^^

@mttaggart

MISSION CONTROL, WE'VE HAD A PROBLEM

10. Referring to your app as "she" is just weird. What is it, a boat?

Here's what I do, folks. Fantasy art jewelry for the Phantastically Inclined:

Wind and solar helped the UK avoid US$7.8 BILLION in gas imports during the Hormuz crisis.

That’s what breaking fossil fuel dependence looks like.

Governments backing more oil and gas owe people an explanation.

SCALE UP RENEWABLES.

#iran #energyshock #renewables

@WhatACharmingHouse
I think @gaditb has a better answer to this than I could manage right now:
https://icosahedron.website/@gaditb/117422672360371358

@koalie je la trouve tellement jolie

Whiskers!

#Caturday #Photography #Abstract

@campuscodi you can switch to waterfox and make a choice of what kind of UI you prefer.

#SilentSunday

#Mushtodon #mushroom

@moof what is present historical tense, as opposed to past tense

When I speak to students, I always tell them to feel free to email me with questions. Sometimes they worry that I won’t actually respond, but what they should really be worried about is me sending a new link relevant to what they asked about every three days forever.

@resl
Get your own (not really but still..) domain name, so you're never gonna use the one given by your mail provider.

Spooky Season announcement!

I'm auctioning some original oil painting of mine. These Monsters were painted back in 2009 and have stayed with me since, but feeling now is a good time to pass them on to some collectors. 8 in the series.

All paintings start at €300.
https://www.ebay.ie/sch/i.html?item=147630919748&rt=nc&_trksid=p4429486.m3561.l161211&_ssn=denmanrooke

#painting #oilpainting #ebay

Me when my hooman asks me how she is supposed to get another cup of coffee #RedHairDontCare

@desiree Drop Feeds. It's a Firefox extension, and it's great at finding feeds on sites that don't make them obvious.

Hypothetical that I'd like to explore:

If a person were to try to create some piece of fiction that took place in, say, Gotham City, or on Gallifrey, or Tatooine, they'd have their asses sued off by DC, or the BBC, or Star Wars/Disney, because those locations come from movies that are copyrighted. You can't use those settings until the copyright expires.

With the release of the recent _Backrooms_ (2016) movie, we have this interesting piece of commercial media that is based on a culturally owned story. The Backrooms as a concept is not copyrighted, because Kane Parsons (the director) didn't invent it. The concept comes from a collection of several unnamed nobodies, who made stuff, put it on the internet, and then it entered into the shared folklore.

If somebody wanted to write a companion film, say, "The Backrooms: Revisited", set within the same setting, and using many of the same tropes as were established within the Kane Parsons film -- the backrooms being a "copy of a copy", memories of the past, passing through walls to enter the backrooms, gateways appearing all across the world suddenly, etc -- what copyright rules might stop them?

Elements which existed within the folklore already surely would be seen as fair game. What about elements that are natural extensions of the existing lore? (it seems the place being a "copy of a copy" of the real world is new, but it doesn't seem a big stretch from the existing folklore)

Sure, we couldn't include Clark or his furniture shop. That's obvious. We couldn't tell their stories.

But it's very curious. To see a piece of fiction so commercially successful despite drawing so heavily from a contemporary piece of collectively constructed folklore, no?

It seems to me that this kind of work almost puts into plain view the contradiction between the creative energy of the folk tradition and the restrictive powers of our rigid copyright system.

Thoughts?

#folklore #storytelling #backrooms #theBackrooms #copyright #copyleft #creativeCommons