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- Comment on The Oscars officially don’t care if films use AI 1 week ago:
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences acknowledged the existence of generative AI yesterday in new rule changes for its annual Oscars awards ceremony. Rather than dictate its use or require disclosures, the Academy simply says using AI doesn’t, on its own, hurt a movie’s chances — but that how it’s used could.
That seems fair.
The Brutalist used AI to improve Hungarian accents, which seems a reasonable use for it. They also used it to generate photographs of fictional buildings, which has done someone out of a job. However, someone else has to come up with the prompts and sift through the results, it just feels a bit… Cheap? Low effort?
- Submitted 1 week ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 1 comment
- Comment on Right-wing media generating hysteria over trans women running non-competitively in London Marathon 1 week ago:
I hear there will be a new cartoon out soon about it called Gendercats.
- Comment on Britain's state-owned energy company will not be allowed to use solar panels linked to Chinese slave labour, under changes to government plans 1 week ago:
I live in hope that this will kickstart a solar panel industry here, rather than us just finding a developing country with cheap labour and lax laws.
- Comment on The UK’s Anti-Trans Ruling Is a Defeat for All Women 2 weeks ago:
Following the ruling, J.K. Rowling, the world’s richest author and perhaps its most prominent transphobe, tweeted a photo of herself enjoying a cigar and a bourbon on her $15 million superyacht, toasting what she called “TERF VE Day,” in reference to the acronym “trans-exclusionary radical feminism” and the surrender of German military operations that heralded “Victory in Europe” 80 years ago. “I love it when a plan comes together,” Rowling added.
She’s become a Bond villain.
Astonishingly, the ruling specifies that what it calls “women living in the male gender”—i.e., trans men, and cis women whose appearance is deemed masculine—“could also be excluded” alongside cis men, from women’s spaces. “Not being allowed into the mens by rule does not mean you have the right to go into the ladies,” clarified the leading anti-trans campaigner Maya Forstater; “That may seem unfair, but these are life choices people make. If you make extreme efforts to look like a man don’t be surprised if you are denied entrance to ladies.” Forstater’s comments underscore the ultimate goal of TERFs and other transphobes: to expunge trans people from public life.
The mask slips there. Even amongst TERFs that has to be a minority opinion (right? Right?) as everyone has the right to go to the toilet, but it does demonstrate that some don’t see this ruling as an end point but just a foot in the door. One of my arguments against the ruling (or the misinterpretation of it) was that trans men will be forced into women’s toilets, changing rooms, etc and this would underline the absurdity of all of this and lead to push back against it, but it seems like some TERFs are already planning for that eventuality.
And, again, who do they expect to police this? I spoke to the landlord of my local and he is pretty clear that everyone should use the toilet that best corresponds to the gender you look like, not necessarily from some high moral ground but because it causes the least fuss and bother.
- Comment on Heat pumps to be sold ‘smart-ready’ in plans to save households money 2 weeks ago:
This will be a welcome move if it let’s people get better control of their energy. I think someone has posted on here about their smart home setup that allows them to monitor their green energy production and usage.
- Comment on Heat pumps to be sold ‘smart-ready’ in plans to save households money 2 weeks ago:
My previous house was a Victorian semi that had cavity walls. I phoned up about a green grant to get it done (as people two doors down had) and they wouldn’t believe me until they checked Google Earth. Had it surveyed and it would have needed a lot of preparation work to get into a condition that it could have been insulated. Ended moving and I am unsure what the new owners have done on that front - not flash enough to make their Instagram account about renovating the house which I have been advised not to read as they are horrible people with bad taste. Although I get the gist as it often gets commented on at parties, especially as a friend’s brother-in-law did the bathrooms.
- Comment on ‘Honest folk are paying for this’: the fight against Britain’s billion-pound energy heist 2 weeks ago:
there are also online tutorials which have prompted amateurs to carry out DIY interventions, with disastrous consequences.
You really can learn anything on YouTube.
- Comment on Disc market share for week ending in 2025-04-12: Mufasa still reigns supreme as 4K slides back down to 10%. 2 weeks ago:
I must admit, I was expecting it to be terrible but it is one of the Rock’s best films of recent years. Damning with faint praise but still praise.
- Comment on A Working Man 4K Blu-ray 2 weeks ago:
They really shouldn’t bother, it is really bad.
- Comment on Trans women should use toilets based on biological sex, Phillipson says 2 weeks ago:
And who is going to police this?
My understanding is that it isn’t illegal for anyone to use any toilet and it is down to the establishment to decide who can go in what toilet. I’ve definitely been to theatres were women take over one of the gents. Also the gents in The Philharmonic pub in the middle of Liverpool is so splendid you can ask to be shown around no matter what you sex. I often lock both sets of toilets in my local if we have a late drink and that involves a quick check to make sure they are empty.
- Comment on Hollywood Execs Fear Ryan Coogler’s Sinners Deal ‘Could End the Studio System’ 2 weeks ago:
As one studio after another began clamoring to pay Sinners’s $90 million-ish asking price, the director’s agents at WME notified them of a few strings attached. Coogler would retain final cut (a creative dispensation reserved for the industry’s crème de la crème), command first-dollar gross (that is, a percentage of box-office revenue beginning from the movie’s theatrical opening rather than waiting for the studio to turn a profit), and, most contentiously, 25 years after its release, ownership of Sinners would revert to the director.
And they say it like this is A Bad Thing, creators should have more control over the things they make - Hollywood shafting people just makes everything worse. The studios are still going to make plenty of money.
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- Comment on Calling other TV communities 2 weeks ago:
@remindme@mstdn.social in 7 days
- Comment on Calling other TV communities 2 weeks ago:
And a general one: !starwarstelevision@lemmy.world
- Comment on Calling other TV communities 2 weeks ago:
Let’s not forget: !thegoodplace@lemmy.world
- Comment on Calling other TV communities 2 weeks ago:
And there is the Community community !communitytv@lemmy.world
- Comment on Calling other TV communities 2 weeks ago:
I have some in the sidebar of !britishtelly@feddit.uk:
British TV shows on Feddit.uk:
- !gbbo@feddit.uk - Great British Bake Off
- !montypython@feddit.uk
- !peepshow@feddit.uk
- !reddwarf@feddit.uk
- !taskmaster@feddit.uk
And elsewhere in the Fediverse:
- !doctorwho@lemmy.world
- !doctorwho@startrek.website
- !reddwarf@lemmy.world
- Comment on Henry Cavill’s ‘Highlander’ departing Lionsgate for Amazon MGM Studios, United Artists 2 weeks ago:
I’d guess that, while this is heading to the cinema, Amazon would be looking to start a TV series too.
- Henry Cavill’s ‘Highlander’ departing Lionsgate for Amazon MGM Studios, United Artistswww.hollywoodreporter.com ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to movies@lemm.ee | 2 comments
- Comment on Cinema has a physical media problem and it just keeps getting worse 3 weeks ago:
That has been my concern for a while - they are making content not good films or TV and the metric of success is the number of new subs it can pull in then, when it’s job is done, they just cancel the shows.
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 2 comments
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to homevideo@feddit.uk | 5 comments
- Comment on Borderlands film director blames flop on Zoom and Covid 3 weeks ago:
It was badly conceived, planned, cast, executed and then undermined by studio interference. It failed at every single level and I don’t think Covid can take the blame.
- Comment on Disc market share for week ending in 2025-04-05: Mufasa isn't Fooling anyone at the top 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, I’ve been letting the side down recently but my wallet is grateful.
- Comment on Disc market share for week ending in 2025-04-05: Mufasa isn't Fooling anyone at the top 3 weeks ago:
Quite a quiet one this week.
- Comment on Has anyone here watched Conclave? How was it? 3 weeks ago:
Strong central performances save a plot with some pretty contrived plot developments. Worth a watch but you have to suspend belief. So a lot like the Church.
- Comment on Should I watch Sonic the Hedgehog 3? 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, I really enjoyed it. If you liked the first two, then you’ll also like this.
- Comment on The Academy officially announces new Oscar category for stunts 3 weeks ago:
Films you throwing popcorn for a social media boost.
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to Television@lemm.ee | 0 comments