Man, 25, dies after being ploughed into by car on Shaftesbury Avenue
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Aidan Chapman, 25, died from his injuries in hospital on New Year's Eve following the incident on Shaftesbury Avenue in London's West End at 0.45am on Christmas Day last week.
Man, 25, dies after being ploughed into by car on Shaftesbury Avenue
Aidan Chapman, 25, died from his injuries in hospital on New Year's Eve following the incident on Shaftesbury Avenue in London's West End at 0.45am on Christmas Day last week.
My Linux predictions for 2025: It's going to be a good year
My Linux predictions for 2025: It's going to be a good year
What's coming for the open-source operating system and why.Jack Wallen (ZDNET)
My Linux predictions for 2025: It's going to be a good year
My Linux predictions for 2025: It's going to be a good year
What's coming for the open-source operating system and why.Jack Wallen (ZDNET)
Russia's New Year's Day attack on Kyiv kills two prominent scientists
cross-posted from: thelemmy.club/post/20936773
Prominent neurobiologist Ihor Zyma and doctor of biological sciences Olesia Sokur were a married couple working for the Taras Shevchenko National University. #EuropeNews
Russia's New Year's Day attack on Kyiv kills two prominent scientists
Prominent neurobiologist Ihor Zyma and doctor of biological sciences Olesia Sokur were a married couple working for the Taras Shevchenko National University. #EuropeNews
Women Directed Just 16% of 2024's Top 250 Grossing Movies
The number of female filmmakers working on Hollywood films was flat in 2024 despite buzzy releases like 'The Substance' and 'Babygirl,' study finds.
Hur följer jag alla gemenskaper på aggregatet från Mastodon?
Jag hade tyckt det vore najs att följa alla gemenskaper och deras inlägg/trådar direkt från mastodon.
På Spejset har vi ju aggregatet-boten social.spejset.org/@aggregatet… och det är najs! Men det är bara en vanlig url till ett inlägg på aggregatet. Om man kommenterar så deltar man inte i diskussionen med de på aggregatet.
Man kan följa enskilda gemenskaper på aggregatet, t.ex. aggregatet.org/c/socialism och då får man direkt tillgång till allt från mastodon.
Men finns det något konto man kan följa som boostar vidare alla inlägg från alla gemenskaper på aggregatet?
New Orleans attack: Suspect expressed 'desire to kill' as 15 confirmed dead in New Year attack
cross-posted from: thelemmy.club/post/20934892
The FBI has said Shamsud-Din Jabbar, 42, a US citizen from Texas, had an Islamic State flag on his truck when he drove into crowds before jumping out of the vehicle and opening fire.
New Orleans attack: Suspect expressed 'desire to kill' as 15 confirmed dead in New Year attack
The FBI has said Shamsud-Din Jabbar, 42, a US citizen from Texas, had an Islamic State flag on his truck when he drove into crowds before jumping out of the vehicle and opening fire.
Gal Gadot underwent emergency surgery for 'massive' blood clot in brain
Gal Gadot has revealed she underwent emergency surgery for a 'massive' blood clot in her brain during the eighth month of her pregnancy: 'All I wanted was to hold on and live.'
Gal Gadot underwent emergency surgery for 'massive' blood clot in her brain in 8th month of pregnancy
Gal Gadot has revealed she underwent emergency surgery for a 'massive' blood clot in her brain during the eighth month of her pregnancy: 'All I wanted was to hold on and live.'Emlyn Travis (Entertainment Weekly)
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Jellyfin Rewind - Review Your Music of 2024
Hey @everyone!
I just launched this year's Jellyfin Rewind, and I think you might be interested in it.
Jellyfin Rewind is similar to Spotify Wrapped, but made for people who use Jellyfin for their music listening. It let's you take a look at your listening habits of 2024.
If you're using Finamp's beta version, you can even import all of your offline plays to your Jellyfin server this year, since Finamp's beta automatically records all plays that couldn't be sent to your server.
To learn more, read the release announcement on GitHub: github.com/Chaphasilor/jellyfi…
Jellyfin Rewind - Review Your Music of 2024
Review Your Music of 2024. A 'Spotify Wrapped'-like app made for people who use Jellyfin for listening to music!Jellyfin Rewind
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Can Software Piracy Be Justified?
- YouTube
Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.www.youtube.com
UK's biggest ever dinosaur footprint trackways unearthed
Summary
The UK’s largest dinosaur footprint site, featuring about 200 tracks, has been unearthed in an Oxfordshire quarry.
The 166-million-year-old tracks, some stretching 150 meters, were made by long-necked sauropods like Cetiosaurus and carnivorous Megalosaurus.
The well-preserved prints offer insights into the movement and environment of these Jurassic dinosaurs, including where their paths crossed.
Discovered by a quarry worker, the site has been studied extensively with 3D models created.
Discussions are ongoing about preserving the trackways, with potential for uncovering more prints.
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Sauropods are so so so cool. It's just unfathomable for me to think of an animals that big.
In Spain, I think, there's evidence that they were so heavy that when they walked, it'd vibrate the earth enough to sort of resettle the sedimentary layers nearby. Absolutely wild.
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Hundreds March for 'Intifada' in NYC Hours After Attacks in New Orleans, Las Vegas
Hundreds March for ‘Intifada’ in NYC Hours After Attacks in New Orleans, Las Vegas
Hundreds of pro-Palestinian protesters marched in New York City on New Year’s Day for “intifada,” blocking Sixth Avenue in Manhattan just hours after a terror attack in New Orleans, Louisiana, and an explosion in Las Vegas, Nevada.Joel B. Pollak (Breitbart)
En bok om facklig organisering. Jag har läst Rasmus Hästbackas bok Vad vill syndikalismen? I mångt å mycket är det som att läsa en grundkurs i facklig kamp och politik skriven av en medlem i Socialistisk Politik (SP).
blog.zaramis.se/2025/01/02/en-…
realcaseyrollins
in reply to realcaseyrollins • • •This happening despite "equity"-focused policies like DEI in corporate America surprises me. Something about the 2024 and 2025 film schedules seem a bit odd/thin, I wonder how much success women will have in 2026.
Do y'all think this is a marketing issue, or women not getting enough opportunities in Hollywood, or audiences rejecting female filmmakers?
plm00
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in reply to plm00 • • •snooggums
in reply to realcaseyrollins • • •It is the first teo for sure, maybe the third.
We have the inertia of past directors being prinarily men. That means to pool of established directors that are likely to be picked for a bigger budget movie that will receive a ton of advertising will be men.
Second, even with DEI the culture of most cultures simply defers to tall men for the most part, even when it is subconcious. So a pitch for a movie will just end up leaning towards men on top of the ratio of available directors because the people funding movies are likely older men who have concious or inconcious biases.
I'm sure most people pay little attention to the director outside of well known names. The well known names tend to be men, because they have probably been making movies for a couple decades in the current environment. I'm sure there is a mix of people who are interested or turned away from a film if a woman is directing, but I have no idea how much of it is because it is a woman by iteself or because of being marketed as being directed by a woman. Barbie was a massive success, so it isn't like
... show moreIt is the first teo for sure, maybe the third.
We have the inertia of past directors being prinarily men. That means to pool of established directors that are likely to be picked for a bigger budget movie that will receive a ton of advertising will be men.
Second, even with DEI the culture of most cultures simply defers to tall men for the most part, even when it is subconcious. So a pitch for a movie will just end up leaning towards men on top of the ratio of available directors because the people funding movies are likely older men who have concious or inconcious biases.
I'm sure most people pay little attention to the director outside of well known names. The well known names tend to be men, because they have probably been making movies for a couple decades in the current environment. I'm sure there is a mix of people who are interested or turned away from a film if a woman is directing, but I have no idea how much of it is because it is a woman by iteself or because of being marketed as being directed by a woman. Barbie was a massive success, so it isn't like being directed by a woman is a complete dealbreaker, but while big budget action movies that dominate the box office are directed by men who have become houshold names the ratio will stay skewed.
Even if society leaned hard into DEI it woukd take decades to reach any semblance of balance.
realcaseyrollins
in reply to snooggums • • •Amongst people who talk about directors, I find that most of them 1) talk about startlingly few directors and 2) don't seem to mention female directors at all.
After seeing Barbie I wanted to see Lady Bird, but I didn't see a lot of videos talking about Gerta Gerwig as a director the way I see the same done for Christopher Nolan. Ofc the longer your career is the easier it is to do that, even if you're getting trashed over mediocre media.
How many women have made 6 or more full length feature films in their lifetimes?
brutallyhonestcritic
in reply to realcaseyrollins • • •Yeah! Let’s double down on nepotism and not picking the best person for the job!
“I know he’s a famous, incredibly skilled, multiple Oscar winning auteur that produces nothing but box office hits, but does he HAVE A VAGINA?!?” /s
To go further, I find it suspicious that less than 50% of all directors aren’t transsexual.
Next year: “Even though only 2% of all filmmakers are transsexual, we really need to artificially inflate those numbers to 50%. The quality of their work be damned!”
Dunno about anyone else here but I’d rather just see good movies. I don’t give a flying fuck what the genitals or ethnicity of the people who make it are. I care about the QUALITY OF THE PROJECT. How many bad films and tv shows get made nowadays just because they decided to go with a female director despite lack of experience or passion for the project?
I hate that hiring choices aren’t being made considering skill. They are being made by skin color and gender.
I obviou
... show moreYeah! Let’s double down on nepotism and not picking the best person for the job!
“I know he’s a famous, incredibly skilled, multiple Oscar winning auteur that produces nothing but box office hits, but does he HAVE A VAGINA?!?” /s
To go further, I find it suspicious that less than 50% of all directors aren’t transsexual.
Next year: “Even though only 2% of all filmmakers are transsexual, we really need to artificially inflate those numbers to 50%. The quality of their work be damned!”
Dunno about anyone else here but I’d rather just see good movies. I don’t give a flying fuck what the genitals or ethnicity of the people who make it are. I care about the QUALITY OF THE PROJECT. How many bad films and tv shows get made nowadays just because they decided to go with a female director despite lack of experience or passion for the project?
I hate that hiring choices aren’t being made considering skill. They are being made by skin color and gender.
I obviously want these minorities to have opportunities but I also don’t think it makes much sense in the art world where the product is a direct result of the talent of the director. By all means, artificially inflate the number of women that work in an office or some other white collar job but studios should stay the fuck away from this kind of thing when it comes to the film industry.
realcaseyrollins
in reply to brutallyhonestcritic • • •Why the film industry specifically? That doesn't strike me as particularly consistent.