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Spanish measures banning aircraft and ships carrying weapons to Israel from ​its ports or ⁠airspace due to Israel's military offensive in Gaza, which Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar denounced as antisemitic.

And I'm antisemitic for sneezing on the Sabbath. Who cares at this point? It's a repeat of the boy who cries wolf. Antisemitism is actively losing its meaning due to Israeli leadership. Which has real consequences for Jews all over.

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One can hope that they learn after the umpteenth flopped Marvel movie. I'm just worried since people whose entire vocabulary is "profit!" are buying up great artistic film studios nowadays.

Hopefully we'll see a renaissance sometime soon. And artistic minds getting together to define the next chapter that's not "Disney or no way" but full or art. I don't mind mindless entertainment, I watch some myself, but I do mind quality options becoming needles in a haystack.

I don't disagree, but IMO that's where the movie crosses the threshold from art to mindless entertainment. The execs are more often than not people who don't have years or decades of experience crafting movies, just funding them. They don't know what works or not. Same with the target focus group as ironic as it may sound.

The execs may know that old-movie was a flop, but not why it was a flop, and are afraid that new-movie becomes a flop too. That's understandable, but the only way to prevent this is to hire the right people with loads of experience who can say exactly what went wrong in flops and successes and apply that knowledge to new-movie. Focus groups are just too narrow to allow that to happen, so even if they identify a fault (not unlikely) they apply the wrong solution. Maybe they needed better dialogue to emphasise the twist? Lighting changes to help guide the viewer's feelings? Instead they scrapped it at the detriment of the artistic vision which more often than not will come back to bite them in the profits anyway (like now when they are thinking of making a sequel to a movie where the main protagonist dies in the theatrical version and have to say "forget that, it isn't canon").

But that of course puts a huge burden on getting a good team with good experience. Mix of new people with new ideas and old people with wisdom. And most importantly, people who are open to be challenged by the other people's expertise. That usually doesn't happen if "profits!" is the first and last thought on your mind as an exec.

IMO you cannot make a focus group for art. I Am Legend had a choice; try to be art or try to be mindless entertainment. By making the focus group dictate the movie they decided to back down from their artistic vision in order to please mindless drones who didn't want to be challenged.

Sure, I would probably also be upset watching that twist for the first time, but it would have got me thinking. I'm more of an exception that I don't rate movies on the first go, but for most people that's what they'd do. The focus group only gets one chance to share their feelings and it's one of challenging their core beliefs resulting in being upset, a negative feeling. Hence a negative rating.

But all movies aren't supposed to be feel-good movies. The absolute best movies in history makes us think. Have you ever seen Wes Anderson or Robert De Niro or the like change their vision bases on focus group feedback? No, because they know the first impression and thus first feeling might not be a positive one and thus inadvertently translate to a negative rating.

There's a balance though, sometimes an auteur needs a reality check, take Coppola's Megalopolis for example. I haven't seen it yet, but from what I heard he kinda went off the rails on that one. We have yet to see if it makes us think down the road, but maybe he needed someone to say, "you know, this doesn't work." But not from hundreds of random movie enjoyers. From experienced film creators who know to look deeper. Writers, cinematographers, gaffers, sound mixers. People who know their craft and can say "this has been tried before and didn't work." Or if you're feeling adventurous: "we've never tried this before. Let's see if it'll stick."

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Jeg er dog lidt bekymret for om der så bare opstår malicious compliance ligesom med understøttelsen af FIDO2 hardware keys ved MitId. Det har ikke meget værdi hvis produktet "teknisk set" understøtter det krævede og går langt for at ignorere det implicitte.

Sorry, best we can do is rename tasks to work items.

Det er sgu fedt at det endelig debatteres i almene nyheder. Så må vi se om det rykker noget. Personligt ville jeg meget gerne være foruden Play Integrity, det eneste formål er at låse sig til Google.

The movie Public Enemies is based on John Dillinger's life and contains the escape scene with a fake gun. Quite a good watch.

That's simply not true. The Decathlon HRM Band for example connects to virtually everything that can understand a generic HRM over BLE. And limited in what sense? It's either sending a heart rate or not.