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  • rekliner@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneMerger Rule
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    11 months ago

    This is a great time to support people like Olan Rogers who have worked for all the majors and are bucking the system. He funded his latest animated series pilot through kickstarter and is getting funding for the rest of the episodes now. Imagine that: paying creative people in advance and bypassing the corporate bullshit. He’s even left kickstarter behind now to take payments directly. https://godspeedseries.com/

    Also with mentioning when Alan Tudyk did the same with Con Man, a comedy tribute to the Firefly fandom that was fan-financed for 2 seasons.

    Helluva Boss doing quite well too.

    You may not hear about shows like these because promotion is just not worth throwing any money at… The following is already grassroots and the powers that be make it tough to compete against their ads. But there is quality stuff being made by directly funding film makers. There just needs to be more ways of finding funds for up and coming talent.

    (And there needs to be a better place to release non network shows than YouTube, but that’s a whole other can of worms)







  • rekliner@lemmy.worldtolinuxmemes@lemmy.worldAccurate?
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    11 months ago

    Steam just made a big step forward with steam link, but previously the headset manufacturers were releasing Windows only link software.

    Also there are now open source solutions like ALVR… But like most FOSS it can require some know how.

    (Or maybe he meant Meta is getting all his data anyways, why be picky)










  • Accelerando by Charles Stross is a great one. The beginning to mid-book concepts of singularity gone wild are mind-blowing on their own… And then it explores “what would happen a few hundred years after that?” A few times.

    Concepts that stuck with me are:

    all the AI assisted devices helping you through your day eventually running without much of your input, only needing a human to justify being on: When the protagonists interface gets stolen the street-thief ends up closing his business deals, helpless to all the guidance in his head. Meanwhile the protagonist has an existential meltdown having only his brain to think with.

    Economics 2.0: AI markets dominate the earth in search of customers to satisfy. Governments are overrun but poverty no longer exists. People are mixed on whether it is utopia or dystopia.

    Father in the future: Mass=computation, so entire solar systems become giant thinking machines. But they are stuck in their local space-time, faced with having to shed mass and get dumber to move. Only smaller intelligences can travel, but they risk being gobbled up as more mass if the system they travel to doesn’t care about communicating with the rest of the galaxy.

    Father in the future: the universe is a simulation, but through singularities there are simulations that can be reached from within the simulation. One AI has figured out how to send a message back from another simulation, but it means sending a copy of itself to a potentially eternal hell to check it out first.

    https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/accelerando/accelerando.html.

    Also available from your friendly neighborhood mega corporate sales site.