L Faunt aka Alfred Glitchcock

I'm honestly still trying to understand the appeal of New Age philosophy that plunders Judaism but is full of anti-Jewish hatred, repackages Xtianity and Gnosticism, and then muddles in left-leaning confirmation bias conspiracy theories. Makes me nostalgic for when Qanon seemed simple.

Dude I'm sorry but politics are making people say dumb shit this week and it's grating on me because it's spreading misinformation. Most bot farms do not need a full-ass data center to function. Surveillance infrastructure also doesn't need data center-sized infrastructure to function!!

-A lot of US people considered privacy concerns a China thing but not an us thing until a much more actively authoritarian govt took power here Etcetcetc We, the unwashed non-tech person public, accepted Silicon Valley libertarianism pretty actively for a bit

Dude I'm sorry but politics are making people say dumb shit this week and it's grating on me because it's spreading misinformation. Most bot farms do not need a full-ass data center to function. Surveillance infrastructure also doesn't need data center-sized infrastructure to function!!

And we allowed it, may I point out. We fucked off about ToSes. We used social media and shared everything about ourselves there where cybersecurity pros would not have accounts there for 15-20 years already. To share stupid words with pictures on them.

Dude I'm sorry but politics are making people say dumb shit this week and it's grating on me because it's spreading misinformation. Most bot farms do not need a full-ass data center to function. Surveillance infrastructure also doesn't need data center-sized infrastructure to function!!

Watching Cabin in the Woods (2011) and...many thoughts here. First, credits need to stop jumpscaring me. Also, much as I love horroromedy and meta shit...this is like, Monty Python-adjacent, almost. Though I do like the confirmation that all the stoners were right about everyone being surveilled.

Yeah, I dunno dude. I'm gonna file this one under, tons of ideas, all over the place. It is strange to me that still at this point, no horror movie I've seen can get past the promiscuous woman/girl dies first, Black/PoC character dies early, prudish woman/girl is final survivor.

Watching The Amityville Horror (2005) and I like that a big looming jumpscare is the subprime lending crisis. I like the update showing a blended family with the guy trying to be non-trash in an era that definitely went hard on shitty Nu Metal toxic masculinity.

Ok interesting. I like how this remake goes harder on the colonial violence thing rooting everything in the town (even though it's framed like it's just one unhinged sadistic guy, originally).

Watching The Amityville Horror (2005) and I like that a big looming jumpscare is the subprime lending crisis. I like the update showing a blended family with the guy trying to be non-trash in an era that definitely went hard on shitty Nu Metal toxic masculinity.

Somehow this movie went more yikes with the sexy babysitter than anything that happened in the original movies. Like they had to cobble *some* character into being the stereotypical scapegoated sexualized woman.

Watching The Amityville Horror (2005) and I like that a big looming jumpscare is the subprime lending crisis. I like the update showing a blended family with the guy trying to be non-trash in an era that definitely went hard on shitty Nu Metal toxic masculinity.

Watched Nightmare on Elm Street for the first time last night. This movie really clinched for me that I think horror movies in the 80s were just Gen X's way of processing life events, because going to therapy wasn't as popular then for the middle class. (Stigmatized, really)

Which, I wonder if it's a comment on vigilante justice being flawed, especially in small town USA. The proto-Laura Palmer motifs were interesting

Watched Nightmare on Elm Street for the first time last night. This movie really clinched for me that I think horror movies in the 80s were just Gen X's way of processing life events, because going to therapy wasn't as popular then for the middle class. (Stigmatized, really)

I like that at least compared to Friday the 13th, there were some suspense buildup and releases. It wasn't constant dorky jumpscares but more like a normalization of terror. That feels very Cold War-ish too. Actual Freddy was pretty corny. As expected.