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This line is priceless:

Remember Lobo? He disobeyed orders, and now Sador’s wearing his left foot

I’d say the, ahem, borrowings from The Seven Samurai were quite blatant, via the rightfully forgotten Battle Beyond the Stars

Zero interest given that Cixin Liu is an apologist for the CCP’s genocide in Xinjiang.

It’s because the snobbery of English teachers puts Socialist Realusm literary fiction above everything else.

Ursula Le Guin’s “On Serious Literature” springs to mind:

https://www.ursulakleguin.com/on-serious-literature

Why this child abuse must be perpetrated to appease a coterie of critics eludes me.

I’d say The Expanse has revisited many of those themes, better.

The Verge’s review is negative:

https://www.theverge.com/23889089/the-creator-movie-review-gareth-edwards

Beastmaster? Although auburn Tanya Robert’s quite fetching.

I’m not sure how valid that criticism is. Reddit’s search is abysmal as well, doesn’t seem to have hurt them.

That’s a bit harsh. More like “useful idiots” to quote Lenin.

It’s beyond parody at this stage.

Economist George Akerlof explains the role of warranties in establishing customer confidence in his paper The Market for Lemons.

Keep in mind “lifetime warranty” often ends up being “lifetime of the company”, not yours. The Lindy Effect is relevant here.

But iOS is 87% and rising for US teenagers, which explains iMessage being the dominant messaging platform in the US.

I can imagine all sorts of technical points like how the firehose will be load-balanced so as to not overwhelm any instance, or what metadata they should include in their feeds. Meta also has a lot of AI and moderation expertise that could be of benefit to the Fediverse once it grows into an attractive enough target for the troll farms and spambots.

Quite frankly, the sooner that festering cesspool that is Twitter is killed off, the better off the planet will be. If it takes Meta to wean the talking heads like Oprah from Twitter, so be it. It would be better if Oprah set up her own instance, but that’s unlikely to happen, media businesses still haven’t understood they need to take control over their distribution rather than the easy way of going through big social networks that will stab them in the back when expedient like Facebook deprioritizing media outlets from users’ feeds.

Don’t forget Svelte. That said, traction means more developers trained in any tech stack, that’s why my previous company ditched Vue for React circa 2016, Vue seemed destined for oblivion and irrelevance at the time.