You're not just seeing things; I'm noticing this issue as well.
It's interesting how the problem seems to be isolated to the lem.lemmy front-end UI component, not any of the backend API interfaces. Once you've got a browser tab open with the lem.lemmy UI viably loaded inside it, navigating is a snap (since the web page isn't actually being reloaded as you browse, just a bunch of API calls and javascrpt that change the visual elements and content you're looking at). And that's hunky-dory if your browsing style is to move around within a single browser tab all the time.
But for people who like looking at post lists / communities and then open posts in new tabs (like me), I often end up with a bunch of tabs that haven't loaded properly. The API is happy to serve up the media, but the UI just can't handle the load of all the new tab requests. It's frustrating.
I manage to work around it by sticking to a single Lemmy tab when I notice the problem popping up. It's not ideal, but it keeps the site usable during those rough patches.
It's also partially why I use Voyager whenever I'm on my phone. Phone apps are a security consent nightmare, but the mobile web interface needs a ton of work to be as nice as some of the apps.
As a state representative, Talarico voted against GOP restrictions barring trans student-athletes from playing on sports teams that align with their gender identity. He said such proposals amounted to a push for the government to “police people’s private parts” and would harm “the least of these,” a reference to Jesus’ remarks in scripture. And he compared the justifications offered for the bans — that trans athletes had a genetic advantage and excluding them would promote safety — to rationales historically used to bar Black athletes from competing in professional sports.
“Cartoons” have an English interpretation for being narratively simple. Whether they’re 3-4 panel comic strips or political speech or 30-minute kids shows, they tend to be fundamentally bite-sized morsels of media and do not traditionally evoke notions of grand storytelling or significant narrative merit.
There is no shortage of anime series and films that I’d classify as cartoons. Cartoons are fine and respectable entertainment, but they are only a small subset of all animated media.
Fans of the anime art form are justified in bristling at someone who calls all anime “cartoons”, or animated media from any other country for that matter. Tokyo Godfathers, The Tale of Princess Kaguya and Mind Game are all dense, complex films, which pushes them outside the bounds of what most people categorize as cartoons. Yuri Norstein, Hayao Miyazaki and Jan Švankmajer make animated films, not cartoons.
You can still buy the original one relatively inexpensively, but the first link is to a collector's website that has the older model.
I only know about this stuff because I once wrote a well-reasoned and sincere tiered ranking of each of the bead tracks.
::: spoiler spoiler
Green track: S-tier
:::
Also of note, this portion of Adam Conover's talk with Cory Doctorow recently included a bit of inside baseball on how the writers guild strategized and talked about AI with their members:
This is what I would say to people on the picket line. Again, there are plenty of people in the writer guild who said, "Chatbot is going to be able to do my job. It's going to be able to write a screenplay." And part of our job in leadership was to shake them and say "no, the chatbot can NOT do your job." The starting point of your negotiation has to be "I am valuable. I have value that the computer does not have." You need to recognize that in yourself first. Otherwise you're giving the power to the computer before you've begun. You don't start from a position of powerlessness. You start from a position of the world is made of people. People need other people. I do things that the boss's computer cannot do. The boss needs me. How do I use my power in order to, you know, protect my position?
Musk has been publicly attacking the project since it was announced. After Gibney’s intentions were revealed in 2023, Musk dismissed it on X as a “hit-piece,” prompting the director to reply, “How would you know?” Musk later called Gibney a “douche,” to which Gibney simply responded: “Douché.”
And that’s why Democrats who want to win will lean in on differentiating issues like this and do the fucking work to make cis people care about it.
Pulling out my evergreen A R Moxon quote…
The way out of our present age of political violence is not scolding "we have to live here with one another," at those who are not threatening anyone's life, at those whose very existence supremacists refuse to accept. Rather the way out is standing between supremacists and their targets and telling them "no, you have to live with them, just like we live with you, and if you can't do that, then you have a problem with us, too." It's turning to those who just aren't comfortable with trans people and saying "we don't negotiate about people's rights over here, and if you want to see how hard we'll fight for you against the billionaires and bosses who are robbing you blind, watch how hard we fight for them. If hating trans people is so important to you that you're willing to get robbed to death to secure it, we aren't the party for you.
You know what? I think that message might just build a coalition.
PS: The New York Times never misses an opportunity to demonize transgender people, and this instance of FUD-mongering is no exception. They can go to hell, and I wish people would stop spreading their trash editorial bias like this.
Click-bait headline.
Actual headline: "Trump hints at demolishing Kennedy Center"
I'm both happy to see the quick iteration, and double-happy that the kinks are getting ironed out now.
You're not just seeing things; I'm noticing this issue as well.
It's interesting how the problem seems to be isolated to the lem.lemmy front-end UI component, not any of the backend API interfaces. Once you've got a browser tab open with the lem.lemmy UI viably loaded inside it, navigating is a snap (since the web page isn't actually being reloaded as you browse, just a bunch of API calls and javascrpt that change the visual elements and content you're looking at). And that's hunky-dory if your browsing style is to move around within a single browser tab all the time.
But for people who like looking at post lists / communities and then open posts in new tabs (like me), I often end up with a bunch of tabs that haven't loaded properly. The API is happy to serve up the media, but the UI just can't handle the load of all the new tab requests. It's frustrating.
I manage to work around it by sticking to a single Lemmy tab when I notice the problem popping up. It's not ideal, but it keeps the site usable during those rough patches.
It's also partially why I use Voyager whenever I'm on my phone. Phone apps are a security consent nightmare, but the mobile web interface needs a ton of work to be as nice as some of the apps.
Consistency?
“Cartoons” have an English interpretation for being narratively simple. Whether they’re 3-4 panel comic strips or political speech or 30-minute kids shows, they tend to be fundamentally bite-sized morsels of media and do not traditionally evoke notions of grand storytelling or significant narrative merit.
There is no shortage of anime series and films that I’d classify as cartoons. Cartoons are fine and respectable entertainment, but they are only a small subset of all animated media.
Fans of the anime art form are justified in bristling at someone who calls all anime “cartoons”, or animated media from any other country for that matter. Tokyo Godfathers, The Tale of Princess Kaguya and Mind Game are all dense, complex films, which pushes them outside the bounds of what most people categorize as cartoons. Yuri Norstein, Hayao Miyazaki and Jan Švankmajer make animated films, not cartoons.
I really envisioned this as an anthology TV series.
No constructive criticism to offer; you look great and I'm just jealous of your eyebrows! 💖
You can still buy the original one relatively inexpensively, but the first link is to a collector's website that has the older model.
I only know about this stuff because I once wrote a well-reasoned and sincere tiered ranking of each of the bead tracks.
::: spoiler spoiler Green track: S-tier :::
The OG: The Anatex Industries Bead Maze:
https://www.86vintage.com/products/vintage-rollercoaster-by-anatex-industries-bead-maze
Still available, but with a less heavy base: https://www.madisonartshop.com/anatex-classic-bead-maze.html
What did they do with all that money after becoming a staple of a generation?
They dreamed bigger.
https://www.madisonartshop.com/anatex-the-ultimate-fleur-rollercoaster.html
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Long breaks != IP necromancy
As @Akido37@lemmy.world pointed out in their comment, this was from an NPR interview on the 2023 writers guild strike.
Also of note, this portion of Adam Conover's talk with Cory Doctorow recently included a bit of inside baseball on how the writers guild strategized and talked about AI with their members:
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I gave up on this show last week. I just couldn't bare to give a fuck about these characters any more.
PS: Is there any industry writing about what's up with the sudden surge in smoking media recently?
Much like Artificial (2026, dir Luca Guadagnino) a few days back, the first trailer for this didn't seem to get much attention. I'm glad people are giving it a second look.
Service journalism! 👏👏👏
PS:
Subscribe-walled; can't read it.
They left out this exchange (as described in this Hollywood Reporter article):
And that’s why Democrats who want to win will lean in on differentiating issues like this and do the fucking work to make cis people care about it.
Pulling out my evergreen A R Moxon quote…
https://www.the-reframe.com/eventually-youre-going-to-have-to-stand-for-something-2/
PS: The New York Times never misses an opportunity to demonize transgender people, and this instance of FUD-mongering is no exception. They can go to hell, and I wish people would stop spreading their trash editorial bias like this.