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Comment on The New York Times reportedly in talks to buy Letterboxd for $330 million in ~tech
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Comment on Real-life 'Truman Show' pulled from TV as it's branded 'psychological torture' in ~tv
winther Link ParentIt seems like he was, but the thing is it is hardly a payment he could take freely as such. Offering to be paid afterwards and having to accept having the whole thing published, when you are...It seems like he was, but the thing is it is hardly a payment he could take freely as such. Offering to be paid afterwards and having to accept having the whole thing published, when you are trying to build a career, then refusing to corporate would put you in bad standing with the whole tv industry. It is a terrible unfair position to put anyone in, even though they are paid fairly.
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Comment on Real-life 'Truman Show' pulled from TV as it's branded 'psychological torture' in ~tv
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Comment on Real-life 'Truman Show' pulled from TV as it's branded 'psychological torture' in ~tv
winther (edited )LinkAnother post about Denmark and this thing has been all over the media the past week. In short, a sort up and coming comedian, Rasmus Wallbridge, has been the victim of a 4 month (!) long prank...Another post about Denmark and this thing has been all over the media the past week.
In short, a sort up and coming comedian, Rasmus Wallbridge, has been the victim of a 4 month (!) long prank with hidden cameras, where has was led to believe that he was working on a dream project of making a movie, but instead he was the main character in a tv show with hidden cameras where everyone around him played a part in basically gaslighting him into believing the movie project was real.
The deception was led my his close friend (?) and included several high profile Danish media personalities and actors. The supposed comedy came from everyone around him acting strange and absurd, and the tv show was built around his reactions to this constructed reality.
When the show was released it quickly was met with massive criticism from both viewers and especially other Danish comedians. Usually the comedy from pranks is to give people relief rather quickly, not gaslighting them for 4 months. And pranks are also usually something bad supposedly happening, but then the reveal is that everything is good. This was the reverse, as making a movie could have been a great career opportunity. The uneven power dynamic also makes the whole thing highly unethical, as Wallbridge is not on the same career level as the people gaslighting him and not co-orporating with one of the biggest tv networks in Denmark would have been career suicide, so while he technically could have turned down the whole thing from airing after the rug was pulled on him, it wasn't really a free choice. What makes it even worse, is that he just became a father and has likely been forced to make some rather hard personal choices in whether to stay away from home for those 4 months in order to pursuit what he thought was a big career opportunity.
As appalling this whole thing is, I am also not really surprised the tv industry has come to this. That every sort of moral and ethical considerations has been completely sidelined in the tv industry in constant pursuit of being every more edgy and pushing boundaries for what the next level of entertainment can be.
Wallbridge himself has been mostly quiet about the whole thing so far, really just trying to focus on his upcoming comedy tour, but has stated in plain words that he hasn't been happy about the experience.
But in the broader perspective, I hate that we have mainstream media basically legitimizing gaslighting, deceit and month long pranks, all in the name of entertainment.
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Real-life 'Truman Show' pulled from TV as it's branded 'psychological torture'
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Comment on Halloween night! in ~talk
winther LinkHalloween has become decently big in Denmark and very much a yearly tradition in the neighborhood for all the kids to go door to door for candy. I was home while my wife was out walking around...Halloween has become decently big in Denmark and very much a yearly tradition in the neighborhood for all the kids to go door to door for candy.
I was home while my wife was out walking around with the kids, and in the span of 2 hours around 150 kids came to our house for candy. We have a decent decorated driveway, various props and sounds effects, but still very low ball compared to some in the neighborhood who go all in and make almost a theme park ride.
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Comment on Growing number of families in Denmark are taking children with special needs out of regular schools, saying the system fails to accommodate neurodivergent students in ~life
winther Link ParentThis has definitely been a driver for a huge increase in Danish children moving to private schools, as the Danish school strategy for the last decade has been to have as many special needs...This has definitely been a driver for a huge increase in Danish children moving to private schools, as the Danish school strategy for the last decade has been to have as many special needs children in the public school as possible. This has resulted in many teachers needing to spend about 80% of their effort on 1-2 children in each class, thus negatively affecting the education for everyone else.
Of course every child should be offered the education that best suits them, but it is also both puzzling and concerning that the number of children in need of special schools have been on the rise in recent years. Either our society is somehow fostering more neurodivergent children or the system has become so narrow that fewer children can fit inside the "normal" system - whatever normal means.
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Comment on Patrick Stewart dead: 'Star Trek' captain, 'X-Men' superhero was 86 in ~movies
winther LinkOh man, this is one of the few celebrity deaths that really got to me :/ Countless hours have I watched him being the best captain of the Enterprise. I will take the time to listen to him...Oh man, this is one of the few celebrity deaths that really got to me :/ Countless hours have I watched him being the best captain of the Enterprise.
I will take the time to listen to him narrating his own autobiography again. I can highly recommend it to everyone. His life story is all kinds of amazing and he narrates it well.
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Comment on Why are there so many topics about Denmark? in ~tildes
winther Link ParentAnd your name sounds Swedish. It is all very confusing.And your name sounds Swedish. It is all very confusing.
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Comment on Manifestos, fear, and ‘loser thinking’: inside Proton’s AI reckoning in ~tech
winther Link ParentGeez, I am not a Proton user but that isn’t exactly reassuring from a company that markets themselves as the high priest of security. Many mistakes in software development leads back to something...Geez, I am not a Proton user but that isn’t exactly reassuring from a company that markets themselves as the high priest of security. Many mistakes in software development leads back to something being done too fast.
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Comment on Proposal: For sensitive topics, if a thread is intended for a particular demographic, there needs another thread open for everyone to discuss without having to join the targeted thread in ~tildes
winther LinkIn general I think it would help quite a bit to just add a small comment when posting a link to something in these kind of topics. When only a link is posted, there is nothing steering the...In general I think it would help quite a bit to just add a small comment when posting a link to something in these kind of topics. When only a link is posted, there is nothing steering the discussion in any direction from the start. Just a few lines like “I found this video/article and my experience is xyz. What are yours?” I would guess be sufficient over creating two threads at once.
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Comment on We are excited to announce that the Iceland DLC for Euro Truck Simulator 2 will be released on 10th November 2026 in ~games
winther LinkI have played both ETS2 and ATS since release and have couple of hundred hours in each. SCS Software really has become a stable trustworthy company in that regard, in how they keep updating the...I have played both ETS2 and ATS since release and have couple of hundred hours in each. SCS Software really has become a stable trustworthy company in that regard, in how they keep updating the game with new maps and upgrades to existing older parts of the map. Currently really enjoying Road Trip in ATS, as the game has ended up being more a less a podcast game for me - the trucking aspect has become less important over the years. Just driving around is enough. Can't wait for Coaches to release for ETS2, because the simplicity of just taking one vehicle from A to B is something I welcome after many years hauling trailers around. Iceland would be the perfect location for driving tourist busses around.
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Comment on Midweek Movie Free Talk in ~movies
winther (edited )LinkI have been rewatching some old favorites the last week. Goldeneye was my first Bond movie and Brosnan will always be the Bond I grew up with, and I played the heck out of the Nintendo 64 game, so...I have been rewatching some old favorites the last week.
Goldeneye was my first Bond movie and Brosnan will always be the Bond I grew up with, and I played the heck out of the Nintendo 64 game, so the whole vibe of this film is pure nostalgia. It is very 90s cheesy and Brosnan hasn't quite settled into the character yet, that came with the next film, but it is still a classic.
Also revisited The Fifth Element and that is still wildly entertaining. I love the whole comicbook look and feel of everything. There is tactile sense to the set designs, the costumes, the world building. Bruce Willis is okay as the straight man here, but the real highlight was in the over the top colorful cast of Gary Oldman, Ian Holm, Chris Tucker and Brion James.
Death Wish 3 was sort of a guilty pleasure, though I tend to hate that term. The views on vigilantism and solving gang problems with a big handgun is deeply problematic in every imaginable way. It is just also ridiculous entertaining with how over the top everything is, and the whole shootout scene at the end plays out like a shooting gallery video game.
The first time I watched Friday the 13th Part 2 I wasn't properly in tune with that style of slasher yet, but I have improved my education and mindset, so it was much better this time around. RIP Alice, long live Ginny! That I have since fallen in love with Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, also made this much more enjoyable with many more references falling into place. Like with Death Wish 3, I can respect and appreciate how committed the film is to its trashiness so to speak. There is no shame in its commitment to T&A, male gaze and overall hornyness.
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Comment on #YesAllMen #NotAllMen #MaybeSomeMen How to be better? in ~life.men
winther Link ParentI think it is a shame that any sort of nuanced perspective gets buried in hashtag wars. The #metoo was the exception that I personally think worked really well, because it was just one person...I think it is a shame that any sort of nuanced perspective gets buried in hashtag wars. The #metoo was the exception that I personally think worked really well, because it was just one person stating something about their own experience and the power of that movement came from numbers alone - with how many could say the same. The various "#all" hashtags inevitably just ends up being weaponized one way or the other.
The more we don't like being lumped in with the "bad" men, the more we nheed to think about how we can help to destroy the culture they (we?) thrive in.
While I mostly agree with this in principle, I also believe it does have a downside that we somehow only accept that rhetoric when in comes to men. Saying #AllMuslims, #AllImmigrants, #AllBlackPeople or whatever is rightfully not accepted in the same shared responsibility. It depends on where you are in life as well, as if you are a relatively successful man with a stable job and maybe a partner and so on, it is easier to not get too hung up on this. But maybe if you are still young, struggling financially and lacking good relationships and generally not feeling life is as easy as some tell you you have it simply by being a man, then rhetoric that indirectly - or at least can be experienced as such - blames you for all kinds of problems you don't do simply because you have a specific gender, then it isn't exactly surprising that some people get picked up by the manosphere. Not sure what, but I would hope there is a less counterproductive way of talking about these things.
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Comment on #YesAllMen #NotAllMen #MaybeSomeMen How to be better? in ~life.men
winther Link ParentI agree with that and I think the video in question is great as it is and not unwarranted or anything. It is her experience and it needs to be shared and listened to, as it is more common than we...I'm kind of confused about all the folks getting up in arms about the video. Have people really not sat on the sidelines of a pretty problematic group chat thread? I mean I'd say if you managed to grow up without doing even that, kudos, but also there may be some memory editing going on. I think the sentiment is true. It doesn't have to be you right this instance, but I would wager that, yes, all men at some point have been at best problematic and at worst - well pretty fucking awful.
I agree with that and I think the video in question is great as it is and not unwarranted or anything. It is her experience and it needs to be shared and listened to, as it is more common than we might think is comfortable to realize. People also learn things differently and I can't speak for everyone of course, but I can understand the initial gut reaction if you see something about how men are still sexists and the examples are very far from your own experience, then it is easy to dismiss it quickly as "not my problem". Depending on personal maturity and experience. And it doesn't help to just say "just educate yourself", because as we have seen women saying in many of these kinds of threads, they often encounter men who clearly have no clue they are doing anything wrong. We can't know our own blind spots. Unknown unknowns are hard to track, obviously. Sometimes someone need to tell you straight to your face about something concrete you are doing for it to land.
Problem is, when women do share their experiences with what I for lack of a better term can call "milder sexism", experiences that aren't outright assault or being called a whore, then they sadly very often gets completely dismissed as overreacting, complaining about stupid things or worse. Maybe men need to be better at sharing personal learning experiences for it to be better recognized and not immediately dismissed.
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Comment on #YesAllMen #NotAllMen #MaybeSomeMen How to be better? in ~life.men
winther Link ParentTrue, but I think it is also a bit of a shame that the framing is something most can't outright recognize and thus easily dismiss it. The framing is someone calling her a whore, and I suspect many...True, but I think it is also a bit of a shame that the framing is something most can't outright recognize and thus easily dismiss it. The framing is someone calling her a whore, and I suspect many will just think "Okay, I don't do that", but then misses that they maybe also can have blind spots in like how they treat pull requests from different developers and if there could be an unconscious bias working there. I think that is why these type of topics often goes off rails, because the framing of the sexists examples that make people go quickly on the defense as "that is definitely not me".
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#YesAllMen #NotAllMen #MaybeSomeMen How to be better?
I am honestly not sure making this post is a good idea, but I want to at least make an honest attempt at this topic and putting it in ~life.men - because it seems silly that this topic tends to...
I am honestly not sure making this post is a good idea, but I want to at least make an honest attempt at this topic and putting it in ~life.men - because it seems silly that this topic tends to get more discussed in ~life.women - and it obviously rarely ends well.
Please approach this with the best good faith intent and lets be civil.
I am 100% in the target group for that video, though I hope this doesn't end up being just another discussion of the same video but the topic in general, as I am a straight white man having worked in tech for two decades. And I am manager with women on my team, and I have been rightfully called out on certain biases and can recognize having glossed over problematic behaviour in the past.
I personally don't take much offense on the #YesAllMen thing, but I can understand why it can be irksome and there is a part of the me where it doesn't quite feel right to me, even though I know it isn't intended that way. It can feel like being lumped together in a "guilt by association" type of way, that we generally don't accept with other groups in society. And what I often have a problem with in these types of discussions, is how a very wide range of problems with very different severity is being lumped together - and I don't think that is fruitful. We see examples of open hostile sexism like "you fucking whore" or outright sexual assault, and most men of course don't recognize themselves in those sort of examples, and thus get defensive. Instead we should be more open to look at all the seemingly "minor" things that aren't as severe, but from what I think I understand from women on being a minority in a workplace is the "death by a thousand cuts"-effect. A constant reminder of seemingly minor things that just adds up, and is rightly being experienced as part of more severe forms of sexism.
Not sure where I am going with this - as I didn't write this as a well thoughtout thesis - just a quick way to try to start a hopefully healthy discussion in the right space, but I assume no men here on Tildes are outright sexually assualting women, but I would 100% believe that most of us still have blind spots that could be improved and is indirectly part of the problem.
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Comment on A deep sense of ease – what the Danes call ‘tryg’ – is a collective responsibility that allows individuals to flourish in ~health.mental
winther LinkInteresting to read an outside perspective on this as a Dane, though I wish the piece was a bit more concrete in what exactly it is we apparently do to make everything tryg. I don't think it is...Interesting to read an outside perspective on this as a Dane, though I wish the piece was a bit more concrete in what exactly it is we apparently do to make everything tryg. I don't think it is much of a conscious effort as such, it is more ingrained and thus harder to explain. And I would wager also harder for many of us to really appreciate, because Danes can complain about everything going to shit in our society as much as everywhere else, but a wider perspective on how things really are comparatively to many other countries can often be lost.
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Comment on Denmark government hack leaked 8.7 million citizen's ID's: the password was "123456" in ~tech
winther (edited )LinkIn case the title is not clear, it is not the CPR system that had that password. It was the admin system of the small private company where their access was misused through. The real problem is...In case the title is not clear, it is not the CPR system that had that password. It was the admin system of the small private company where their access was misused through. The real problem is how lenient access to the system has been given and how little monitoring of usage anomalies there is.
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Comment on Danish government confirms its Central Person Register was hacked – data breach affects eight million citizens and includes names, addresses, and social security numbers in ~tech
winther Link ParentI honestly don't think our IT systems are as such much worse than in other countries, but Denmark is one of the most heavily digitalized countries, so there are more systems and integrations where...I honestly don't think our IT systems are as such much worse than in other countries, but Denmark is one of the most heavily digitalized countries, so there are more systems and integrations where things can go wrong. Haven't gotten any uptick in scams, but everyone should definitely be more aware for weird things now.
Time will of course tell what it will mean for the platform, but currently not concerned. I consider NYT the better case scenario, at least compared to a streaming service or movie studio.
Just seem a tad high price with like around 20 times its annual earnings. I would think Letterboxd already has most of the cinephile userbase, so they would need expansion into tv if they are looking to really expand the userbase.