I feel that anyone that has ever suffered an injustice (and who hasn’t at some time or another) can relate to this film. And survivors of all kinds can understand what it means to “crawl through a river of shit” to earn their reprieve.

Trust your technolust!

It was right in the tagline: “Their only crime was curiosity.”

Taken straight from The Mentor: https://phrack.org/issues/7/3

I love them both but they are entirely different. War Games was going for a degree of verisimilitude. Hackers is extremely stylized.

I agree. In the early 2000s I spent an absurd amount of time hunting down mp3s, tagging them, organizing them, and burning backups. Looking back, it was a ridiculous amount of effort compared to streaming. Once Spotify came around I was hooked. It’s still worth it to me even with the occasional price hike.

Having worked in streaming media and entertainment for the last several years, I am solidly convinced that most of the streaming media services are built by people who essentially turned the tools they built to manage their pirated libraries into a saleable product :P

They hadn’t figured out how their body cams worked yet.

This is a fun, new speedrunning genre.

Oversized things are fun in general. I’ve always loved Claes Oldenburg’s giant renditions of everyday objects.

I vaguely remember reading that Rowan Atkinson stuck to three gags for objects in Mr. Bean skits: something's the wrong size, Mr. Bean uses it the wrong way, or the wrong thing happens when it's used.

(Half of the point of this comment is a hope of being corrected with the actual quote.)

Mis-sized things are fun, either bigger than normal or smaller than normal.

I've had the $20/month account for OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic for months. Anthropic consistently has more downtime and throws more errors than the other two. Claude (on the web) also has a lot of seemingly false positive errors. It will claim an error occurred but then work normally. I genuinely like Claude the best but its performance does not inspire confidence.

It raises the question: can a colony of individual animals (zooids in this case) that work cooperatively be called a singular animal itself? I think biologists say yes, but it’s an interesting taxonomic boundary.

AFAIK, a "super-organism" composed of individual entities is defined as one where the long-term fitness interests of those individuals and their groups are completely and permanently aligned.

For example an ant colony is a super-organism. That’s why it makes sense for a soldier ant to die for her queen.

Then why isn't a human a super-organism? We are composed of many different types of bacteria after all.

Some of the "entities" aren't aligned always, like when a person is pregnant for example. I think also our (human) cells doesn't operate as semi-autonomous agents with independent nervous systems and agency, unlike a ant colony.

We think cows are singular animals, despite being made up of lots of different organisms with different DNA. (Much of the diversity happening in the gut.)

I suspect all mammals depend on colonies of gut flora to survive. Humans are no exception.

We would survive

I think the bacteria in your gut outnumber the human cells in your body.