It’s funny that some people think “positive social impact” should (only) reflect their views and morals.

The .001% is the new 1%.

Actually 0.01% was the new 1% after Bernie Sanders made a couple million and hit the top 0.1%

I was amused by his flip from decrying the millionaires to the billionaires as his personal wealth grew.

Also the CIA

Sounds similar to university applied research arms too.

GTRI locally hires a lot of non-students to work in its various labs. Its labs then pitch ideas to private companies and the DoD. Sometimes they're solicited directly if the lab is well-known and has a track record of delivering good research-oriented results. They research and build prototypes around various capabilities: robotics, avionics, even classified stuff.

They're always pitching, because contracts end or fall through, and that's the source of everyone's payroll. The labs can even be competitive with one another, and the individual researchers might spend time split between labs.

Academics as a service.

Can you elaborate? That sounds interesting

John Kiriakou Described the process in a podcast, maybe the JRE.

I feel like there should be an open project to manage and support this.

I think governance (both public and private) would benefit from open tools to manage communities at scale via technology.

Some people are more productive. Others less so.

There is a tension between the two groups.

Some workers think meetings are great. Others hate them.

Cinema needs to be a real experience, beyond just expensive popcorn and other people on their phone.

The cinema experience lost its magic. If Netflix reimagined a new model of cinema, what would it look like?

Cinema used to be a really good shared experience. I don't go to cinema anymore because we have a newborn at home, but we used to pre-order tickets in advanced for movies we really wanted to see (like Wicked last year, Fantastic 4 this year) and the theater was almost empty at opening night for both of those.

Contrast a few years ago when avengers endgame came out, and Spiderman far from home came out shortly after that, and No Way Home a few years after that... They were lively events. People dressed up, the theater handed out free swag and merch, and it was just a really cool shared experience, almost akin to a live concert.

I don't know exactly what's changed in that time, considering No Way Home came out after Covid and it was still a spectacle of an event, but I don't think cinema will get its magic back.

A few years ago I did go to a "Stranger Things" experience and I think that might be the future of shared experiences/narratives. It was essentially a week-long pop-up event, you'd get tickets, and it was basically a "walking simulator" that took you through a narrative within the Stranger Things universe. This wasn't just a bunch of people looking at a screen, it was live actors, holographics, sound design, lights, a lot of crazy stuff for a pop-up venue.

As a fan of the franchise it was really well done. A friend of mine want to a similar "Experience" for the Bridgeton universe, which I care nothing about, but she really enjoyed it as well.

So I think if Netflix were to reimagine cinema, it would probably be in that direction.

Big screen TVs and home theatre also had a huge impact.

Most of the cinema experience at home (without the public).

The experience is better at home for many

CIA propaganda to whitewash torture

Gifting streaming membership