I haven’t watched it. I don’t know how well she will cover the subject or how deep the rabbit hole she will venture.

All I know is she’s delightful and I sure as hell won’t read that bilge myself, so I’m looking forward to an entertaining summary.

Edit: I watched it. I had a good time.

  • queermunist she/her@lemmy.mlEnglish
    10·
    5 days ago

    I liked that part where Harry’s happy memory for powering his Patronus was his absolute certainty that we will defeat death and “no one will ever have to say goodbye ever again” - that’s cool shit.

    Right up until the Patronus animal was a human and I cringed so hard I had to take a break from reading.

    • jaschop@awful.systemsOPEnglish
      13·
      4 days ago

      goofy shrugging

      be me, super genius autodidact

      be deeply moved by the prospect of defeating death with technology, write some sick prose about it because am eloquent as fuck

      proceed to punt this goal decades or centuries by helping to justify a tech bubble which consumes tons of R&D resources for no apparent benefit and will bind further resources in the future to adapt to an aggravated climate crisis, and also inspiring a slew of technofascists too dumb to tell the difference between tech that benefits mankind and tech that exploits and oppresses

      mein face when

      • BlueMonday1984@awful.systemsEnglish
        11·
        4 days ago

        >proceed to punt this goal decades or centuries by helping to justify a tech bubble which consumes tons of R&D resources for no apparent benefit and will bind further resources in the future to adapt to an aggravated climate crisis, and also inspiring a slew of technofascists too dumb to tell the difference between tech that benefits mankind and tech that exploits and oppresses

        Not to mention, the aforementioned bubble’s given us shit like some jackasses’ ghoulish (and failed) attempt to “revive” George Carlin, attempts to automate end-of-life care, “AI seances” designed to scam the grieving, and God-knows-what-else.

        So, the very concept of “defeating death with technology” has probably been thoroughly discredited as impossible, inherently ghoulish, or a combo of the two.

        • ShakingMyHead@awful.systemsEnglish
          6·
          2 days ago

          To be frank, all seances are designed to scam the grieving, AI or otherwise. If AI threatens the psychic industry I say let them fight.