Looks like this was adapted into an hourlong episode of a 1966 TV show, haven’t watched it yet tho:

• https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8lhjd7
• https://archive.org/details/out-of-the-unknown-1966-the-machine-stops-s-2-e-1

omg that’s right… it’s… it’s not my fault! I was misled by an AI!

FWIW at least half of the movies mentioned on !bmoviebonanza@lemmy.world are on tubi.

A decent B-movie. Compare this to Videodrome to see why Videodrome is such an excellent movie. It has a similar theme, but while Brainscan “plays it safe” and follows a typical story structure with all kinds of standard tropes, you never really know where Videodrome is gonna take you.

I haven’t checked any of these, but I plan to watch at least one:

• youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xRwzhkJAhc
• youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FYXNFiWezU
• youtube (spanish subtitles): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VexFwIdLvVY
• Tubi (availability varies by country): https://tubitv.com/movies/674337/brainscan
• Archive (vhs quality?): https://archive.org/details/vhs_Brainscan
• pay or ads: https://nobraincellsleft.github.io/JustWatch-Search/title/tm112207

Best case scenario:

• The initial submission didn’t cite the crappy Gabor paper, and peer reviewers said that it should.
• The peer editor, summarizing feedback, said that the submission was accepted as long as it took into account the peer reviewer suggested revisions.
• The submitters don’t really care about the paper quality, all they need is the citation. So they assigned the revisions to the lowliest grad student.
• The lowliest grad student knows their advisor hates that crapmaster Gabor, so when they sent it to their advisor they asked whether they should cite that paper, thinking they might prefer to passive-aggressively “forget” to do so
• The advisor doesn’t care about the paper quality (see above) so they just skimmed it and saw the word “Gabor”. (alternate hypothesis: they thought this was a great opportunity to troll that crap-merchant Gabor, as well as those useless middlemen thieves at Wiley.)
• The peer editor: same as the advisor, they’re just doing this for a line-item on their CV.
• The Wiley “editor” doesn’t even read the paper, they just forward it to the typesetter subcontractors and demand that the submitters pay up.
• The typesetter subcontractors don’t care, it’s all just text to them.
• And so it becomes Science, and the writer of crappy papers Gabor is enshrined in the pantheon along with Ea-Nasir and William “I’m something of a scientist myself” Dafoe. Immortality, of a sorts.

I kinda like this one. it’s got a “hidden step” in which if humans are created by gods, we are robots to those gods.

Also keep an eye on: https://piefed.fediverse.observer/stats A couple thousand people (and several communities) moved there after lemm.ee died, but we interact with lemmy.

As for why it subjectively seems to be declining… maybe you know what you’re gonna see in New, and so you engage less with posts? Maybe it’s time to be more of a poster!

Nice try, ICE.

Yeah, there’s electricity in the brain, for example.

Aaah! You’re right, it’s Nick Cave! fml I really am the Marilyn Manson of the squad…

which squares didn’t I recognize? iirc my exact train of thought was:

1. is that Robert Smith? he looks too young tho!
2. That’s the guy who was in Hardware … I know he’s the singer in a band but I don’t remember his name or the band name…
3. I think that’s Peter Murphy… with a beard? did he ever have a beard?
4. oh Morrisey… I heard you said some bad things… you always were pretentious, but did you have to go there?
5. Exterminating Angel is her best song, change my mind.
6. No idea. (I had to look it up by image… Christian Death was never a fave of mine fwiw…)
7. My current best dance move involves moving like Ian Curtis with the arms, and like Jackie Chan in the Drunken Master movies everywhere else.
8. Embarassed to say I recognize him. I’ma pretend I don’t. Well he did used to hang out with Trent Reznor tho…
9. I know Sisters of Mercy but I always forget this guy’s name …

Looks pretty good… but… is it just unapologetically fascist?

Boston is so awesome. You didn’t mention the museums, historical places, concerts, festivals, theaters, hundreds of little cafes and restaurants, bookstores, art galleries, several dozen universities each with events open to the public. Taking the T (public transportation) over to the Boston Common to see what’s going on, then walking through downtown, maybe stop at Fanueil Hall for a snack, then go all the way to the North End to a restaurant. Oh gods I’m homesick and I only lived there like 8 years.

“the answer’s on the information superhighway!”

Badass. I suspect they are talented musicians, the type who would be good at any genre they chose, and we’re just lucky they chose this genre.

Nice pick, I need to listen to this album more, especially the songs that were new on it.

Yeah, I think it’s supposed to be “annhilating” rockets, coming and going. The whole album has a theme like that.

I always imagined that ADHD was just our minds tuned to being hunter-gatherer survivors, and thus not suited for a sedentary office environment.

Nice video, my BFF used to dance around like that sometimes, and I’d be like: do you want me to put some music on? and they’d be like: it’s playing in my head…