Sorry. Link on post changed to nbcnews. Knew there was something fishy about Business Insider but it looked normal I viewed it.

I changed the link to nbcnews rather than businessinsider - I tested it but the paywall on there is sneaky.

The full memo is:

Dear Vice Team,

As we navigate the ever-evolving business landscape, we need to adapt and best align our strategies to be more competitive in the long term. After careful consideration and discussion with the board, we have decided to make some fundamental changes to our strategic vision at Vice.

We create and produce outstanding original content true to the Vice brand. However, it is no longer cost-effective for us to distribute our digital content the way we have done previously.

Moving forward, we will look to partner with established media companies to distribute our digital content, including news, on their global platforms, as we fully transition to a studio model. As part of this shift, we will no longer publish content on vice.com, instead putting more emphasis on our social channels as we accelerate our discussions with partners to take our content to where it will be viewed most broadly.

Separately, Refinery 29 will continue to operate as a standalone diversified digital publishing business, creating engaging, social first content. As you know, we are in advanced discussions to sell this business, and we are continuing with that process. We expect to announce more on that in the coming weeks.

With this strategic shift comes the need to realign our resources and streamline our overall operations at Vice. Regrettably, this means that we will be reducing our workforce, eliminating several hundred positions. This decision was not made lightly, and I understand the significant impact it will have on those affected. Employees who will be affected will notified about next steps early next week, consistent with local laws and practices.

I know that saying goodbye to our valued colleagues is difficult and feels overwhelming, but this is the best path forward for Vice as we position the company for long-term creative and financial success. Our financial partners are supportive and have agreed to invest in this operating model going forward. We will emerge stronger and more resilient as we embark on this new phase of our journey.

Thank you for your continued dedication to Vice and support during this time of transition.

Together, I am confident that we will overcome any challenges and achieve our shared goals.

Bruce

I don't think catbox.moe has the bandwidth lately.

It works, but it plays slowly (It took 90 seconds to download all 17.5 MB directly, which is longer than the gif lasts).

I've been playing around with animated WEBP files. These are much more efficient than gifs (the linked WEBP is about 330KB), but am having a hard time making them work for Lemmy.

Option 1: upload them directly to Lemmy, they get auto-recompressed and then often look like garbage
Option 2: direct-link to external host, Lemmy copies it in and auto-recompresses it with the same effect
Option 3: URL-link to an external host, which then people are reluctant to click
Option 4: Include as an inline link in the body of a post, then it looks like a text post, and support for it is variable among web clients and mobile apps

Apple do seem to take some online criticism of their shows onboard. I assume this is why I’ve seen comments that season 2 of Invasion is remarkably different from Season 1.

For Foundation, things like Gaal’s redundant voice-overs are largely gone. There’s less of noticeable difference in quality between Trantor and Foundation (in that, for me, the outer planets stories aren’t as bad, but the empire stories aren’t as good).

I like the new, sweary, bantering, characters, and that Jared Harris is given a bit more to do. That said, I’ve not read the books, but even I can tell that the the radical things they’re doing with the Demerzel character are unlikely to be popular.

An interesting thing about Lemmy is that if you delete your comment, it also nukes every comment underneath it. So if you say something, and then people are giving you a hard time about it, and then you go out for a walk and are still annoyed about it, you can self-destruct and take them with you (this isn’t based on a true story of course, but if it was, I’d say it’s terrible in that it discourages engagement and deletes someone else’s actually-correct info, but it’s a good way to get over it all)

Favourite ship names: Apart from the obvious - the “Mistake Not My Current State Of Joshing Gentle Peevishness For The Awesome And Terrible Majesty Of The Towering Seas Of Ire That Are Themselves The Mere Milquetoast Shallows Fringing My Vast Oceans Of Wrath”, I like the ship names that are references to other ship names, including “Me, I’m Counting” and “I Blame Your Mother”

Thanks. Its a beautiful vid. Maybe the “(feat. Spike)” is self-evident for more clued-in fans than me, but if not, it means that the YouTuber got Steve Blum (voice artist for Spike from Cowboy Bebop) to read the “Tears in the Rain” speech from Blade Runner

Thank you. Your post inspired me to do what I should have done in the first place - test it from a Private Browsing window (which works)

I’ll clear out my cookies or whatever, and try again when I want to use that instance.

I have Feelings about certain instances (too unreliable, too much interference, too little / too much moderation on certain specialised instances) so that helps me choose. It’s not something you necessarily get right first try.

I assume they were talking about !newcommunities@lemmy.world

I thought for a second that the OP of the other post had changed the title (missed opportunity, there).

Serious answer: TIE fighter pilots climbing into their ships against the backdrop of The Eye, with the klaxons fitting perfectly with the music.

The ones added in the “special” editions

You’re showing up as a bot, btw. Anyone with a blanket ban on bots won’t see your comments, so it’s maybe an idea to change it in your settings.

Blatantly.

Well, personally I use IRC to steal media, but I realise that’s not why you’re asking.

I suppose the reason people might use it for chat is that it’s been around a long time, so there’s clients (with endless plugins) that do exactly what people want, and it’s all simple, text-based often unencrypted stuff, so it’s easy to write bots for (that might notify you of something, for example)

I think I use ‘pretty good’ to pretend I have an opinion about something, rather than it being a moral judgement:

How was the film? Pretty good vs.
How was the film? Good.

Hey, that’s not true. They also had posts complaining about trans people existing and Star Trek fans being nerds. Still, it’s admirable - in a way - the effect they had: I ask the lemmy.world admins for updates on fixing their technical issues, and get no reply. This guy makes one post, and they all leap into action.

I’d mind less if their own instance wasn’t so broken.

Not that one, their copy of the massive one at dbzer0

lemmy.world deleted their copy of it (due to site rules, and prompted by a concerned Internet citizen)

It’s probably the biggest Community in all of Lemmy, so the ramifications will be interesting.