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We need nuclear fusion to be viable and we need it now.

Looks like there are two more steps:

  1. The next research reactor (ITER) needs to break even
  2. Commercial reactors generate more electricity than they use


BBC News - Oxford's JET lab smashes nuclear fusion energy output record
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If dinosaurs would spend less time roaring and more time hunting, they wouldn't let all these time travelling humans get away.

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I recently read the Oscars eligibility rules and tried to understand them. I was surprised any film is eligible to be voted for at all. Released outside LA first? Not eligible. Less then three screenings in a theater per day for the first week? Not eligible. Released on streaming? Not eligible. All kinds of exceptions for festivals and covid-related streaming versions of those, but still.

E.g. The Fallout won SXSW 2021, lot of Oscars chatter around it, but it is not on the list of eligible films of this year. It came out on HBO Max in 2022, which probably means it is not eligible next year either. I may have tried to understand the rules, I didn't say I succeeded.
#Oscars #AcademyAwards

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Giving myself a treat and watching Jenna Ortega in The Babysitter: Killer Queen. I really liked that film and Jenna is so good in it (as always).

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Rewatching UnREAL with the seasons a bit out of order, but I can still see that Shiri Appleby is amazing. And she directs some of the episodes as well!

Most people watch her in UnREAL because they liked her in Life Unexpected or Roswell, but I saw and liked her even earlier as the rather lively character Tara in Xena.



Jenna Ortega being in the top ten films only twice is because she only has two films out at the moment.
#JennaOrtega #Scream #ScreamMovie #TheFallout


The Top 10 Most Popular Films on Letterboxd This Week

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Rewatching Sucker Punch with Emily Browning: a big cgi film done right, with meaning and heart behind the story and great acting.
#EmilyBrowning #SuckerPunch
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Today Scream opens in Dutch cinemas and also today it was announced that another installment, the sixth already, will be made!
#Scream #ScreamMovie #JennaOrtega
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me: I can't remember... Oh well, I guess it wasn't important!
examinator: I don't think that's how it works
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Watching that episode of #Charmed where they all forget stuff, like Piper forgetting she has a baby.
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Oh wow, next up is the episode with Jennifer Sky and Melody Perkins! I missed them... (6x04 The Power of Three Blondes)

I regularly think about the writings of Jennifer Sky about her experiences as an underage model (aka a model) in the fashion industry. Very eye-opening. Especially the one where she compares her first acting job on Xena with the expectations she took from years of modelling, and the one about her time modelling in Tokyo under the so called protection of the agency which was more the opposite and seemed to instead feed the models to the predators.



The film X with Jenna Ortega will be released 18 March 2022 in the US. I see it listed in Dutch cinemas for 17 March 2022, but take that with a pinch of salt.
#JennaOrtega #X
a24films.com/films/x
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Meanwhile HBO Max will start broadcasting in Europe on 8 March 2022, so there's a chance we get to see The Fallout then.
#JennaOrtega #TheFallout
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The world premiere of X will be 13 March 2022 on SXSW. Last year Jenna's film already won this festival, maybe again?
#X #JennaOrtega
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It's not so hard when you realise British is merely saying what you don't mean to avoid talking about your feelings

-- Virginia
#TheCantervilleGhost

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Suspended my Spotify Premium membership until the platform I was funding stops being used for spreading misinformation. I'd be ok with them going back to being music only.

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Watching Mila Kunis in Jupiter Ascending on Prime Video, since it will be deleted there in a few days. I'd wish availability of films on streaming services wasn't so fleeting.
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That is a very silly film, with one all-excusing thing going for it and that is that it has Mila Kunis in it. The Amazon stream also has subtitles that are out-of-sync, so it probably isn't bad that it disappears there.


The BBC can't name a person if they're arrested, not even if they're a public person, no matter how bad the crime, but they can name a public person being suspended by their employer. So they do both. In the same headline. That was a weird sight...


"the Met has asked for minimal reference to be made in the Cabinet Office report to the relevant events."

Given that the report is about those very events, that's going to be difficult.



Each time it was mentioned that covid was becoming endemic I didn't understand why this was supposed to be a good thing. Accepting that the virus kept circulating surely meant accepting that people kept dying? Turns out I'm not the one who was misunderstanding it. A quote from nature:


"There is a widespread, rosy misconception that viruses evolve over time to become more benign. This is not the case: there is no predestined evolutionary outcome for a virus to become more benign, especially ones, such as SARS-CoV-2, in which most transmission happens before the virus causes severe disease."
-- Aris Katzourakis


h/t Alice Roberts

COVID-19: endemic doesn’t mean harmless

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I recently heard another quote about endemicity that changed my perspective on it. It goes something like this:

"People think that COVID being endemic means we can stop thinking about it, when really it just means we have to think about it all the time."

Agreed it's not a good outcome, but it was probably inevitable.

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@Paul That's another good point. The article doesn't consider endemicity inevitable, though.
@Paul


[share author='Prof Alice Roberts💙' profile='https://twitter.com/theAliceRoberts' avatar='https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1387050254281842694/8qPMR2UZ.jpg' link='https://twitter.com/theAliceRoberts/status/1487833210579038212' posted='2022-01-30 17:00:54']“Thinking that endemicity is both mild and inevitable is more than wrong, it is dangerous: it sets humanity up for many more years of disease, including unpredictable waves of outbreaks.”
Writes @ArisKatzourakis in @Nature

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Years ago I travelled by train across the country to get to the nearest cinema that showed a film I wanted to see. In that cinema I was the only one there, it felt like it would have been easier to bring the reels to my city instead.

Today I went by train to the cinema again, but this time it was only a few minutes ride and there were other people there.



Seeing the amazing acting talent of @jennaortega on the big screen in Scream is a phenomenal experience. I recommend it to everyone, also non-horror fans. If she's already this good in a slasher, what is The Fallout going to be like?
#JennaOrtega #ScreamMovie #Scream


Seeing the amazing acting talent of Jenna Ortega on the big screen in Scream is a phenomenal experience. I recommend it to everyone, also non-horror fans. If she's already this good in a slasher, what is The Fallout going to be like?
#JennaOrtega #ScreamMovie #Scream
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Wow that was a buzz.

Also years since I've been in a cinema. Lots of distance between people, even more than required.

I really liked the film itself as well. I can't really mention it, but there are some things in films that should be 'do it, don't just say it' and this film does that right. Jenna mentioned that it was an intelligent script and I see what she means.

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I remember seeing Chloë Grace Moretz on the big screen for the first time (in The Miseducation of Cameron Post) after seeing her a lot on my tv. That was an incredible experience as well.


To get ready for seeing some really good acting this evening, I'm now watching another really good actress, Felicity Jones, in Albatross. From 11 years ago, it's about time I watch it.
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Two girls both feel locked up in the Isle of Man and become friends, one a good girl whose father is a formerly successful writer and the other a bad girl who only speaks in sarcasm, wants to become a writer and gets into a secret relationship with her friend's father. Since, doesn't that always happen in films.


It's impacting me quite badly that this film I've been looking forward to and that I've been promoting quite a lot has its worldwide release today with everybody being able to see it, but not me since somehow we in this country are not included in this worldwide release. Hopefully so many people see it that they will also consider releasing it here.





THE FALLOUT is now streaming on @hbomax.

Thank you to writer/director Megan Park, the wonderful cast and crew who handled this film with care, and for all those who decide to watch. Special thanks to Vada.

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me: docker login
docker: Login did not succeed, error: error during connect: This error may indicate that the docker daemon is not running.
me: *checks network, account, permissions, anything I can think of*
me: oh
me: maybe it's because the docker daemon is not running


Tomorrow is the day that you can watch #TheFallout on @hbomax. I heard many good things about it.

Tomorrow is also the day that I'll start being jealous of people in the US, Canada and New Zealand, since they get to see this film, but on @hbomaxnl I can't. 😢


The Fallout begins exclusively streaming on @hbomax tomorrow.

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The release of Scream (the new one with Jenna Ortega) is still scheduled for 3 February in Dutch cinemas, but some cinemas have a prerelease this weekend. Check their schedules!
#ScreamMovie #Scream #JennaOrtega


I finally started using one of these apps that show you your electricity usage over time and I see that almost two years ago my monthly usage suddenly dropped with about one third of before. This is when I got my new refrigerator. No idea it would make such a difference.


Watching Abigail Breslin, who I know from Nim's Island, in the Tyler Shields directed Final Girl.
#AbigailBreslin #FinalGirl #TylerShields
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Not surprisingly for a film directed by a photographer, every shot looks gorgeous.


Learning new stuff about myself every day. I already knew that I somehow in my formative years missed out on learning to interact normally with friends and I'm slowly getting to terms with the fact that that side of being human, i.e. being a social being with close friends and relationships, is closed off to me. But what I don't like about myself is how jealous I get seeing videos of other people having fun interacting with friends. Why can't I just be happy for them that they have a group where they belong? Why am I like this?

Anyway, sorry to be so heavy. I'm ok, don't worry.



Mobilizon is some groups server marketed as an events server (you can create events as yourself or as a group) which is built with Pleroma as starting point and looks very very good. I tried to use the demo instance, but failed in a few things, Like following a group from Friendica, becoming a member from Friendica and deleting a group.

The self hosting instructions seem very clear and are basically the same as Pleroma. It allows having multiple identities (profiles) to separate your professional and friends interactions, like Friendica used to have.

I'll look into it again another time.
joinmobilizon.org/en/




Now Ex Machina for some more Alicia Vikander.
#AliciaVikander #ExMachina
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A partially see-through Alicia Vikander, some thoughts on AI, but also on big tech. A question they pose is that once an AI passes a Turing test, will you still consider it human if it clearly looks like a robot. But that may not be the actual question.


Wow, that was quick. I entered an issue in the Friendica github and it got solved before I even finished dinner. Thanks!


About to watch another Alicia Vikander film: Tulip Fever. I don't know what it will be about, but it's likely about the 'tulip fever' which was the first financial bubble that burst spectacularly, centuries ago. People invested in tulip bulbs and drove the price way above its intrinsic value, with the inevitable crash next. I'm sure there were bulb-bros at the time.
#AliciaVikander #TulipFever
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it was literally the rich 17th century Dutch buying the "I AM RICH" iPhone app for $1000 that does nothing
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@feld Still a lot of money, but ok, it's a myth. Thanks for the link!
@feld