Maybe we should have a social media/microblogging/fediverse platform where external links are only loaded when someone clicks to see it. This would apply to link previews, quoted posts and replies to a conversation.
A long time ago I watched The 4400, a series with Jacqueline McKenzie. I have all four seasons on disc, but somehow never got around to watching the final fourth season. Let's start it now, I hope I remember enough of the previous seasons.
It's a somewhat scifi series, with 4400 people suddenly returning to earth after presumably having been abducted by aliens. Jacqueline is not one of those, but a police person investigating things around it. As strange things happen: they start to show special abilities, they form a cult like organisation, and what really happened to them while they were missing is still unknown.
I liked seeing Eliza Dushku in the two seasons of Dollhouse. The concept allowed her to act different characters each episode and I see why she (co-)created the show like that. It's not unlike iZombie in that respect, where Rose McIver had great fun acting differently each week.
But the concept of people having their mind completely wiped and replaced by another personality, then sent on engagements with often (as they call it in the show) 'romantic' aspects, I choose to see as something purely fictional. If you'd consider it as a real thing, there's obviously a big problem with (lack of) consent. In show they have a flimsy excuse of a contract signed by participants. iZombie had Liv's personality only half mixed with someone else's, and that's actually quite smart.
It was weird seeing how in some episodes writers were well aware of this consent problem and dealt with the consequences in the story, then in a next episode it was as if they themselves were wiped and they were oblivious again (but this time with a male subject).
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I liked seeing Eliza Dushku in the two seasons of Dollhouse. The concept allowed her to act different characters each episode and I see why she (co-)created the show like that. It's not unlike iZombie in that respect, where Rose McIver had great fun acting differently each week.
But the concept of people having their mind completely wiped and replaced by another personality, then sent on engagements with often (as they call it in the show) 'romantic' aspects, I choose to see as something purely fictional. If you'd consider it as a real thing, there's obviously a big problem with (lack of) consent. In show they have a flimsy excuse of a contract signed by participants. iZombie had Liv's personality only half mixed with someone else's, and that's actually quite smart.
It was weird seeing how in some episodes writers were well aware of this consent problem and dealt with the consequences in the story, then in a next episode it was as if they themselves were wiped and they were oblivious again (but this time with a male subject).
Season two the story and subject matter was quite different and avoided the problems of season one. This was mainly due to the different things happening with Echo's mind, which I can't say due to spoilers. #ElizaDushku #Dollhouse
I have the disc of Underworld: Blood Wars in my to-watch stack and I think I better check where in the series this one fits before I watch it. Because I'm lost. I skipped the non-Kate Beckinsale ones, that I do know. #KateBeckinsale #UnderworldBloodWars #Underworld
This is the last one in the franchise, it's possible I find out why. (There are some final seasons of tv series where you realise they really had to stop)
It's a bit light on storytelling and on characterisation, but entertaining enough.
Maybe the "Dawn Alert!" over the PA system of the vampire coven was the best bit.
Selene does so much pining for her daughter Eve and others do so much searching for her, that maybe they should rewatch Underworld: Awakening and see India Eisley as Eve. Somehow the memory of that performance is what underpins this film.
Oh-oh, the spammers have found the address of my dev Wordpress. Maybe I'll just change the url or take it offline. Now it's asking me to moderate a comment on that boat post.
Finestkind will have its premiere at TIFF any moment now, but you can already watch a scene courtesy of this Deadline article. It features Jenna Ortega and like everything she does it's immediately captivating and intense. They say it's going to be on Paramount+ in November. #JennaOrtega #Finestkind
I didn't know Voyager 1 is still within the Oort Cloud, because I thought when people say 'interstellar space' they mean beyond the solar system. Things I learnt...
But Voyager 1 hasn't left the solar system. At 161 AU, its current distance from the Sun is a fraction of Sedna's 936 AU aphelion (though it is currently further out than the minor planet).
And it's nowhere near the inner edge of the Oort cloud, thousands of AU from the sun.
This chart shows Voyager 1's location in 2013, with distance from the sun plotted on a log scale. It is at roughly the same place today, since the next step on the scale jumps from 100 to 1000 AU.
I once said that trains in the Netherlands were ok as long as you don't need to go anywhere, and only after I said it realised how much this described them completely failing at their purpose.
What I meant is that it's a problem if you depend on them, like for getting to work (not just on time, but at all). If you are just planning an optional trip outside of rush hour and are ok with going somewhere completely different instead, then it's fine. #PublicTransport
First time in years of running this server/account that my dozens of saved searches have a hit and put a post in my timeline of someone I don't follow yet.
We’ll have to wait a bit longer than planned for the premiere of HBO’s True Detective: Night Country, starring Jodie Foster and Kali Reis. A specific premiere date had not previously be…
Your colleague was happy to have missed the endless stream of messages on the company chat, so we sent them a "here's what you have missed" email to remedy this.
Jealous of the Toronto people who have the ability to see Jenna Ortega in Finestkind this week. Hopefully worldwide cinema releases will follow soon. #JennaOrtega #Finestkind #TIFF23
Ok, so I'm trying to use some relays to help with 'discovery', since on a single user instance I basically only discover what I already know and sometimes only what I wrote myself. So far it is not that much of a success. Of the three relay types I tried, one worked (the rust one), one failed (the fedi-buzz one) and one said it worked but failed (the go one).
Great interview with Lindsay Armaou of B*Witched, talking an hour long about fame, becoming a pop band, image, the hectic schedules, breaking America, being dropped by the label and then starting up again and now decades later still going on. I have been and still am such a huge fan of hers, since before their first single was even scheduled for a release and I was afraid after that first time I saw them I would never hear from them again. Then their first four singles each entered the charts at number one and they became a record smashing (not literally) band. #LindsayArmaou #B*Witched
Lindsay and I spent a fascinating hour together talking about her time with hugely popular girl band B*Witched. We spoke about fame, the industry and the ban...
A thing she says in this interview that I didn't know is that they had already written the third album and were waiting for a call from the label to inform them about the release date of the first single. But when the label did call, it was to drop them. #LindsayArmaou #B*Witched
Stephanie Leonidas posted some photos of an upcoming film of hers on Twitter and Instagram. The posts don't say which film, but she captioned it "Donna", which according to imdb is her character in 5lbs of Pressure. #StephanieLeonidas #5lbsOfPressure
The point of this graph is to show that a human being on a bicycle is a more energy efficient way of getting around than the way (some/most) other animals do. I like that.
But a human by itself is quite energy efficient too, according to the graph. We evolved for walking and running long distances, so no surprise. But maybe not so nice that an airliner comes out pretty well too.
Painted some walls today. Overall it went well I think. But weird how paint so much wants to go onto things that aren't supposed to be painted, like me.
A problem is that now the contents of the wardrobe, and parts of the wardrobe, are on my bed waiting for the paint to dry so I can move it back. This is not going to happen today, so I've got to find somewhere else to sleep tonight...
It has happened often enough that I fell asleep on the couch watching tv, only waking up in the morning, so I guess this unplanned thing is going to be planned this time.
In the US they seem to have a bail-what-you-want system, like pay-what-you-want, where you negotiate your bail before you make an appointment to arrest yourself. Though this seems available only to a certain type of people.
I'm about the rectify an omission: I haven't seen Dollhouse yet, even though it stars Eliza Dushku. I'm going to watch it now. And yes, I'm going to put the disc in the player, I'm not just watching the pictures on the cover as on the photo. #ElizaDushku #Dollhouse
I only know popular science / scifi, but I like the tube idea. If you throw away one end of the tube really fast, like the speed of light, the tube will automatically get longer, probably allowing you to hold on to the other end comfortably. The examples in popular science usually involve ladders instead of tubes, but it may be transferable. Then, if you throw it even faster like over the speed of light (there are some people that say this is impossible, the trick is to ignore them), it will break the limit of causality and any messages you shout into one end should be encountered by you before you shouted them. Maybe with some weird Dopler effect. And maybe I'm wrong...
Hey Science, I need a tube in my kitchen so I can shout "butter, you dickhead" into it and I'll hear that two days ago when I'm standing in the middle of the supermarket thinking "what was I out of again?"
I was hoping that all the water delivered by the storm over Mexico and California and heading north, would help putting out the fires in Canada. But apparently with the storm disintegrated by then, expected to just miss the right areas and the ferocity of the fires going on, the expectation is that it's not going to help...
PeerTube tries to keep a view count on the videos, but the monitoring on the cdn shows that there are definitely more times the video files are accessed. Mostly by me, and maybe all the other requests are just bots, but PeerTube doesn't count them. #PeerTube
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