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It's so amazing that Alexa Nisenson (Charlie) is back for this episode! Her acting abilities are chilling, this suddenly puts the whole thing on a new level again.

It's the final season and they're wrapping up storylines and characters. Some favourites are already gone. I knew that going in this season. And is it believable that Charlie did what she eventually did? Yes I think so, this was already signalled in the first season she was in.



Reminded that the BBC once replaced a guest that didn't show up with a 'tub of lard', which was just asked questions as normal. That's still a valid idea.



Further things I learned in photography today: ducks, like humans, are very skittish when they have a black barrel pointed at them. They don't quite panic, but they do swim the other way. Also, dragonflies are really quick.
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:-(

Posting on Instagram and Pixelfed both failed, in different ways. Instagram flatly refuses, Pixelfed corrupts the photoset. Maybe trying a single picture?

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Ok, single picture on Pixelfed worked, can't post the set I wanted. Instagram finally succeeded when I copied the photos to my tablet first. So if you want to see some other pictures of my walkabout, here's the insta link: instagram.com/p/C-GmSPHo8Tn/ , or maybe wait until I start a photo blog or something.


Siena Agudong's film The 4:30 Movie will be released in the cinema 13 September!
#SienaAgudong #The430Movie
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Maybe the European title will be 'The 16:30 Film'... ;-)



The film Issac, where Dove Cameron plays Cassi, which has its release date 'coming soon' for centuries now, has its release date coming soon ('the next announcement') but also has a new title: Love Me Dead. They also say that the release is going to be worldwide!
#DoveCameron #Issac #LoveMeDead
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Love Me Dead, previously known as Issac, will be released on Valentines Day. In this film Dove Cameron plays Cassi.
#DoveCameron #LoveMeDead

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I was photographing with my zoom lens for a while but now Mr Bird wants a word.

(Cropped and scaled down for the socials. Canon EOS R10, Canon RF-S 18-150mm F3.5-6.3 IS STM @ 150mm, ISO 320, Av f/7.1, Tv 1/320, Fv priority mode, Servo AF, Animal Subject Tracking. Yes, I should have increased the shutter speed, I forgot.)
#Photography




Miranda Cosgrove has a new film coming up: The Wrong Paris for Netflix. Obviously it involves her character wanting, no needing, to be in Paris, France, but finding herself in Paris, Texas.
#MirandaCosgrove #TheWrongParis
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Emilia Clarke's film The Pod Generation is now on Amazon Prime in my country, but under a new title: "Baby to Go". I really liked this film when I saw it in the cinema, I dislike that new title.


To add your IMAP account to Outlook, we need to sync your mails to the Microsoft Cloud.


You what?

Since I didn't even ask to use Outlook, that seems like a no from me.

(The 'Learn more'-page says that this even applies to Gmail. You have the let Microsoft copy your whole Gmail inbox, all your mails, onto their servers.)

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So I added only my Microsoft mail account, figuring that they are not a third party to that. The first thing this new Outlook does is show me an advert inserted at the top of my inbox. The old Windows Mail never did that.

Switched back for now. They say that in 2024 we can't switch back anymore and we need to use the new Outlook. Hoping it doesn't turn 2024 anytime soon.

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My problem with Microsoft wanting a shadow copy of all your emails and run your accounts from their servers is this:

Your email box is one of the most sensitive things you have. It contains all information anybody needs to take over all your accounts anywhere, even take over your whole life. I pay my email provider to handle this securely, with competent people and with proper support channels. I don't pay Microsoft anything. And to provide this free service for me, they even need and keep all my email passwords. Where whoever can access them.


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The preview image you maybe see is not of today's film, weirdly.


People should stop reading reviews, including letterboxd and IMDb, and just enjoy watching films.

Really, people who make themselves 'reviewers' are just part of the anti-enjoyment brigade.



So afraid that at some point someone is going to suggest AI for reviewing documents, reviewing source code, regression testing.

...

Somebody already did, didn't they?




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This is such a depressing thing to hear. Why does everything get infected with AI?

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I have link previews turned off and I'm a very literal person, so it was only after thinking that all the praise in the thread fitted with Norah Jones too, that I realised it was a misspelling...


Nora Jones just did Tiny Desk. 🎶

Here's the link for you.

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BBC:

America will definitely get a new president - either the astonishing return of the criminally convicted Donald Trump or it its first ever female president.


Some there will see that as choosing the lesser evil, and I'm not sure which way they will go.



Wasn't it a line in Doctor Who where the British prime minister was eventually forced to step down by one line whispered in a bystander's ear: 'doesn't she look tired?'



Dafne does an 'oops did i forget to mention this' when she appears in the trailer of the new Wolverine film.
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#DafneKeen #DeadpoolAndWolverine


Good to hear that so much of the travel and healthcare industries are using security software.


Watching Jasmine Paolini fight her way back into this Wimbledon final, and a real fight it is.
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That was a valiant fight back that went down the wire in the final set, but it wasn't to be. Next year I'm sure.

Some photos I found of her, from earlier matches. Also this match we saw her focus, and her smile, and it's so great to see both in the same person...
#JasminePaolini



Top-performing means most able to resist the use of AI, right? Right?

Sounds like in one go we throw out all environmental targets.

Please don't.


AI is becoming a game-changer for businesses of all sizes and sectors.

In fact, in 2023, 8% of EU companies have already adopted AI technologies, with top-performing countries being:

🇩🇰 15,2%
🇫🇮 15,1%
🇱🇺 14,4%.

What's most exciting is that we're going to give SMEs and startups access to AI factories in the #EU and dedicated AI supercomputers, so they can use AI and stay competitive on a global scale.

AI factories are expected to be deployed in 2025.

🔗 More: europa.eu/!HXyQtH





I'm hoping for the time to arrive soon where companies will realise that mentioning AI near their product will actually lose them sales.


Thanks nature for putting my rain pipe repairs through an extensive test run.


I found I have an ancient pc speaker set that I used on a previous pc at least 25 years ago. In trying to see whether it could be connected to modern pc's, I discovered it also has a digital(!) input. I never knew...

Still tricky though, no USB...



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image your failing windows laptop and run the image on a vm on your linux laptop



I don't consider paying for a service to be an anti-pattern. Expecting everything to be free is maybe the anti-pattern.


Why do companies like Adobe think advertising that their products contain AI is a good thing? It's all over their website. While I would consider it a positive feature if the software doesn't contain AI.


Having big train stations like Utrecht Central Station seems to give rise to indoor pigeons.