A long time ago I saw the tv series Roswell and loved it. I started watching it for Shiri Appleby, who I knew from Xena, but would probably have watched it anyway. Shiri is nowadays besides a great actress also a great director. She was amazing in Unreal and the episodes she directed were the best.
It's nice to see what a really great lead actress brings to a series. She not only plays her role very well, but she also captures the audience and sets the tone. I think she makes Roswell the warm and interesting show it is.
That her role would be the lead wasn't that obvious. The series is about aliens hiding in Roswell and she is just a human. But I think it works out well, to have human Liz as point of view. #ShiriAppleby #Roswell
Going to see Emilia Clarke. Not in person, she will be on a big screen. The Pod Generation is finally arrived in my country (NL). Release this Thursday, but prereleases all over the country this week.
Finally saw The Pod Generation with Emilia Clarke on the big screen, it has taken a while to arrive in my country. It's today maybe even more relevant than when it was made, now we're confronted with AI wherever you go.
In some future where not just pregnancies are artificial (the 'pod' of the title) but almost everything (virtual assistants, your home, nature and I think at some point even air), a couple have a baby via a pod, or in fact the woman springs that on the man. She is a corporate type, he is relatively a hippy, and throughout this artificial pregnancy they have to figure out their roles and feelings. All in a house where the clean and clinical interior is compensated for by an almost comical amount of throw cushions, and the only clinical and somewhat dodgy seeming Womb Center.
It's an interesting investigation of the dynamics in a relationship going through pregnancy when certain restraints of the biological situation are removed. It's also questioning how much you want big tech involved in your life, in this case something as personal as pregnancy.
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Finally saw The Pod Generation with Emilia Clarke on the big screen, it has taken a while to arrive in my country. It's today maybe even more relevant than when it was made, now we're confronted with AI wherever you go.
In some future where not just pregnancies are artificial (the 'pod' of the title) but almost everything (virtual assistants, your home, nature and I think at some point even air), a couple have a baby via a pod, or in fact the woman springs that on the man. She is a corporate type, he is relatively a hippy, and throughout this artificial pregnancy they have to figure out their roles and feelings. All in a house where the clean and clinical interior is compensated for by an almost comical amount of throw cushions, and the only clinical and somewhat dodgy seeming Womb Center.
It's an interesting investigation of the dynamics in a relationship going through pregnancy when certain restraints of the biological situation are removed. It's also questioning how much you want big tech involved in your life, in this case something as personal as pregnancy.
Emilia Clarke is this amazing actress where you don't even notice she's playing a completely different character because it seems like you've always seen her like that. But here she's not the strong and willful queen, nor the bumbling assistant, but a high performing executive with a lot of calmness about her. It does of course have a scene where she walks along the beach and touches the sand, though. #EmiliaClarke #ThePodGeneration
So many people in reviews annoyed that the film raises questions but doesn't provide answers and I'm annoyed at those reviews. Firstly, films don't have to provide answers, you can think for yourself, after the film explored the concepts. Secondly, I think this film does provide the answers, just not in an obviously hammered home way where the plot literally gives the answer, but the conclusions the film makers draw are clear from how it affects the characters. I didn't know film watchers had gotten so lazy.
Also there's a mid-credits scene about the big tech aspect, so don't go running to the toilet just yet.
The limbo state packages reach after you order them is still weird. The shop says the package service has picked them up. The package service says the shop still has them. This is an unavoidable state within the delivery process and can take days of no change, even for next day delivery.
Based on the kind of story you'd expect this film to be cheesier than it is. Instead, India Eisley acts her character Sawa so realistically, it's as if a real-life young assassin with amnesia has stumbled upon the film set and is trying to make sense of the clues she finds, hell-bent on exacting revenge on things in her past she can't quite remember. Some other bits of the film may live up more to the original expectation.
I disagree with the blu-ray cover image's suggestion that she doesn't play the lead character. But big names and all that. #IndiaEisley #Kite
If you heard the headlines at the end of last year about Binance and Changpeng Zhao being charged by the DOJ, here's a LOT more detail on what they did, and what this may mean for the company going forward.
The charges against Binance: what are the accusations, and what's next for Binance and its former CEO, Changpeng "CZ" Zhao?Attribution and sourcing for this ...
I see... so that's not very useful for you to know the actual engagement, right? You likely spent a lot of time preparing this content, having obviously broken metrics sucks.
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Thank you for the audio-only version. Would really appreciate it if sound effects for the video could be stripped from the audio-only version. I was walking/cycling home last night while listening & I kept hearing noises every few seconds (thought it was coming from behind me due to transparency mode) & I was very paranoid until I reached home & turned to the video version.
The charges against Binance: what are the accusations, and what's next for Binance and its former CEO, Changpeng "CZ" Zhao?Attribution and sourcing for this ...
great video! It will never not be funny that the YouTube algorithm served me exclusively crypto ads for it and then autoplay pushed a CZ puff piece interview next
I figured your audience would mostly not click them, so if anything it seems like a waste of the crypto advertisers money. It's still a financial win for Google anyway.
Trump can claim he’s for democracy, and he can accuse others of fascism, but it’s been his own rhetoric and beliefs that put him in a fairly textbook fascist category.
Some fascists claim that democracy and fascism have the same goal – to give effect to the will of the people. But who the people are is where the ideologies divide.
Last weekend Jenna Ortega's film Miller's Girl had its festival premiere and 26 January it will have its theatrical release. Good news is that we in the Netherlands don't need to wait too long this time: Thursday 14 March it will be in our cinemas! pathe.nl/film/27023/millers-gi… #JennaOrtega #MillersGirl
Wanneer de getalenteerde en rebelse studente Cairo Sweet (Jenna Ortega) een schijnbaar onschuldige schrijfopdracht van haar charmante leraar Jonathan Miller (Martin Freeman) aanneemt, raken ze verstrikt in een web van geheimen en verlangens.
From the set of discs I recently bought because I'm getting more and more frustrated with the non-availability of titles on the streaming services. None of the films or series in the photo are available on demand and most can't even be bought or rented on digital. Yet, hardly any discs are released nowadays, so when I find a disc for a low price that I want to have, I'm not waiting anymore for it to appear on streaming later.
Pictured: Hotel New Hampshire, The Accused, Carny, American Carnage, Roswell, Kite, Look Away.
India is acting this so well. And we get two performances, one the teenage girl Maria with confidence problems, and also her mirror image 'Airam', who is sometimes subtly different, sometimes more so.
I don't know why India Eisley is not better known. She is one of the great actresses today, able to play with much intensity and authenticity.
I'd ask similarly why Mira Sorvino didn't get the roles she (and we) deserved. But I know the answer: she got blacklisted by Weinstein for refusing his advances. This has been confirmed by others. The entertainment industry isn't a fair place.
Such mixed reactions to this film when I check afterwards what people write about it. Really a love it or hate it thing. The difference seems to be that if you expect this teenage horror to be a teenage horror, you'll be disappointed since it's a psychological film with great cinematography instead.
Jenna Ortega has been nominated in the People's Choice Awards, as 'The Female Movie Star' and 'The Drama Movie Star'. Both for her role as Tara Carpenter in Scream VI. votepca.com/
As people we can vote for our choice once per day per category. They have many (many) more categories...
I've read news that despite being on streaming, Wednesday is going to be released on disc as well. Season one will apparently come out on 26 March. #JennaOrtega #Wednesday
The Silent Witness episodes (Flight part 1 and 2, 19x03 and 19x04) where Abigail Hardingham guest starred were on tv again recently and I'm watching them now. I am again reminded what a brilliant actress she is despite being hardly known. Unlike other guest roles in this series, hers is really a leading role and she's taking us through all the twists and turns of the story.
I'm doing a rewatch in honour of Dafne Keen's birthday last Thursday. The Acolyte is not out yet and Ana is still not showing anywhere on streaming in my country, so it'll be an episode of His Dark Materials. Episode 1x05 is the one I like to watch. Where Dafne shows that Lyra being brave doesn't mean she isn't scared.
Dafne Keen is such a good actress. A lead character can be made to look cool by writing cool things for them to do, but that's not the trick here. With Dafne's Lyra it's pure acting. It's interacting with other characters, the emotions, the frustration, the drive. And I'm also noticing that she has chemistry with every character she interacts with, not just Will but also Lee, Ma Costa and the leaders of the Gyptians.
Corina Bradley will be in a new tv series called Hotel Cocaine. She plays the character Valeria. It will be released this summer. #CorinaBradley #HotelCocaine
EXCLUSIVE: Tania Watson (The Head), Corina Bradley (Star-Crossed Romance) and Laura Gordon (Late Night with the Devil) have joined Danny Pino, Yul Vazquez, Michael Chiklis and Mark Feuerstein as se…
New Year’s Eve: Musings on Y2K At 3pm PST on 31 December, 1999, I sat down at the computer in my home office in Yakima, Washington. I logged remotely into the network at HQ and started monitoring our systems. The most critical moment would come at 4pm local time. We were in Pacific Standard Time (PST), -0800 UTC. In other words, at 4pm in Yakima, it would be midnight in Greenwich, England, where the time zone aligns with Coordinated Universal Time. (Coordinated Universal Time is abbreviated as UTC, not CUT, because there are actually other languages in the world besides English, and… never mind. Look it up if that story interests you).
Anyway.
The GPS satellites run on UTC, and our entire multi-state operation depended on GPS timing. My first hint of system failure because of a Y2K bug would occur at midnight, UTC.
Beginning at 3:55pm I began testing the major system once a minute. At 4:05pm I sent out the notice to corporate management that all was well.
I tested hourly, then, but the next critical moment wasn’t until 9pm PST, which w
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New Year’s Eve: Musings on Y2K At 3pm PST on 31 December, 1999, I sat down at the computer in my home office in Yakima, Washington. I logged remotely into the network at HQ and started monitoring our systems. The most critical moment would come at 4pm local time. We were in Pacific Standard Time (PST), -0800 UTC. In other words, at 4pm in Yakima, it would be midnight in Greenwich, England, where the time zone aligns with Coordinated Universal Time. (Coordinated Universal Time is abbreviated as UTC, not CUT, because there are actually other languages in the world besides English, and… never mind. Look it up if that story interests you).
Anyway.
The GPS satellites run on UTC, and our entire multi-state operation depended on GPS timing. My first hint of system failure because of a Y2K bug would occur at midnight, UTC.
Beginning at 3:55pm I began testing the major system once a minute. At 4:05pm I sent out the notice to corporate management that all was well.
I tested hourly, then, but the next critical moment wasn’t until 9pm PST, which was when midnight occurred on the US East Coast. Our equipment was all in MST and PST, but some of our many telecom providers might have systems with local time coordination in some other US time zone. (They’d all be using GPS now, but – this was 1999, and US telecommunications had plenty of legacy systems with other clocking methods).
In the end, nothing failed. Our entire system worked.
This wasn’t because Y2K was overblown.
It was because we replaced our billing system, which wasn’t able to generate an invoice after the date flip.
It was because we did software updates on several proprietary systems that would have failed.
It was because we did firmware updates, too.
Equipment inventories. Application inventories. Operating system inventories. Software version inventories. Firmware version inventories.
The reason January 1, 2000 seemed like such an ordinary day is because of the MASSIVE amount of work and money spent to make it ordinary. There are unsung heroes around the world who put in the work to update or replace systems that would’ve failed otherwise.
If you’re one of those people, I would love to hear your story.
@Bob Young :verified: The company I was working at was doing certifications of PCs, upgrading BIOSes, putting Y2K thumbs-up stickers on units as they proceeded.
Our ERP was a homegrown one from 1980, running on the mainframe. We knew it would be ok, because it used *one* digit for the year and it had managed the 89/90 transition just fine. 😃
your illustrations bring an element of calm, peace and wonder all on their own. They are delightful. Thank you, David, and wishing you a very Happy 2024!
Official homepage of Pepper&Carrot, a free(libre) and open-source webcomic about Pepper, a young witch and her cat, Carrot. They live in a fantasy universe of potions, magic, and creatures.
@jcbritobr Thanks! Oh yes this step is super delicate and I struggle a lot with it even if it is not super visible on the result. I'm sure if you slowdown frame per frame you'll find all the muddy steps, the one to burnt, un colorbalanced and the real battle 😆 But all in all, recently it's true I more or less know how to manage this step (even by a lot of trial and error). I try to do it before having too many details, so I can still paint-over and adjust/glaze color after.
I like this process. Hope this year I can really learn it. In my paintings I do it all in one layer and looking some color in wheel. At maximum following some gamut masks rules.
Praise the free as in freedom and open source software, thanks to them people can develop new skills free of charge and professionals like THIS GUY can make wonders without spending money on the DIRTY SUSCRIPTIONS.
@wolfger Haha, true. I decided I could probably start with a bit more optimism this year. My first sketch with ballpoint pen had crows, candle, crystal ball and a old grimoire. But I felt sad only looking at it (photo under), so I probably reacted into the opposite direction 🤣
@clacke Thanks! Yes, 🙂 I like to prototype on my sketchbook; it's a good way to put an idea on paper and see if it is a brainfart or something a bit deeper. It also helps me to keep focus when I start Krita: I work better with a target. If I don't, I can paint-over and change ideas forever during the first steps 😅 Thanks for noticing all the little changes on the process!
There's someone who I've been following for over twelve years on her various social media. She used to post a lot (like all day every five minutes, and more even on other accounts) at the time. That she's Dutch like me is total coincidence. She's very funny and one day(*) a funny post of hers was retweeted by the showrunner of Doctor Who, which is how I found out about her. She's a very interesting person and did lots of different things. From blogging, rock climbing to inventing different ways to organise books on shelves.
Sometimes you may feel some kind of connection to the people who live in your phone, but especially if you're not mutuals you're actually complete strangers.
I've never felt that distance as much as now.
I knew she was ill. With an incurable disease (progressive ME). Recently I heard she had requested to be euthanised. Now I hear it's going to happen in January. This is going to be her last month on this Earth. And I guess she has no idea that there are several people like me she doesn't even know of, who are thinking of her.
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There's someone who I've been following for over twelve years on her various social media. She used to post a lot (like all day every five minutes, and more even on other accounts) at the time. That she's Dutch like me is total coincidence. She's very funny and one day(*) a funny post of hers was retweeted by the showrunner of Doctor Who, which is how I found out about her. She's a very interesting person and did lots of different things. From blogging, rock climbing to inventing different ways to organise books on shelves.
Sometimes you may feel some kind of connection to the people who live in your phone, but especially if you're not mutuals you're actually complete strangers.
I've never felt that distance as much as now.
I knew she was ill. With an incurable disease (progressive ME). Recently I heard she had requested to be euthanised. Now I hear it's going to happen in January. This is going to be her last month on this Earth. And I guess she has no idea that there are several people like me she doesn't even know of, who are thinking of her.
There's an interview with her about her euthanasia in a news website related to a national tv channel (in Dutch): rtlnieuws.nl/nieuws/artikel/54…
I joke often about the weird/wrong date format that Americans use. That's in honour of her, a joke I stole from her. I can still cite this post she made of the top of my head.
Back when she was posting a lot she also had severe mental health issues and was suicidal. I remember how she did a lot to overcome this (like setting a challenge of 100 days of 100 positive things, which she did complete) but also how she did a lot to support others with similar problems (e.g. there was a monthly video project she edited).
Anyway, had to write this down so it wasn't only in my head.
Samen met haar ouders voor de laatste keer een oliebol eten, een potje 30 Seconds met haar beste vriendin. Dat zijn vandaag de wensen van Lauren Hoeve (28). Ze heeft de multisysteemziekte ME en ligt voornamelijk in bed.
"We're already working on the celebration when Sol will become a red giant. It will be hot!" "I've also heard of a big fiesta at the start of the universe, it was a bang!"
Watching Killjoys season one because of course I ordered this missing blu-ray. Why only have S2-5? I'm starting to notice that they are not afraid to show really bright sunbeams and large lens flares. Sometimes most of a scene is almost completely washed out by bright sunlight. This really helps in creating the impression of being on another world. So many sci-fi shows are just dark. #Killjoys
The most insidious thing about racism on Mastodon is how it is done in such a way that the majority-white user base never sees it. I don't think that it's simply a matter of white people not seeing what they don't want to see - at least in the vast majority of cases.
So when a non-white person discusses the racism they see as a user of Mastodon, it must feel like gaslighting when white people respond with "What do you mean? I've not seen anything like that here."
Rewatching Killjoys but starting at season 2, because that is the disc I have and streaming fails yet again. (How can there be so many streaming services and yet when you want to see something none of them have it?)
Following the season 1 cliffhanger, Dutch, Johnny and D’avin hit the ground running in season 2 to uncover Dutch’s duplicitous and mysterious childhood mentor, Khlyen’s secret agenda.
Though this Dutch character that Hannah John-Kamen plays is immediately clear in this second season as well as she dives head first into a planet's defensive layer without any plan whatsoever. She's the ultimate scifi-cool.
Interesting how another server that identifies itself with the User Agent "facebookexternalua" has IPv6 addresses with ":face:" in it, like "2a03:2880:3ff:1::face:b00c". Not so nice that it seems broken and keeps requesting the same url over and over again around 10 times per second since yesterday, while circumventing caching. It is for now blocked.
(edit: I didn't even notice the "b00c" for "book"...)
Doing the thing that I do: watching a film I know nothing about with an actress I hardly know anything about. Sasha Lane was with Chloë Grace Moretz in the film The Miseducation of Cameron Post and she seemed interesting enough to watch American Honey in which she is the lead, or at least front and center on the poster. #SashaLane #AmericanHoney
A teenage girl with nothing to lose joins a traveling magazine sales crew, and gets caught up in a whirlwind of hard partying, law bending and young love as she criss-crosses the Midwest with a band of misfits.
It's more of an atmospheric film than a story and I like that. It's just not clear from the beginning that it's going to be like that, so for a while I was waiting for something to start happening. Many independent things happen, but none are really what the film is about.
The atmosphere is not unlike Mouth by Mouth, but that one is a bit more extreme.
I really liked the performance by Sasha Lane. She plays someone who never really fits in, but who also doesn't know where she would fit in. Someone who had she been born in a different family, would have led a totally different life.
I didn't realise before how much I dislike the brainwashing lyrics of sexually explicit rap music. #AmericanHoney #SashaLane
As an 'actually not in the Southern Hemisphere' type of guy 😂, I'd like to point out that Europe will celebrate the solstice on the 22nd, while the US and Canada, which are always a bit backwards, celebrates on the 21st.
So happy solstice today or tomorrow, wherever you are 🙂
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"While the risk Terrapin poses varies, it invalidates proofs published in 2016 that concluded such attacks weren’t possible. The real lesson is that practical evaluations, like the one provided in Monday’s research, are crucial for revealing previously overlooked flaws in such proofs." arstechnica.com/security/2023/…
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in reply to Gidi Kroon • •Love story openings like that.
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in reply to Gidi Kroon • •It's nice to see what a really great lead actress brings to a series. She not only plays her role very well, but she also captures the audience and sets the tone. I think she makes Roswell the warm and interesting show it is.
That her role would be the lead wasn't that obvious. The series is about aliens hiding in Roswell and she is just a human. But I think it works out well, to have human Liz as point of view.
#ShiriAppleby #Roswell