Bring on the model collapse!

I didn't catch that police bit, I love it when background characters get fun business to act out.

I have a no real strong feelings about this one. Kind of middle-of-the-road.

The domestic plotlines are something that this era of Doctor Who has done well. Casual references to "beating it out of you", presumably referring to homesexuality, casual mysoginy. The final speech confronting the father about fascism is excellent and stands the test of time.

This is another episode where the pair of Doctor and Rose feel to have jumped around a bit. After last episode's downer ending they're all upbeat again. This has happened a few times this series. I really enjoyed Detective Rose being clever in this episode, without any prompting from the Doctor.

The monster of the week is kind of confusing and annoying. We're not given a whole lot of motivation other than "it should have died, but it's trying to come back" so it's a ghost story without a ghost. I do not care for the fact that every big villain in DW seems to insist on screetching out a catchphrase: Exterminate. Delete. "Hungry" is particularly offputting. It makes the monster mechanical rather than something alive living in the airwaves. The colour TV joke was a nice bit. At the very end I'm not entirely sure what the Doctor's plan involved, and how it was supposed to save everyone, but it worked and the episode ends with all the victims smiling and being happy even though they've just spend days(?) in non-corporeal hell.

One thing that stands out during a rewatch is the CGI of the people being sucked into the TV does not look anywhere near as creepy as I remember when watching this on a small CRT. I guess there's something a bit meta about that, given the episode's TV theme. Depending on the lighting, the faceless toe the line between genuinely creepy and immersion breaking. I could see this working well re-made to discuss mobile phones and being sucked into the internet.

This is the first episode this season that I've really enjoyed.

The direction, lighting, filtering, was all great and on point. I really enjoyed the story, the A plot was a nice wartime rebel story and the B plot was pretty decent too. I was feeling shades of some of the "retro themed" ST episodes from the 90s. The set design was great on the planet.

The Klingons here are used well - seeing the way they act during wartime here they feel almost cardassian in how they treat the native population, but out also makes sense given what we're told about how they acted during this time. I liked seeing Scotty and Ortega just hanging out. La'an getting help to deal with her problems is good, and seeing her doggedly chase down the truth was nice, though I'm a little unclear in exactly what the chain of events was with the signals and the transporter. Mbenga and una were really sharp on the planet and I enjoyed their acting.

Kor was good. When a new Klingon character is introduced, they need something to differentiate themselves from the stereotype of the honor-bound aggressive wine-guzzler. Kor here stood out in his approach to running the occupation and his presence on the screen.

This is a real pet annoyance of mine, and I have seeing apologist posts on the internet about it.

If the actors cant enunciate properly except when they're shouting, that's not adding realism, they're doing bad acting.

If the sound engineers can't get a good audio balance for anything except the loudest moment in a film, that's not a limitation of technology/sound physics, they're bad at mixing.

If the director can't keep all of this in check and make a film that people can actually enjoy, that's not artistic choice, they've made a bad film.

French and Portuguese at the convention, their arms open.

The article is saying the petition is targeting steam, but the actual linked petition is addressing credit card companies. The text of the petition doesn't mention steam or valve. I don't know what the author of the article thinks is happening here, and they've explained it very badly.

They haven't blocked the windows feature, they're using DRM to interfere with it. Microsoft could easily change how the DRM works any time they want, rendering all these hacks useless.

Answer wrong. The more of us humans that answer wrong, the less accurate we need to be to get past these stupid things. If google want me to do work for them, they can pay me.

Sugars and additives are in nearly all foods, maybe we should stop asking manufacturers to disclose it on the ingredients list.

I\ don\'t\ know\ what\ you\ mean,\ I\'ve\ never\ encountered\ any\ annoyances.

You can't misgender a brand. You can't deadname a brand. You can't befriend a brand.

Japan has 3 writing systems and this comic seems to be conflating Katakana and Kanji together as "stabby", leaving Hiragana as "adorable". All of them are (long ago) derived from chinese, but only the Kanji still look similar.

I would have introduced Chinese first, and then in the Japanese panel present the stabby and adorable ones both being attacked by flying contraptions. (And a few floating around the korean one, too)

Absolutely all foreigners - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly67j35y99o

There's something I'm really struggling to understand when talking about things like Taler, and the "Digital euro" idea which has come up recently as well: What is it actually doing that's new?

Money is distributed digitally already. When you get a paycheck, no-one is actually moving physical paper and metal cash from a business account bank vault to a customer account bank vault, it's just numbers in a spreadsheet. So what's actually new when we're talking about digital currency like this post?

There must be something I'm missing here.

I take issue with this article using the language "lagging behind in the use of generative AI". That language seems to imply there is something wrong in this behaviour.

I first read this as MPEG and thought they were talking about the video encoding.

I wish they were talking about the video encoding.

Tendi just wanting to play in the sand is cute.

Boimler being completely fed up with the assignment is great - he knew exactly what he was walking into, but did it anyway (I'm glad it actually had payoff at the end).

Rutherford has finally resolved badgey, and seemingly learnt nothing.

I didn't feel like mariner had a whole lot to do in this episode, she just kind of tagged along.

Can I get paid a billion dollars to do nothing?