Jon Wood

No, Gemini. I don’t need your help to summarise this one line email.

After the terrible Section 31 Paramount made it up to me by reminding me I hadn’t seen any of Lower Decks past the first season, so I watched it all in two days. It’s a truly lovely thing if you’re the sort of nerd who grew up watching Star Trek.

Despite my better judgement I watched Section 31, the Star Trek film presumably made so Paramount wouldn’t lose the production grants when they cancelled the TV series. It is dire. They compressed the series into 95 minutes of incoherent plotting, characters I couldn’t care less about, and fight scenes which are all at least five minutes too long.

I somehow ended up on a mailing list for video editing plugins and I’m not even mad because now I know you can get an After Effects plugin for adding elephants to your video. $40 for all the elephants you want who can “do almost anything (keeping a profile-view)”.

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Today in ominous commit messages: “Add a confirmation step for fleet actions”

Late to the party on Severance because I dropped it mid-season for several months just before it really started going hard. Now very up for the second season.

“Focus solely on building tech products”. Wouldn’t want to get any filthy politics on your network of services that people use to communicate with each other.
https://mastodon.social/users/counternotions/statuses/113840267575859023

Can we please decide whether timelines go up or down? It’s very confusing when I’m mindlessly flipping between apps half watching TV.

@Sbectol @CatherineFlick they have a choice if forking the software from the last version with a suitable license and maintaining it at their own cost or paying the original author. Seems fine to me, no one is entitled to software their business depends upon free of charge.

they call it printf even though it prints all of the other letters too

Does anyone have advice on regaining control of their personal email? It’s become an unusable pile of marketing emails, endless floods of them drowning out any signal that might be in there.

@robinsyl @jackeric but it’s zero bytes, what could go wrong?

Finally got round to watching Tenet this evening, my head hurts now, and I may have to watch it another twelve times to try and straighten out the timeline.

This is what the iOS contact permission prompt should be

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Game development continues.

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Speed runners commentating their attempts to play Mario Maker while gifs bounce around obstructing them as if they’re single handedly delivering world peace.

Once again I let a bunch of boring life admin stack up because it was going to take forever. Sat down to tackle it this morning and was done in an hour.

I have found the thing which makes an M1 Pro MacBook warm up. That thing is Unreal editor.

@iris @IanDSmith @gsuberland my old job was solely Hermetian tasks, with the added fun that no one wanted the messages I had to bring.

Disappointingly this Saturday is followed by Thursday.

“Alight here for Business & IP Centre”. Thanks bus, but I’d rather be kicked firmly in the nads.

Thanks Uber for the least surprising fact ever. In a continent with a population of 442 million, over *one million* of them order food every week.