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Julia McKenzie has the vibe of a really capable and still pretty active governess. She's all sensible shoes and tweed, while Jane Marple is woollen shawls.

The whole thing about Miss Marple is that she seems really fluffy and old and gossipy. She can't go marching about, so she listens and knits and chats and people-watches until all the pieces fall into place.

And I know it's been said a million times, but Julia McKenzie just isn't Jane Marple. It's possibly the most baffling casting I've ever seen.

Finally watching ITV's Marple, and it's frankly exhausting to see how they've shoehorned her into so many non-Marple mysteries.

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The thinness of the skin would also explain how all that bile keeps leaking out

What is the lifespan of software? What if you make software that's silly and full of whimsy? Will people remember it? Anyway, here's a video someone recently posted of “Good Luck, Babe!” by Chappell Roan performed through the composer feature in Mario Paint, a game released on Super Nintendo in 1992

i need more people to play Creature Kitchen, it's SO GOOD

Creature Kitchen on Steam A creepy-cozy cooking simulator where you befriend local wildlife and feed them their favorite snacks! With a strange house to search and forest to explore, the witching hour has only begun.

Creature Kitchen is such a charming food game with a light horror aesthetic! I loved the ending so much <3 @therat.zone
store.steampowered.com/app/3097300/...

Dude still has more food to eat, I guess.

Eat more food, get more smart - got it.

”My bone chair is made from over 200 human bones, but it you think about it, a human is also made from over 200 human bones…”

An alligator Pokémon with stickers to add a tropical cocktail and heart sunnies

A water dragon Pokémon with a Santa hat sticker delivering a lecture

A Psyduck swimming away from the camera with stickers to add a straw boater and a lil butthole

A really dippy looking magicarp gnawing on an apple

Back on my bullshit

tbf this was progress. the usual answer is "no. it is at home on the shelf by the door where I cannot possibly miss it and will definitely remember to bring it out with me."

Ma'am, would you like me to put your takeout coffee in your reusable mug?

No. I'm afraid it is where I am keeping the interesting twigs I found in the park.

Wild that we continue to let people say "one size fits all" when the size in question fits maybe 3 people in every 10.

'Smiling' fossil discovered in Northumberland The unusual looking fossil is estimated to be a few hundred million years old dating to the Carboniferous period.

[Lindisfarne]

Me: (chanting) teeth, teeth-

Other fossil hunters: teeth, TEETH

British Geological Society: [pounding its clipboard] TEETH, TEETH, TEETH!

Yep - I actually deleted stuff about the DC from the original post I wrote because it opened a whole other can of worms (and it's kind of a standalone thing in some ways), but yes. This also.

YouTube video by Dial the Gate SG-1's Nude Scene Showed More than Actress Originally Agreed To (Clip)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBfH...

- which is so utterly vile, and I'm really sad and frustrated that Netflix is showing THIS cut of the show and not any of the versions for syndication which remove it. I get it's probably a licensing thing (and that's if they even know/care about it), but it sucks and I hate it.

- release after shooting. What she had agreed to was nudity on set only to make sure there was no visible clothing in topless shots. Then it became a "well, if you don't agree to this other version, you're causing problems and holdups and anyway other actresses have done it and been fine with it" -

Decided to finally watch all of Stargate SG-1 as it's on Netflix. The pilot ep had full frontal nudity, which felt very out of character for the show I'd seen.

Googling around, turns out the actress didn't agree to that when she filmed it. The network pressured her into signing a different -

So yeah. I guess AI stands for "purposeful AbdIcAtIon of responsibility for short-term profit".

An artificial intelligence then gets positioned more like a rogue employee, instead of what it actually is - a system the company or its licensees are utterly failing to train, moderate, and deploy responsibly on purpose.

The more I see of how companies use AI, the more certain I am that calling it "artificial intelligence" is simply part of their abdication of responsibility.

An intelligence has some degree of autonomy. Autonomy adds insulation between an entity's actions and the company.

I've already once found myself hallucinatorily quoted in an online article about dark matter on some clickbait AI-populated "news" site, so, that's fun 😑

I cannot prove it but my theory is that Finji never once spoke to a human support agent.

Tunic, Night in the Woods Publisher Says TikTok Is Creating and Running Racist GenAI Ads for Its Games Without Permission - IGN Publisher Finji says that TikTok has been using generative AI to modify its ads on the platform without permission and pushing those ads to its users without Finji's knowledge, including at least one ...

Dug into this absolutely wild thing happening to Finji. The deeper I read into their increasingly baffling conversations with TikTok "support" the more I felt like I was on something.

www.ign.com/articles/tun...

Imagine being on threads on purpose and not because e.g. instagram keeps trying to disguise links to threads content as instagram alerts.