Interesting, thanks.

I didn’t really know anything about AT Protocol. The idea & potential of the PDS sounds great. The centralized control of the PLC directory is concerning.

Great film, even if not the most scientifically realistic. When lockdown came, binged on this, Containment, Residue etc.

Denmark has a quiet word with Novo Nordisk to, uh, ‘modify’ the appetite-suppressing efficacy of Ozempic/Wegovy, increasing demand for Danish eggs, butter cookies and bacon, and augmenting Denmark’s bargaining position.

And surrenders Solvang to the Danish crown.

For some people, Trump has shit the bed (invasion threats, trade wars etc) and has stimulated a number of people to move away from US-controlled services and products.

They didn’t want to stump up the cash for the fines & other costs.

But there was nothing progressive about the fines the city was racking up: San Francisco’s Supreme Court win negates proposed EPA penalties in the hundreds of millions of dollars and mandatory sewer system upgrades that would cost billions and billions.

Every time you load the page, the hosts (“Provided by…”) change. Mostly.

Super Fly, by Curtis Mayfield

When it comes to Blaxploitation soundtracks, Isaac Hayes’s Shaft title track get all the attention, but it’s basically just Ike reading out the elevator pitch for the film over a riff (admittedly, one of the greatest riffs of all time), and the rest of the soundtrack doesn’t hold up nearly as well.

But Super Fly is a whole album’s worth of delving into and exposing the underbelly of life in the big city. A concept album with moving lyrics, great melodies and driving rhythms throughout.

Yes, the hip-hop & rock collaboration!

My memory of the film is not so negative, but then:

1. I was a sucker for 90s action, especially with a hip-hop angle.
2. It’s been three decades since I’ve seen it (but been listening to the soundtrack pretty much ever since).

My favourite mid-90s US heist movie soundtrack was Dead Presidents, a film that didn’t get a sequel but whose soundtrack album was so successful it did!

Admittedly not original compositions, more a “greatest soul hits of the 70s” compilation.

The future of European procurement?

Looking it up, pretty close.

The work done on the film to date was nearly lost in 1998 when one of the animators, while routinely clearing some files, accidentally entered the deletion command code /bin/rm -r -f * on the root folder of the Toy Story 2 assets on Pixar’s internal servers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toy_Story_2#Troubled_production

TIL I’ve read my last complimentary article.

Let me list all the problems I have with Trump voters being deported:

The engaging story, painstaking animation, and box-office success of “Ne Zha 2” have inspired a great deal of pride among the Chinese movie-going public, not to mention birthing a plethora of memes, trends, and social-media hashtags. But this surge of pride has also resulted in the suppression of critical takes on the film and the buzz around it: some critical articles have been deleted from social media platforms, and Chinese bloggers and reviewers have reported being criticized or attacked online for expressing dissenting views.

HEAVY ONLINE CENSORSHIP OF ARTICLES CRITICAL OF ANIMATED CHINESE BLOCKBUSTER “NE ZHA 2”

“One word describes Trump”: Patrimonialism

ARM is proprietary tech owned by Softbank, whose boss Son Masayoshi was last seen cosying up to Trump with the “Stargate” AI consortium.

Not just by the Japanese but by Softbank and Son Masayoshi, the guy now doing buddy-buddy photo ops & “Stargate AI” with Trump.

Hopefully the next rebrand will be from X to rm -rf /.

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