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I know what I'm watching tonight.

I don't think you sound confrontational, but neither do I consider my internet searching particularly advanced. A lot of my searches are exactly what you describe, and a lot is trying to find a good research rabbit hole to go down. Call me curious.

I'm just sceptical, primarily of Google Search's inroads into surveillance monetisation and effective monopoly. For the same reasons I am as critical of the other "market leaders" you mention; I don't consider the ability to inspire brand loyalty in millions of consumers to sell crap products a quality 🤷

I'm more surprised that people still use Google search at all after the years of enshittification — first the SEO crap, then "personalized search" bubbles, and finally the "AI" idiocy. Even shouting questions down a wishing well seems more productive at this point.

On the face of it, all eight of these sound pretty exciting to me. I'm most excited to see a break from the Western mythosphere with The story and the engine, and probably least about the Eurovision gimmick episode — but I hope a bit of Doctor Who will sweeten the ~~pop~~ pot for me.

Yeah, The well — no telling what that is yet, except apparently it's a horror story, and I do love those. Besides, if it's "weird" the way Wild blue yonder was weird, I'm here for it.

I just don't know about the two-part finale. It could be interesting, but it's hard to say how much of it only holds water in a short summary delivered with a lot of bluster. Cautiously optimistic here.

Thanks for this extended preview! I did notice there was no Lux preview on X(cancel), but there's obviously loads more than the screendumps showed. Thank you public libraries!

Apparently they're Bone beasts, according to Radio Times' episode-by-episode season preview:

(Edit: Sorry, though I could spoiler tag or blur the image!)

I'm not downvoting, because you're definitely right that the intents of the people in and behind this administration have been telegraphed for years. The responsibility is really on the shoulders of everybody who refused to believe they would follow through.

Project 2025 spelled out their game plan, but people around the world took false comfort that Trump would definitely be a normal president this time, and respect the fundamental democratic and parliamentary process. Well, guest what.

The political pendulum has commuted from left to right on a regular basis for so long, the imagined worst case scenario was that the US would have to wait out Trump v2 for four years and Democrats could get back to business. But part of Project 2025's agenda is to stop the pendulum and make sure there is nothing to return to.

I'm sad for my US friends and colleagues that are caught in this teardown, but nobody should be able to say they didn't see this coming a mile away.

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What I take away from these testimonies is that, again, the people in charge show that they have little understanding of and zero respect for the skills and craft of creatives — and in this case also programmers. We always knew that, but it is next level offensiveness to demand that skilled professionals use a subpar technology to "generate" ideas, designs and code.

The art director who forgets all his learned process of idea development and instead just prompts Midjourney until he sees something he likes (but which his staff will have to backward engineer to make sense of) is a terrifying image of things to come. Fortunately I'm long out of the corporate creative treadmill.

[Edited to spell "Midjourney" as one word. This is my organic human accreditation 😄]

I genuinely thought you were looking for Australian imports advice 😂

Hope you find a pant solution that works for you!

There truly is no ~~spoon~~ wrong thread 😂

Curated circlejerk 🧐

Does anything scream "summer!" louder than this vinyl? Not in my book.