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@pre@boing.world
2025-05-27 19:06:58
Content warning: re: Doctor Who - Wish World
:tardis:

A wish granting god baby, granting Conrad's wishes in service of the Rani, turns London into a misogynist utopia and The Doctor into a good husband and insurance worker.
Hard to say why misogynists are so keen on the American 50s. Perhaps because it was before blacks had the vote and women could do banking.
And if anyone doubts this ridiculous tale, their table stops working and their family might call the doubt police, so they soon learn not to. All very oppressive and subversive.
Ruby manages to doubt anyway. And all the disabled people who simply never enter into Conrad's mind. Nice touch that. Great scene in the tent city filled with the dispossessed. They don't seem to have actually done anything so far but maybe they'll get more useful in part two.
Conrad is on TV telling a story about a man named Doctor Who.
Giant dinosaur skeletons walk the city, stepping over sky scrapers, and a bone palace towers above the city. Because I guess Conrad wishes for it to be so in order to give the Rani somewhere to live.
The palace is beautiful and Gothic.
But doubt is seeping in. Rogue is back, on the TV in hell, telling the Doctor that tables don't work like that. So he investigates. Gets himself reported to the doubt police who take him and Belinda to the bone palace.
The Rani's split from Miss Flood gives the pair of them a good chemistry. Queen and her maid of honour. Seems like Mrs Flood is likely to be the Rani's downfall. She doesn't like being told to make a sandwich.
A lot of exposition going on, but they at least put a hat on it: "Isn't just exposition, I need you to doubt"
So that's the reason for the strange wishes: To make the doctor have doubts so severe that the reality collapses, and Rani can rescue Omega. Omega is the dude in a Mask from the first 3 doctors episode, who gave the timelords time travel and got trapped in the underworld in the process. Timelords forgot him and never mounted a rescue, but presumably Rani is now hoping he'll bring back Galifrey.
And with London collapsing into the underworld and the doctor falling from the sky, we get the episode break and have to wait until next week.
That's not a cliff hanger, that an already-falling-from-the-cliff hanger.
Poppy really is his daughter he's shouting as he falls. And you know what that means?
🤨🤔
Back in Space Babies, the worst episode of the Nchuti seasons, that space baby asked if he was her parents and he said he wished that he was their parents.
That wish has been granted somehow?
Is this space baby Susan's mother? They have very different skin tones, but that doesn't matter much in a regenerating species.
Never have found out much about The Doctor's child. When he traveled with his granddaughter everyone assumed he'd met his own kid, the grandchild's parent.
But that doesn't have to be true for a time traveler. Maybe he met the granddaughter before he met his own kid, and maybe his own kid was just wished into his family line 60 years later (or billions of years in his timeline I guess).
Pretty fun episode but not sure it makes much sense. Why doesn't the Rani just wish for Omega to be back instead of all this doubt and underworld bollocks?
Last one next week. Super long episode. Hope it's all cleared up. Good chance we'll meet Susan again I think. And maybe see Omega's mask once more.
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@timbray@cosocial.ca
2025-06-26 17:42:02

In which I recommend that if you’re building or upgrading a moderately serious music-listening system, you use Qobuz and include a cheap Mac Mini: tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/20

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@leftsidestory@mstdn.social
2025-06-22 00:30:01

Park Discovery 🏞️
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#filmphotography

**English:**
This black-and-white photograph depicts a small outdoor kiosk or stall. The kiosk is adorned with various plush toys, prominently featuring several Mickey Mouse dolls hanging at the top. Below the toys, there are shelves stocked with small items, possibly keychains or small trinkets. The front of the kiosk displays images of ice cream cones and bottles of beverages, suggesting that it might also sell refreshments. The setting appears to be a park or a fair, with trees and a fence v…
English alt text: A black and white photo of a park path flanked by evenly spaced trees with their trunks painted white at the base. A few people walk quietly along the paved walkway, framed by natural foliage. Trash bins are visible in the background, contributing to the everyday tranquility of the scene.

中文替代文本(Chinese alt text):一张黑白照片展示了一条公园小路,路两旁是整齐排列的树木,树干下部涂有白漆。几位行人安静地走在铺设的步道上,周围环绕着自然景色。背景中可见垃圾桶,为这幅日常宁静的画面增添了现实感。
English alt text: Two large ducks shaped object float in a narrow water channel. One duck is in the foreground, reflected in the water, while the other is partially hidden behind a metal grid structure. The scene features an interesting contrast between the playful shapes of the ducks and the rigid geometry of the metal structure. Trees and a building with windows are visible in the background.

中文替代文本(Chinese alt text):两只大型鸭型物漂浮在一条狭窄的水渠中。一只靠近前方,在水中有清晰倒影;另一只则部分被左侧的金属网格结构遮挡。画面中趣味盎然的鸭子与硬朗的金属框架形成鲜…
English alt text: A wooden platform nestled among tall trees, covered by a striped canopy. A person stands on the platform, which is accessed by a stairway. Beneath the structure is a bilingual sign, possibly in Chinese, and fencing and foliage frame the background, suggesting a serene park or nature retreat.

中文替代文本(Chinese alt text):一座建在高大树木之间的木质平台,上方覆盖着条纹遮阳篷。一人站在平台上,通往平台的楼梯清晰可见。平台下方有一块双语标牌(可能含有中文),背景中的树木和围栏营造出宁静的自然氛围。
@catsalad@infosec.exchange
2025-06-26 11:44:53

Found a bunch of BSides with fediverse accounts I wasn't following. I should probably update my fediverse #BSides index... 😅
Bsides & InfoSec Cons by Region
📌⁠ infosec.exchange/@catsalad/111

@usul@piaille.fr
2025-06-26 04:53:58

Affaire de Bétharram : en 1998, les ratés de la justice face aux agresseurs présumés
lemonde.fr/societe/article/202

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-06-26 20:15:48

Sources: Instagram and TikTok are working on versions of their apps customized to run on TV screens, following YouTube's success in attracting a TV audience (The Information)
theinformation.com/articles/ti

@floheinstein@chaos.social
2025-05-26 12:37:36

I just read the story about the Italian kidnapped by a New York couple and tortured to disclose the credentials for his crypto assets - and the first thing that came to mind was XKCD 538 "Security" about the five dollar wrench.
Am I a bad person?
#xkcd538 #xkcd

    [Cueball is holding a laptop up in two hands, showing it to his Cueball-like friend who is examining it while holding a hand up to his head. Above the top of the panels frame, there is a box with a caption:]
    A Crypto nerd's imagination:
    Cueball: His laptop's encrypted. Let's build a million-dollar cluster to crack it.
    Friend: No good! It's 4096-bit RSA!
    Cueball: Blast! Our evil plan is foiled!

    [Cueball is holding a closed laptop down in one hand while giving his Cueball…
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energy
2025-06-26 19:25:21

"The most worrying possibility behind Earth’s [accelerating warming] is how the general nature of clouds may be changing in response to climbing temperatures. It’s a feedback loop that could potentially exacerbate warming and is one of the single biggest uncertainties in predicting future climate."

Graph showing that global temperature increases much faster since 2010 compared to 1970-2010
@timbray@cosocial.ca
2025-06-26 18:11:47

More on the crisis in open-source maintenance as exemplified by libxml2: lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1025971
Some money *has* to start flowing into this community or the foundations we all rely on will start rotting away. Given the many-bi…

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-06-26 08:50:41

Kraken secures a MiCA license from the Central Bank of Ireland to offer crypto services across the EU, following Coinbase's approval in Luxembourg last week (Callan Quinn/Decrypt)
decrypt.co/327112/kraken-licen