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@pre@boing.world
2025-05-27 19:06:58
Content warning: re: Doctor Who - Wish World
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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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@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2025-06-28 15:45:56

Alaskan whaling captains score special tax cut in GOP megabill (Brian Faler/Politico)
politico.com/live-updates/2025
memeorandum.com/250628/p37#a25

@arXiv_csAI_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-06-27 07:37:09

Beyond Reactive Safety: Risk-Aware LLM Alignment via Long-Horizon Simulation
Chenkai Sun, Denghui Zhang, ChengXiang Zhai, Heng Ji
arxiv.org/abs/2506.20949

@arXiv_csCL_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-06-27 09:57:29

Aligning Spoken Dialogue Models from User Interactions
Anne Wu, Laurent Mazar\'e, Neil Zeghidour, Alexandre D\'efossez
arxiv.org/abs/2506.21463 arxiv.org/pdf/2506.21463 arxiv.org/html/2506.21463
arXiv:2506.21463v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We propose a novel preference alignment framework for improving spoken dialogue models on real-time conversations from user interactions. Current preference learning methods primarily focus on text-based language models, and are not directly suited to the complexities of real-time speech interactions, with richer dynamics (e.g. interruption, interjection) and no explicit segmentation between speaker turns.We create a large-scale dataset of more than 150,000 preference pairs from raw multi-turn speech conversations, annotated with AI feedback, to cover preferences over both linguistic content and temporal context variations. We leverage offline alignment methods to finetune a full-duplex autoregressive speech-to-speech model. Extensive experiments demonstrate that feedback on generic conversations can be consistently effective in improving spoken dialogue models to produce more factual, safer and more contextually aligned interactions. We deploy the finetuned model and conduct holistic human evaluations to assess the impact beyond single-turn conversations. Our findings shed light on the importance of a well-calibrated balance among various dynamics, crucial for natural real-time speech dialogue systems.
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@BBC3MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk
2025-06-27 18:30:22

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#FridayNightIsMusicNight
- Time Passes...
Singer Alison Jiear joins conductor Stephen Bell and the BBC Concert Orchestra in a programme about the passing of time, from Alexandra Palace Theatre. With Petroc Trelawny.
Relisten now 👇
bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00209wb

@randombaywatch@mastodon.social
2025-06-27 22:32:03

#AlexandraPaul #DavidHasselhoff
Season 6 Episode 15 "Bash at the Beach"
#RandomBaywatch

@tante@tldr.nettime.org
2025-05-27 09:23:37

Im Rahmen des Journalismusfest Innsbruck wurde für für DER STANDARD interviewed.
Wir sprachen über KI und Technologie im Allgemeinen. Und darüber, dass dem #KI Hype hinterherzurennen das Gegenteil von sinnvoll und zielführend ist.

@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk
2025-06-25 08:05:22

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Alexander O’Neal:
🎵 Fake (edit)
#AlexanderONeal
liquidexperience.bandcamp.com/
open.spotify.com/track/3wN45r0

@luca@social.luca.run
2025-06-28 13:13:47

Wie entstehen Ernährungsempfehlungen? Also diese Angaben, die Produkte dann als Prozent der empfohlenen Tagesmenge auf der Packung stehen haben?
Edit: Allgemeines Vorgehen der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Ernährung eV wird in diesem Dokument erklärt: dge-medienservice.de/media…

California Gov. Gavin Newsom is suing Fox News for defamation,
alleging that the news outlet intentionally manipulated a video
to give the appearance that the governor lied about a phone call with Donald Trump.
The governor’s demand for $787 million in punitive damages escalates his aggressive effort to challenge misinformation.