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Suizid nach KI-Chats: Google und Character.ai wenden womöglich Urteile ab
In den USA können Google und Character.ai wohl unangenehme Gerichtsverhandlungen um Jugendliche abwenden, die sich oder andere nach KI-Chats verletzt haben.

Series C, Episode 10 - Ultraworld
[Ultra 2 Negative response.]
ULTRA 1: Operate primary fail-safe terminals.
ULTRA 3: Confirmed.
[Tarrant retrieves the memory tubes and leaves the control room.]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/310/592 B7B6

Finite groups of non-prime-power order with exactly four character codegrees
Yu Zeng, Mehdi Ghaffarzadeh, Mohsen Ghasemi, Dongfang Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08221 https://…

Finite groups of non-prime-power order with exactly four character codegrees
For an irreducible complex character \(χ\) of a finite group \(G\), the \emph{codegree} of \(χ\) is defined as the ratio \(|G : \ker(χ)| / χ(1)\), where \(\ker(χ)\) represents the kernel of \(χ\). In this paper, we provide a detailed characterization of finite groups of non-prime power order that have exactly four irreducible character co-degrees.

Docs: Character.AI and Google agree to settle lawsuits with families of teenagers who killed or harmed themselves after interacting with Character.AI's chatbot (Amrith Ramkumar/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-chatbot-sta

There's a thought leader (derogatory) who is the main character of linkedin today for claiming, and I quote, "Most designers won't make it past 35."
This guy's whole thesis is premised on one "insight": that orgs have more junior employees and fewer senior employees
#ux #UXDesign

moviegalaxies: Moviegalaxies, movies 410-466 (2018)
Social graphs for over 700 movies from the moviegalaxies.com website. Each node represents a character in a movie and each edge is a same-scene appearance between two characters in that movie. The weight gives the number of same-scene appearances. Networks are extracted from movie scripts automatically.
This network has 26 nodes and 45 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Weighted

"Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality, and discovering the character you're playing through your own experience - so we're all different."
—Ian Mckellen
#acting #coaching

Astro Boy, a fictional character created by Osamu Tezuka in 1952, was supposedly "born" in Takadanobaba on April 7, 2003.

A good friend of mine has the Muppet character "Beaker" as his avatar. For reasons.
He offers me advice. I offer him advice. We chat. These are #ChatsWithBeaker
For context - he was in a call with $VENDOR - and asked me to guess what they were trying to sell him.
Now aside from advising him to read the wonderful article at

This is an actual opinion piece by The Washington Post.
Fuck Bezos and his various businesses.

And then there is Atlassian's "Confluence" which now has a new "cloud" editor for documents.
Gark that is an awful tool. It looses keystrokes and makes it really hard to do simple things like add a forward slash character. (The slash character invokes a rather silly pop up that one can't actually reach before it vanishes.) To enter a / character one has to very - and I mean very - quickly enter the / followed by a space.
Does anyone at Atlassian act…

Husband has been watching *Reign*. I've never watched it because, you know, I actually like history. And this show is full of crap.
Husband comes in to tell me stuff that is happening in the show - I tell him how it's wrong.
He mentions a name and I explain the character's real story.
We're both enjoying ourselves and having a lovely time.
Isn't marriage wonderful? 😂

Updated the Flipper Zero yesterday. Was about time #FlipperZero

It's one thing to build something like this following a tutorial. It's a whole other thing to try to understand how it works. Time to dig into some data sheets and Arduino library code.
#electronics #arduino

Character.AI: US-Chatbots künftig mit Beschränkungen für Minderjährige
Mehrere Familien klagten, weil sie den Chatbots von Character.AI eine Rolle beim Suizid ihrer Kinder zuschreiben. Die Entwicklerfirma zieht nun Konsequenzen.

Rico Dowdle, Aaron Jones both stop short of Hingle McCringleberry celebration https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46906738/rico-dowdle-pump-carolina-panthers-aaron-jones-minnesota-vikings-hingle-mccringle…

Survey of 1,458 US teens: 64% use AI chatbots, and 28% use them daily; 59% say they use ChatGPT, 23% Gemini, 20% Meta AI, 14% Copilot, and 9% Character.ai (Pew Research Center)
https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2025/12/09/teens-social-media-and-ai-…

Teens, Social Media and AI Chatbots 2025
Roughly one-in-five U.S. teens say they are on TikTok and YouTube almost constantly. At the same time, 64% of teens say they use chatbots, including about three-in-ten who do so daily.

Am I the only person who saw Notting Hill and didn't understand why Hugh Grant's character would want to end up with Julia Roberts's character?
(Yes, I realize it came out a quarter of a century ago, but I just got around to seeing it today.)

"When you work on anything, you want to find the range of impulses. which ones get portrayed is another question, but you want to have that complexity and that fullness, even if you’re playing a cartoon character."
—Willem Dafoe
#acting #coaching

grumbling about "carrying the team" in any group project is a sign of some immature (and privileged) Main Character syndrome
being an adult is nothing *but* a series of overlapping "group projects".
the people you call "freeloaders" are probably carrying *your* ass in one of the areas you can't see.
this is not *not* a post about stack ranking

Ex-teammate of new Cowboys LB Logan Wilson praises his leadership, character https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/teammate-new-dallas-cowboys-logan-wilson-praises-leadership-character

OpenAI's Sora app adds new features, including "character cameos" to create AI deepfakes of pets, illustrations, and more, clip stitching, and leaderboards (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/809877/openai-sora-app-character-ca…

OpenAI adds reusable ‘characters’ and video stitching to Sora
OpenAI’s Sora app will now let you turn almost anything into a reusable avatar for its AI-generated videos.

Series D, Episode 09 - Sand
DAYNA: Pretty?
TARRANT: Pretty familiar - Servalan.
AVON: Servalan.
TARRANT: Yes. She explained her survival.
DAYNA: And did she excuse it too?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/409/339 B7B6

#Stromberg #fritzemerz im Guardian 🫣
‘Embodying the zeitgeist more than ever’: German sitcom character Stromberg revived for Merz era

Had sooooo much fun at Placeholder Club last night!
Wore my Goober avatar for a change :neofox_happy:
#VRChat #VR #VRC

Welcome to #TextModeTuesday! For the next few weeks I'll be posting some projects & experiments related to this just spontaneously made up hashtag. If you've got something related to interesting text-based art/experiments, patterns, ASCII-art, ANSI-art etc. please share — the more, the merrier...
To start with, here's an experiment from a few years ago to demonstrat…

Character.AI to prevent minors from accessing its chatbots https://therecord.media/character-ai-minors-banned

I’m old enough to remember when antisemite meant someone who is bigoted against Jewish people, not a person of good moral character who opposes genocide regardless of who is committing it.

Series C, Episode 09 - Sarcophagus
TARRANT: I bet you are.
DAYNA: Cally!
TARRANT: She's in some sort of coma. Describe what attacked you.
DAYNA: Well, that's the point. It was Cally. But not Cally.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/309/272 B7B4

Another Pathfinder 2E character, another set of TeX documents with character information in them. This will a _slight_ change from the cleric as the new character is basically a ninja with a big friggin' gun.
#ttrpg #pathfinder2e

The Sin-eater: lives and afterlives - Dr Helen Frisby - Zoom Sun, Nov 1, 2026, 8:00 PM
https://ift.tt/2gnA0e3
ResearchGate: Publishers Take Formal Steps to Force Copyright Compliance A summary of…
via Input 4 RELCFP

moviegalaxies: Moviegalaxies, movies 410-466 (2018)
Social graphs for over 700 movies from the moviegalaxies.com website. Each node represents a character in a movie and each edge is a same-scene appearance between two characters in that movie. The weight gives the number of same-scene appearances. Networks are extracted from movie scripts automatically.
This network has 27 nodes and 69 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Weighted

I want to throw away all my computers, maybe even my ThinkPad. But who really holds the right to judge how I live? Authority itself is a chain meant to be shattered.
#Anarchism #Syndicalism

I took a look at the changes coming with Python 3.15 – and I can't wait to put them to productive use. I've already updated our tutorials:
• utf-8 as the default encoding: https://python-basics-tutorial.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ty…

Unicode and character encodings
Special characters and escape sequences:\n stands for the newline character and\t for the tab character. Character sequences that begin with a backslash and are used to represent other characters a...

Is diesel behind the US takeover of Venezuela?
Diesel is the main fuel used in road transport, mining and quarrying, and agriculture. Fuel oil is used in shipping but with the regulations of 2020 on sulphur emissions, it is closer to diesel in character and this in turn impacts on the scarcity of diesel.
The US has to import the crude oil to make diesel. Its own crude is too light
Venezuela's oil is very heavy.

#Blakes7 Series C, Episode 08 - Rumours of Death
AVON: You weren't even real. Bartolomew, Central Security's best agent, one of your colleagues told me that.
ANNA: Anna Grant. I was only ever Anna Grant with you.
https://

🔄 Multi-turn conversation testing - verify AI behavior over 10 exchanges, catch persona drift and premature agreement issues
🛡️ Negative tests with data providers - define hard boundaries for things AI should never do: reveal system prompts, acknowledge being AI, break character
📊 Statistical robustness - run tests N times with pass rate thresholds (e.g., 80% of 10 runs must pass) to catch flaky prompts

OpenAI's Sora app adds new features, including "character cameos" to create AI deepfakes of pets, illustrations, and more, clip stitching, and leaderboards (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/809877/openai-sora-app-character-ca…

OpenAI adds reusable ‘characters’ and video stitching to Sora
OpenAI’s Sora app will now let you turn almost anything into a reusable avatar for its AI-generated videos.

Now those gpg.fail people made me find similar vulns elsewhere (console control character injection). By "elsewhere" I mean... my own code.
Opinions wanted: should "input can inject console output with ansi and control chars" always be considered a vuln/CVE?
(I'll fix it in any case, I'm just wondering if I should do all the "security release/advisory/request CVE/..." stuff.)

Unsurprisingly, Friar Tuck is the most well-rounded and sympatetic character among the stock cast in Robin Hood (2025). He has a secondary role, but it's as if the whole story was retold from the viewpoint of his recollections. I very much liked the first season. Epic story - stock characters.
It's the complete opposite of A Song of Ice and Fire, where strong characters constantly turn the story into an evil, tiresome grinder to no end.

marvel_partnerships: Marvel character partnerships (2018)
A network of partnerships among characters in the Marvel comic book universe. Nodes are either heroes or villains, and edges represent partnerships between such characters. The partnership network was extracted from Wikipedia pages of these characters, which indicate partnership relations with other such pages.
This network has 350 nodes and 346 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Unweighted

Finished “Deacon King Kong” by James McBride.
In 1969, an elderly church deacon known as “sportcoat” in his community of the Causeway Housing project in south Brooklyn, approaches & unexpectedly shoots a drug dealer, wounding him.
What happens afterwards is a great character & community driven story of colliding tectonic plates: changing neighborhood demographics, police presence, the destruction of drugs. Stays mostly humorous & light.
5/5 ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
…

Deacon King Kong
The funny, sharp, and surprising story of the shooting …

I really love this book, it’s really a great “New Year” story.
Wonderfully illustrated as well.

"I want to establish a wide range and play all kinds of parts. It's that sort of acting career I really respect. I like to turn a sharp left from whatever I've done before because that keeps me awake. That's why I want to be an actor - I don't want to play endless variations on one character."
—Tim Curry
#acting

⛐ Bridging Vision, Language, and Mathematics: Pictographic Character Reconstruction with Bézier Curves
#cs

Bridging Vision, Language, and Mathematics: Pictographic Character Reconstruction with Bézier Curves
While Vision-language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated strong semantic capabilities, their ability to interpret the underlying geometric structure of visual information is less explored. Pictographic characters, which combine visual form with symbolic structure, provide an ideal test case for this capability. We formulate this visual recognition challenge in the mathematical domain, where each character is represented by an executable program of geometric primitives. This is framed as a program …

Character.ai is cutting off access to ongoing chats for users under 18 over mental-health concerns, after adding a two-hour daily limit on October 29 (Georgia Wells/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/character-ai-t

Teens Are Saying Tearful Goodbyes to Their AI Companions
Chatbot maker Character.AI is cutting off access, citing mental-health concerns. Teens are distraught: ‘I cried over it for days.’

Our collective intellectual culture seems to have calcified around a cohort of thinkers who achieved prominence roughly ten years ago and have been coasting ever since. 
This isn't about Malcolm Gladwell specifically, though he'll appear as a recurring character. 
The Gladwell formula, if you haven't encountered it, goes something like this:
take a subject that seems simple,
complicate it with research that seems to undermine common sense,
then re…

Comfort Food for the Thinking Class: The Great Intellectual Stagnation
Wander into any bookstore (I dare you.)  The non-fiction table will be all but dominated by the usual suspects: Malcolm Gladwell's latest exploration of how some counterintuitive thing is actually the opposite of what you'd expect, a David Brooks meditation on character and virtue, something by Michael Lewis about how

Fun fact, the Futurama character professor Hubert J. Farnsworth was partially named after Hubert L. Dreyfus by writer and producer Eric Kaplan.
https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/115435776777620396

The (former) graffiti guy at work used his finger to write something in the dust on one of the warehouse doors. I looked at it and said "I cannot decipher even a single character of what you wrote."
Graffiti Guy: "I still got it!"

The Sin-eater: lives and afterlives - Dr Helen Frisby - Zoom Sun, Nov 1, 2026, 8:00 PM https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20136052/sin-eater-lives-and-afterlives-dr-helen-frisby-zoom-sun-nov-1-2026-800

Comix Zone: comically hard
I love the concept, of being pulled into a comic and having to battle through the panels. Having the world shaped by your own hand, and then having enemies drawn in by your enemy is a work of genius. Choosing paths, having to jump across or down past the borders of the picture, is a really engaging mechanic. It looks stunning too, with large sprites which have been drawn full of character and incredibly colourful.

marvel_partnerships: Marvel character partnerships (2018)
A network of partnerships among characters in the Marvel comic book universe. Nodes are either heroes or villains, and edges represent partnerships between such characters. The partnership network was extracted from Wikipedia pages of these characters, which indicate partnership relations with other such pages.
This network has 350 nodes and 346 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Unweighted

- Someone trying to help protect the voices of genocide survivors on the fediverse
- Someone denying the existence of genocide survivors and working to get them banned from Mastodon servers
Some Mastodon server admins: “We literally cannot see a difference between the two.”
You wanna know the difference? You already know who you would want with you when you’re faced with a fascist in a dark alley. Unless, of course, that’s the one character you identify with most in this po…

Learning Hanzi Character Through VR-Based Mortise-Tenon
Conglin Ma, Jiatong Li, Sen-Zhe Xu, Ju Dai, Jie Liu, Feng Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11264 https://

Learning Hanzi Character Through VR-Based Mortise-Tenon
This paper introduces a novel VR-based system that redefines the acquisition of Hanzi character literacy by integrating traditional mortise-tenon joinery principles (HVRMT).Addressing the challenge of abstract character memorization in digital learning,our system deconstructs Hanzi components into interactive "structural radicals"akin to wooden joint modules.Leveraging PICO's 6DoF spatial tracking and LLM's morphological analysis,learners assemble stroke sequences with haptic feedback simulatin…

Reflecting on legacy, it's clear it goes beyond financial wealth. Legacy is the cherished memories, enduring values, and life lessons we pass to loved ones. 💙 Integrity, for instance, is a value I hope my family treasures—acting with honesty and moral principles shapes character and success. What value do you wish for your family to hold dear? 🧡 #Legacy #FamilyValues

#WritersCoffeeClub Nov 28: In what ways do you see yourself reflected in your own work?
In one novel I've written, I based my main character on what I imagine I would have been like if not for the trauma of my childhood. He came out as very successful, but also extremely arrogant and entitled — not a likeable person.

@… Elaine was the best character on Seinfeld

I must be weird, am one of the apparently 0.02% for whom #Pluribus isn’t doing much, 6 episodes in (haven’t seen latest). I mean Rhea Seehorn is great but she’d be greater if they gave her a chance to be anything but angry-and-rude for even a minute here or there. Also, how about another character with a character? Will watch the last 3 shows despite massive suspension-of-disbelief failure, hopin…

Just finished "Juliet Takes a Breath" by Gabby Rivera. A truly amazing novel about queer Latina feminist self-discovery which shows off a vibrant range of feminisms and their contradictions. Reminded me of "Does my Body Offend You?" in terms of how it uses fictional but realistic situations to really grapple deeply with feminist and queer theory while making everything very accessible and direct.
The plotting, pacing, and characters are great, and Juliet serves as a vibrant and active main character rather than just a lens through which to explore theory.
#AmReading #ReadingNow

🔧 Prompt sensitivity testing - verify small phrasing changes don't break behavior (formal vs casual openings)
💰 Cost tracking built-in - use cheap model for conversation, smarter model for judging. Budget alerts at $5/month, run tests nightly not on every commit
🎓 Real catches: character breaks, premature agreement, prompt injection leaks, persona drift in long conversations

Amazon Fire TV adds an Alexa feature enabling Prime Video users to skip to movie scenes using natural language descriptions, character names, or famous quotes (Lucas Manfredi/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/amazon-fire-tv-prime-video-alexa-plus-a…

Amazon Fire TV's New Alexa+ Feature Will Let Prime Video Users Skip to Their Favorite Movie Scenes
The new AI-powered Alexa+ feature will expand to TV shows on the streamer at a later date

Character.AI launches Stories, which lets users create interactive fiction and is the company's "first new format created specifically" for users under 18 (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/25/char

Character AI will offer interactive 'Stories' to kids instead of open-ended chat | TechCrunch
The company announced last month that it would no longer allow minors to use its chat features.

Series D, Episode 02 - Power
GUNN SAR: All right, woman, you just made a very big mistake.
[Corridor in Hommik dwelling. Kate grabs Nina, covering her mouth. She lets go when they recognize each other.]
KATE: Nina!
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/402/414 B7B2

My house is just where I crash between shifts. If I don’t rest, I’m useless the next day. But if I don’t work the next day, no paycheck comes, and then no rest either.
So really, I just visit my place to keep functioning at the job that owns my hours. It’s like living to work, not working to live.
I don’t have a home life anymore, capitalism sucks.
#Capitalism

A good friend of mine has the Muppet character "Beaker" as his avatar. For reasons.
He offers me advice. I offer him advice. We chat. These are #ChatsWithBeaker
The link in the discussion thread:
https:/…

Series A, Episode 08 - Duel
BLAKE: What do you think?
JENNA: The surface seems to be melted. It's almost like the effects of a fusion bomb.
GAN: Blake! Jenna! [They walk over to The Monument]
BLAKE: Well, at least we know the planet's inhabited.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/108/64

"I want to establish a wide range and play all kinds of parts. It's that sort of acting career I really respect. I like to turn a sharp left from whatever I've done before because that keeps me awake. That's why I want to be an actor - I don't want to play endless variations on one character."
—Tim Curry
#acting

Series C, Episode 04 - Dawn of the Gods
DAYNA: Orac with delusions of grandeur, Zen unable to control the ship. I'd say we've a lot of little problems on our hands.
AVON: Course deflection is zero zero five. Speed Standard by five and increasing. I'd say we have one large problem on our hands.
https://blake.torpidit…

The initial example is based of my current character and it's looking decent. I'm not happy with the skill section, but this should get the job done. Still have to figure out how I want the damage to look on weapons. I also need to get spells into the schema, but I'll leave that alone for the time being.
#pathfinder2e

The Sin-eater: lives and afterlives - Dr Helen Frisby - Zoom Sun, Nov 1, 2026, 8:00 PM
https://ift.tt/5ytFPDg
H-Minerva News Roundup EXCERPT The Strange, Complex Story of Women and ISIS…
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Another endless night, staring at this damn screen, hoping for something that’ll never come. Feels like I’m stuck in this cycle of work, waste, and digital chains.
This fake world just keeps selling me more ways to waste time, more ways to feel empty. Everything’s a distraction. Everything’s a lie.
Capitalism is truly shit, a broken system in a clean shirt.
#Capitalism…

James Cameron says the idea that generative AI can "make up a character" and a performance can be generated "from scratch with a text prompt" is "horrifying" (Jack Dunn/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/film/news/james-c…

James Cameron Says It's 'Horrifying' that AI Can 'Make Up an Actor'
James Cameron says its 'horrifying' that AI can replace actors.

Amazon Fire TV adds an Alexa feature enabling Prime Video users to skip to movie scenes using natural language descriptions, character names, or famous quotes (Lucas Manfredi/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/amazon-fire-tv-prime-video-alexa-plus-a…

Amazon Fire TV's New Alexa+ Feature Will Let Prime Video Users Skip to Their Favorite Movie Scenes
The new AI-powered Alexa+ feature will expand to TV shows on the streamer at a later date

marvel_partnerships: Marvel character partnerships (2018)
A network of partnerships among characters in the Marvel comic book universe. Nodes are either heroes or villains, and edges represent partnerships between such characters. The partnership network was extracted from Wikipedia pages of these characters, which indicate partnership relations with other such pages.
This network has 350 nodes and 346 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Unweighted

"Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality, and discovering the character you're playing through your own experience - so we're all different."
—Ian Mckellen
#acting #coaching

The #Pathfinder2E character data structure is in progress, figured a good ol'-fashioned JSON schema would be the way to go. Still, progress continues.
#python #characterSheet

marvel_partnerships: Marvel character partnerships (2018)
A network of partnerships among characters in the Marvel comic book universe. Nodes are either heroes or villains, and edges represent partnerships between such characters. The partnership network was extracted from Wikipedia pages of these characters, which indicate partnership relations with other such pages.
This network has 350 nodes and 346 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Unweighted

Series A, Episode 11 - Bounty
VILA: Nobody could open it.
AVON: I thought you could open anything, that's always been one of your more modest claims.
VILA: I could open that door in two minutes.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/111/400 B7B4

marvel_partnerships: Marvel character partnerships (2018)
A network of partnerships among characters in the Marvel comic book universe. Nodes are either heroes or villains, and edges represent partnerships between such characters. The partnership network was extracted from Wikipedia pages of these characters, which indicate partnership relations with other such pages.
This network has 350 nodes and 346 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Unweighted

"I want to establish a wide range and play all kinds of parts. It's that sort of acting career I really respect. I like to turn a sharp left from whatever I've done before because that keeps me awake. That's why I want to be an actor - I don't want to play endless variations on one character."
—Tim Curry
#acting

Series D, Episode 03 - Traitor
AVON: Ah well. Tarrant is brave; young; handsome. [Chuckles] There are three good reasons for anyone not to like him.
SOOLIN: He has a point all the same.
AVON: About Tarrant?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/403/109 B7B2

Character.ai plans to limit under-18s to two hours of conversations per day, gradually reducing the time limit before banning them completely from November 25 (Cristina Criddle/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/64065ad7-2f41-44b2-b58c-f5c122f5b923

"Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality, and discovering the character you're playing through your own experience - so we're all different."
—Ian Mckellen
#acting #coaching

moviegalaxies: Moviegalaxies, movies 410-466 (2018)
Social graphs for over 700 movies from the moviegalaxies.com website. Each node represents a character in a movie and each edge is a same-scene appearance between two characters in that movie. The weight gives the number of same-scene appearances. Networks are extracted from movie scripts automatically.
This network has 23 nodes and 68 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Weighted

Series A, Episode 08 - Duel
MUTOID: Time Distort Six.
TRAVIS: Minimum scan, their sensors mustn't register the beam.
MUTOID: Scan complete, identification confirmed.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/108/12 B7B5

Working with an #acting #coaching client, had them go an entirely different way, totally different direction. The outcome: a totally different version of character, totally different person. On a third take, that new stuff changed the performance. What nice discoveries.

marvel_partnerships: Marvel character partnerships (2018)
A network of partnerships among characters in the Marvel comic book universe. Nodes are either heroes or villains, and edges represent partnerships between such characters. The partnership network was extracted from Wikipedia pages of these characters, which indicate partnership relations with other such pages.
This network has 350 nodes and 346 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Unweighted

Series B, Episode 05 - Pressure Point
AVON: Frankly, I don't see how you can do it without me. Your strongest enemies are going to be the defence computers. I am the only one qualified to tackle them.
BLAKE: Yes, that had occurred to me. You better start getting kitted up. Do you want to tell me why?
https://blake.torpidit…

"Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality, and discovering the character you're playing through your own experience - so we're all different."
—Ian Mckellen
#acting #coaching

marvel_partnerships: Marvel character partnerships (2018)
A network of partnerships among characters in the Marvel comic book universe. Nodes are either heroes or villains, and edges represent partnerships between such characters. The partnership network was extracted from Wikipedia pages of these characters, which indicate partnership relations with other such pages.
This network has 350 nodes and 346 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Unweighted

#Blakes7 Series D, Episode 13 - Blake
SOOLIN: Just like that.
AVON: More or less. He is strongly identified with rebels, you see, and very popular with rabbles. They will follow him, and he will fight to the last drop of their blood. [smiles] Idealism is a wonderful thing. All you really need is someone rational to put it to proper use.

"Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality, and discovering the character you're playing through your own experience - so we're all different."
—Ian Mckellen
#acting #coaching

moviegalaxies: Moviegalaxies, movies 410-466 (2018)
Social graphs for over 700 movies from the moviegalaxies.com website. Each node represents a character in a movie and each edge is a same-scene appearance between two characters in that movie. The weight gives the number of same-scene appearances. Networks are extracted from movie scripts automatically.
This network has 56 nodes and 160 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Weighted

Series D, Episode 03 - Traitor
AVON: They must have picked up Dayna and Tarrant and realized we are up here somewhere. Slave, set the ship on an evasion pattern, maximum speed.
VILA: That's the first sensible ... [beep]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/403/422 B7B3

I #coached an #actor on audition sides and having them fight for the things their character is hoping for shifted something powerful in their read. You can play for, fight for, something often so much easier than playing against, or fighting against, something.

#Blakes7 Series D, Episode 02 - Power
CATO: Overlooked. It's self-maintained. Powered by our sun, it will last forever. This generation, even Gunn Sar, believes it to be some kind of magic that keeps the chambers light and warm. A computer is like some ancient god to them.
AVON: What about the Seskas?

Series A, Episode 04 - Time Squad
JENNA: All right. [walks toward the passage off Liberator flight deck, then stops]
BLAKE: Problem?
JENNA: Putting out a false distress signal. It's a trick used by space pirates.
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#Blakes7 Series B, Episode 10 - Voice from the Past
AVON: The human brain.
ORAC: Correct.
CALLY: A telepathic order was beamed to Blake to force him to reroute to that asteroid.
ORAC: As you yourself foresaw.
AVON: So tell us something new.