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Doctor Who - Rogue
I don't really know what "Bridgerton" is other than period-drama.
Great episode though. Scandal and drama and dashing alien bounty-hunters and interracial homosexual kisses. Scandalous. I like how if the anti-woke complain about it they have to admit to having the same prudish morals as the Victorian aristocracy.
The aliens wanna "Cosplay the world to death", 😆
More musical numbers and dance scenes, RTD really does want Doctor Who to be Glee and I'm here for it.
Only a double-episode finale left. It's ending too soon! Who is Susan Twist? Who is Ruby Sunday's Mum? Who is The Doctor?
#watching #tv #doctorWho

PLpol
People in Poland keep being "surprised" by left wing parties losing elections here, but really, what could you expect? You just have to listen to how my parents' generation thinks, and I suppose many youngsters believe the same story.
Of course, left wing politicians are "commies". And communism is the synonym of evil incarnate (it doesn't really matter that their primary problem was actually capitalism, the way People's Republic of Poland did it). "Commies" took away their freedom — "freedom" meaning the access to limitless consumption of wares of the great "western" culture.
So Tusk (the leader of the more liberal right wing party) is seen as the only "real" alternative to Kaczyński (the leader of PiS, the other big right wing party). That said, PiS is bad not because they're nazis. They're bad because they are "thieves" (but Tusk's thievery is fine, after all "every politician is a thief"), because they don't uphold democracy (when Tusk did it, it was fine, because they had to "restore order" after PiS's defeat) and most importantly, because they "give money away to people", and the country "is broke" as a result. You can't help people that way! The only people you should help are entrepreneurs, and that's going to solve all the problems. People just need to "move their asses" and start working.
And of course, these awful left wing politicians want to take their freedom. Saving the planet? Naah, they won't live long enough to suffer the worst (they're going to find a nasty surprise, or perhaps not, because they're not going to see through their illusion), so why should they give up on anything. They've "earned" everything they've got. And their grandchildren? They don't need clean air or water, they just need more toys and sweets.
And their bubble is always right. They have their new god to confirm that, their previous TV. The national TV, serving right wing propaganda, and private TV, serving capitalist propaganda. But it's all truth, because private TV obviously doesn't serve interests of a specific party. Besides, nobody would be watching news broadcasts full of lies! They'd lose viewers, and therefore money. Ergo, it all must be true.
Finally, all that's evil is the fault of immigrants, nonbinary people, people of different religion, skin color, culture, people who "are too lazy to work". There's always a better suspect than the white, cis, hetero, Catholic, truly polish bourgeois.

PBN #82 - Earthrise, Pixsy, Shark Rock!
I’m an instructor of beginner photographers. On Sunday, I send an email with tips, tricks, articles, pictures, etc. Info I think students can use. It’s for “regular” camera users and those who shoot with smartphones.
There’s mention of things to do where I am but it’s mostly for beginning #photography students to help them take better photo…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.07292 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_eco…

Kernel Three Pass Regression Filter
We forecast a single time series using a high-dimensional set of predictors. When these predictors share common underlying dynamics, an approximate latent factor model provides a powerful characterization of their co-movements Bai(2003). These latent factors succinctly summarize the data and can also be used for prediction, alleviating the curse of dimensionality in high-dimensional prediction exercises, see Stock & Watson (2002a). However, forecasting using these latent factors suffers from tw…

You say that but... We had a recurrent RP06 disk drive failure caused by smoke particles wedging under the head. The filters just weren't good enough. I think the famous "Winchester" drives made that problem go away by sitting the heads much closer to the platter.
Also helped: smoking bans at work.
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Tom Lyon ✅ (@aka_pugs@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image #Princeton's IBM 7094 mainframe, circa 1964/5. With helpful pipe-smoking professor. Actually, smoking in the machine room back then was less of a problem - disk drives were still rare and rather more robust. This machine was replaced by a 360/67 in 1967, and then a 360/91 (in a new building) in 1969.

I've been watching nothing but ads going on and on and on and on for 12 minutes straight & counting on SIC Portugal... 🙄 #Euro2024 #PORCZE
At least they don't have those must-read legal texts taking half of an ad in medicine spots 😂

I've always told product managers that they should take public speaking and/or presentation classes -- it's such a valuable skill. And watching internal meetings, it's so clear that folx in many, many other roles would benefit from it as well.

Saw #RichardLinklater’s film Hit Man on Netflix earlier and it was one of the most fun times I’ve had while watching a movie recently. Linklater has another hit and leading man #GlenPowell was a joy to watch.
One scene in particular (and you will *know* what it is if you’ve seen it) is del…