Steamboat Willie in Heart of Darkness.

The use of AI to marionette a woman whose tortured existence was spent trying to carve her own life and identity out of the space men forced her into is both damningly macabre and a surprisingly perfect encapsulation of the problems with this ghoulish use of technology.

Turning up to the "No Kings" protest with my "Actually maybe you need a king" sign.

Take a bow Ed Davey 😅

Hwaet?

The Man in the High Castle is not an alternate history novel.

1975: Harlan Ellison visits Michael Moorcock in London. The Englishman sits Ellison in front of the TV when Dr Who comes on & insists Ellison “be quiet & just watch”. By the late 1970s,Ellison is such a fan of Dr Who that he’s taunting US scifi fans with declarations of its superiority over US fare.

For reasons, it would be v. helpful to have information from a broad range of academic and non-academic (incl. GLAM) users of the BBC Written Archives OTHER THAN historians, briefly on: 1) What you've used it for and 2) How the proposed changes would impact on your research.

Reposts welcomed.

Never saw this before. I lolled

"My stewards, Judas and Satan"

Did you say The Doctor?

But I am just a plain simple menswear guy

The "core premise of the franchise" is Gene Roddenberry realising you can do alien worlds on the cheap by reusing old sets and costumes and saying "everyone on this planet thinks they're a Chicago mobster."

It would never have happened in the first place if LotR had been initially published in a single volume as intended.

I wouldn't worry, most likely it's just God's judgement on your sins.

You will absolutely never guess what the context is for this rather ominous passage

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I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1673

Eulogy for a lost art form.

I will if you insist.

Always be alert for the sudden appearance of long pink snakes

Every couple of weeks someone great dies and we all make a big thing about how great they are (this week's is Diane Keaton) and it's always lovely because everyone is talking about fun things a cool person did. But I wish we could nominate one person a week we did that for *without* them dying.

I just skimmed some of it. Even that was a mistake.