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: I keep notebooks in a bottom drawer that cover years of work and thoughts. While I may need to check last year’s notebook for work-related stuff a …
: I’d ride an electric bike were I not convinced I’d die in road traffic. But I’ve waited so long that subscriptions have come to bicycle hardware. The …
: 8BitDo 2.4G controller kept disconnecting from my docked Steam Deck during Dead Rising 2. An incompatibility between the 2.4G dongle and the dock’s …
: As of December 2024, AI wrote 30.1% of Python contributions from US users vs 24.3% Germany, 23.2% France, 21.6% India, 15.4% Russia, 11.7% China. …
: I have the sneaking suspicion that PlayStation and Xbox are raising prices above the hardware loss line to be ready for Grand Theft Auto 6. Some …
: Shockingly, LLM users were far less able to recall or quote from essays they had just written. In fact, 83.3% of LLM users failed to provide even a …
: MIT Study Warns of Cognitive Decline with LLM Use
: The Louvre staff went on strike. We didn’t plan to go on strike, but the people are so exhausted, they can’t support the conditions getting worse and …
: In tech, the days of spending a lot of cash upfront and spending little on each user are over. AI means you’re not making it back on volume anymore. …
: OpenCore Legacy Patcher always adds a bit of excitement to older Mac hardware. Is it a bug in the latest OS release? Or is it all the work that has …
: As datacenter production gets automated, the cost of intelligence should eventually converge to near the cost of electricity. (People are often …
: Apple’s new container support in macOS 26 is nowhere near as feature-rich as Docker. It doesn’t support memory ballooning or loopback networking to …
: The 6G wireless spectrum auctions are coming soon. Telcos: We’ve learned our lesson after overhyping 5G, something that was an expensive, incremental …
: The phase-out of Rosetta 2 in macOS was just a matter of time. But as someone who runs an ancient MMO client on top of WINE, this is a new challenge. …
: Apple are doing okay with AI. AI will be like databases. Big models in the cloud and tiny ones in everything else. Whenever I see people give Apple …
: YouTube introduces an ad-free tier, changes its mind. YouTube’s offer is to rival TV ad revenue for content providers. They’re also going hard on AI …
: Fantasy game books for kids in the 80s and 90s. You’d flick through them in the bookshop, and there was something dangerous-looking every few pages. …
: This time of year I enjoy looking at all the new games I won’t have time to play. But then I see most of them are built on the jittery, …
: The next time you go to pay at a supermarket, look up. I remember doing this years ago at the Amazon Go in Seattle and being disturbed by the arrays …
: Mac development hero, Bill Atkinson, has died. He leaves a lot of fingerprints on modern computing. He also created the Venice font. The only original …
: Ballerina. Now that Keanu’s knees have given out, the John Wick stunt show needs a new face. That face is Ana de Armas, and she’s fine. Two hours, …
: I have low expectations for Ballerina (John Wick spinoff). But as it’s pouring rain outside, let’s take a look.
: Rogue One is more enjoyable to watch right after the finale of season 2 of Andor. In 2016, who’d have thought there would be an Andorverse? Well, …
: Apple’s WWDC 2025 is next week. And when it comes to major releases, to paraphrase Sean Connery: Captain Ramius: Once more, we play our dangerous …
: Tonight, sleep. Tomorrow, world’s best uncle.
: I’m in the queue to pick up a Nintendo Switch 2 pre-order. There’s over a hundred people here. Nintendo will be around forever.
: I’ll say one thing about Laurene Powell Jobs, in 2020 she said she was going to donate the family fortune. "I’m not interested in legacy wealth …
: The Bonfire of the Vanities The Devil’s Candy doesn’t need a review. People set out with the best intentions and a lot of money. They made an unloved movie from a popular novel. …
: Today I finished reading the 30th anniversary edition of The Devil’s Candy, covering the torturous filming of Brian De Palma’s “The Bonfire of the …
: Season 2 of Andor shows you how good Star Wars should be. The World War II occupied France storyline. How ambitious people can slide towards hideous …
: I took my nephew into a Warhammer store for the first time. But my mother was with us. Proving you can never be too young or too old to learn about …
: This won’t go well. This does raise a question: is Dark Sun coming back? One of the big reasons that WotC gave for not releasing the Mystic or the …
: The Phoenician Scheme A stronger entry than Asteroid City, but it’s smaller scale than The French Dispatch. It’s a three-hander film where the interplay of three characters …
: Moving day from Typepad has completed and it’s over now. Except for DNS propagation and SSL cert autoupdates. Both of which are like air travel; you …
: When The Going Was Good by Graydon Carter I finished reading Graydon Carter’s memoir “When The Going Was Good” last weekend. Committed to getting the most value out of the least amount of …
: Until Dawn Horror movies done well are cheap to make, pack in viewers and make much more money than they cost. The good ones leave an impression. Neither "Death …
: The Monkey This movie is a surreal and absurd look at death. Deaths so terrible that sometimes you can only laugh. It doesn’t make you uncomfortable, nor does it …
: The Gorge Two charismatic leads can carry a lot. Anya Taylor-Joy and Miles Teller are two charismatic leads and the burden they carry is the flimsy story of …
: The Last Dangerous Visions. Edited By Harlan Ellison. By the time I had read Harlan Ellison’s work, his talent had deserted him. A lifelong career isn’t guaranteed, but watching one’s career fade must be …
: Wolf Man Vampires one week, werewolves the next. Unlike the highly cinematic Nosferatu, Wolf Man is merely a good-looking streaming movie. It could be …
: Nosferatu There’s a silver undertone to this movie that reminds me of vintage black & white film stock. But then everything about this movie is looking to …
: The Godfather Part II (4K UHD) If you want to tell a good story about a man, show him fail. He can recover but there needs to be a journey into darkness. Part II of the Godfather …
: Secret Level: Episodes 1 to 8. While lacking a 6’ tall sword wielding heroine in boob armour riding on a flying reptile, Secret Level still gives off Heavy Metal movie vibes. This …
: Like a Dragon: Yakuza. Episodes 1 to 3 Are “honourable criminals” lying to themselves? Is servitude worse than death? Less a criminal drama and more a criminal soap opera Prime Video’s …
: Megalopolis I commend Francis Ford Coppola for taking an idea he wanted to do for 40 years, putting his money into it and bringing it to the screen. But this is …
: Joker: Folie à Deux This doesn't work as a musical or a villain movie but it held my attention for most of its running time. The massive flaw in the production is that …
: The Substance The Substance About 25 minutes into The Substance we're introduced to Sue. A younger version of Demi Moore's network television fitness goddess. It's …
: Beetlejuice Beetlejuice A female-centric movie for the Wednesday Addams audience, this film is overstuffed and unfocused. The team seem afraid of never getting another shot …
: Terminator Zero Terminator Zero Few sci-fi franchises are as limited as The Terminator. It’s not like it has anything novel to say about AI or humanity's hubris. …
: The Rings of Power: Season 2, Episodes 1 to 3 Is it better than season 1? Yes. Will it bring back the audience it lost after its meandering first season? No. The superchat farmers on YouTube say …
: The Crow. (2024) This movie is cinematic depression. Not that it makes the viewer feel hopeless, worthless and low in energy. But what the audience watches is a …
: Alien Romulus I liked it. This is a well-made popcorn horror movie. It is not interested in big ideas. It's about tension. Alien was a movie about skilled labour in …
: Borderlands It isn't that this movie is terrible, it's that it gets boring. The Borderlands series is darkly irreverent. It's gory in a visceral "ewwwhhh" and …
: Time Bandits An unfortunate miss. It looks too sharp in that Doctor Who/British children's TV way. The cast doesn't gel and it lacks the dark undertones of the …
: Batman Caped Crusader: Season 1 Bruce Timm's Batman Caped Crusader is an iteration on the Dark Deco style of his work on Batman: The Animated Series. This like that show has a …
: Deadpool & Wolverine Better than the ill thought out slop Marvel has been releasing but not close to the heights of the finest entries. There is no story to spoil and the …
: Twisters The good news is dumb big budget disaster movies are back. The bad news is the same as the good news. Twisters has a lot in common with the 1996 …
: The Boys: Season 4 With the trashed audience scores you'd be forgiven for thinking something has changed with The Boys. But the only thing that has changed is the show …
: Interview with the Vampire: Season 2 This is one of the better fiction series currently airing. A reworking of the novel of the same name, and drawing from Anne Rice's body of work, a …
: The Acolyte. This is a kids show. The plot nor the characters have any sophistication and the story operates on a level just above a 90s television sitcom. Instead …
: The Fall Guy A stunt show movie as flimsy as an empty bucket of popcorn but it has a summer romantic comedy charm. It's very early 2000s in its Hollywood …
: Late Night with the Devil. What do you want and how much do you want it? That's the question faced by the horrified guests on "Night Owls with Jack Delroy." Delroy (David …
: Fallout. The spaghetti western turns post-apocalyptic in this high-budget production of a gritty tale. We have cringe-worthy but endearing optimists. …
: Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire This is the dumbest movie in a franchise that includes the brainless Godzilla: King of The Monsters. Kaiju fights are awesome. Everybody knows this. …
: Road House Road House is stupid and enjoyable. I'd watch a sequel. When we first see a ripped Jake Gyllenhaal his character comes across as one of life's losers. …
: Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire This is a streaming movie. It didn't start out as a streaming movie but that's what made it to the screen. While I enjoyed its prequel, Afterlife, …
: Dune Part Two. Is this an exciting movie to see on a cinema screen? Yes. Is the movie and the actors' performances overhyped? Also yes. Dune Part 2 is exactly what …
: Shōgun. Episodes 1 & 2. A luscious-looking adaptation of Clavell's 1975 novel FX's Shōgun is a worthwhile watch. You can tell there's money on the screen when the doomed ship …