Tales from the Bitface

I wonder what they call VE Day in Germany?

Kind of hard to believe, now, the one on the left would go on to lead Britain’s worst (or maybe best) spies. Still with fag in hand, mind you. I wonder if Gary Oldman smokes.

I still don’t understand why AI gives me such a visceral negative reaction.

The intellectual reasons for concern are well known.

But right now, I just wish apps would stop adding AI and trying to tell me it’s great. I’m looking at you Raycast, but you’re just the most recent culprit.

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I must say, I’d’ve been very disappointed if I hadn’t got this one, but I haven’t often got it in two.

I’ll allow I might have been overstating the case in last night’s slightly excited post about Doctor Who. After all, Russell’s current ‘incarnation’ includes ‘73 Yards’.

Still, ‘Lux’ was tons of fun.

I just watched the latest Doctor Who episode, ‘Lux’. It was gloriously meta. Who needs fourth walls? And with a love note to the fandom in the middle.

The best episode RTD has done, certainly in this incarnation. IMHO, obviously.

I should note it’s Petroc Trelawny’s last day on the BBC Radio 3 Breakfast show today. I’ll miss his dulcet tones, and especially his weird pronunciation of ‘Bach’.

Radio saying SpaceX’s latest launch will be the first to orbit over the north and south poles. That’s wrong, of course: there have been plenty of circumpolar satellites. I wonder if it’s the first human-occupied one to enter that orbit; or just the first commercial one to do so.

Carrot Weather catching the vibe of the day as usual.

I tried the ‘Hey Siri, what month is it?’ question, since people have being saying it can’t answer that.

It gave me to today’s date. Which seems fine. It’s more than I asked for, and includes the information I wanted, so…