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Reform housing spokesperson sacked after Grenfell ‘everyone dies’ remarks Simon Dudley fired after his comments were condemned by prime minister and families of fire victims

Must be weird to know for sure what the opening line of your obituary will be. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Sun City Girls Live set October 30, 1993 at the Nightbreak SF YouTube video by Aaron Dilloway

Sun City Girls Live set October 30, 1993 at the Nightbreak SF
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Israel is intent on redrawing not only the geographic map of south Lebanon but also the demographic one.

Is there a term for this

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this account is just incredible content

It's tight but he is just on

I was already in love with Project Hail Mary and then a prop from Power of the Daleks turned up. 👌🏻

two scenes from the 1997 movie clockwatchers starring parker posey, et al. in the top panel, posey, a white woman with short black hair is holding a mini-bottle of j and b whiskey. “no machine can replace me ‘till it learns how to drink” she says. in the second panel, her head thrown back, she’s downing the bottle.

when they threaten me with ai

Radio Free Skaro #1061 – Beloved In The Local Film Community Download MP3 Our deepest of dives into the wilds of missing episodes continues as our feature interview this week is with John Franklin of Film is Fabulous!, who chats all about the organization’s mission, the complicated saga of tracking down not just Doctor Who but other film artifacts from collectors across the UK, and of course a deep dive into the technical nitty-gritty of film restoration, as is the remit of this here podcast.

Radio Free Skaro #1061 - Beloved In The Local Film Community

- An exclusive interview with John Franklin of Film is Fabulous!
- The Daleks' Master Plan return, how the existence of cutting copies changes the game, and more!

"I'm a cop, I don't understand the law" is literally one of the most on-brand things I have ever heard in my life

I was thinking about this last night. An issue we're actually talking about when we talk about the surveillance expansion in Seattle is whether we will continue increasing police power here, but often we talk around that part.

3 birthday cards each has a word - Mate, Fam, Babes - used by #DoctorWho when trying to sound with it

Perfect for 10th 13th and 15th

Washington’s gender wage gap is widening, study finds • Washington State Standard Women in Washington earned a median income $18,545 less than their male counterparts, the largest gap in the country second only to Utah.

The wage gap between men and women in Washington is the second widest in the country. washingtonstatestandard.com/briefs/washi...

The mayor who "accidentally" set her texts to auto-delete during the most chaotic period in modern city history, in clear violation of the Public Records Act, is now head of the state bar's Legal Technology Board 🙄😒😲🤫

Can I recommend:

Susan Cooper's The Dark is Rising

Diana Wynne Jones' Howl's Moving Castle (also, everything)

Diane Duane's So You Want to Be a Wizard

Terry Pratchett's The Colour of Magic (also, everything)

Ursula le Guin's The Wizard of Earthsea (also, everything)

Seattle's CCTV Vendor Has Received $126 Million in ICE and CBP Contracts Mayor Katie Wilson announced an expansion of Seattle’s CCTV surveillance network Thursday, telling a closed press conference of Seattle journalists she had little choice but to hire US Departmen...

Under-appreciated report even by its own publication that hasn't posted it here:

"9 of the 12 members of Axon’s ethics board resigned in 2022 after the company announced plans to develop armed drones for its clients. Of those that didn’t resign, one was former Seattle police chief Cameron Best."

BOTD Simone Signoret!!
MCCT5 5)Room at the Top (Clayton) 4)Deadly Affair (Lumet) 3)Confession (Costa-Gavras) 2)Diabolique (Clouzot) 1)Army of Shadows (Melville)
More:
@claudioalvesdc.bsky.social: thefilmexperience.net/blog/2021/3/...
Susan Hayward: www.criterion.com/current/post...

Kémy Adé was shocked by the immigration refusal letter she received. In rejecting her permanent residence application, the Immigration Department cited her current job duties, which included wiring and assembling control circuits, building control and robot panels, programming and troubleshooting. The department said these duties didn’t match the Canadian work experience she claimed. Well, no, they didn’t. Adé is a post-doctoral research fellow and guest teacher at McMaster University — and those skills are not part of her repertoire. Nor are they what she submitted in her immigration application a year ago. “I saw this language about this job description that has nothing to do with me,” said the health scientist from France, who has a PhD from Sorbonne University in the immunology of aging. “I was disoriented how this could happen.” But a disclaimer at the bottom of the refusal letter might provide a hint. It’s believed to be the first time that the department explicitly referred to the use of generative AI to support application processing in immigration refusals. The disclaimer also noted that all generated content was verified by an officer and that generative AI was not used to make or recommend a decision.

Today in AI:

Canada rejected the PR application of a McMaster postdoc from the Sorbonne who works in the immunology of aging because the generative AI being used to process applications (😱) entirely hallucinated her credentials.

Everyone involved should be fired.

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Remembering Patrick Troughton, born this day in 1920.

Rita Mitsouko 1987 C'Est Comme Ca @ La Classe YouTube video by jeyem archives

Style goals.

My interview with newly elected Seattle City Council President Joy Hollingsworth YouTube video by Ari Hoffman

Our current city council president has done so on at least two occasions, most recently two months ago.

(CW: Fascist hate radio)

Former SPD Chief Kathleen O'Toole is also on the advisory board.

MST3K - KTMA - K03 - Star Force YouTube video by Arthur Putie

dang, the final lost MST3K episode was JUST found at a garage sale, and now it's on YouTube for all to enjoy. watch and be astounded that a 38-year-old VHS recording held up so nicely: youtu.be/u_Z4hnagGLE?...

I rate the movie a full step above Letterboxd consensus (3.1). At turns beautiful and appalling and with more great performances than you can shake a stick at.

B&W screencap/promo photo from Anchoress (1993) showing Toyah Willcox, dressing in a light cloth hood and 13th century dress staring slightly to our right with a dark, concerned look on her face in an almost scowl. She is standing on a path of trampled grass. A generously-called hovel of a shack is some distance behind her.

... and some hours later I decided to catch up on my folk horror with Anchoress, which surprise! not only starred Christopher Eccleston but Annette Badland, aka Margaret Blaine aka the last Slitheen. However, the star of the show was Toyah Willcox! whose fierce af performance elevated everything.

Downtown YouTube video by The Sleeveens - Topic

Had an effin' weird coincidence the other day when I listened to a radio show featuring The Sleeveens, whose name I misheard and thought that was a rather poor choice of sci-fi cultural reference. Not bad, more than a bit of Johnny Ramone influence on vox.

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So you listen to a couple of Billy Joel songs, you don’t even need to watch TV after that. It frees you up to do something different with your evening.

a banner showcasing rounded still images from We're All Going to the World's Fair, So Pretty and Lingua Franca with the wrods TRAMPS, TROUBLEMAKERS AND TRAILBLAZERS: TRANS FILMMAKERS to the left

It appears that the news has broken that Caden Mark Gardner and I have programmed a series on Trans Filmmakers for the Criterion Channel. These films will be available in April

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