Series Graph - Show episode ratings by episode graphed

This looks useful for finding if a series is any good and discovering the good and bad episodes

the AI camera of your dreams. And nightmares. YouTube video by Micro Four Nerds

The AI camera of your dreams. And nightmares.

(This is the best and most measured discussion I've seen about AI and creativity. A lot of people are desperately worried about their financial safety and creative identity

however that often doesn't create good videos. This is a better way to do it)

Firefly’s Most Overlooked Episode Quietly Changed TV Sci-Fi Forever With 44 Perfect Minutes Firefly is a cult classic sci-fi show with one episode that forever changed TV with 44 perfect minutes.

Firefly’s Most Overlooked Episode Quietly Changed TV Sci-Fi Forever With 44 Perfect Minutes

Inside the BBC: What really went on YouTube video by The News Agents

Inside the BBC: What really went on
(You might disagree with some of their takes on stories but these are 3 of the best journalists to work for the BBC. If you watch anything about the current BBC crisis watch this)

Diana Wynne Jones panel at Novacon.

Apologies: You Have Reached the End of Your Free-Trial Period of America! Want rule of law? That’s premium.

Apologies: You Have Reached the End of Your Free-Trial Period of America!

AI Researchers SHOCKING New Social Deception Benchmark | AIs Team Up to Deceive | Werewolf Benchmark YouTube video by Wes Roth

AI Researchers SHOCKING New Social Deception Benchmark
(AIs complete at the game of Werewolf which acts as a benchmark of how well they can interact socially while using and resisting social manipulation)

Worldcon 2025 Seattle - Business Meeting: Site Selection - August 16th, 2025 10:00 am - 1:00 pm YouTube video by Seattle Worldcon 2025

Worldcon 2025 Seattle - Business Meeting: Site Selection

ConKigali 2028 African Worldcon Bidders Unable to Attend Seattle Micheal Kabunga, chair of the ConKigali 2028  bid to bring a Worldcon to Kigali, Rwanda in Africa, reports “Unfortunately, the home team will not be able be physically present in Seattle. Due …

The USA is not an appropriate venue for international events.

LA Worldcon and the Olympics should be relocated >>

ConKigali 2028 African Worldcon Bidders Unable to Attend Seattle
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Vincent Docherty First Fandom Hall of Fame Acceptance Speech YouTube video by Mike Glyer

Vincent Docherty is inducted into the First Fandom Hall of Fame at the Seattle Worldcon, this is his Acceptance Speech
(This shows how much Vince deserves the honour.
"So say we all" I think)

China: Communist or Capitalist? | Keyu Jin and Lex Fridman YouTube video by Lex Clips

China: Communist or Capitalist? - Keyu Jin and Lex Fridman

AI expert: ‘We’ll be toast’ without changes in AI technology YouTube video by CNN

AI expert: ‘We’ll be toast’ without changes in AI technology

AI2027: Is this how AI might destroy humanity? - BBC World Service YouTube video by BBC World Service

Is this how AI might destroy humanity? - BBC World Service

‘Putin’s Russia is full of bandit kingdoms’: How crime has shaped Russia | Mark Galeotti YouTube video by Times Radio

Putin’s Russia is full of bandit kingdoms’: How crime has shaped Russia
(I'm surprised the Libertarians haven't jumped all over this episode about the similarities between organised crime and governments

See also the SF novel "The Syndic")

Ken Liu: Art in the Age of AI — #79 YouTube video by Manifold

Ken Liu: Art in the Age of AI — #79
(Fascinating interview with Ken Liu covering many topics in SF and Fantasy including the potential use of AI)

Eyes of Wakanda | Official Trailer YouTube video by Marvel Entertainment

Eyes of Wakanda | Official Trailer

Oublic->Public

Note: Once upon a time we evaluated 'health care' systems on which army had the least number of soldiers with rickets
2/2

What experts say about who has the world's best health-care system | Opinion YouTube video by Washington Post

What experts say about who has the world's best health-care system
(TLDR: It's complicated. Also Health Care Systems, Health Insurance Systems, and, IMHO, Oublic Health Systems are 3 different things)
1/n
https://youtu.be/wfsJXo1h1G0?si=KPwdL7f4wSCh6Yb3

I actually tried to persuade some of the publishers to become more involved once

If you think fan groups have petty feuds that's nothing compared to publishers

OTOH The Japanese publishers did a very good job of working with the Japanese Worldcon

Seattle Worldcon 2025 Recap of July 13 Business Meeting
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Choice of sponsors has historically been one of the main causes of complaints against Worldcons

I'm not saying coins definitely shouldn't do sponsorship, budgets might force it upon them, but the chances of bad PR goes up not down

Wow! a sensible thread about running the Worldcon

That never happens
⬇️🧵

Everyone’s Mad About AI. Here’s What We Think. YouTube video by World War Two

Everyone’s Mad About AI. Here’s What We Think.
(A group of YouTube historians have an unexpectedly adult discussion about the uses and abuses of AI in their own creative field

This sounds similar to the emerging situation in SF Fandom)

BBC’s former Head of Values Ian Fletcher appointed to new role as Director of Integrity for upcoming global football tournament Hugh Bonneville will reprise his role as Ian Fletcher as he joins the Twenty Twenty Six Oversight Team in Miami as its Director of Integrity

BBC’s former Head of Values Ian Fletcher appointed to new role as Director of Integrity for upcoming global football tournament

Just watched "28 Days Later"

Damn it is good!

Trigger warnings for Horror, nudity and Death but none of them are gratuitous

What Is Your Cat Trying to Say? These AI Tools Aim to Decipher Meows AI is shedding new light on the 12,000-year conversation between cats and their humans, suggesting that house cats wield a far richer vocabulary than once thought

What Is Your Cat Trying to Say? These AI Tools Aim to Decipher Meows

Boss of hit '90s series branded "the best sci-fi show ever" wants to take over Doctor Who "It'd be the thrill of a lifetime."

Boss of hit '90s series branded "the best sci-fi show ever" wants to take over Doctor Who

I had thought a Dr Who showrunner would need to be a Brit but J Michael Straczynski, showrunner of both "Babylon 5" and "Sense8" absolutely has the creative history to do it

How Lewis Hamilton and Apple brought F1 racing to the movie screen Racing legend Lewis Hamilton, a producer on an upcoming movie starring Brad Pitt as a fictional Formula 1 driver, wanted the film to show the reality of what it looks, feels and sounds like to speed around a track at 200 miles per hour.

How Lewis Hamilton and Apple brought F1 racing to the movie screen

How Apple Created a Custom iPhone Camera for ‘F1’ Mounted on Formula One cars and used at real events, the special module used an iPhone camera sensor and A-series chip to help capture the new movie's racing scenes.

How Apple Created a Custom iPhone Camera for F1