Constantly reminded of this Ted Chiang passage on capitalism, technology and progress from the New Yorker whenever I see the tech “elite” snowflaking about criticism.

Checking the batteries in my carbon monoxide alarm

But shall this crazed old man be tamely suffered to drag a whole ship’s company down to doom with him?

Yeah, good luck with that lads.

These companies have more money than god. The only way we’re going to have any impact on them at all is if we start locking up their CEOs.

@ganymede.tv - Anyone up for a whip round?

We’re all living in the Clown Event man.

I’m not sure we were ‘ignored’ - more like loudly told to fuck off.

A watched child never boils, as they say.

I would share my feelings about this, but I fear they may be actionable...

The bow of the ship with cranes towering above. Framed by terraced housing.

Woman painting pottery before glazing & firing.

Woman working on a machine.

Cathedral of St Mary, Newcastle

Details from the 2006 stained glass window by Joseph A Nuttgens celebrating Newcastle's industrial heritage.

• Ship building on the Tyne with the vessel towering over the worker’s terraced housing.
• Pottery painting
• Machining

#StainedGlassSunday

God, we really peaked as a civilisation in the late 90s.

Inside Story - The Road to Terror Iranian revolutionaries tell how their dream descended into a nightmare of terror and execution, a familiar journey from liberation to repression.Documentary by Adam Curtis.

www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis... - Fascinating early Curtis doc from 1989 on how the Iranian revolution turned inwards, consuming its children.

I am a man of simple tastes:

Ok.

Love to pay £50 a month to use a program that’s functionally more or less unchanged from when I started using it 15 years ago.

Definitely a bit of a patchy film, but I was obsessed with it as a small child.

A laudable aim, although the headline does read like we’re all about to be taken to the vet to be put down.

“What do you call this act?”

“The Aristocrats!”

Welcome to Dione, moon of Saturn, painted by planetary scientist William K. Hartmann, 1981.

I mean, Landau and Bain were married at the time, so maybe it just came across in the performance. But yeah, consistency in writing and characterisation between series, episodes, scenes even - was never a strongpoint in Space 1999.

It looked great though!*

*mostly

Were they supposed to be in a relationship in the first series? I always thought that was just written in for s2?

A wraparound cover illustration depicting the inside of a round building that's mostly windows, with a band of controls at waist-height. It's dark outside, but one door-like window panel has risen to expose a white object that might be a big fungus, or a building designed to look like one.

The left half of the wraparound cover from the previous image.

The right half of the cover, with the title text cropped off the top.

Here's an oddly alien Control Panel Saturday from outside the realm of science fiction: Christian Josef's August 1978 cover for the German graphic design magazine 'Novum Gebrauchsgraphik'

The Treasury:

Exactly my thoughts. David Jonsson was brilliant as Andy, AI Ian Holm was very offputting and I can’t fathom why they thought it was a good idea to shoehorn that line in, it was ridiculous. Looked amazing though.

These craft beers are getting out of hand…

To my fellow Brits, our government's push to make AI a huge part of British commerce threatens our creative livelihoods. A signature may not seem like a lot, but if enough of us stand up, it might make our government consider how they implement new AI policies.

www.aitrainingstatement.org

3D illustration of three space fighters flying in formation in front of a red gas giant planet.

Recent bit of personal work. Interceptor squadron.
#scifiart #3D

Uhh

Always been envious of his beard in Survivors. Looks like an Action Man.