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May 1st is Labour Day, also known as International Workers’ Day, and in Belgium it’s a public holiday. I still find it a bit strange to have a public holiday on whatever day it falls, rather than shifting it to the next Monday as tends to happen in the UK, but this does make for a very easy week workwise.

In effect, I had a two day week, followed by a one day weekend, followed by a two day week for which a sizable chunk of the company had taken the time off. I could do with more weeks like this.

Bleach is a live-action adaptation of a manga about which I know nothing. As is often the case with adaptations with a huge backstory behind it, it does struggle to cram everything into a running time of less than two hours.

To a non-fan such as me, Bleach does work a lot better than many other manga adaptations, but I can’t help that I and damning the film with faint praise when I say this.

Whatever went wrong with the Alien franchise? Alien was an utterly gripping horror film that happened to be set in space. Six films into the series and we have Alien: Covenant which is both too long and way too predictable.

Steven Spielberg’s adventure in virtual reality. Ready Player One is packed with pop culture references, but it all feels a bit pointless.

Iain Thomson takes a look back at recent history: Ten years ago Microsoft bought Nokia’s phone unit – then killed it as a tax write-off.

Bruce Schneier on the rise of large-language-model optimization, the incipient industry of manipulating AI-generated material to serve clients’ interests.

In a remarkably specific post, Andrew Thaler explains how to brew beer in a coffee maker, using only materials commonly found on a modestly sized oceanographic research vessel.

Baldur Bjarnason discusses the labour arbitrage theory of dev tool popularity, and recommends a book.

Molly White says we can have a different web.

https://blog.lightlyseared.online/2024/05/06/ready-alien-bleach/

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