Notices by Kara Goldfinch (karalg84@dragonscave.space)

Antarctica has a subreddit.

I wonder what would've happened if the US Declaration of Independence had been rejected

I agree Facebook, "May be an image of Superman and text" really does sum up the new Supergirl film. I couldn't put it any better.

The Shining has one of the best opening lines:
"Jack Torrance thought: Officious little prick."

@Fragglemuppet I think it does that when a window is minimised. Try pressing windows"up arrow.

We just watched Red Dwarf back to Earth. I think I've seen it before but can't remember. Anyway I liked it. I have a bit of a soft spot for characters discovering they're from a TV show or a novel, and the resulting shenanigans that occur.

I just been and voted. Our polling station actually had the McGonagle Reader which I think is the most blind accessible way of voting in this country I've seen so far.

Watching Tom Scott's latest YouTube video which is about Jodrell Bank. I don't think that really occurred to me before that we don't really know what our own galaxy looks like.

Autocorrect wrote Jodrell Hank before I edited it. Wonder who he might be. Some bloke, or maybe a dog that hangs around the telescopes?

Our Green Party candidate in next Thursday's local election posted their leaflet online. If you use a screen reader it reads as follows: Ready? This is world changing.
"image #102851
image #102852".
Told you it was didn't I.
Yes I can run it through an OCR engine and whatnot but I shouldn't have to.

Weird dream that someone my brain invented was massively into this AI/LLM stuff. She was showing me one with an amazingly human-like voice and personality, and I was saying to this person how I remember when I thought Microsoft Mary was the best speech synthesiser I heard.
Before the AI shut itself down it liked to take a picture of it was talking to. I said "absolutely not"" and turned away from it.

Just briefly looked at Wikipedia's article on Bongbong Marcos to try to find out why he's called Bongbong. It's a nickname is all the info I got. I guess it must mean something in Filipino.

Jackdaws sound like little laser guns.

I love that the woman serving our food didn't realise that she told me that my "chip with bowls in" was to my right. she just carried on regardless.

There's a podcast called "wDW Memories" which is a bloke and his family going round Disney World and recording it in binaural audio. It's a proper old fashioned podcast, so just audio. He's been doing it for pretty much a couple of decades.
Apart from the fact that I think there's a bit too much dynamic compression, I think it's well worth listening to. I've only been to Disney World once (in 2000) and probably never will again with how the US is. So it's lovely to kind of experience it again including rides I'd never go on.
https://wdw-memories.net/

We're watching Ocean's 11 - my first time watching it. My wife's having to do the audio description. She called Danny Ocean Billy, which would be an interesting film.

No I'm not going to start playing Discworld MUD again and spend a ridiculous amount of time on it.

The Ask Me Anything subreddit is really interesting. I might be some time.

I've just had a listen to the new Microsoft Ava voice. It's one of those neural voices which changes how it says something each time. So if you get it to read a sentence then do it again, it will sound completely different, like asking a human to read the same thing again.
Very weird and disconcerting.

We just had a very confused bee trying to collect pollen from the plastic flowers in our window box, trying all of them. Bless it.