Notices by Lydia Conwell (lydiaconwell@todon.nl)

#ChrisHedges | How the Epstein Network is Privatizing the Government & Building Out the Surveillance State (w/Whitney Webb) | TCHR

Whitney Webb explains how Leslie Wexner privatized Ohio’s state government, and is using his position between the markets and the state to help the Thielverse build out the ‘Silicon Heartland.’

https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/how-the-epstein-network-is-privatizing

#WhitneyWebb #DataCenters #LeslieWexner #US #Ohio #Surveillance #AI

I think my mind has been made up that the next book I'll write will be the third instalment of The Planet of the Dispossessed.

I've got a few other ideas but they either need more research, or a story that will grab me. My other ideas are set in the real world and need careful thought to keep the stories credible.

The Planet of the Dispossessed series is my made up reality, so it is very liberating. Although the book do reference the real world, there is no necessity to accurately portray the real world.

I think for now, this is what I want to write. I've got lots of ideas and it interests me.

#books #writing #SelfPublishing

You know those T-shirts that say

F 🇺🇸 K TRUMP

on them?

Does the 🇺🇸 stand for the letters U, S and A and if so what does Fusak Trump actually mean?

#FuckTrump

@aral I always said your were brilliant.

Messi is the face of Israel.

Let's hope Spain kick Argentina's ass!

If you had infinite LLMs typing on typewriters, eventually one of them will steal the complete works of Shakespeare.

#AI #PIS #PseudoIntelligenceSimulators

I wasn't woken up this morning by riots so I assume England won that ball kicking thing.

I think the most successful political bloggers are the one's who have a handful of things to say which they repeat endlessly in every available mode of expression.

And I think they are successful because of how the web is geared and how repetition is the only way to get readers/interest beyond paying for advertising.

The novel and the movie are really quite different. I found the novel much more enjoyable (although the film is very well made) because the book explains the nuances and explains what certain things mean.

For example, Sonny showing interest in Sollozzo's offer shows a weakness in the Corleone armour that helps to push for the assassination attempt on the Don. With the Don out of the way, the answer stops being a blanket no and becomes a maybe.

I got more of a sense of the puppeteer motif from the book than the film. In the novel all the characters are connected to the Don in some ways and the novel is really about the Don being brilliant in a way no one else is or has been.

The movie kind of makes it more of a rise of Michael story. Michael comes across more psychopathic in the film while in the book there is more of a stress of 'it's business'. The killing of Tessio is just that. It's a necessity whether enjoyable or not and his betrayal is also in a way a necessity. It's all a bit like game theory.

The ending of the film I have always found a bit flat. It just shows a load of people being killed who vaguely appear in the story. It is the same in the book but the book creates more drama and explains more.

#TheGodfather #Movies #Books #Novel

#Cats is on the telly and my cat is giving such a look of disgust.

Basically, he finds Cats entirely offensive.

Just a little warning to all those cat owners out there.

#AndrewLloydWebber

Apparently I'm legally obliged to watch some men kick a ball around a field because one team is named after the country of my birth.

#CrispinFlintoff | Was #Russia really behind the #Starmer arson attacks?

Investigative journalist Kit Klarenberg joins the show to talk about the BBC's conspiracy theory that Russia was behind the Starmer arson attacks - and that they have the name of 'El Money' .

https://invidious.nerdvpn.de/watch?v=Pb0HfxqU59M

#KitKlarenberg #Ukraine #BBC

There's a #scifi on the telly.

I think it's Deep Babylon Stupids 6 or something.

Kind of subtoot kind of joke:

Some people think filling your face with helium is wrong.

I don't judge.

Whatever floats your boat.

The algorithm on fedi is people getting used to your nonsense and maybe they'll boost something you post.

I have a theory that the reason TV comedies without a laughter track tend to be less funny is the decision to omit the laughter track.

There tends to be a different reveal moment in more modern style comedies. There tends to be a more subtle reveal, and dialogue less snappy. Jokes are sluggish and they creep up on the viewer, giving at best an "Aheh" moment.

Comedies with the laughter track tend to have more of a 'punchline' feel about them, where reveal cuts and delivery are faster.

It's that kind of quick-quip, punchline-and-laugh nature of the laughter-track comedy that *can* make them funnier and more enjoyable.

It's just a theory I have.

Discuss!

#Comedy #TV #Sitcoms

@steter Thanks. I'm just thinking about how you could defeat a cyborg because it's too warm a day, or they have to process too many things at the same time!

You know computers? ...

And I might regret asking this ...

What actually happens when a computer crashes?

If you can tell me in simpleton terms, that would be good, but what actually happens to make the computer go plop plop?

#Computers #AskFedi #Computing

Here it is! My latest #ScienceFiction #novel, available in #Ebook format!! 💫

To escape the genocide on his home planet, Captain Hyle builds a spaceship primarily out of wood, so he and his crew of resistance fighters can live as space pirates. 🏴☠️

He names the ship The Nakba. 🚀

This is a sequel to The Planet of the Dispossessed, but it is also a stand-alone novel. There's no need to read the first book to read this one.

https://books2read.com/u/bOVRP0

#Piracy #TheShipMadeOfWood #Writing #SelfPublishing #Resistance #Scifi

WWW stands for

World Wide Whatnow?