A third woman has accused Neil Gaiman of behaving inappropriately towards and sexually assaulting her in an interview recorded for the Am I Broken: Survivor Stories podcast episode “Claire ‘I Ignored It and I Believed Him Because He’s the Storyteller … Continue reading →
Peruse, if you will, what I believe is one of the first press releases from the Harris campaign, released after a Fox News appearance by Donald Trump earlier today:
Two points to make here. The first is that not only are the gloves off, they were never on in the first place. The second is that one advantage that the GOP had in the last two election cycles — the presumption that the Democrats would always “go high” when they went low — is very clear no longer operable.
I don’t know if Trump and the GOP are actually prepared for the Harris campaign to treat them with the respect they deserve, which is to say, none whatsoever. This is different than saying that Trump and company aren’t prepared to go low; they’ve been in the gutter so long that it’s now their high ground. What I’m saying is that it’s harder to effectively stab your opponent when she’s busy punching you in the face, and wearing brass knuckles when she’s doing it.
Which is again a reminder: 2024 is not 2020 or 2016. I’m curious to see if the Trump campaign will be able to understand that.
The Glasgow 2024 Worldcon announced today they have detected at least 377 fraudulent votes for the Hugo Awards, most meant to benefit a particular unnamed finalist, and have disqualified those votes. As a result, the beneficiary of those votes now … Continue reading →
Has there ever been a story in which it was a good and safe decision to take a job working for a complete stranger in an isolated mansion? That certainly isn’t the case in Doctor Jekyll, the latest adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde. Here, the great Eddie Izzard stars as Dr. Nina Jekyll, who hires a young man named Rob (Scott Chambers) to help out around her massive old home. Lindsay Duncan is there too, being a bit ominous and concerning when it comes to explaining the role (and the number of cameras in the house).
Clearly, many things are going to go awry. Nina seems to like chess, and mutters about always being “two steps ahead,” but when Rob forgets her meds… someone else emerges. Of course. This take on the classic story involves the pharmaceutical industry, in which Nina worked—and may now be a bit beholden to for one nefarious reason or another.
Doctor Jekyll is directed by Joe Stephenson (Chicken) and written by Dan Kelly-Mulhern (making his feature film debut). It also stars Robyn Cara, Jonathan Hyde (really?), Morgan Watkins, Simon Callow, and Tony Jayawardena.
You can meet Nina—and her alter ego—on streaming and in select theaters starting August 2nd.[end-mark]
Nästan varenda tillverkare erbjuder idag funktioner för att förlänga batteriers livslängd; bland annat genom laddningstak som gör att laddningen stannar vid angiven nivå. Fulla och tomma nivåer stressar nämligen batteriet och kan förkorta livslängden.
För de som planerar att ha kvar en mobil år efter år kan goda laddningsvanor faktiskt göra stor skillnad på sikt, tack vare att batteriet degraderas långsammare. Google är en av få aktörer som fortfarande inte låter användare ange tak för laddningen – till och med Apple har implementerat funktionen.
Enligt upptäckter av Mishaal Rahman verkar Google lyckligtvis till sist börja låta användare stanna laddningen vid 80 procent. Google borde ha erbjudit 90 procent som alternativ också när de ändå var i farten för de som vill ha en kompromiss, men 80 procent är bättre än inget. Källan tror att nyheten dröjer till en av kvartalsuppdateringarna framåt slutet av året.
Glasgow 2024 has told Chengdu Worldcon co-chair Ben Yalow and Chengdu Worldcon Hugo Administrator Dave McCarty they will not be allowed to attend the convention. McCarty says he did not receive an explanation why; Yalow says he did not request … Continue reading →
In 2020, people were talking about The Decameron a lot (relatively speaking). Giovanni Boccaccio’s 14th-century tale about a bunch of nobles telling each other stories to pass the time while the Black Death raged seemed, well, somewhat more relevant than maybe most of us expected.
Now, four years later, Netflix has a Decameron series—with a bit of a twist. According to Tudum, “as time goes on and social rules wear thin, the orgy of riches and liquor collapses into a struggle for survival. Wealthy citizens escaping a plague by engaging in a lavish and insular display of wealth? Doesn’t sound like this could be relevant at all!”
The trailer for the series is an odd mix of actually funny and just mildly awkward, but with this cast, one can only assume that Netflix is saving the best bits for the show itself. Yes, that’s Arrested Development’s Tony Hale in a wig as Sirisco, who is described as “the affable, ill-prepared, and eager-to-please steward of Villa Santa.” Girls’ Zosia Mamet plays Pampinea, a lady who is “full of hope and absolutely lacking in self-awareness.”
Amar Chadha-Patel (The Wheel of Time) is a “cocksure physician”; Jessica Plummer (The Girl Before) is “spoiled oddball” Filomena. Derry Girls’ Saoirse-Monica Jackson plays a codependent servant, and Harlots’ Douggie McMeekin an insufferable bachelor.
The Decameron is created by Kathleen Jordan (the showrunner of Teenage Bounty Hunters), and produced by Jenji Kohan’s production company; Kohan created Weeds and Orange Is the New Black. Join the party July 25th on Netflix.[end-mark]
Materialvalet är sällan det mest intressanta med en ny smartphone men så är fallet med kommande Oneplus Nord 4. Idag har nästan alla flaggskepp glasbakstycken. I en undersökning på Swedroid förra året svarade endast åtta procent att de föredrar glas framför andra material. Metall var det populäraste alternativet, med 45 procent av rösterna.
Oneplus Nord 4 förväntas erbjuda en unibodykonstruktion i metall, likt klassiska flaggskepp från mitten av 10-talet. Ett rykte diskuterar nu vad telefonen erbjuder i övrigt. Källan nämner en 6,74-tumsskärm med OLED-teknik, FHD+ och 120Hz uppdateringsfrekvens.
Om uppgifterna stämmer drivs enheten av Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 3 (4nm) ihop med ett saftigt 5500mAh-batteri med stöd för 100W-laddning. Kameratrion sägs bestå av en 50MP huvudkamera, en 8MP supervidvinkelkamera och en frontkamera med 16MP. Många tillverkare brukar inkludera en så gott som meningslös tredje bakre kamera i budgetmobiler bara för att det ser bättre ut, vilket Oneplus lyckligtvis verkar ha undvikit den här gången.
Nord 4 introduceras i Milano 16 juli tillsammans med Pad 2, Watch 2R och Nord Buds 3 Pro. Alla enheterna förväntas komma till Sverige.
That season, which Hulu dubbed the eleventh one, aired last July. Today, we got a trailer for season twelve that teases a planet made of bowel-moving coffee, Bender drop-kicking a lil’ robot that looks like his progeny, and a ginormous disco ball that destroys a settlement.
It is, in short, Futurama as we know it.
Here’s the synopsis for the upcoming episodes:
On this orbit around the sun, our occasionally heroic crew embarks on mind-bending adventures involving birthday party games to the death, the secrets of Bender’s ancestral robot village, A.I. friends (and enemies), impossibly cute beanbags, and the true five million-year-old story behind the consciousness-altering substance known as coffee. And, of course, the next chapter in Fry and Leela’s fateful, time-twisted romance.
The cast continues to boast the voice talent of John DiMaggio, Billy West, Katey Sagal, Tress MacNeille, Maurice LaMarche, Lauren Tom, Phil LaMarr, and David Herman. The good news for Futurama fans is that season twelve won’t be the last episodes of the show; back in November 2023, Hulu picked up twenty additional episodes of the series, which suggests that at least two more seasons are coming our way.
The twelfth season of Futurama is set to premiere on Hulu on July 29, 2024.
Members of the Lakota nation and Marvel Entertainment have teamed up to provide a dub of 2012’s The Avengersin the Lakota language, with the core cast—Chris Evans, Robert Downey Jr., Mark Ruffalo, Scarlett Johansson, Chris Hemsworth, and Jeremy Renner—coming together to take part.
“Our ancestors, they were punished for speaking our language,” Executive Producer Eugene “Ray” Taken Alive said in a video Marvel put out about the collaboration. He added, “Our language, it went underground. It was spoken in bedrooms when the matrons weren’t there at boarding schools. It was spoken in dark rooms where nobody could hear them, but it was still spoken.”
The initiative is part of The Lakota Language Reclamation Project, and aims, as Project Executive Producer Cyril “Chuck” Archambault says in the video, “to put the language back in the homes of our people—to be able to have them bond in such a way where they’re having fun watching a movie, and be totally integrated with the language of our people.”
The video shows Downey, Johannson and Ruffalo practicing and recording their lines with their Lakota partners. The project took over fifteen months and involved sixty-two Lakota-Dakota language speakers and the original Avengers team.
This dubbing project comes after Marvel released the What If…? episode, “What If… Kahhori Reshaped the World,” which had characters speaking Mohawk and Spanish with English subtitles. The Disney+ series Echo, which stars Menominee actor Alaqua Cox as the deaf Choctaw fighter Maya Lopez, also has a dubbed version in the Choctaw language.
The Lakota dubbed version of The Avengers is now available on Disney+, and you can watch the video about the process below. [end-mark]
So… a friend of a friend was in Spain recently, and visited Barcelona.
One of my favorite cities. In Spain, in Europe, or, well… anywhere. It has been way too long since I was there. Many cool things to see in Barcelona. Including, it would seem, a Chocolate Museum. I’ve never been there myself, but… well… my friend’s friend DID go to the Chocolate Museum, where they found..
…A chocolate me.
I find myself at a loss for words, but full of questions.
Am I made of dark chocolate or milk chocolate? No idea. Am I solid chocolate, or do I have a filling? Nougat? Peanut butter? Nuts? Does the museum have a display of chocolate writers, where I am to be found between chocolate Tolkien and chocolate Cervantes? Or other sorts of chocolate celebrities? Singers, actors, politicians? (Avoid the chocolate Trump, he’s poisonous).
Or is this item to be found in the gift shop, available for purchase? That fills me with dread. So many people are cross with me because of how long it is taking me to finish THE WINDS OF WINTER? Will they be buying chocolate me by the thousands and biting off my chocolate head in their wroth?
But maybe it’s not me after all. The guy in the picture is using an Apple laptop. I use a DOS desktop, so…
Schweiziska Proton har introducerat ett alternativ till Google Docs. Ordbehandlaren har fokus på integritet och erbjuder end-to-end-kryptering. Till och med tangentbordstryckningarna och musrörelserna krypteras.
Proton Docs stödjer samarbete med andra i realtid, så att två kan jobba i samma dokument samtidigt. Användare kan exempelvis lämna kommentarer och lägga bilder till dokument. Företaget anser att Proton Docs erbjuder högre integritet och säkerhet än motsvarande produkter från Google och Microsoft, bland annat tack vare krypteringen och ”Schweiz strikta integritetslagar”.
Användare kan importera dokument i docx-formatet och exportera dokument till olika format likt docx, md, txt och HTML. Proton Drive kan användas gratis med 5GB lagring. En prenumeration kallad Drive Plus för fyra euro i månaden ger bonusar likt VPN, 200GB lagring och en mejladress.
Vissa som har en Pixel 6, Pixel 6 Pro eller Pixel 6a har råkat ut för att telefonerna blivit obrukbara efter fabriksåterställning. De som har drabbats kan inte längre komma in i Android eftersom systemet säger: ”Cannot load Android system. Your data may be corrupt”.
Användaren har då alternativet att försöka igen eller utföra ännu en fabriksåterställning, vilket enligt utsago bara leder till ett nytt felmeddelande. En ”produktexpert” i Googles supportforum har svarat att Google känner till problemet och undersöker saken.
För de som har en modell i Pixel 6-serien är det bäst att inte fabriksåterställa telefonen förrän Google uttalat sig om vad felet beror på.
Can @neil-gaiman make a young author like me feel better about typos on my already published back cover…
👉🏻👈🏻😖💛
The book itself only has 8 mistakes apparently in 326 pages…
P.S. thanks for writing Good Omens because without it I’d have never met my Fiancé! The Crowley to my Aziraphale…Congrats on season 3!!
Well, I can explain the concept of Gaiman’s Law, which is to say that when as an author you get a brand new beautiful copy of your brand new book and you randomly open it… wherever you look (no matter how thoroughly you’ve checked it before) you will immediately spot an appalling, egregious and obvious typo. (My suspicion is you looked at the back cover first.)
(Gaiman’s Second Law of Typos is an exception: if you pick up a book and find a bad typo in the first sentence it means nobody ever bothered to read the book you are holding even to copy edit it. And it probably won’t get any better.)
Google Wallet stödjer nu hotellnycklar – och ett hotell i Göteborg har hoppat på tåget allra först. Enligt en supportsida läggs digitala hotellnycklar till Wallet från hotellens hemsidor, appar eller utskickade mejl.
Hotellet behöver dock specifikt stödja nycklar i Wallet för att det ska fungera. Clarion Hotel Post i Göteborg skriver att de digitala nycklarna fungerar i Wallet i ”alla Androidtelefoner”.
In Google Wallet, you can safely and securely use your hotel keys to access your Hotels, guestrooms and key card-protected common areas like gyms, pools, and elevators throughout the duration of your stay.
Meddelandetjänsten Signal kommer lämna EU om det kritiserade lagförslaget ”chat control” börjar gälla. Uppgiften kommer från Meredith Whittaker – chef för Signal Foundation – i inlägg på Mastodon.
Whittaker säger att det inte ska finnas tvivel om att Signal hellre lämnar EU än att tumma på användarnas integritet. I ett separat inlägg menar Whittaker att vare sig ”chat control” kallas för en bakdörr eller ytterdörr eller ”upload moderation” så undergräver lagen krypteringen och skapar allvarliga sårbarheter.
Let there be no doubt: we will leave the EU market rather than undermine our privacy guarantees.
Whatsapp har så vitt vi vet ännu inte uttalat sig om lagförslaget men företagets vd Will Cathcart sa för ett år sedan att Whatsapp hellre blockeras i Storbritannien än att inkräkta på krypteringen, apropå en liknande lokal lag där. Frågan är om Cathcart är lika beredd att lämna den betydligt större EU-marknaden.
Sverige gav grönt ljus till lagförslaget under gårdagen, men ”chat control” har fortfarande långt kvar till att bli klubbad lag och kan hinna stoppas längs vägen. Om lagen går igenom kommer utvecklare av digitala kommunikationstjänster behöva låta meddelanden och allt skickat innehåll skannas innan krypteringen. Med andra ord; massövervakning.
If we were going to be photographed together, Terry always tried to be wearing white. This was, he said, so that people would think he was the good one, and if anyone was going to get a brick through their window, it would be me, the one in black.
Many people, especially people who didn’t know Terry well, thought he was joking.
9. Plaintiff Alexander Morris is an African American man and is the lead singer of the famous Motown group the "Four Tops.” At the time of the incident the Four Tops were on a national music tour with the Temptations and had recently performed at the Grammy Awards.
10. On or about April 7, 2023; Plaintiff was transported to the Ascension Macomb Oakland Hospital emergency room via ambulance, and he presented to the emergency room with difficulty breathing and chest pain, he was on oxygen, and he had a significant known history of cardiac disease including the placement of stints and defibrillator. During his hospitalization, Plaintiff was ultimately diagnosed with a heart infraction that may require a heart transplant, pneumonia, and he suffered three seizures during his stay.
11. When he presented to the emergency room Plaintiff informed a nurse and a security guard that he was a member of the famous Motown group the “Four Tops,” and that he had current security concerns due to stalkers and fans.
12. Shortly after check-in a nurse Holly Jackson, a White male security guard Greg Ciesielski, and a White male emergency room doctor Brandon Harris Fishman, DO racially profiled him and/or profiled him based upon a perceived disability and placed an order for a psychological evaluation for Plaintiff because they did not believe he was a singer or member of the “Four Tops.” Doctor Brandon Harris Fishman, DO, the emergency room doctor who was on staff met with Plaintiff and interviewed him, Plaintiff informed him of his medical history, and informed him that he was having difficulty breathing and chest pain. Defendants and Brandon Harris Fishman, DO wrongfully assumed he was mentally ill when he revealed his identity as a celebrity figure. Defendants and/or Brandon Harris Fishman, DO made the decision to remove him from oxygen and pursue a psychiatric evaluation instead despite his clear symptoms of cardiac distress and significant medical history.
13. Plaintiff had a valid identification on his person and could easily have been identified as a singer in the Four Tops group.
14. Brandon Harris Fishman, DO ordered a psychological evaluation for Plaintiff instead of ordering the emergency medical treatment he needed. Plaintiff was denied the emergency medical care he needed due to his heart condition and pneumonia, and instead a security guard was instructed to ensure he was placed into a restraining jacket and/or a four-point restraint mechanism, removed his belongings, and Plaintiff was told he was going to have a “psych eval” or psychological evaluation. Plaintiff was referred to Virjaya Gopal Kotha, MD for the psychological evaluation.
15. Plaintiff asked if he could prove his identity by showing his identification card, and the White male security guard ordered him to “sit his Black ass down.” None of the nursing staff intervened to stop the racial discrimination and mistreatment of Plaintiff. Upon information and belief none of the nursing staff reported the mistreatment or use of the racial slur to a supervisor. Moreover, none of the nursing staff thought to simply ask for Plaintif’s identification.
16. Plaintiff told medical staff he was having difficulty breathing and asked for the oxygen back but was ignored. Plaintiff asked to have the restraint device removed and asked for his personal belongings back so he could leave and seek treatment at another hospital, and he was told he was not free to leave; thus, he was falsely imprisoned and deprived of his personal property. During this time his medical condition continuously declined and he was denied the medical treatment he desperately needed.
17. Several security guards were called to surround the nursing station to ensure Plaintiff could not leave. During this entire incident Plaintiff was not being treated for his medical emergency, namely a severe heart condition and pneumonia. Defendant Hospital and Defendant Jackson blatantly refused to provide Plaintiff with medical treatment due to his race and/or perceived mental disability. Instead, Plaintiff received a deliberate misdiagnosis and received a lower standard of medical care based on his race that amounted to racial discrimination and delayed his actual diagnosis.
18. Finally, Plaintiff’s wife came to the nursing station to collect his belongings and she saw what was transpiring and Plaintiff informed his wife that the doctors thought he was delusional. Plaintiff’s wife informed one of the security officers that he was actually a member of the Four Tops, but he took no action on Plaintiff’s behalf, and he was left in the restraints and denied medical treatment. A nurse came to Plaintiff’s side, and Plaintiff asked to show the nurse the video of him performing at the Grammys. The nurse realized Plaintiff was a member of the Four Tops, and the nurse went and got the emergency room doctor to inform him. The emergency room doctor returned and said he was cancelling the psychological evaluation.
19. The restraint jacket was finally removed, and he was placed back on oxygen. Plaintiff was restrained for approximately an hour and a half or 90 minutes. As aforementioned, during his hospitalization, Plaintiff was ultimately diagnosed with a heart infraction that may require a heart transplant, pneumonia, and he suffered three seizures during his stay.
20. Plaintiff was offered a $25.00 gift card to Meijers as an apology for the dehumanization and discrimination he faced at the hands of the hospital. He refused to accept the gift card.
21. Subsequent to the incident, a security guard that worked at the hospital contacted Plaintiff and informed him that Greg Ciesielski the security guard that restrained Plaintiff and made the racist comment, made racist comments and jokes to him and other coworkers about African Americans, and that he frequently used excessive force with patients.
22. The security guard who called Plaintiff also reported that he witnessed employees tampering with the internal incident report made on the incident involving Plaintiff, and he believed the use of racial slur was removed from the internal incident report, and he stated that employees were instructed not to discuss the incident. The security guard also stated that Greg Ciesielski was not disciplined or suspended because of the incident.
23. As a result of the above actions and inactions of Defendants as described above and below, Plaintiff suffered injuries and damages. Defendants are sued jointly and severally.“
i don’t normally do this but jesus christ, if none of those workers were fired or even fucking SUSPENDED by the hospital, that is not only cruel and bigoted, but actively dangerous to any potential black patients and patients of color who may come there for treatment
I worked for a pizza place that was near a very large software company. Deliveries to the neighborhoods or offices where all the tech workers lived was usually pretty awesome because they’d tip rather well. But there was one apartment that started to become a concern for us drivers. The man ordering was always polite, always paid, always tipped $4, and he would have been a perfect customer. He’d order breadsticks and a salad twice a week, and sometimes he’d include a bottle of root beer.
Except when he opened his door, you could see an alarming amount of our breadsticks boxes stacked everywhere inside. Not like a few on the counter and a couple by the trash, stacks and stacks of them. Even worse, it was only our boxes in there. He wasn’t just ordering from us often, we were the only place he was getting food outside of work. Now, I’ve worked in some of those tech offices myself, I know that there’s enough decent food options just hanging out in the break rooms that this guy was probably not malnourished, but the way his living space was a shrine of greasy cardboard was a clear sign that this guy didn’t have a healthy relationship with our food.
Our manager was a really cool dude though, and he heard the drivers joking about the boxes and asked a couple of us “Is this like a messy guy or a guy who needs help?” We agreed it was probably the latter. So on his day off, the manager went to the guys apartment with an envelope that had gift cards for several other restaurants that delivered in that area and chatted with him. Manager found out that the guy was an immigrant on a Visa who was struggling to find American food he liked, and too socially awkward to ask anyone. So he talked with him through a few menus and helped him with some recommendations. Then he helped the guy load all the old boxes into his truck to take to the dump, in exchange for a promise not to order from us more than once a week.
For a little while, the manager had a note on the calendar showing the last time the guy had ordered, and a couple times he had to hold his ground and refuse the guy’s order. But after that chat, I never saw the stacks of boxes again, and the guy would boast about the different meals he’d had.
“I’m really excited to embrace this character because Moana is one of my favorites,” said Catherine Laga‘aia, a 17-year-old from Sydney, Australia, in a statement shared by Variety. “My grandfather comes from Fa‘aala, Palauli, in Savai‘i. And my grandmother is from Leulumoega Tuai on the main island of ‘Upolu in Samoa. I’m honored to have an opportunity to celebrate Samoa and all Pacific Island peoples, and to represent young girls who look like me.”
Laga‘aia wasn’t the only casting announcement. We also found out that Frankie Adams (a.k.a. Bobbie Draper on The Expanse) will play Moana’s mother, Sina; John Tui will take on the role of Moana’s father, Chief Tui; and Rena Owen will play Gramma Tala. The actors join Dwayne Johnson on the call sheet, who will reprise his role as the god Maui.
“I am thrilled to have met Catherine, Rena, Frankie and John through this casting process,” director Thomas Kail said. “I am humbled by this opportunity, and I cannot wait to all be on set together. And there’s no better pair to be in a canoe with than Catherine and Dwayne—actually, trio: Heihei is ready, too.”
Auli‘i Cravalho voices Moana in the original animated feature as well as its upcoming sequel, and is executive producer on the live-action project, where, according to Variety, she will mentor Laga’aia.
The live-action film is set to begin production this summer and currently has a release date of July 10, 2026. The animated sequel, Moana 2, comes out on November 27, 2024. [end-mark]
Samsung kommer släppa sin första smartring i sommar. Nu har Samsung stämt den ledande smartringtillverkaren Oura i förebyggande syfte inför lanseringen. Teknikjätten är inte ute efter att hämma Oura utan vill bara lagligt fastställa att Galaxy Ring inte inkräktar på fem av Ouras patent.
Enligt stämningen har Oura en tendens att stämma konkurrenter baserat på funktioner som finns i nästan samtliga smartringar. Samsung påpekar att företag likt Ringconn, Circular och Ultrahuman tidigare stämts av Oura och att Samsung därför själv räknar med att bli stämt på grund av påstått patentintrång.
Stämningen nämner att Oura underströk sin patentportfölj i ett meddelande som skickades ut till bloggar och tidskrifter strax efter att Galaxy Ring tillkännagavs. Samsung tar även upp att Ouras vd Tom Hale sagt i en intervju att företaget noga kommer följa Samsungs smartring och ”vidta lämpliga åtgärder”.
I och med stämningen har det bekräftats att Galaxy Ring kommer släppas ”i eller kring augusti” (i alla fall i USA). Samsungs stora evenemang förväntas gå av stapeln 10 juli.
Mixing your long plane ride with alcohol could be a dangerous cocktail for your heart, new research out Monday suggests. The small trial found that healthy volunteers experienced a greater drop in their blood oxygen level and corresponding rise in heart rate after drinking alcohol while sleeping in high-altitude…
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