I fully agree that your “rules” need adjustment, starting with the fact that you engineered them around your personal dislikes.

It’s certainly better than all those verification scams that were popping up after a lot of journos migrated off Twitter…

Speaking of bylines, at this time of writing the only comment on the Verge piece claims that “‘Fediverse’ is the dumbest possible name [and] we gotta come up with a different one”. Signed, “DarthLazers” 🤣

You know what, I’m out. I’d be down for >!Gary Seven!< or even >!Dark Kes!< but >!Renegade Timelord Wesley Crusher!< is beyond my capacity for suspension of disbelief.

first Alpha release for early adopters in 2026

Ouch! Well, Firefox can’t turn to complete shit while we wait, can it?

…can it?

People seem to have really strong opinions about this show, seeing how every episode discussion is evenly up- and downvoted before anybody have even had a chance to watch or comment 🙄

Okay, let’s do this then. Show me where in that imaginary tome of “open source ideology” principles that “worthless nonsense” and “low effort content” are cause for dismissal. Who judges what is worthless and low effort, and on what criteria?

It’s fairly obvious that LGBTQIA+ related subjects are controversial, especially from the stink that you and a few others raise reflexively at the sight of a rainbow flag. Frankly, your opinions and bloviating is more worthless and low effort than an app that does nothing except display a flag in the system tray.

Re proper analysis: Intentional or not, you did a homophobia in plain sight. Just eat the humble pie and give the weird conspiracies a rest.

…and as OP just pointed out, it’s an open source project? That’s relevant IMO.

Or very specific intergalactic organ trafficking criteria? But I’ll grant you, any theory aligning Star Trek and Doctor Who is valid in my book.

It’s not much of an admission as the Bad Wolf team seems to have been fairly open about the shooting order of production blocks. But man, imagine if we had not had “73 yards”…!

Yeah, it wasn’t a great episode beyond the nostalgic kick of seeing Tennant, Tate and Jacqueline King back together — but boy, did they snap back into their roles!

Miriam Margolyes voicing the Meep was pretty good, especially when she let rip in the last part. I feel like she was underused but also maybe this was the right amount of screeching for any episode 😄 Take note, Daleks!

I did think the metacrisis solution got handed to us like an ELI5 rather than allowing us to realise it along with the characters. It wasn’t a terrible idea, just very clunkily delivered.

The Meep’s boss, though… Yeah, that has to tie in with Rogue’s “new boss”, right? It looks like RTD has very deliberately seeded lots of mysteries for future seasons; despite some online fans’ wishes they won’t all connect in one resolution.

So yeah, >!Mrs Flood will not be the boss and also Susan!< …

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Welp, looks like “The war between the land and the sea” starts production in September?

That JJ who is part of the panel is going to become showrunner one day for sure.

Huh. There is a worrying lack of license information, yes. I didn’t even notice.

Yeah, but we’re not looking at the root cause here. Their purpose is to train energy glutton, error prone “AI” even if experience teaches us that those ML models fuck up more often than confirmation bias allows.

“AI” is a bourgeoise and Capitalist tool and, same as with cryptocurrency, we cannot dismantle the master’s house with the master’s tools. Fuck AI down the drain. Make things with your own minds, your own hands.

First, I’m fairly sure both the Beeb and the Mouse Corp are watching Doctor Who ratings on a much wider timescale than the armchair analysts, worrywarts and doomsayers out there.

I don’t know how long Disney secured distribution rights for but with their penchant for hoarding IPs they might even be in for a long game of securing international rights for the entire series back catalogue when they expire with other parties. Star Wars, the MCU — they know from experience what kind of synergy a 60 year franchise can build when it’s collected in one place.

Second, though, we’ll have to see if Disney’ll invest in the spinoffs right away. I’d love to see that “War between the land and the sea” thing materialise, whatever it is, and it sounds like Bad Wolf have been setting it up. As for the UNIT show, if that’s even separate from the other spinoff… at least the primary set is already built?

Aww! See, that’s how you cultivate a new audience! And while our hero Eric is hard to beat, Captain Popsicle was my MVP after the latest rewatch.

It’s also skewing the history lesson to peddle cryptocurrency. Not all information is equal.

This reads like a whole lot of research was boiled down to fit the “barely an article” constraints of a casual news outlet. The outline is all over the place but seems well-intended; it’s just not clear what information we’re supposed to take away from this.

Kudos for mentioning GNU Social, Zot and Diaspora, but I’m not really sure any of them are relevant anymore?