Dave T-W @davoloid@qoto.org

@ryanhoulihan Hope it pans out according to the script!

Also at TBC is the #Retrofit24 exhibit, which I *think* I've mentioned before but some of the displays seem to have changed since I last popped through. That shows various examples and aspects of retrofitting buildings rather than demolition and new build. These including environmental considerations (lower carbon emissions through refurbishment) but also cultural if a building has a historical element and heritage of the location.

Sometimes (e.g. Houlton School https://www.houltonschool.org.uk/) it's possible to completely transform a building to a vastle different use.

Passed The Building Centre at lunchtime, always worth seeing what's on there if you're into #Architecture, #Sustainability or anything about #Urban planning.

May's #free exhibit is about the #LanguageOfSigns.
https://www.buildingcentre.co.uk/whats_on/exhibitions/keep-on-the-grass-the-language-of-signs

My two favourite London signs:
"Commit No Nuisance" and "This is not a brothel. There are no prostitutes at this address." (now vanished)
1/2

On the whole the style and flow of the movie is thrilling, but suffers from poor dialogue and several scenes that seem forced in order to induce plot points, but are then rushed through without further consideration. Feels like a more experienced Director/Producer might have kept those elements tighter, allowed the story to build to a better payoff. At 1hr 49 there was plenty of runtime avalable.

I'm still trying to work out whether the still images in the movie were taken in those scenes, staged to match the action, or generated from the moving footage. Was very clever.

Watched Alex Garland's #CivilWar last night. Visceral,
impressive for a low budget movie. Manages to avoid politicising because the story is about the reporters. Hence the wierd Texas/California Union)

However, the portrayal of the war photographers as neutral observers merely documenting events for others to judge on, is naive. We have only to look at the distressing images from recent and current conflicts that are waved about without reference to the context.

https://thomasflight.substack.com/p/civil-war-on-the-complicated-power

Wondering why new #Teams is hyaooooooooge compared to classic?
#Software #Bloat

Using the #OReilly app as we have institutional access. Fine, but there's no way in the app *still* to voice read those books, or export to a #VoiceReader. I often download pdfs or push web articles straight to my regular app.
Any suggestions?

@OrbitalGardens More importantly, was that research published?

@KirillOsenkov This is really cool. Doesn't pull up all things I would expect for some searches, so a button to provide feedback, or suggest a more authoritative data source would be useful. E.g. I put in UK Airport and only half a dozen came up.
I can see this being really useful as a compact offline tool you could update periodically.

@danfuzz @pluralistic The reason we have these "unnatural" mechanisms to define who is in power (which we loosely call "Democracy" is because of millennia of these types of people imposing that "natural order" and getting others to kill each other when they couldn't decide who was right.

@xanna That's the key question if you hold any event which is somehow exclusive. For that group, what is the topic or theme, or environment that is particularly beneficial? There must be some reason you want to specifically talk with women and non-binary people, right?