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Dave Jones @popzeus.bsky.social · 3h

Have they not watched their own films, the answer is "somehow"

DiscussingFilm @discussingfilm.net · 12h

Adam Driver reveals he was developing a new Star Wars movie ‘THE HUNT FOR BEN SOLO’ with Steven Soderbergh

• Was set after ‘The Rise of Skywalker’

• Lucasfilm loved the idea but Disney said no — “They didn’t see how Ben Solo was alive”

(Source: apnews.com/article/adam...)

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Dave Jones @popzeus.bsky.social · 3h

Everything Worse: A Brief History of the 21st Century

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 15h

Them: “no one had pronouns in my day”
A TV Character from their day:

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Dave Jones @popzeus.bsky.social · 15h

Today has been brought to you by these specific three panels of X-Treme X-Men (2001).

Panel 1: An alien-looking dude with blue fur, red eyes and green body armour thumps a handheld device against a wall. "How many worlds have we invaded?"
Panel 2: He glares at the device, furious. "How many times has tech support promised their hardware would work?"
Panel 3: Cut to close-up of device smashing on the floor with a KRUNCH! Voice balloon from off-panel: "Useless piece of junk!"

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sexy ludovician @beardynoise.bsky.social · 1d

Liz Truss was at least destroying the country as part of an elaborate BDSM sex game, I truly cannot fathom what is motivating Starmer to be fucking it up this badly

Edith @edithcharles.bsky.social · Sep 15

Starmer makes Liz Truss look like a genius

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 1d

This person is paying OpenAI two hundred dollars a month to have a chatbot gaslight them about making an excel spreadsheet

Cannot generate simple excel files on pro version
Question
So I have used ChatGPT pro for a while now and recently I have been facing an issue while trying to collate data from pdfs and put it in an excel sheet where in my chat it keeps asking me questions when it finally gets down to generating an excel sheet it never gives me the me the link to download the file.
After multiple attempts when it does give me a lin k to download the excel file I rec an error which says file not found. Starting to grow frustrated with this now.
Look forward to any suggestions to tackle this #problem

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 1d

It's very trendy for the woke left to mock the police these days, but this is the kind of thing that you and I might miss.

BBC report that police are focussing on a 'ladder placed against the side of the Louvre' while investigation a recent theft from the art gallery.

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oli @olil.bsky.social · 1d

Edinburgh castle failing to render, likely thanks to the AWS outage

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Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 2d

May you turn into your own Steve Bell cartoon [Iraqi curse]

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Dave Jones @popzeus.bsky.social · 1d

"Trust me, that logo's going to make elder millennials think of goatse. No, you don't want to google that"

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Sola Balisane @balisane.bsky.social · 3d

Every office needs to have one person whose entire job it is to be terminally online, and everyone else needs to agree to listen to that person when they say that you need to change the name of your pet project or delete a media post.

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Dave Jones @popzeus.bsky.social · 2d

Return of the Shack

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 3d

This morning my ChatGPT quota was inexplicably exhausted.

It took a while but I pieced it together. Voice mode somehow got activated when I went to bed.

The bot then engaged in a 10 hour conversation with my snoring dog, answering questions the pup wasn’t asking and praising him for his insight.

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acab rangoon @mid-skeets.bsky.social · 4d

sean connery in a suit with a quote bubble

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Dave Jones @popzeus.bsky.social · 3d

I've been talking to my Windows PCs for years, or perhaps the more accurate phrase is shouting at them.

Tom Warren @tomwarren.co.uk · 4d

This is the future of Windows. Microsoft wants to rewrite Windows to turn computers into AI PCs that you talk to. It's now bringing AI features to all Windows 11 PCs today, in a bid to convince you to talk to your PC and let AI control it. Full details 👇 www.theverge.com/news/799768/...

Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it

Copilot Voice and Vision are now rolling out.

www.theverge.com

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Dave Jones @popzeus.bsky.social · 3d

"Crikey, Professor, what a smashing machine! I wonder what it does?"

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Dave Jones @popzeus.bsky.social · 4d

(now watch it be nowhere near as good as I remembered it)

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Dave Jones @popzeus.bsky.social · 4d

THIS FILM! A film I saw on TV once, decades ago, didn't catch the name of, and have been describing to people ever since and nobody else has a clue what film I'm talking about! An absolute all-timer and now I can finally watch it again

Satyros Phil Brucato @satyrosphilbrucato.bsky.social · 5d

It's about time Strange Days finally begins getting the retrospective love and respect it deserves. To me, it's the best pre-Matrix cyberpunk film other than Blade Runner and Robocop, and still better than most cyberpunk films made since.

www.polygon.com/strange-days...

30 years ago, Katherine Bigelow made a sci-fi flop that changed her career for the better

Strange Days is a noir-soaked science-fiction thriller set against a backdrop of racial tension, police brutality, sexual assault, and disruptive tech

www.polygon.com

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Dave Jones @popzeus.bsky.social · 4d

Make this man President of Booksville immediately

Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 4d

My strongest book-related belief is that the paperback should come first and then the hardback after for people who want a fancy edition.

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Dave Jones @popzeus.bsky.social · 5d

This has 'instant classic' potential

Dan Marshall @danthat.bsky.social · 5d

EARTH
MUST
DIE.

store.steampowered.com/app/4057540/...

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Dave Jones @popzeus.bsky.social · 5d

Honestly I work from home and the closest I came to having a full breakdown recently was when my espresso machine broke down on a workday morning. Yeah I know #firstworldproblems and all that but nightmare scenario.

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Stuart Houghton @stuarthoughton.bsky.social · 5d

Say what you like about our American cousins but in no other country would the news feature the co-author of "Life is a Lazy Susan of Shit Sandwiches" debating politics with Solid Snake.

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Dave Jones @popzeus.bsky.social · 5d

This post belongs in a museum

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Kit Roberts @kitrobertsjourno.bsky.social · 5d

Write a 500 word essay on dominant themes in Dracula or we’ll deport you.

“Dracula can be read as an allegory of the fear of foreigners and immigra-“

NO NOT LIKE THAT

#ukpolitics

Migrants will be required to pass A Level standard of English

Migrants will be required to pass tough new English language requirements under a law introduced in Parliament today.

www.gov.uk

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Dave Jones @popzeus.bsky.social · 5d

Why does Windows still bother having an 'Update and Shut Down' option when for years now it has been functionally identical to the 'Update and Restart' option next to it?

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