Who could forget @robbotron.bsky.social 'The Dark Room'? The only live choose your own adventure show I've seen and it's so entertaining!

The same technology was also used for various Netflix animated shows. But I believe they've all been removed from Netflix now. Presumably a bit too experimental, sadly!

The meta aspect was that the main character was trying to adapt a 'choose your own adventure story' (the titular "Bandernatch" from a book to a video game.

Big shout out to the Black Mirror episode 'Bandernatch' which filmed a huge amount of scenes, and invented new TV steaming technology (at huge expense), yet told a meta-story in a drab 1980s England, with surrealism bursting through at the seams. It was something special!

Absolutely agree, and the crazy thing is that the Office for Students wants unis to go bust because their dogma sees that as the sign of a "healthy market"!

This is a big issue with nanoparticles too. Gemini could make a lot of convincing images really fast. The only flaw? The images look TOO GOOD because the training data is all papers with cherry picked images.

I'm in the UK, but if I could get a lift in Thunderbird 1 I could be there is like, 20 minutes.

*strong directional sunlight

0.01 seconds before @tpneenan.bsky.social mentions Missy from Doctor Who

I kinda love that @frogcroakley.bsky.social's bluesky profile gives me absolutely zero context for who they are. I have no idea what to expect as a listener! Exciting! 🍿

Shout out to the sky portal from the 1995 TV movie adaption of Stephen King's "The Langoliers". One of those "so bad it's kinda good" movies.

I'm a big Banks fan but remember almost none of the Algebraist from my first read through (apart from the gas giant world of The Dwellers). Time for a re-read!

The same compendium also has this story I rememeber well, where women around the world start giving birth to geometeically shaped babies. Basically body horror meets 'Flatland'.

Full story here:

www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-...

It's in this compendium. 'The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015`. Now available online here:

www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/help...