So, S1 cliffhanger: I'm guessing it's going to be a zoom out from Juliette as she walks away, as Bernard says that line from the book, "Silo one, this is silo eighteen. We've got a problem."

Or is it going to show her entering Silo 17, and seeing that the airlock is jammed open, the silo is dark, and everyone is dead?

They're obviously playing up the whole, "the view screen is a lie" thing, so a huge part of the cliffhanger is gonna have to be the revelation that, no, the view screen is showing the truth (presumably by, as in the book, the skybox in the helmet view failing as she crests the hill. Seeing the ruins of Atlanta off in the distance would be quite dramatic). The human race is, indeed, almost extinct. The last sheriff and his wife did indeed die on that hill after cleaning the camera. There is indeed something very nasty out there. They're all dead, Dave.

Musk challenging fellow techno- oligarch arsehole, Mark Zuckerberg, to a cage fight is mind boggling Dunning-Kruger, even by his standards.

Musk is basically a walking heart attack waiting to happen. Zuckerberg will absolutely beat the crap out of him in pretty short order.

I hate them both, but I think I hate Musk more, and it’s a shame this thing isn’t actually going to happen, because I would dearly love to see him meet the limits of his own hubris.

Flight today had a lady who was clearly a nervous flyer. We hit some moderately serious clear air turbulence over Normandy and she screamed and had a panic attack, and then as we were descending over London, same again in the thermals making the big clouds that are currently blanketing SE England.

She was having a very very bad time, and everyone else being calm around her didn't seem to help. I felt pretty bad for her. She was clearly terrified.

The staff at Costa Coffee in Faro AirPort departure lounge now greet me as a regular. Wow!

(I would take the train if it existed. I buy a fuckton of carbon offsets)

So apparently Facebook are naming their activitypub compatible network, “Threads”.

Interesting choice.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thread…

Apparently I have been “rubbing people up the wrong way”, but in a plot twist, the “people” in question are pretty much universally arseholes.

Good.

A common complaint about “disruptor” types is that they are entirely cavalier about tossing aside established practice without establishing whether or not it’s established for a bloody good reason.

A phrase often used by critics of these people is that safety standards and engineering regulations are “written in blood”.

I understand one of the people currently trapped in the “Fred in a very expensive shed” submarine is the man responsible for building the thing with obvious disdain for safety and engineering regs.

Tl;dr: fuck around and find out.