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"Sweet Child" is a slightly odd choice, though IMHO: It's still very much Blessed By The Gods Of Rock, but the pacing and whining wistful tone are ideal for a slower, more reflective trailer. As m'learned coll' @InvaderStych says, it's very much "where do we go now..." The song choice does imply our favourite 80s throwback Avenger isn't searching for something so much as... someone. But she's very much a new model someone. I don't know if you've been in that situation where someone tries to come back to a relationship after absence, where one has gone through a major change (on either side). But someone just trying to pick up where they left off and expecting it to all go the same... does not choose wisely. Learning to set aside what you had and embrace the new is a Major Learning Process for anyone, let alone our overconfident blonde lummox... ...even moreso when she's just taken his gig and looking damn fine doing it. Another lyric is "I'd hate to look into those eyes and see an ounce of pain". There's a lot of things this could refer to, not least...

So, after a colossal amount of internet whinge whenever Marvel did anything but drop this teaser, here it is.

Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra ft. Bugs Bunny - Overture, Barber Of Seville (Rossini, arr. Stalling) 🐰🥚

The Surfrajettes - Toxic

Vegomatic - Générique de / Theme From Vegomatic

Or is it Zombie Scarlet Witch finishing a meal of brains (or if it's Peter Quill's head, a light snack?) They hired Raimi... they got Raimi.

Ian Dury & The Blockheads - Reasons To Be Cheerful (Part 3)

One for @Fire Chief... we're gonna do the original version of this song... nice... and easy... Creedence Clearwater Revival - Proud Mary ...then we're gonna do it. Nice. And. Rough. Tina Turner - Proud Mary (Live In Arnhem 2009)

That varies a bit depending on the system used: DogeCoin's authors, despite creating it as a spoof/joke, fixed a lot of the inherently wasteful processes and problems of the original Bitcoin. Thus proving that you have to do things better than the original for comedy, but I digress. As a rough guide: One (1) successfully completed DOGE transaction requires ~0.1kWh of energy. This is about the same as running a gaming laptop for about an hour: it's also equivalent to the total end-to-end energy cost of 8 credit card transactions. So, a fair amount, but not ludicrous. Estimates vary as to how much a BTC transaction costs. According to Statista, it's now over 2,000 kWh - and this will only go up as Bitcoin's built-in artificial scarcity tightens. (Only 10% of the maximum BTC remain to be mined.) Again, for comparison, that's roughly the amount electricity an average household of four would use in six months. So,

So, anyone hungry?

Journey - Separate Ways

Final trailer just dropped, and it looks like the Duffers have not wasted the last 3 years. Season will be in two parts - first part drops May 27th, conclusion 1st July. So, let the wild unfounded speculation and flaming begin!

As is the guy in the below quoted tweet. FWIW, while I'm an entirely unsuitable person to be a judge of any kind, I would also be irritated by this person. Probably without knowing what they did or who they were, just due to the Redolent Aura Of Smug +5. (30' radius, roll d100 to check vs instant grumpiness, murderous rage on Critical Fail) Also, I hadn't run into Gripnr before. That didn't produce rage, just a resigned sigh: you know what kind of folks they're going to be by the fact they have a loose -R on the end of their app, like Flickr, Tumblr, Grindr, Scissr etc-r. I guess they're all just wannabe pirates.

I don't think they started off that way. But it didn't take long to get that way once the sharks moved in. They're obviously far from the only thing crims and 1%ers can use to defraud people or move/hide money - think art, wine, property deeds - but by far the most portable, and a bit more tricky to seize for enforcement purposes.

Edward Shearmur - Back To Earth (Sky Captain OST End Titles)

Barry Adamson - The Big Bamboozle

Phénomenal Club - Il Est Vraiment Phénomenal et aussi, naturellement... Phénomenal Club - Elle Est Vraiment Phénomenale

Bellini - Samba De Janeiro 🔰 #otbc

Public Enemy - Shake Your Booty (He Got Game OST Mix)

Blue Man Group - Shake Your Booty Euphemism (Full Show Version)

With my corporate hat on, if I have a specific worry on behalf of Paramount and its fans, it's security. Recently, there have been a number of threads/jokes/memes (and explainers like the one below) about people getting their apes ripped off... One of the aforementioned less-than-sympathetic tech bros decided to mansplain at a thread author about how "easy" it was to secure a machine ready for NFTs. It went on for about 10-12 tweets, and aside from your basic "don't click stupid links", it included running your Metamask in a sandboxed and sandbagged VM with strictly limited external access, keeping your stuff in a fully secured hardware wallet, scrupulously checking any inbound mail for potentially compromised links - including genuine email from friends, in case of MITM attacks - and a number of other things. I've worked in and around a number of tech environments - mostly media dahlink, but also oil, general industry and a couple of brief stints working with US.mil and intel. None of the above practice the level of security allegedly required, and the last two whinged about having to do even basic opsec. Passwords on Post-Its, that kind of thing. If we don't expect the kind of people who should be practicing Srs Security Stuff to be locking their kit down that strongly, expecting it of casual users is a bit much. On top of that: Paramount should expect their user database, web presence and socials to come under heavy attack. Not just to steal the actual weird fuzzy starships - to target users for other Quarkcoin schemes. In short: this is the worst idea to hit Star Trek tech since Wesley got horny and ran a sentient virused copy of Slaver Queens Of Orion on the holodeck.

Yup - mainly all the sharp/mean kids convincing/bullying the newbies into handing over the rare ones in exchange for worthless ones or ramping the value of specials. Weirdly: one of my many nephews was a shady Pokémon dealer of that nature when he was young. He's now a merchant banker and has been poking me about blockchain and crypto tech. Clearly, it's a gateway drug.😂

Truth. Anything that gets posted on DeviantArt these days is apparently fair game for getting NFTized without the artist's permission, with the usual response being "yah-boo sucks for you you don't understand the technology lol", and/or precisely zip from the sales platform in question. BTW, I forgot one detail. The tokens are required to play a "forthcoming" (...mayyybeeee...) pay-to-earn Trek game, wherein grinding will earn you more of these things. While, incidentally, also grinding your system resources to generate more of the darn things. So, if you don't mind frying a GFX card or two to fly your starship... Massively: Trek announces plans for P2E game

Noted this week that Paramount, in addition to depriving Euro fans of legitimate access to Discovery/Strange New Worlds/Prodigy etc (and I may be attempting Evil Goth Hologram Janeway next time I go to a convention, btw)... ...have gone full Ferengi and launched the Continuum - a line of Trek digital collectibles receipts for dodgy links to things you'll never actually own, have no intrinsic functional use, and which can be easily stolen along with your c****y MSPaint apes if you're not incredibly tooled up on your personal PC/Mac security. The reaction from the fandom has been a) swift b) merciless c) correct. NFTs are - IMnpHO* - a sop for corporations so desperate for punters' money that they can't be bothered to create anything valuable or interesting for them to buy first. I'm also not sure what platform Continuum's built on, but the complexity of NFT transactions means the damn things need to devour whole planets to keep up the power, like some ravaging evil Space Cornetto... ...ahem. I'm expecting some kind of non-humble "we heard you" post from Paramount any minute now as they're wiped from history faster than Tasha Yar. And in general, I'm not an NFT fan, in case you couldn't tell. What do you lot think**, and is there anything that might tempt you or that has put you off completely? *In My (not particularly) Humble Opinion

X-Files: they discover they're both aliens who were abducted and brainwashed by the government. While Mulder falls into a deep paranoiac depression, unable to believe what the Truth turned out to be, the show ends with a montage set to Joan Jett's Light Of Day, as Scully smashes her way into the Oval Office, throws the President out through a window onto the lawn, and declares herself Empress Of Earth, uniting all nations against enemies both alien and domestic... ...wait, that's the happy ending.