Jim Lynn

Independent Software Developer, curator of the VHiStory blog. Also at @[email protected]

[Ryan Lambie @ryanlambie]

A really moving final response from Ridley Scott in this interview.

[Private Eye Magazine @PrivateEyeNews]

Who or what is 'The Badenoch'?

IT'S PRIVATE EYE WEEK! New edition in shops and with subscribers from Wednesday.

[Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt]

Soooo… I watched 1992’s infamous GHOSTWATCH on @Shudder last night…

[Jim Lynn @JimLynn]

@kermodeandmayo I watched The African Queen for the first time a few years ago and it was a revelation. Two brilliant performances from Hepburn and Bogart, playing characters with such depth and wit, such that I would die for either of them. It's a classic for a reason.

[The Guardian @guardian]

Polar bears are back in Britain. But should they really be living here? https://t.co/Y7nRwd1Okr

[Jim Lynn @JimLynn]

@SkillageSteve The only early TV memory I can definitely date was when Grandstand started and it was the first colour broadcast. I stared at our B&W TV, convincing myself I could make out vague colours. That was 13th Nov 1969 so I was five.

[Jim Lynn @JimLynn]

What year is this?

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@KulvinderGill Now there's a rabbit hole I'd rather not go down. Great plot idea for a conspiracy thriller, though!

[Jim Lynn @JimLynn]

There's a strange new type of YouTube bot posting I've been seeing recently. Random users posting six random names. No idea what the point is, apart, I guess, from getting a posting history.

[Elizabeth Laraki @elizlaraki]

I'm talking at a conference later this year (on UX+AI).

I just saw an ad for the conference with my photo and was like, wait, that doesn't look right.

Is my bra showing in my profile pic and I've never noticed...? That's weird.

I open my original photo.
No bra showing.

I put the two photos side by side and I'm like WTF...

Someone edited my photo to unbutton my blouse and reveal a made-up hint of a bra or something else underneath. 🤨

Immediately, I email the conference host.
(FYI he is a great, respectable guy with 5 kids at home.)

He is super apologetic and immediately looks into the issue.

He quickly reports back that the woman running their social media used a cropped square image from their website.

She needed it to be more vertical, so she used an AI expand image tool to make the photo taller.

AI invented the bottom part of the image (in which it believed that women's shirts should be unbuttoned further, with some tension around the buttons, and revealing a little hint of something underneath). 🤯

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FYI the conference organizers were super apologetic and took down all of the content with that photo.

[Todd Vaziri @tvaziri]

No one gave me first-hand evidence that this shot from "Seven" is a visual effects shot - but that didn't stop folks from insisting it's a visual effects shot!

So I went overboard and wrote a piece about long lenses, and also got first-hand confirmation.

https://t.co/3hpOvldTw0

[Jim Lynn @JimLynn]

Genome is absolutely indispensible.

[TVARK @tvark]

Happy 10th Birthday to the BBC Genome Project.

Set up to give an online resource that allows users to browse through back copies of the Radio Times from 1923 to 2009, including television and radio listings.

https://t.co/howM5RH25N

[Alex Proyas @alex_proyas]

Hey Elon, Can I have my designs back please? #ElonMusk #Elon_Musk

[Jim Lynn @JimLynn]

@goodexceptsucks I watch it every Christmas.

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@agirlcalledTom I only knew it as a title, then it was featured in an old British Films documentary I was watching for my blog, so I was delighted when Talking Pictures TV showed it a while back.

[Jim Lynn @JimLynn]

@outonbluesix We call it Swirly Tennis now thanks to Charlie and Lola

[Alan Jepson @AlanJepson4]

Someone got carried away with typing 'Stevenage' 🤔

[Jim Lynn @JimLynn]

I guess habit is a hard thing to break.

[Laura Kuenssberg @bbclaurak]

While prepping to interview Boris Johnson tomorrow,  by mistake I sent our briefing notes to him in a message meant for my team. That obviously means it’s not right for the interview to go ahead. It’s very frustrating, and there’s no point pretending it’s anything other than embarrassing and disappointing, as there are plenty of important questions to be asked. But red faces aside, honesty is the best policy. See you on Sunday.