Marc Burleigh

Paris-based journalist. Tweeting in my name only -- but TBH, increasingly rarely. I'm now over on the clear-skied alternative.

[Marc Burleigh @marcburleigh]

@BaldwinMatthew_ 'Bout time they offered options to the overpriced Thalys/Eurostar (having scrapped that €29 train that used to exist years ago...)

[Marc Burleigh @marcburleigh]

@photojack Good to see, and I know Rode's audio quality.... but without a jack to plug in a lavalier and 32-bit float, I don't see why I'd replace the ones I currently use. Hopefully series 2, one day...

[Marc Burleigh @marcburleigh]

@buffys (In Monty Python voice)... apart from the hairdryer, the plane, the camera phone, margarine, denim, photography, cinema, taxis, dental fillings, the V8 engine, the modern parachute, camouflage and the bikini... what have the French given us?

[Marc Burleigh @marcburleigh]

@RATPgroup @ClientsRATP @Ligne9_RATP Hello, your agent at the counter in the Oberkampf metro today is extremely rude, telling us (the JO2024 public) to 'casse-toi' when we politely asked about a problem with the Transport Public app. Refused to apologise. Is that normal?

[Marc Burleigh @marcburleigh]

@MarcSettle I have a bad feeling about this

[Marc Burleigh @marcburleigh]

UK PM not noticing the rain: just like at home in summer, innit?

[Agnes C. Poirier @AgnesCPoirier]

☔️ #OpeningCeremony

[Marc Burleigh @marcburleigh]

@MarcSettle Is it possible to date a time-travelling dog?

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[Marc Burleigh @marcburleigh]

@pizzapepe The contiguous United States is 8 million sq km. Australia is 7.7 million sq km. So: both very large territorially. Lots to see in both. Yet you'll find an Australian in lower Moldova, at the start of a 2-year trip to 10 different countries and cultures.

[Marc Burleigh @marcburleigh]

This could start a fictional trend. What else?
Maybe Sunak in a series about a trainee astronaut for SpaceX?
Australia's Scott Morrison reinvented as a relationship coach in Thailand?
Obama becoming a F1 team chief?
Jean-Claude Juncker develops super powers to fight evil?

[Alexander Clarkson  @APHClarkson]

Italy's Rai now has a tv series where Angela Merkel decides to become a detective in Northern Italy after retirement
h/t @putintintin1

[Marc Burleigh @marcburleigh]

Outgoing PM Sunak apologises to "unremarkable" Britain, which he still calls the best country on the planet

[Marc Burleigh @marcburleigh]

Seeing a lot of arguments today that the UK's "winner-takes-all" voting system needs to be revised

[John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch]

I just can’t get past Labour winning 65% of seats off 34% of the vote.

Absolutely wild mismatch between the headline result and, well, everything else.

Britain is now a multi-party system, and first-past-the-post can’t cope.

[Marc Burleigh @marcburleigh]

@FR_Consulaire Enfin... Après 30 tentatives en 55 minutes, a voté. Serveurs saturés (car pas assez préparés) ? 🤷 Rendez-vous au 2ème tour dans 1 semaine - en espérant qu'ils résolvent leur problème technique.

[Marc Burleigh @marcburleigh]

@FR_Consulaire Echec des serveurs ? Cyberattaque ? Le site ne fonctionne pas (Chrome invalide comme browser, malgré 57% du marché, Safari et Firefox ne peuvent établir une connexion)...

[Marc Burleigh @marcburleigh]

@FR_Consulaire Au moins 15 tentatives pour pouvoir choisir un candidat, confirmer, recevoir un code de confirmation... puis bloqué, pas d'étape suivante (récépissé)... impossible de reconnecter. Donc a voté ? N'a pas voté ?

[Marc Burleigh @marcburleigh]

@MarcSettle Overall looks good.
Coupla things:
Only 1 form of ProRes Log (unlike Blackmagic Cam, which also has H265 log)
Mistranslation in French version of app: "Log" is given as "Historique" (!) - not the right translation of logarithmic
(Earphone Monitoring is poss with Hohem Mic-01!)

[Marc Burleigh @marcburleigh]

Rising public alarm at Big Tech plundering user copyright to train its AI, without payment and largely without consent.
Meta defending its move: https://t.co/eKgXkXPxwJ
Adobe too: https://t.co/BW7TkdcpmB
Instagram users running away to rival Cara: https://t.co/5FiPmu3y6T

[Marc Burleigh @marcburleigh]

@MarcSettle <iframe src="https://t.co/cVoWq0LZEr" width="480" height="362" style="" frameBorder="0" class="giphy-embed" allowFullScreen></iframe><p><a href="https://t.co/V94hv9JCzj">via GIPHY</a></p>

[Marc Burleigh @marcburleigh]

@jackeparrock 2nd round nearly three weeks before the Seine Opening Ceremony