Dropped over 2 grand on a Dolby Atmos surround system and all I’ve got to show for it is a helicopter flying overhead in every damn movie. Hollywood be more inventive. 🎧🚁. #DolbyAtmos #HomeTheater #MovieNight #SoundDesign #Overkill #HollywoodClichés.

I get it, circular time and all that—but I still think a couple of blinking lights or pulses would’ve saved them a lot of drama 😅.

Instead, they jump straight into written symbols, which assumes a ton about the alien perception of time, meaning, and form. Binary could’ve been the bridge.

Binary is fundamental—light/no light, signal/no signal. It’s not based on human language or culture. Once you agree on that basic logic system, you can build up—math, patterns, even language structure.

Rewatching Arrival and it still bugs me: why didn’t they start with binary? You’re trying to communicate with obviously intelligent beings—wouldn’t on/off, 1s and 0s be the most basic, universal way in?.

Not trying to be controversial but I quite enjoyed the actors who played the VIP’s #SquidGame3.

RT @NoContextBrits: Petition to make Matt Berry the next James Bond.

Dropped my iPhone at the Covent Garden Apple Store for a battery replacement—great service. Had no phone & a few hours to spare, so I went to the cinema. Made me think: why not a free movie ticket while you wait? @Apple @vuecinemas — perfect partnership? 🎬📱.

Quick word of advice for iPhone owners. If you’re planning on going to the beach on your holidays this summer then take a wireless charger as the sand messes up the charging port #iphone.

When I see this iOS app updates dropping at midnight on a Friday night all I can think of are the poor engineers working unsociable hours to deliver someone else’s dream. #iphone #appstore #app.

Picked my favourite restaurant on @UberEats, only for the order to be sent to a branch in East Finchley—not the one round the corner. Took ages to arrive and was cold. Not the first time this has happened. Please sort it out.

The team behind @FirstDates should create a dating app as their matching algorithm is far superior to anything I’ve currently seen out there on the market.

Saw Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning at the London Premiere last night—@thekatyo lit up the screen. Held her own with @TomCruise and stole the spotlight. What a star. 🌟. @ParamountPics @ParamountUK.

With such huge changes to car tax where is @BBC_TopGear to explain it? The problem was the producers post Clarkson&Co thought the show was all about buffoons doing laps in ridiculous vehicles. They completely missed the point. The news was what kept viewers hooked. Bring it back.

Fentanyl has arrived in london. Driving today I spotted quite a few victims with the trademarked hunched over stagger, usually in broad daylight and with someone from emergency services or a concerned (bemused) citizen trying to help them.

Just spent 45 mins on the phone with a @thameswater account manager who knew nothing, kept putting me on hold, & got nowhere. Asked for a manager—scheduled for tomorrow at 12 PM UK time (as if I was calling about a London property in another time zone). He got offended & hung up.

I now use Google Maps as my primary search engine and ChatGPT for everything else.

A useful feature for @WhatsApp chat groups would be to allow administrators to set limits to how many posts each person can contribute in a day to stop one over zealous participant from hijacking the group to spout nonsense and ruin everyone else’s day #chatgroup.

RT @BBCArchive: #OnThisDay 1984: Some of the crème de la crème of the British music scene came together for Band Aid, recording Sir Bob Gel….

For years I’ve been seeing my text messages get worse and worse and I put it down to cognitive decline. But it’s not. It’s because under keyboard settings in my iPhone I had swipe to type enabled.