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Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets. It was very Luc Besson, and the lead was very po-faced and unemotional through most of it. Atomic Blonde. A nice action-thriller with all the ready mix of cold-war shenanigans, lies, more lies, and people not being who they say they are. Plus a nice sound track for those who grew up in that era.

Well that is why I tend to throw in a bunch of this random stuff. To see what conversation it starts, and get people thinking about all sides of the equation.

On the tangentially related to politics... More than a million pro-repeal net neutrality comments were likely faked by bots And for anyone still trying to understand net neutraility, here it's explained with stick figures: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAxMyTwmu_M

Working on the literature review to put in the appendix before submitting an assignment this afternoon. Feeling rather nifty I managed to slip in Person of Interest as a reference cited in the body of the paper, and now justifying it in the aforementioned review.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7t0EtKlQxyo

Jazz singer John Hendricks has died at 96..

Ah, the glory days of Wing Commander... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8W3N-yjFv4s

Sky - Self taught "rocket scientist" announces launch in his own rocket "A limousine driver turned self-taught scientist has announced plans to launch himself over a California ghost town in a home-made rocket."

Maxim - Classic sci-fi Dune getting reboot Apparently Denis Villeneuve is planning to take on a reboot of Dune now he's wrapped up Bladerunner 2049

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UngXu2zwF9E