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Small detail I just noticed on a rewatch. The malware removal tool is called "shrive" which is a term meaning to hear a confession and assign penance for a wrongdoing. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shrive

> the book

The book?

Well fucking hell.

The book.

It's half price at the moment too. (Edit: on UK Amazon)

Hijacking top comment to say OP didn't make the design at all, that's why. I did some digging and found the original artist.

See below for my warning about OP ----v

OP IS NOT THE ORIGINAL ARTIST. PLEASE SUPPORT THE ORIGINAL CREATOR HERE. (@ddjvigo on twitter)

If you're interested in buying the original creator's design, please support them by purchasing from an official link, such as HERE (amazon store link, (original artist ddjvigo is the seller here) also note it is just about 5$ LESS EXPENSIVE than OP's link).

DO NOT BUY FROM /u/ricardo_aguilar 's COMMENT'S LINK, THIS IS UNAUTHORIZED AND FRAUDULENT MERCHANDISE. YOU WILL RECEIVE A BAD QUALITY PRODUCT

/u/relicannot

they have different price points, that's a very very basic one with almost no accessories and very little articulation. They go up from there: https://www.amazon.com/Barbie-Careers-Farm-Doll-Playset/dp/B014DEHV1O/ref=sr_1_17?keywords=barbie&qid=1559135095&s=gateway&sr=8-17

Hopfully this helps! https://open.spotify.com/user/22n7wuoka4eclkdifg7fwbhta/playlist/0JGD19AVbNcu5Udg4jnEm9

If you don't want/use the Spotify link you can locate all the songs listed here! http://www.tunefind.com/show/black-mirror/season-3/38120

EDIT There is several songs missing from the second link, I still haven't been able to find out all the songs used in this episode. If you know which one's are missing from the spotify playlist please tell me as well as what order to put them in. For people who wanna listen it order :)

season 1

season 2

enjoy you lazy bum

Yes. I've been using BlockBear (same company as VPN app TunnelBear) and it blocks ads when you're using Safari on an iPhone 5s or newer. A note on their site says "Also, Apple has limited the blocker apps to devices with 64-bit processors. We suppose this is to ensure browsing stays speedy."

My friend's daughter, the 15 year-old artiste who designed these Space Fleet t-shirts, has given one to almost every member of the cast. Last weekend she met and presented one to Charlie Brooker. My pal posted a video of his daughter at an Emmy party with Jimmy Simpson (Walton) excitedly introducing pal's daughter to Cristen Miloti (Cole), who gushes over her shirt. Then Simpson takes her over to meet Brooker. That's when I got excited. I'd share but it's imbedded in FB and I am dumb.

I'm just so proud to be one handshake away from Brooker I had to brag here.

Yeah! It's a sticker for the phone, and I can slide the cover back and forth so I can use face recognition to unlock my phone or take pictures, but then when I don't want the camera open, it's covered.

These are the ones I got, but there are other options on Amazon too!

There have been a lot of incidents of websites being hacked and user data leaked. This site lets you see what data about your old accounts has been leaked. https://haveibeenpwned.com/

The conclusion is to avoid password reuse and to periodically change important passwords.

Tor stands for The Onion Router. It is free software and an open network that helps defend against traffic analysis and network surveillance. It was originally created by the US navy as a means of encrypting communications. The US government still funds the project to this day.

To access the TOR network, you need to use the TOR browser. Its basically a version of Firefox designed to access it. All websites on the TOR network ends with a .onion instead of a .com, .org, etc. The websites on the TOR network and its users are really, really hard to trace. The NSA even admitted to this in the leaked documents that Edward Snowden published.

Because of this anonymity, there are sites for child porn, selling drugs, etc., but TOR is also used for people trying to go around internet censorship in countries such as China, activists and whistle blowers also use it and the media, sometimes

You can google to find out more about it. They have a website explaining it though. https://www.torproject.org/

They filmed at least part of the pizza truck street scene on February 26, 2017, which happened to be the night that Reykjavik had its second largest blizzard ever. They had to adjust the script a little to mention the snow because once it started it was crazy.

I happened to be visiting at the time and had no idea they were filming nearby.

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yes, let's focus on malleable, undefinable ideas of people being "hurt" instead of hard facts like how are we going to pay for this? and do we just let anyone into the country full stop, do you still have a country.

it's not semantics no one was whipped with any object or anything.

We're not going to let you manipulate language and society to fit your ideology.

Frankly the truth is youve been demoralized, infected with idea pathogens and it's not worth having a conversation with the worms in your brain to try to save you.

Reminds me of Ted Chiang's short story, “Liking What You See: A Documentary”. Actually this post suggested that it would work well as a Black Mirror episode too.

It is actually possible with Xposed and this module but I'm not sure it's worth the hassle unless you already have it or you're already familiar with rooting/flashing on Android.

I looked, and there are only 6 fanfics that show up in the 'Black Mirror' tag on AO3... Haven't read them, so I have no idea how good they are, but don't doubt that there are talented fanfiction writers out there that could do Black Mirror justice.

I feel it doesn't need to be discussed as much because it doesn't leave much in the way of ambiguity. But yes, It's one of my favourites. Plenty of things about that tech which makes me aprehensive on using that in the future.

What do you mean by the painting on the wall? reading this, are you meaning that the painting implies they had sex in the same room as they are in at that point of the reveal in the end.

The big wow bit for me was him getting him to pull up his full summary list of memories, which ended up leading to him to ask his wife to recall her view of that night.

Minor gripe is that he changes moods very quickly from the start to second act, but it was needed to be able to move the story along so quickly and focus on the more juicy stuff anyway.

So yes double thumbs up!

Aptly timed op. I recently just finished Black Mirror and I read a great article about Friends last night titled "How a TV Sitcom Triggered the Downfall of Western Civilization". I thought it was a really interesting perspective. Albeit, I was super high.

Just released Amazon TV Show that is based on the short stories of the awesome Philip K. Dick (big sci-fi writer, wrote Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? or Blade Runner as it is commonly known, also A Scanner Darkly and a ton of other famous books)

Follows the same separate-episode format as Black Mirror. I only saw one episode "Real Life," and I liked it a lot. Where Black Mirror uses near-future technology and leaves the viewer with plenty to wonder about the repercussions of it, Electric Dreams doesn't stick to near-future and seems to be a bit more focused on the psychology of the characters.

That's not to say Black Mirror doesn't have great character building; I just think that ultimately, when you walk away from a Black Mirror episode, you think more about the circumstances of the story. In Electric Dreams (it seems... I only saw one ep) it is more Philip K. Dick-ish, the viewer walks away thinking about the morals more than the means.

Sounds like it's pretty hit or miss, as far as I've heard it gets better in the later half of the season

"Living in a Box - Living in a Box" maybe?

Else you can just follow either of these links for full soundtracks/playlist:

• https://open.spotify.com/user/charliebrooker/playlist/1enamd7IoA2KtAoMxeiINW?play=true
• http://www.tunefind.com/show/black-mirror/season-3/38123

Keep in mind that Clint Mansell provided the score for this episode and that has yet to be released, but I'm pretty sure that that Aaron song is the one you mentioned, it's just sampled from the instrumental at the right moment. Tunefind agrees that that's the song.

Oblivion (Aaron Static Remix) from the album MeHiLove.

Shazam is your friend.

Edit: Shazam is a fickle friend. They start out the same, but are not the same song. I would suggest you look at Oblivion or other remixes of it, the one shazam gave me does sound similar.

Edit2: wow, this is mysterious as fuck! http://www.tunefind.com/show/black-mirror/season-3/38121

Edit3: Maybe r/tipofmytongue can help https://www.reddit.com/r/tipofmytongue/comments/59j76b/tomt_song_this_song_is_used_in_the_netflix_show/

> I wouldn't say they teach newbies to isolate him, they warn them. Women often do that in the workplace, just so newbies are aware of who to avoid. Lawry was clearly right in her observation.

Lowry was clearly [i]lucky[/i] in her observation. Attributing any greater wisdom to that is a form of survivorship/selection bias. Not everyone who wins the lottery is a genius.

Lowry doesn't have any actual [i]evidence[/i] that he's a violent psychopath - all she knows is that he's a quiet nerd, and that's all it takes for her to go out of her way to ensure he's socially isolated. She does the mean girl thing of getting the new girl to realise that if she wants to be accepted in her new workplace, Daly is considered a social pariah.

There are millions of introverted nerds who love sci-fi (many of whom probably watch Black Mirror!) - unless it's justifiable for women to go around maliciously warning other women not to be friendly for them, then I can't see your point.

The supposed warning doesn't come with a story of him losing his temper or sexually assaulting someone - she just thinks he's a weird nerd. So she isn't being a good woman in the workplace warning a colleague about a dangerous boss - she's being a bully. Women can be bullies too, and Lowry is one of them.

It just so happens that in this case, while Lowry is an asshole and a bully... Daly is far worse.

I'd say 5pm AEST, that's Midnight PDT, daylight saving time throws it out by 2 hours which is why things get released at 7pm in summer.

https://www.worldtimebuddy.com/?pl=1&lid=2147714,2643743,8,5&h=2147714&date=6/5/2019%7C2

This is nothing new. There have been studies ffs. Even Google released an app last year, Digital Wellbeing, which is designed to track your screen time and recommend timeouts to get you away from the screen.

Black Mirror was at least 5 years late on this issue.

If you also put the mail and password on this site, no one ever tried to take the control of the account. So maybe the company gave the wrong password (the mom typed 13 digits instead of 10)
https://haveibeenpwned.com/

>the point of the episode (we watch too much TV and miss what's really happening).

It's more that we are so easily distracted by spectacle. And the bigger and more horrifying and more humiliating the spectacle, the more we are distracted by it. And, oh gee, don't we just want to see elites humiliated in particular?

Take the idea of pig fucking and drop it down a notch. Imagine Donald Trump was blackmailed into doing the truffle shuffle live for an hour. You'd watch it, right? Now keep adding to that. Maybe he has to do it naked? I'd still watch. Maybe both he and Boris Johnson both have to do it. I'd still watch. Maybe they have to make out while doing the truffle shuffle naked? Would you still watch? I dunno. Probably. I'm not sure where the line of watching those two be humiliated where a huge number of people wouldn't watch it is.

IMO the episode should depict the most humiliating thing you can think of to really get its point across. And it does.

Funny thing is, Americans almost universally hate this episode and British people usually see it as very dark humour. Even Brooker commented on that fact on the Rule of Three podcast.

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Yes it has. Here is a link to how the Emoji looks on different platforms and if you click on the image of the Emoji for a platform you can see the history of it.

SoftBank used to look like a party ball spilling confetti... Yay pills! I think?

What I would do is use black paper for the cover, and use a fine-tipped white paint marker or silver paint marker to draw cracks on it, kind of like the black mirror opening credits screen.

The lettering can be old school digital letters, like this: https://www.shutterstock.com/image-vector/calculator-digital-text-226897861

You can draw five stars between the title and your name.

Amazing work! I'd come across some of your work earlier as a few of them show up as covers on letterboxd and always wanted to see if there were more!

> I was hoping for a "Utopia" tone but it wasn't quite that good.

I'm unfamiliar. What's 'Utopia'?

It's said that 'humans' is actually a remake of a 2012 Swedish show called real humans which according to some comments is way better and has a drastically different story. Maybe I'll try it.

>I think I read that it is now cancelled for good. I never made it to season 3 but might finish the watch at some point.

Sadly someone told me it's true on this thread.

>It seemed to be telling a very similar story to that of "Detroit: Become Human" if you're a gamer at all. I can recommend that.

Sadly I'm on PC. I would love to have all their games. I'm happy that 'Heavy Rain' is now available on PC. I started liking them with Fahrenheit. Though it had many a fault. I hope one day Become Human will be on PC too. From the trailers that I saw, yeah the premise is very similar. Even the name.

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I played the game demo maybe last year, there just happens to be a common theme in my low spec games being about some kind of governmental snooping. Mainining is also a cool game, I found that through Emily is Away because of the graphics.

Full game development was cancelled [https://itch.io/t/285716/is-the-development-of-this-game-finished](but they could always continue with it). The team also recommend the Orwell series and the demo for that looked pretty cool to me.

You can look up more Ai faces at https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/

It's really weird because they all look like genuine photos, and then you come across a glitched image which looks creepy and it reminds you that they're generated.

My friends know me as the more tech literate of the group and so many of show me this in worry. Usually I can trace it to a shady porn website they made an account for and a lot of the time it's their real password. It's actually quite scary but I can't do much for them other than telling them to change their passwords. Best advice here is not to have the same password everywhere and if you really can't manage that and can't be bothered with a password manager (it's worth it), at least have a second password you give to sites you don't trust.

I know this is an old thread, but it still comes up through google. I also liked the actual phone ringtone, so here is that ringtone

I have always found it difficult to find a ringtone that sounds generic without being cheesy and really liked the simplicity of it.

Add auto-play videos and ads! Marketing people love it. /s

Jokes aside, my brutally honest opinion is it lacks wow factor. It looks ordinary. Not sure if you have the time for it, but I love the moving bits on this page: https://www.smugmug.com/together/

Perhaps do one or two (featured episodes?) just to impress the bosses? I understand it's a "content" type of website, so too much animation may be counter-productive. My point is not so much the animation but the uniqueness of the design.

I could see that working. If you haven’t already checked it out, try the Eternal Jukebox. It takes a song, and through AI, loops parts of it back on itself to create a never ending song. Obviously, some song types work better than others, but it can be fun to experiment with genres. I think I remember song Tool songs working better than others.

https://eternalbox.dev/jukebox_index.html

I can't find the app either? I'll look a bit more. But if you really want to make a CYOA game, I suggest Twine. It really works the same wya, and really easy to use. I also suggest Quest, but that's not really a CYOA developer.

Hey! I’m canadian as well. I can see it listed on American amazon for around $23 CAD and it ships to Canada. https://www.amazon.com/Forrest-Pruzan-Creative-FPCBM01EN-Black-Mirror/dp/B07G84S4T3 it’s available for preorder right now, I guess they’ll be mass producing it in a couple of weeks.

Weird, I've had NordVPN for years and Netflix won't automatically play the next episode when I'm on my VPN. Like it doesn't give me an error, just will not load the next episode. I have to turn off my VPN, start the episode and then turn it back on which is kind of pointless

Edit- I also don't use any specific server, I let it auto connect to the best one

You can install it from https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.mozilla.firefox&hl=en_US - I will try to investigate why it breaks on some Android Chromes

Mind try using Firefox? You can install it from https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.mozilla.firefox&hl=en_US
I think this has to do with low device memory and Chrome being a little harsh on rams! Please let me know if it is still a problem. I will try to investigate why it breaks on some Android Chromes

I was curious as well and tried to find it.

From just image searching "touch screen light switch"

https://www.google.com/search?q=touch+screen+light+switch&safe=strict&client=safari&rls=en&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjhte7lzerYAhVSjK0KHc7iDR4Q_AUICygC&biw=1440&bih=816#imgrc=UCoSD3BXC6A40M:

I found a dozen pictures of the same type of panel-- circular blue touch sensitive panel- from a bunch of random Chinese distributers.

Here's one from amazon.

>If i was you, i wouldn't worry about Americans silly cosmetics and more about what the rich and powerful's kids will be like compared to yours.

In America race isn't a matter of silly cosmetics, it goes hand in hand with class struggle. The two are inseparable. I think you're being pretty callous and dismissive about this.

Among minority communities it's no secret that looking whiter translates to "better looking" and comes with better treatment in America. From The Autobiography of Malcolm X:

> It was, of course, because of him that I got my reddish-brown "mariny" color of skin, and my hair of the same color. I was the lightest child in our family. (Out in the world later on, in Boston and New York, I was among the millions of Negroes who were insane enough to feel that it was some kind of status symbol to be light complexioned-that one was actually fortunate to be born thus.

You don't seem too receptive to this, but believe me when I say it is a big deal among people of color. Already Jewish girls are pressured to get surgeries to "fix" their nose. Asians are pressured to get surgeries to "fix" their eyes. In dark skinned communities around the world, skin-lightening creams fly off the shelves. There is an internalized sense of self-hate, and a notion that if they alter themselves to look more white that their lives will improve.

What I was describing was a world with a literal master Aryan master race. A world where people pay for Aryan features and a genetic straight flush: low susceptibility to disease, greater strength, IQ etc. This would be a world where those without these designer features would literally be untermensch. It would exacerbate every current problem we have with race and class and come at the cost of parents destroying their genetic heritage for the chance at a better life. There would be no domineering Nazi party that enforces this policy from the top down. Instead, people would do it to themselves. That terrifies me.

Absolutely loved the movie, left the theater still with chills down my spine imagining a future with such an artificial intelligence as presented here.

I was also very happily surprised to see at the end credits that the AI advisor to the movie was the professor I've done my AI master's thesis with, he is a really great guy! For those interested, he's a got a great introductory and accessible book on AI and the singularity. If you enjoyed the movie I think you'll enjoy this too.

It kinda reminds me of the score of Portal - No Escape, but I think it's its own thing because you can get the episode's music here.

It's actually one of the more common practices in the web/application security industry, at least for those paranoids like me. Since you cannot guarantee that you can disable the webcam through software methods, it's safest to just use some kind of reattachable cover to block your webcam and disable its function entirely when it's not being used (which is 99% of the time).

Search for webcam cover on Amazon will give you a lot of products dedicated for this purpose.

PS - watching this episode reminds me of a similar story back in 2013.

This is actually a book a friend of mine wrote. It's not exactly the same but I did describe it thusly: Ever take peyote, binge-watch Twilight Zone and Tales From the Darkside before having night terrors? This is even better. It's a collection of surreal and nightmarish tales.

https://www.amazon.com/Alectryomancer-Other-Weird-Christopher-Slatsky/dp/0692492828/

Here's an app that's similar to the one from the episode. It has the tones and you can give the 1-5 rating but not to actual people.