Gavin Winters

#Lego Town Dec 1st: Time for my annual Xmas Lego saga (some of you may have seen this before, some may not). Only every second day this year, as I’m running out of new minifigures to add. To start, here’s a little stop-motion animation as a re-introduction… (sound on!)

Doctor Who Restoration by R3Store Film is Fabulous! have collaborated with the BBC Archives, and R3Stores Studios in London, to ensure that the two recovered episodes of Doctor Who look and sound great, when released on the BBC iPlayer. r3storestudios.com

“A change of format my dear, and it seems not a moment too soon…!” 😀 Seven to go… #DoctorWho

Just watched ‘Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die’. Well that’s a candidate for my Film of the Year. Like multiple intertwining Black Mirror episodes. Definitely one to go in to completely blind and spoiler-free.

Oh, I only just realised… 695 episodes of classic #DoctorWho … with 95 now missing. The number of existing episodes has just reached 600. 😀

Headcanon: while bored during his exile, the Doctor dismantled his old magnetic chair and installed the tech into Bessie, as seen in Ambassadors of Death. #DoctorWho

I’m increasingly of the opinion that time-travellers from the future went back to save copies of all the Dalek Master Plan episodes, just to scatter them for future generations of fans to find. “Stick a couple in the basement of a Mormon church! That’ll confuse ‘em!” #DoctorWho

(For our American friends, the “bottles of beer” version…) 🎵 “Ninety-Five episodes missing in all! Ninety-five ep-i-sodes…! You look around… one’s finally found! Ninety-Four episodes missing in all!” 🎵 #DoctorWho

🍾🍾 #DoctorWho 🎵 “Ninety-Five episodes, missing from the vault… Ninety-Five episodes, missing from the vault… And if ONE more episode, should turn up in a haul, There’ll be Ninety-Four episodes, missing from the vault…” 🎵

One added bonus of the DMP recovery (and any future found episodes) - we can have a laugh doing a direct comparison between them and Levine’s shitty AI versions. #DoctorWho

“And Katarina, whose episodes were NOT mostly wiped! She, um… still dies though…” #DoctorWho

*wakes up* *checks phone* It wasn’t a dream! They DID find two episodes of Daleks Master Plan! 😍 #DoctorWho

Crikey. Most of Katarina’s episodes. Nicholas Courtney’s first #DoctorWho appearance as Bret Vyon. All now existing for us to enjoy. 😃

Wooooooooo-hoo!! 😃😃😃😃😃😃 #DoctorWho

Alright, since you asked: Imagine a room. Four walls, a floor, and a ceiling. No windows. There’s a slot in one of the walls. You’re inside the room, and your job is simple (if a bit laborious). Every day, people outside the room pass notes written in Chinese through the slot, and you respond to those notes. Now, you don’t know a bit of Chinese, but you have a (VERY thick) rulebook that tells you exactly which Chinese symbols to pass back through the slot in response to the notes from outside. If you see symbol group A followed by B on a note, you look up the rule, which tells you to hand back symbols X, Y, and Z in response. You just shape-match, follow the rules, and pass back notes that mean absolutely nothing to you… because you still don’t know any Chinese. The people outside the room never see you, and they think they’re communicating with someone in Chinese because you pass the Turing test with flying colors. You get REALLY good at using that rulebook. That, folks, is John Searle’s Chinese Room thought experiment—and it’s also a description of Claude, Grok, Copilot, ChatGPT, etc. Claude is not experiencing anxiety. It’s also not thinking or communicating in any way.

Looking out the window today… 🫤

All the plaudits to Robert Picardo for this week’s #StarfleetAcademy

Aw no just heard about Rob Grant. RIP smeghead. #RedDwarf

And so we reach the end of an enjoyable day of banter and piss-taking on social media about Andrew…

I bet they’ve taken Andrew to some luxury facility for high-profile prisoners.