‘47 Ronin’ director convicted of defrauding Netflix out of $11 million meant for TV show
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2025-12-12/carl-erik-rinsch-convicted-defrauding-netflix-11-million-48-ronin?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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‘47 Ronin’ director Carl Erik Rinsch convicted of defrauding Netflix
Filmmaker Carl Erik Rinsch, who directed the 2013 action film '47 Ronin' starring Keanu Reeves, was convicted Thursday for defrauding Netflix of $11 million.Alexandra Del Rosario (Los Angeles Times)
There are more items today -12/13/2025. Here are all the headlines I found…
Every day I collect many headlines, but publish few. Here is a collection of everything for those who want to see a little more.BYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
Game 112:
1. Passant guardant
A. A half-domesticated animal
B. A mercenary hired to be a bodyguard
C. In heraldry, the position of an animal shown in profile but turning its head toward the viewer
2. Quadrivium
A. Government by a group of four people
B. From ancient Greece through the Middle Ages, a grouping of four subjects (arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy) that formed the second stage of education
C. In music, a chord consisting of four notes
Inviting you all to our first art exhibition “Anamnesis” in Nicosia, Cyprus
Me and my partner will have our very first art exhibition and would like to invite you all to join us in our opening event!BYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
The UK eVisa system is beset with problems.
New research highlights the human cost of these hostile digital systems that are flawed by design.
Root and branch reform is needed as the government intends to rollout digital ID to everyone in the UK.
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#evisa #migrantrights #migrants #immigration #digitalid #ukpolitics #ukpol
Error-prone eVisa system a precursor of digital ID
Research highlights how the Home Office’s electronic visa system has used migrants as a ‘testing ground’ for the government’s wider digital ID ambitionsSebastian Klovig Skelton (ComputerWeekly.com)
The UK eVisa scheme is the Windrush scandal on repeat.
Migrants are finding themselves unable to prove their legal right to be in the UK.
But there's a simple solution to this mess: allow physical proof of immigration status.
Write to your MP (UK) ⬇️
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#evisa #migrantrights #migrants #immigration #digitalid #ukpolitics #ukpol
Write to your MP: Allow physical proof of immigration status
What's the problem? Until recently, migrants from outside the EU had physical documents to prove that they and their families could live, work or study in the UK. These could be physical cards or stamps or stickers in their passports.Open Rights Group
Hokkaido springs to life in winter—see it now
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/article/see-how-hokkaido-japan-springs-to-life-in-winter?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Hokkaido springs to life in winter—see it now
In winter, Japan’s northernmost main island Hokkaido is a place of snow-covered forests and white-crested volcanoes mirrored in glacial lakes.Lorraine Turci (National Geographic)
Could everyone please stop asking Santa for the perfect man for xmas... It's just not fair on everyone else.
He's tried to kidnap me 5 times this week already.
Help my Kentia Palm is drying out! - All For Gardening
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A long read, but an interesting account of the Reform country council in Lancashire.
tl:dr they're *way* out of their depth.
Also, according to Reform, I'm part of "the loony left"! 😂😂😂
"Infighting, broken promises and insisting on the national anthem: what seven months of Reform UK in charge actually looks like."
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Infighting, broken promises and insisting on the national anthem: what seven months of Reform UK in charge actually looks like
Nigel Farage’s party is gunning for power – so what is it like in the places where they’ve already got it? We embedded with Lancashire county council to find out what happens when rhetoric meets realityHelen Pidd (The Guardian)
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Enquiring minds want to know how "abiding" connotes suffering. Is this some FT peculiarity? (-:
Not that I know of. It's a quite ordinary word from Old English with senses of waiting, residing, accepting, and tolerating.
My copy of Blackies explains it as an intensified form of "bide", as in biding one's time.
There's no connotation of suffering, in "abiding", "biding", or even such compounds as "law-abiding".
And there's no special religious meaning. When, in the KJV, the shepherds were "abiding in the field" (Luke 2:8) that just means that they were hanging around/waiting/residing in the field.
They definitely weren't suffering. That's simply not what the word means, even in older English translations of the Bible.
Likewise "abide with me" in the 19th century hymn is, basically, an invitation to hang out and bring comfort and support. No suffering there. Quite the opposite.
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It's "little children" in Matthew, and that's the KJV language from the 17th century.
I thought about it, but I didn't buy the idea that that compiler used an obsolete sense of "suffer" from Middle English in amongst all of that Modern English everywhere else. And "glab".
It's not a sense that is used nowadays. Almost no Modern English dictionaries have the KJV's sense of "suffer", and it any case it didn't mean tolerate. Modern translations such as the NIV or ESV use "let", and commentators use words such as "allow". It means, in context, "don't prevent", as the disciples were initially rebuking the parents who were bringing forward their children.
So unless the FT is sneaking in archaisms on the same page as using "barking" for crazy, which didn't appear until the 20th century, I'm going with this being bogus.
Nicolas Sarkozy reçoit le “prix de littérature” de la FIFA
Toute l'information selon des sources contradictoires.La Rédaction (Le Gorafi.fr Gorafi News Network)
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I had lots of roadblocks doing my own genealogy but I'm sort of doing someone else's now. The first owner of my home, just appeared, but there's interesting history, I'm trying to form a timeline, out of personal interest and preserving the history of the community.. People here don't refer to your address but to the first owner of the house. Such as , you live in the John Smith home. even if John Smith was 3 owners ago, dead 50 years, your home is forever known, as the John Smith home. so, I'm just sorting my *john smith*
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Me: Dammit... my advent calendar is empty.
Can someone tell me what this plant could be? - All For Gardening
Curitwhat this plant is. See it growing at shop in one area. Never gets taller than knee high and leaves are usually a little rough around edgesGardener (All For Gardening)
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