I knew I'd seen that USA kit somewhere before... #ISAAUS

One of the best descriptions of how the economics of AI work. Or don't.

This is quite obviously bollocks. Drones taking down buildings, snipers going after the crowd and an attack team storming the White House? Utter tosh. Someone fell asleep watching a late night film and thought it was real. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Interesting that all the World Cup matches play *exactly* the amount of added time displayed, rather than the more common "minimum of". The cynic in my thinks that so that broadcasters knows exactly when to start playing adverts.

The quality of the refcam images are really quite poor considering it's 2026. It's barely better than the footage that comes off my £12 mini thumb camera.

The World Cup starts in a couple of hours and it seems like no-one is really bothered about it. I've never known a Cup be met with such indifference.

Dr Who reboot idea. The Doctor is a sentient version of Henry - the little red vacuum, so beloved in the UK. We can call it Dr Whoover.

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Musk is hyping up his yet-to-be-built AI satellite - that'll totally work, trust me bro - right before the SpaceX IPO. I wonder why?...

When you start a new job, the first time you make a round of brews for everyone you make them terrible, that way you don't get asked to do it again. I think that's the USA's strategy for the World Cup. I can't imagine how bad it's going to be for the Olympics.

Reading about Omar Aryan and the treatment of the Uzbekistan and Senegalese teams (and that's just today's stories), I'm beginning to wonder who is going to be the first team to refuse to play their matches in the USA - or even quit the tournament entirely.

If you missed it, Episode 92, the big Summer Sizzlers Mixtape is now available to stream at anytime on Mixcloud, Apple Podcasts and other good podcast places 🤩 Includes an exclusive mix session from Riigs, a preview of the long awaited new Dohnavùr album + uninterrupted back to back bangers

I hate technology sometimes. Just had an issue where I couldn't copy media files from my computer to my phone. Every other file type was fine and phone to computer worked for everything. The solution? Unplug the USB cable from the computer and reinsert it. Then everything worked properly again. FFS!

Good to see The Telegraph is finally addressing the real problems people are facing in the UK... Those poor people who only have £115k after tax. We should start a gofundme for them.

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Had a break doing other things, but I'm back working on this. Latest update is that I've sorted the (preliminary) order of the first album. Haven't got a title or artwork but progress is progress. 23 tracks, 96 minutes.

Bought a cheap mic. Gotta love the instructions that came with it. I'm intrigued by the "Anti-focus hyper-mindset mode", sounds like a Sleaford Mods lyric...

Ozzy the bull from Birmingham New Street. Cool sculpture, hateful train station.

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This week in 1812 Spencer Perceval became the only British Prime Minister to be assassinated. Its the least interesting thing about him. Working with hedonistic lawyer James Stephen, the devout Christian engineered one of the first slavery bans in British territory WITHOUT Parliament's approval. /1

Keeping on the coloured pencil department ruining things, I see they've "updated" The Register. It's now more difficult to read through the article headlines. They've also cocked up the formatting of the articles themselves to fit adverts or images. I suppose it'll increase the "dwell time" metric..

Microsoft's coloured pencil department are at it again. They've updated the Defender portal in O365. Now the column resizing works differently depending on whether or not the sidebar is open. How on Earth has someone decided that's a thing and which bellend signed it off?!

Happy Star Trek Day to those who celebrate. #may4thbewithyou

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Some people are so poor that all they have is money.

Heard someone opine that the reason we know the WHCD wasn't a false flag event was that no-one had placed bets about it happening on any of the prediction markets. Says a lot about the state of the Trump administration that the first thing anyone thinks is "who's making money off this?"

Doing some random maths to explain something and figured this out from first principles - a^b = (a^n)^(b/n) I'm certainly not the first to figure this out and I've no idea where I'll use it, but I thought it was quite neat. #maths #accidentalmaths

Wait for it to focus... Sound up... Earthset, recorded by Reid Wiseman during the Artemis II lunar flyby. The initial imperfect composition, and the phone hunting for focus makes this so much more human and familiar. A celestial scene witnessed by only 28 of us in history...more

Trump's Board of Peace have been awfully quiet recently.

Looks like the iPlayer app on WebOS is a bit knackered. Trying to was the bundeslegia match and it's stuttering like crazy. Then the sound gives out. Only way to get it back is a hard reset. Same for the TV channels. Broadband is fine. All the other streaming apps are fine.

It's a high art concept, you wouldn't understand...

Looking forward to the new Boards of Canada stuff. Not looking forward to the neverending, overwrought, overemotional, hyperbolic gushing that will appear everywhere - no matter how tangentially related to them - for the next couple of months. I may go as far as muting their name until Christmas.

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Five albums. Eighty two tracks. Six hours.

All the audio is now finished! Looking like it'll be 82 tracks in total, spread over 4 to 6 albums. Just album sequencing, titles and artwork left now.

Just tell me a classic joke. Like "What's brown and sticky? A STICK"

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Work continues. Musically, the end is in sight, just a few bits to finish up. Then it's just tracklists, artwork, etc. Now aiming for the end of April.

Won't be long until it's cheaper to run your car on printer ink.

VAR hasn't improved the game and isn't meeting the criteria it introduced with. My proposal - - Ref and assistants make decisions on pitch - VAR have 30 secs to highlight an error - Ref / assistant go to the monitor and get one look - in real time - to decide whether or not to change their mind

Interesting blog post about how AI tools can help - and harm - your content. aurapr.co.uk/are-you-usin...

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Considering that they're a company who make network products, it's really quite impressive that the fastest download speed I can get from Realtek's website is 240kbps. Yes, with a k. I might write them a letter and ask them to send me the drivers on a cd in the post. It'll probably be quicker.

Just put a new video piece up on the YouTube. The track is called The Old Road and based around a trip into Rochdale town centre. youtu.be/uSUip7iyoFU

I know this has circulated with alacrity recently, so you may have already seen it, but if you haven't... WOW BOY HOWDY it's the most useful thing. Thank you cardcatalogforlife.substack.com -- this is a very very very helpful public service: cardcatalogforlife.substack.com/p/google-has...

There's a strong "No, I'm breaking up with you - I said it first. You're not breaking up with me" vibe from Trump's ramblings. Next one will be "I love you, we can make it work, please come back". And the final part of the trilogy will be "I never wanted you in the first place, it was just pity".

I keep randomly shouting out the names of tanks. I think I've got turrets.

This is still ongoing. My original intention for early March has gone out the window. Maybe some time in April.

@theleaflabel.com Howdy. Any update on the ETA of the Craven Faults box set?