It’s inaccurate to say Mario is brave and Luigi is cowardly Luigi is afraid of death, so he runs away from danger. Mario is afraid of living, so he runs towards death. Both brothers are cowards in their own way

Microsoft and other US tech companies successfully lobbied the EU to hide the environmental toll of their data centers, Investigate Europe reports in collaboration with Tech Policy Press and other media partners.

It’s fucking bizarre how people are acting like something from 2022 is something they can’t live without. Like dudes, the emotional dependence on a sycophantic machine regurgitating nonsense to encourage you to stop engaging in critical thought and trust the slop is truly depressing to witness.

Anthropic is using copyright claims to try to stop its leaked code being used to train rival AI models. Critics are noticing something of an irony, given Anthropic use of pirated materials to train its models. I've dug into the whole thing for @techpolicypress.bsky.social

Escalate the Target boycott.

I know this type. I've seen them often enough. They revel in being obnoxious: but not towards the rich and powerful, to whom they fawn. Always towards the weaker and the poorer: towards people who don't have their privileges, such as access to private medical care. They think it's funny and daring.

Lovely people, these Reform UK candidates for the upcoming election, and great to know they're on our side.

This is so fucking grim. I've got a stack of their VizDev art books in my room. These movies are built on that art, which is built on the art of comics. The people who make these decisions have rot in their soul and it comes from never having planted, tended, and reaped the seeds of creative labor.

we all got jumanjied into monopoly

Get his ass, Your Holiness

In general, (re)orienting education wholly or chiefly to specific perceived market needs is always going to produce disaster once the near term passes. It also eviscerates institutions that might otherwise help people weather change, intellectually and in other ways

The point of the university as a concept is that it's been here for a thousand years and meant to be here another thousand. Turning education over to producing what the market needed five years ago is never going to work well.

This man should never have to buy a pint for the rest of his life tbh

‘Everything is gone’: Israel destroys entire villages in Lebanon

This is why there is no giving a single inch on “AI.” I do not give a fuck if “it actually is helpful for some things.”

I've suspected this for since the layoffs picked up...

passing my dog in the hallway with a curt nod of acknowledgement

You absolute c*nts @hignfy.bsky.social

It just doesn’t make sense to me how a decorated soldier could also be a psychopathic murderer

SESAME STREET EXEC 1: kids love bright colours, so how about a bunch of humanoid puppets in red, green, blue, orange, yellow SESAME STREET EXEC 2: ooh what if the yellow one had a head like a banana? SESAME STREET EXEC 1: I love it, yes. banana head DIVERSITY HIRE GOTH: there should be a vampire

I think the opposition party widely expected to make historic gains in the next election(s) has an obligation to explain how they'll stop this and prevent it from happening again or it's reasonable to conclude they don't plan on doing those things, which raises more uncomfortable questions

No. Next question

Translation: Net Zero threatens the value of our proprietor's investments. The world must cook for the sake of his portfolio.

A long piece this week on the various kinds of AI foolishness I have seen lately. Tl;dr: in your professional life, do not use technologies in which you have no expertise and with which you have not engaged critically?! It’s not that complicated?! open.substack.com/pub/naomiald...

Here we go. 13 hours in the cinema…

This quote from Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell has been in my head the last few days

What I learned from my first few weeks as a Green MP? Most politicians have no clue how tough things are out there | Hannah Spencer

Amazing timeline synchronicity

The US reportedly waited to strike the bridge in Iran a second time until rescue workers and others in the area gathered to help the wounded, which then killed at least eight people. Authorities in Iran are describing it as an act of terrorism.

Just wait until these eyesore monstrosities want to come to your neighborhood. Goodbye trees. Expect to hear a constant, electrical humming, warmer temperatures and higher energy bills. Fight like hell to keep data centers out of your area.

I mean, thank God they’re not those awful windmills, right?

I keep seeing "all authors use AI, the real issue is they're being forced to be sneaky about it" headlines. Full stop No. This is a lie peddled for normalization. It's schoolyard-level pressure tactics "C'mon, all the cool kids are already doing it. We won't tell. It's fine. We're on your side."

OpenAI ”acknowledged in its own research that LLMs will always produce hallucinations due to fundamental mathematical constraints that cannot be solved through better engineering, marking a significant admission from one of the AI industry’s leading companies.” You can’t trust chatbots.

Okay, well lets hear them out on this

This pizza place is acting like they’ve never delivered a pizza deep into the forest before.

She Spoke Out About Gaza. The US Turned Her Life Upside Down. My profile of UN special rapporteur Francesca Albanese for POLITICO Magazine. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

objectively the funniest critique an american could level at another country

93 Easter eggs from the 1980s and 1990s, all issued by Rowntrees of York (later purchased by Nestlé) www.presentandcorrect.com/blogs/blog/s... Nostalgic tooth ache.

"I only watch Star Trek for the space battles" is a bizarre take given that most of the space battles in Star Trek are: *camera shakes* "Sir, shields down to 87%!" *camera shakes* "Shields down to 76%!" *camera shakes* "Shields down to 54%!" *camera shakes* "Sir, shields down to --"

Matt is much better at his job than any ai and requires substantially less cooling.

This one hit hard. #denver #nokings #copolitics

With the eyes of international media firmly focused on its wars on Lebanon and Iran, Israel has moved a step closer to legalising the execution of Palestinian prisoners. Ryan Kohls reports.

“clown event still possible” put that in your pocket, I can already tell you that this is the key phrase of 2026

Someone was trying to take a portrait of their two fave Chickens, and this happened.

there was a young man from cork who got limericks and haikus confused

NEW: Wikipedia has banned AI-generated content.

i'm poking around the y2k era ebay website in the wayback machine and it rocks so much. i love the pre 9/11 plane ticket listings

There’s only one elegant solution to this problem of increasingly stupid audiences, and that’s to mandate that every film ends with a closing rap song that lays out all the moral lessons of the movie. There will be a government office that reviews the songs for aural and pedagogical value.