Not clear how these mustachio-twirling, techbro cartoon villains can be considered fit and proper for UK NHS data contracts. Also did they pay Anas Sarwar to include their manifesto desire for merging Scotland into NHS England’s data siphon to the US? www.techdirt.com/2026/04/20/p...

Further proof we’re in the worst timeline. Survive the next stack ranking cull by vibe coding the sloppiest slopware ever extruded by a water guzzling, fossil fuel burning, RAM hoarding data centre. gizmodo.com/tech-employe...

The first images of inside Glasgow Central station have been released after the fire on Sunday 👇 The large wooden structure on the station concourse near the building which caught fire remains intact

So because #Ryanair in 2024 treated a passenger to a 13-hour delay and €890 in costs for a new flight, and then simply ghosted her, an Austrian court today impounded one of its airplanes at Linz airport. ooe.orf.at/stories/3345...

Meta behind part of this, it’s about collecting personal data on children without having to worry about any of that privacy nonsense that harms their bottom line. Original post: tech.lgbt/@lb_thomas/1...

Original post: mastodon.thenewoil.org/@thenewoil/1...

CEO of System76 (Pop!_OS for those of you eye-rolling along with LTT’s second Linux saga) thoughtful post on the insane OS level age attestation laws recently rushed through. blog.system76.com/post/system7...

‘Age Verification’ will force trans people to out themselves to use the internet. After Kansas suddenly invalidated hundreds of trans peoples’ licenses, experts warn the discrimination is set to extend to online spaces.

Game dev adds tofu character for men who can’t play as a girl. A snowflake might have been more apt, but maybe too on the nose? boingboing.net/2026/03/10/g...

An hour with Sophia Smith Galer and Len Pennie talking about Scots, English, Spanish and minoritised languages youtu.be/LnylAMP01MY...

Already preordered…

"Tech companies like Palantir now stock vending machines with nicotine pouches in the hopes of boosting their workers’ productivity."

In surprise move, oily establishment figure caught in yet another scandal, pretends to be victim and abuses protections to avoid legitimate press scrutiny. Who’d have guessed that Mandelson was a wrong ‘un? archive.ph/kajZT

I take the Glasgow subway regularly, I can do without this walloper. boingboing.net/2026/01/30/m...

The most bonkers tandem bike youtube.com/watch?v=AkNq...

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I could only see the alien landscape through pink bars until I read the word of what the other image is and then I saw that immediately

Presumably driven by the realisation that their IP has been ingested into the slop remixer anyway and they might as well get something out of it. Of course there is no copyright in AI generated output, so I’m eager to find out how this explodes in the mouse’s face. www.engadget.com/ai/openai-si...

Generated news articles, news summaries, adverts, recaps, subtitles and dubs. AI shits the bed every single time. Why does anyone persist with this stuff? www.engadget.com/entertainmen...

A reasonable response to the AI slop McDonald’s advert. youtube.com/watch?v=N_yB...

Original post: mastodon.social/@robinince/1...

I've been laughing at this all day. All three of these people nailed it. 10/10, no notes.

I mean, this bubble has to burst soon, right? The sooner the people pumping money into these slop generators lose everything, the better for everyone. gizmodo.com/fallout-ai-r...

Computer scientists: "So with machine learning we can extract subtle patterns from massive datasets. What shall we do with it?" Business school professors, every single time: "You know, I think phrenology got a raw deal in the late 1800s."

This is so fucking funny dude.

WTF? LLMs aren’t AI, and the conmen and shysters responsible for peddling this nonsense will doubtless all be up against the wall once this ridiculous bubble bursts, assuming any tech survives now that RAM chips are essentially unavailable. time.com/7339685/pers...

I can’t tell if it’s the author of the article, or actually part of the research, but LLMs have NO mapping to “meaning” as implied in the article. No semantics. It’s just a neural net driven Markov chain; statistically likely text with no meaning or understanding.

This nonsense has been pissing me off for a while now. Badly mistranslated, uninflected, inaccurate robot voices. I hadn’t seen the “accent removal” AI before (it’s racist “convert all world English accents to uninflected General American”) youtube.com/watch?v=w7Cw...

I mean, of course, if I think about it, Beavis and Butt-Head are Gen X, but the median age of MTV viewers being 56 feels wrong. boingboing.net/2025/09/08/m...

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Celebrate Tom Lehrer For His Music, But Also For Donating All His Works To The Public Domain www.techdirt.com/2025/07/28/c...

This is exactly the kind of privacy/security disaster that is GUARANTEED to happen again and again now following the idiotic UK Online Safety Act. daringfireball.net/linked/2025/...

Did not predict this.

In case you can't tell what just happened, JK Rowling instructed her followers to take photos of anyone in a women's restroom who doesn't match their idea of Western feminine beauty standards. Short hair? Thick cheekbones/jaw? Too tall or broad-shouldered? You're now "a man" and will be harassed.

Congratulations to all the winners and the finalists! The 2025 Locus Awards Winners! locusmag.com/2025/06...

Sex, scandal and revenge: how a priest’s murder revealed a noblewoman’s bloody feud with the church. Read this fascinating case study from the Medieval Murder Maps project. @eastangliabylines.co.uk

Heinlein fans immediately nod and say “Of course, tee, tau and teh from Number of the Beast”

Original post: social.lansky.name/@hn50/114725...

musk is genuinely not very bright and it's never been subtle, which makes the 15+ year tech press effort to mythologize him all the more embarrassing

My cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com books

Actually, this isn’t true. No such play or movie was ever produced.

Whole thread. Seriously, if you don't care what the setting looks like and don't think it's worth spending time on, then why make your reader spend time on it? Just skip to what you *do* care about.

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Extreme metal vocalists use a completely different pattern of vocalizing than we see in other styles of music," says Dr. Amanda Stark. She and death metal singer Mark Garrett join us to discuss how to safely scream like a demon.

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Happy Easter