Kudos to Gary for realising and saying this ages ago. But bugger me, why were the "big guns" so slow to realise it too, and how much faith can we have in their judgement?

Lol. I checked to make sure this was true. I wonder if any leaders mentioned this to him behind the scenes and promised not mention it again if he backed off.

This is brilliant. Human creativity isn’t just making stuff, it’s fixing it and tinkering with it. First archeological evidence of a rough draft with revisions. hand_v2_rev_OgEdit_FINAL_new3.jpg www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

If the Chinese government wanted to know UK military secrets or sabotage our infrastructure they could just bung someone in the cabinet a ticket to see some mid washup from the 90s in concert

Looks like it might be curtains for Vimeo - for real this time. Normally I'd tell people to back up *gestures broadly*, but Vimeo videos are now gated, not just by user login, but also by age verification, which makes this harder to handle programmatically at scale. Make sure you have everything.

Oof Vimeo just laid off the majority of its staff

This could be very bad very quickly. « Vimeo provides a platform-as-a-service known as OTT, that powers […] Criterion Channel, HistoryHit, Dropout, DIRTVision, Speed 51, URLTV, Armflix, MHz Choice, Trinity Broadcasting Network, SommTV, IndieFlix, BroadwayHD, Full Moon Features, etc. »

[AI bubble bursts] billionaire tech bro: the stupid consumer did not understand it

According to this, just over a third of people (36%) think AI understands their emotions or is conscious. 58% trust AI chatbots to act in their best interests more than they trust governments to do so.

KEIR FUCKING HELL I HAVE LITERALLY POSTED THIS 385473458Q234783455345 TIMES IN FIVE YEARS

A few months ago I was curious to know how much Anna's Archive was charging AI developers for access to their massive library of pirated works for training - so I emailed them saying I was interested in buying access. Here is their reply. 🧵 1/n

I've been enjoying drawing on a (fake) ZX Spectrum recently - the arbitrary limits are fun. The weird colour resolution gives it a style it coz you have to sorta roughly slop paint over a more detailed image.

Very grim. www.ft.com/content/c894...

Ocean Cleric 🌊 #art // #characterdesign // #originalcharacter

*When will Bezos appear in his WashPost and lament that this cruel rejection and denialism is harming his golden prospects for Surveillance Capitalism *Maybe if Ring Cameras had guns installed and automatically shot lesbian drivers

Forty years in the Siberian wilderness: the Old Believers who time forgot - www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j... "None of the Lykov children had ever seen bread. But when the geologists offered them a loaf and some jam, they refused. “We are not allowed that,” they said" bonkers stuff

Delicious to me

Cat woke me up by puking on my bed. Horrified to find it had worms in it. Arrrrrgggghhh. That was a big clean up at 5am. Dewormer tomorrow ahead of usual schedule. Furry rat-eating bastard!

I’ve added the script for Wake Up Dead Man to my site. This is the final shooting script, so it has stuff that was cut and moved around, which I always think is more interesting to see than a conformed cleaned up version. Enjoy! www.rian-johnson.com/screenplays

Amazing news. Definitely get your shingles vaccine when you turn 50!

Absolute banger from @garbageday.email today on Gen AI: "It is not a revolution in computing, but a revolution in accepting lower standards." www.garbageday.email/p/generative...

in shocking news, AI video generators are still dogshit. Here's Runway's Gen-4.5, still sucking ass. www.shokunin.studio/blog/2026/1/... by Aron Peterson, who did the Pivot to AI videos on Google Veo 3 sucking ass

What ICE is doing in the United States Nigel Farage has told us he wants to do in the United Kingdom.

Surprise surprise.

Lol

They are targeting children because they are trying incite violence. I have talked to many journalists today, and they all made the same observation: Border Patrol and ICE have been rolling around with maximum aggression, lingering for ages as crowds, gather, seemingly trying to cause a riot.

Guess who is helping me put together a futon sofa bed by sitting on the instructions?

Since the platform will apparently "require identification and photo validation" I assume the W stands for wankers, because if you trust some random devs with that information that's exactly what you are.

My cat lost his meow for a couple of months after wrecking his throat while chomping on a rat skull.

This is really promising and it's not "in mice" for a change!

always a lot of panic about right wing young men, the second most progressive demographic in britain

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The interesting applications of AI are all, like, "we built an open framework that uses processors on recycled cell phones to identify and triangulate the location of rare bugs in tropical rainforests" while big tech is going "what if we burned down that rainforest to summarize your emails?"

Guys, apparently Bluesky is responsible for Europe sending troops to Greenland! This place definitely has the juice if we can cause troop movements.

The original post by Nate so neatly embodies the fatal error of the last decade—the idea that because we worked very hard to avert a catastrophe, the catastrophe was never a danger in the first place

What Dennis says. Home generators—often seen as lifesavers in events like this—can be hazards. The 2021 TX cold wave unleashed what one physician called the “biggest epidemic of CO poisoning in recent [U.S.] history." At least 1400 Texans sought medical care. www.texastribune.org/2021/04/29/t...

YOU CANNOT GRIND THE BONES OF YOUR ENEMIES INTO DUST TOMORROW IF YOU DO NOT TAKE YOUR MEDICATIONS.

The, er, thing below is called a Prototaxite. Turns out it may be a new branch of life. That is extremely cool and I have absolutely no idea why you are laughing... 🧪

The graph here is actually mad. The rate of change in long established UK political orthodoxy is absolutely unreal. Going to be super interesting to see what the landscape is after May.

"AI will make America so awful that even desperate immigrants will no longer want to come" is a hell of a pitch

Yeah, you read that right. Robert Smallbones' daughter horse-whipped a Gestapo officer in the streets of Frankfurt for attacking Jews. I think you'll struggle to find a better use of diplomatic immunity...

I can guarantee that they simply offered him what was already in place but pretended it was new. Happened before.

When asked for comment, he just laughed for half an hour

came here to share this because in a way it gives me hope the united states is inspiring a lot of other countries right now and probably for many generations to come where we'll be the main bad guys in a lot of popular movies, books and videogames adding alt text for search/accessibility/mute words

Is this the biggest number of people in history who’ve ever been simultaneously waiting for one specific old man to die?

BREAKING: Ubisoft is canceling the Prince of Persia: Sands of Time remake and 5 other games (4 unannounced, 1 mobile). The company says it is also delaying 7 games (including an unannounced project believed to be a Black Flag remake) as part of a larger restructuring.

THIS FRIDAY me and my moggies, INCLUDING SMOL PAUL, are in @realbaddiel.bsky.social's brilliant new show Cat Man. He came to Moggy Manor and met Paul, Bumble, Honeybun, Bertles and more! 8pm Friday, Channel 4 -- don't miss it!

I saw some dementia doctor estimating that he has about 5 months left before becoming completely dysfunctional.