How come I've never seen this before, it's perfect, 10/10, no notes.

Why doesn't Andy Burnham create a minister for ghosts? Ghosts could significantly improve productivity in all sectors of the economy. I admit they currently have some weaknesses (arms passing through objects etc) but that's exactly why we need to invest and develop this important spectral phenomena.

25% RH 31° C I would like to swap these two numbers.

"Microsoft plans to modernize file property dialogs" Great, what problems will that cause and how much functionality will it degrade? 💯 guarantee there will be two properties dialogs, and we will have to look at both for different things, forever. And the new one will be slow, huge and lacking.

WTF has Burnham created a minister for funelling even more money into corporations run by con men and selling snake oil? We're giving them almost everything as it is.

At least we don't have to waste time wondering whether they are a shallow corporate shill or not.

Notice he doesn't even talk about full self driving anymore. Not even Mars. Now it's all robots and AI and data centers in space and casual racism

Can it make a historically accurate version of Evil Dead next?

Maybe AMD can use their AI hardware to design a memory controller that doesn't suck and randomly make PCs take several extra minutes before they even output a video signal and start booting?

Jesus christ. I mean I know we're supposed to assume we're always being watched but to see it right there in plain text...

One downside to aircon is it dries the air out even more than the heat, which turn means you get electric shocks when touching cats.

Had to go outside briefly and it's so hot I feel like a nap now. This heatwave is bananas. I hope we at least get a mild winter in exchange for it. (It's gonna be ice cold, isn't it? :( )

Man whose entire political agenda is built on widening devolution and giving power to areas that didn't have it suddenly isn't interested in constitutional change when Scotland is brought up. Curious !

Worrth remembering that Andy Burnham has a long record of being anti-immigration. He's kept Shabana Mahmood in place because he agrees with her

Given how many of Elon's beliefs and actions align with Hitler's, is Elon coming out as (what he thinks is) a socialist here?

"Chrome Could Soon Let You Ask Gemini About a Tab Group" They really have no ideas about how to make this crap actually useful.

HEY! I'M WOKE-IN HERE!

People who reply "Park Life!" to any sentence longer than a handful of words are usually just telling everyone else how thick they are.

"A known Windows issue may be causing the Just-In-Time debugger to fail. The fix is to add a DWORD Value of Auto, with Value data of 1, to the following registry keys: ..." What if Microsoft fixed bugs instead of documenting them for all time? This one's so old it predates 64-bit Visual Studio.

Vibe coded shit has become such a huge problem lately and has polluted so many areas related to FPGA, recompilations etc. Nearly every example of this produces broken or poorly performing results. It's happening exactly as I feared.

No one should use this shit for anything. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RDv...

Burnham's wife's name is Marie-France von Heel? Come on, the writers are just taking the piss now.

“The left is going to lose these elections for us,” say the people who lost 2000, 2002, 2004, 2010, 2014, 2016, 2024 — often because they were fixated on the “winning” strategy of punching left and wooing center right voters

Cool, cool, cool, cool. 'A study, the first on large language models by the body, showed AI services were echoing the rules of countries that restrict ​speech and that bias could creep into services used ​by an increasing number of users.' www.reuters.com/business/met... @enbrown.bsky.social

Getting so fucked off with the logistics and endless, mounting costs of looking after my mother, even when I've hired a million people to do everything, that I'm tempted to just move away and let someone else deal with it. I want my life back.

Thanks, AI.

I’d watch a 45 minute documentary just about that hair that starts next to his ear and goes across the top of it. There should be indie puzzle games where you have to work out how to cover his head with what’s there.

That explains the fireworks and music outside.

China must be laughing with Russia, the USA and the EU all spaffing resources on wars of attrition they won't back out of.

Local plumbers two steps ahead of every university administrator in america 👏

Well that makes sense of the murder spree. Prosecute everyone.

Could Excel be conscious? We surveyed more than Jan 1 1900 people to find out.

I know it's hard over the course of a long franchise, but Star Trek has made every space battle meaningless. The ships' capabiities and defences are completely random in every episode, let alone between series. They can stew for 15 minutes in situations that'd destroy them instantly on another day

Doom Eternal was very influential. It influenced me to stop playing Doom games, which I used to love.

in other words, how many additional scientists could you hire for a trillion dollars

A thing about the "AI" debate in science is that I almost never see anyone asking, "well sure LLMs or whatever can be useful sometimes—but what if we put all the money spent on 'AI' into hiring more humans, furthering other technologies & invest into research helping scientists science better"

Who will Andy Burnham appoint as the Minister For Burning Fossil Fuels, Killing Jobs, And Raising Prices In Exchange For Unsafe Garbage?

No country needs a government minister dedicated to helping companies use AI. If the usefulness isn't obvious and inherent, maybe it doesn't exist. What we actually need is a minister for mitigating the negative effects of AI. A minister for normal people actually being able to buy a computer again

"What is the UK most known for punching waaaaaay above it's weight in around the world?" "Creative Industries" "Which tech bubble is the best way to completely bugger that up?"

Vote Green.

I would do this and if the cat ate my face I would still be happy.

Rick is going to put together a team of 150 people who will work for the next five years going back through all his (great!) videos to give them meaningful titles and thumbnails that tell what they are about. That's not the announcement, but I wish it was.

IME people are usually happy to help others for free. There are entire communities built around that very idea. As long as people genuinely want to learn and put in the effort, others will help them endlessly. If they’re lazy and want everything done for them without taking anything in, not so much

the haters said it couldnt be done

Polymarket lets people bet on wildfires. Wildfires that those samepeople could easily set in order to win money on this illegal gambling site. Big Tech is organized crime.

if you think printers are evil now wait till they all have genai inside them

Kenneth Mitchell in this ST Discovery episode as a human (turns out he'd been in it before as an alien). I was trying to work out why he's so familiar, and thinking, was he in Jericho? So I look up the episode and actors and sure enough he was in Jericho. And died 2 years ago. Boo. :(

I mean, if you will hook up your $0 website to services that potentially cost $$$$, then what do you expect? I'm surprised this isn't happening more often. (Re the last repost about an apparent bot farm using so many complex Gab AI requests it starts to cost Gab a lot of money.)