Tiny bit annoyed that the (amazing) all digital audio lair I had built has an unacceptable degree of (digital) latency. Fixable with a bit of kit and rerouting things but ... annoying

38 US military bases across Europe, yet not in one in Republic of Ireland, France, Denmark, Sweden, Finland. Just saying, there seems to be *strong* correlation of not having a US military base and OECD better life index.

This opens up wider questions about how far the UK and Canada in the 5 eyes intel sharing framework as well as other former allies of the United States can still provide the Americans with any sensitive intelligence information at all

Very much enjoyed reading this on a grey Sunday - good signals here ... open.substack.com/pub/johnhigg...

I do hope some uk gov tech people have some very serious meetings tomorrow. We must urgently become more self sufficient, infrastructure, consulting, closed source software. All of it.

The young are already avid foragers and used to having no money?

Many will now be asking questions about whether he may too under the weather to lead the party into the next election

This is good - yes, it is all “transform”, “revolutionise”, “empower citizens”, “deliver better services for less”. Again, again, fail. The only thing that has ever worked is start with the basics, do it simply and properly, and iterate from there. Big sigh.

Study of the head of a bat, 1888 by Beatrix Potter, not only an English writer and illustrator, but also a natural scientist and conservationist #womensart

The GBNews Reform crowd are going to have to do some interesting repositioning by tomorrow. Curious how they will spin all this.

Can't believe they killed all those cadets at the start of season 1. Brutal Trek

If I've learned anything from Civilization II, it's that a veteran fortified Phalanx unit in Greenland can be surprisingly effective at defending against invaders.

Job form had "how many years interaction design experience" question on it. Put 30+. 😬

The Doomsday Machine that is our university funding system will destroy everything in the end. First it destroys individual lives, then social mobility, then most universities, followed by the structure of income tax and the pension system. In the end it could threaten to destroy the economy itself.

Ew, nothing underlines how not normal i am than a media consumption chart

8/ Balanced against all of the above is the fact that it's not 80 BC anymore. There are few pieces of land that would be worth the price of taking, holding and suppressing an insurgency in... ... and no, rare earths don't change that equation. It's lithium, not fucking unobtanium. Get a grip.

This being the first january i have spent with central heating in many many years, the being warm part is nice... but it doesn't feel like it's actually good for me. Dry skin, eyes, nose. Waking with a dry mouth. Ugh.

*looks at volatile mix of general-purpose chatbot, overly persuasive natural language interface, vulnerable user base, weak guardrails, growing headlines of harms to people* *pours heavily targeted advertising into mix* openai.com/index/our-ap...

Can the BBC stop quoting Trump as if he has a working brain? Fucks sake

Jesus Tonty Wtf are you doing

The entire point of a vast catalogue is monetising The Long Tail, and they are not chopping it off, just stealing the money. Fuckheads

lmao check the replies if you wanna see some grizzled gen x nerds

This is not going to work. Jenrick and Farage are going to kill each other. It's going to be very funny.

Buy my new self-care product CALaMari - the big squid you wrap snuggly around your shoulders. Nothing takes your mind off the struggle to pay the bills like the soft embrace of powerful tentacles while a cruel beak gnaws pitilessly through your skull.

I notice you can't access your tickets in the O2 Academy app if you reject 153 "partner cookies". Illegal

'Hare head Study' in bronze by Nichola Theakston, one of the UK's foremost contemporary sculptors working within the animal genre #womensart

Local pizza joint leads insurgency against federal paramilitary forces. Wrecktangle Pizza co-owner: "You can see from that video exactly what happens when they try to fuck with us." www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQUo...

California will ban Xitter before Starmer does

This fucking timeline, what a mess.

Oh good, the police in the UK are using genAI as a source of information. There's no way THAT could go wrong.

Emilie Flöge (1874-1952) was an innovative Art Nouveau Austrian fashion designer who aimed to reform dress designs for women. Though (typically) not noted widely by history, she influenced the work of her companion, the artist Klimt and featured in his work #WomensArt

I want to make the Gorn real so they can lay their eggs inside him

What would it mean in terms of seats? It puts Plaid well ahead of Reform and, if correct, would allow Plaid Cymru to form a majority coalition without Labour.

Plaid plus greens at fifty percent is quite something. Ecorepublic of Wales forthcoming

I would like to see the list of those "creators"

"no route to growth without AI" ... bookmarking this one!

There are that many people willing to buy and wear the pervert-glasses? Weird.

Let's go further. Every medium sized British town should have a Roger's Child Porn Warehouse, packed to the rafters with CSAM made and sold by Roger himself. Then we can arrest anyone who buys it, let Roger keep the money and the porn, and hand him a knighthood for his services to policing.

Five armed masked federal agents to guard a Target restroom while Greg Bovino uses the facilities. A scene equally at home in authoritarian regimes and comedies about authoritarian regimes

Monday!

giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... Good afternoon, this is the Dystopia reaching out to you for a pulse reading

Sunset is at 4.30pm today ...so that feels better already

Good morning BlueSky Let me sum up my current mental state with a video

Barely anyone is going to see this, but if you’ve ever asked why X isn’t banned in the UK yet despite creating CSAM, it’s because the US government has enforced a worldwide policy of blackmail protecting the American tech oligarchy. It’s why TikTok can be banned but X cannot.

Ban kids on social media and they'll be off writing street html, deploying single use websites on h3x4decim4l.org domained websites, with stolen API keys and generally causing havoc on the open web. God, that'd be brilliant wouldn't it?

Greenland = Barbarossa, got it

since everyone loves a good orange cat story, i have one from this weekend 🧵

Brilliant ideas here @designcouncil.bsky.social