A quick reminder to anyone thinking "Time's person of the year is the architects of ai? Really?" they do have form in interesting choices. Previous "people of the year" have included hitler, stalin, nixon ( twice ), kissinger, khomeini, and putin.

Today I discovered that apple sauce and black pudding actually work well together. Wouldn't have expected that, but there you go.

I mean, I prefer sans serif fonts anyway, but this is going to make me prefer them even more. www.reuters.com/world/us/rub...

What science needs to work on is holographic snow. Something that makes the world look like a Christmas card without being cold, wet, and a pain in the proverbial. Rain is, while not particularly welcome, at least easier to get through, but it only really manages melancholy rather than pretty.

Stranger than Pulp Fiction

There's some days when you're lying in bed in the morning thinking "Hmmm... there's something odd..." but you can't quite put your finger on it, then you stand up and go "Ah! It's a knee brace day!" Today is such a day.

It's December! Time for the traditional seasonal music. youtu.be/aB39OqlJsm4?...

OK, it's December. You're allowed to decorate now.

Costa probably isn't the place to be having a zoom meeting with your colleagues, especially if you're going to have to use the phrase "waste solids dispersal mechanism".

Gotta love the rich. Rather than pay their share, they'd rather make their houses shittier.

"I know you wanted me to stay But I can't ignore the crazy visions of me in LA And I heard that there's a special place Where boys and girls can all be queens every single day"

There are people speculating that AI is going to be named as Person Of The Year on a number of lists. I don't think AI should be named POTY on any list. POTTY, sure, it definitely deserves that, but not POTY.

I wonder if the tangerine twit will have his signature redacted when he signs to release the epstein files?

AI "safety" and "alignment" are a joke. All they can do is either tweak the system prompt (which will never be 'safe', it just goes in the soup with the rest of the input) or pattern-match on input/output, the kind of the 9-year-olds figure out ways around in kids games.

"We want the finest wines available to humanity, we want them here, and we want them now."

British and Australian chemists have discovered a powerful new antibiotic called pre-methylenomycin C lactone, hiding in a well-known soil bacterium. This molecule kills drug-resistant bacteria without triggering resistance. buff.ly/YlXaONo #ShareGoodNewsToo

Each generation must develop it's own midnight foot damage item. We've had Lego bricks, D4's, upturned plugs, and countless others. This is the ancient version. It serves no purpose other than making people yell in the dark.

Gotta love people who post reviews that are so hugely off the mark because they fundamentally misunderstand what they're reviewing. "This episode of 'Murder She Wrote' is absolute trash because it's not a noir story about a hard boiled detective tracking down a grizzly serial killer."

Hopefully, this is the start of this whole idiotic LLM bubble popping.

Every ad now

A movie you've seen more than seven times in a gif.

I was never a huge fan of Grammarly to begin with. It just seemed like a way to make everybody that uses it sound the same. Then they added AI stuff and I was even more dubious. And now they've done this. It's firmly in "Won't touch with a bargepole" territory now. www.theverge.com/news/808472/...

Ah, Hackers. A film which is simultaneously absolute trash and a work of brilliance.

Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness.

Congratulations to those protesting against dictators in the US. I hope your defence of democracy is successful.

Think my next machine might be purely Linux if microsoft actually go through with this "Make copilot the OS" lunacy.

"Last minute customer requirements"

The overwhelming majority of the people on the planet didn't win the Nobel Peace Prize this year. However only one person has been such a monumental pain in the backside that he's been laughed at for not getting it.

OK, this is how Shakespeare should be done.

It's definitely a tad windy out there.

Just hit October and starting to see christmas adverts already.

So, when do the other countries of the world start accepting refugees from the US on the grounds that their president is trying to kill them?

I think a lot of people are missing the point of the big generals meeting. The point is that there was no point. The tangerine twit and his pet fox news presenter were just showing off that they could make a bunch of generals sit and listen to them.

I know that there wasn't universal acclaim, but I finally got around to seeing The Fantastic Four, and they actually made a proper Fantastic Four movie. I liked it.

The thing I don't get is why dems assume we'll still trust them when they turn on trans folks. If they'll throw the T under the bus, what's stopping them from throwing the rest of the alphabet under when it's politically amenable to them?

It's always nice when programmes which had a great first season get a great second season too. On a related note, Wednesday season 2 was fun.

So, the only people who are going to take a blind bit of notice of the tangerine numpty's medical advice are his own followers. Which means he's basically wiping them out himself. Not the most sustainable strategy.

October next week... IT HAS BEGUN!!!!

So, are we taking bets on what the first item of scope creep for the ID will be to help normalise presenting your papers to do anything will be?

"A national ID system will be fine. We'll never use it for nefarious means." The fascists who get in five years from now, however...

"Well. Grandad, we took that old box of floppies down to get put onto a usb drive for you, and we'd like to talk to you about the files on the disks labelled 'Magazine Scans 0001' onwards..."

Just read the UK government press release on digital ID, and yeah, I'll believe it if it happens. Plus, it's blatantly obvious that they're looking at it as a first step towards a full ID system for access to everything.

Ah, I see the UK government are trying ID cards again, but this time, it's DIGITAL! And somehow it's going to solve immigration. Fully expecting them to suggest tattooing QR codes on people's heads at this rate.

So, I take it the orange numpty will be endorsing cigarettes for asthma next week?

Just watched trump doing his "we've cured autism" thing. The man is an idiot. He's an actual idiot. Every country in the world should come out and say that he's lying through his teeth.

So, has the rapture thing happened yet?

Reminder: The existence of these in most Scottish supermarkets and corner shops is proof that anyone shilling for the notion that multiculturalism can't work on this island is a charlatan

It's kind of disappointing how many american corporations are just rolling over for kim jong trump. You'd have hoped they'd have a bit more backbone than the average slug, but apparently not.