Quote in September last year for a high-memory compute server. £28,000. Quote today for the _exact same machine_. £90,500 This is for medical research. Saving lives. When I say LLMs are killing people by killing research computing, this is what I mean. @davidgerard.co.uk @edzitron.com

Cocking fucksocks. RIP Rob Grant.

If Labour followed its own logic, it would now step aside and let the Greens walk home in this crucial by-election. It is hard to imagine how Starmer and co could have made a bigger fist of this - and of everything. My column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Okay, so my CPR post went pretty viral... at least by my standards. Which, good. But also bloody hell my notifications... I figure if favs, boosts, and replies ≥ 200, that's p viral for me, and adding things up that's currently > 500

Your infrequent reminder that I spent twenty minutes dead a few years ago, and without constant CPR and a correctly-used defibrillator when paramedics arrived I would still be dead. LEARN CPR. LEARN TO USE A DEFIBRILLATOR.

No, go after them because they're bad for society, like arsenic in the water. A billion dollars is the socio-economic equivalent of a loose nuke, and we should work to prevent the acquisition of the former with the same urgency and ruthlessness we use to prevent the acquisition of the latter.

We should be getting a public holiday for Nonce Andrew's arrest, same as we do when the cunts get married.

The nonce formerly known as "prince" Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has been arrested. On his birthday. If only I had any faith that the piece of shit would face actual consequences for his many crimes...

A sorting algorithm walks into a bar, and orders.

I said this on the butterfly, but should say it here as well: The state of hardware prices is fucking insane. I buy and run servers for fMRI analysis (among other things) and the same spec I bought last year is pretty much twice the price now. Selfish AI-boosting cunts are destroying research […]

Amid the debate about whether bodycams do or do not add to accountability, @unraveledpress.com just IDed a particularly abuse CBP officer, Michael Sveum, by matching his phone lock screen, as seen in bodycam, to a 2021 tweet. 🤣 unraveledpress.com/identified-t...

[uspol, Apartheid Clyde, Epstein] RE: https://mastodon.social/@Lazarou/116019023249656896

I’m waiting for the karma to hit, but these rich bast…. never seem to face any consequences.

"We are sorry but we can't allow you to have finished software because you might actually enjoy this idea"

One thing I cannot fault the writers of Horizon: Zero Dawn on is just how perfectly they captured Apartheid Clyde. Everything Ted Faro does is something Musk has or will or would in that circumstance. It's uncanny. Also, **fuck Ted Faro**

Burglars broke into my flat last night. They didn't steal anything, but they left 4 tickets for the "Melania" film. The polis are treating it as a hate crime.

The woman who survived five gunshots from a Border Patrol agent in Chicago last fall, -- only to be criminally charged and then cleared, now wants a judge’s permission to share records that show how the feds respond when “their agents use deadly force against U.S. citizens.” #marimar […]

PSA

"Men should definitely stay in the cubicle and computer screen business. Happy to clear that up."

"Some of our fellow Americans may be alarmed that I seem stupid, that I do not know that the largest sector of our GDP, 20%, is in the financial, insurance, real estate sales and leasing industry, which is all cubicles and computer screens. No, what I'm saying is *WOMEN* shouldn't work anymore."

There is going to come a time in your life when you are chatting with a guy, at a barbecue or something, a new coworker maybe, a dad at school drop off, and he tells you he used to be in ICE. You’re going to need to spit on that guy

« Polite reminder. Trump & Brexit are not 2 different things. They are the same thing. Same companies. Same data. Same Facebook. Same Russians. Same Cambridge Analytica. Same Robert Mercer. Same Steve Bannon. Same Breitbart. Same Alexander Nix. Same Donald […] [Original post on social.vivaldi.net]

Keir Starmer like the Abuse Victim making excuses for their partner's violent and inexcusable behaviour over the weekend towards everyone else. "Mr Prime Minister, Mad King is Mad!" "Well that is something you just said, that is clear. Moving on...." […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

The first ten years of January have been quite draining, huh?

[uspol, trump, dementia] If the United States can't get rid of the dementia patient it currently calls "President", then it has less of a government than most so-called rogue states that the "developed world" have helped bomb into the Stone Age.

I am QPing this again so his social media team sees this: This idea is so dumb that I will donate the maximum amount of money I can to literally every other human in the primary against him. This idea is so dumb the person pitching it should not not allowed to operate a salad fork unsupervised.

Can't think why this is my morning listening... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_QSMTtUQYY

'Chariots of the Gods' author and Ig Nobel Literature Prize winner] Erich von Däniken dies at 90 [https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/erich-von-dniken-swiss-writer-spawned-alien-archaeology-129100696

Fans are cancelling tickets. FIFA has called an emergency meeting over the World Cup backlash. Boycott the Olympics too. Trump's Gestapo will round up and shoot anyone. No one is safe in America.

‘Cancel your tickets’: Calls grow to boycott US-hosted #fifa World Cup over #trump admin “Would you have gone to watch the Olympics in Nazi Germany in 1936?” asked Pekka Kallioniemi, a Finnish social media analyst with a focus on propaganda and disinformation, in a social media post on X. “If […]

This is the sort of video you ordinarily do whatever you can to keep a jury from seeing. And they put it out believing it makes him look good.

Starmer is appalling. However the bigger point is we need to oppose Trump! Any politician supporting Trump needs to be challenged. Badenoch and Farage too!

RE: https://kzoo.to/@notsle/115861924421638563 "You die if you don't shit and you die if you don't say you're not a nazi"

I posted this in response to people expressing hopelessness and despair and someone just post quoted it “NO THAT’S ADVICE FOR CHILDREN GO DO SOMETHING” so I blocked them because that’s being an annoying douche and if I could block them across the fucking multiverse I would.

FBI "takes over" (i.e. begins rewrite) case of ICE agent killing US woman and cuts Minnesota’s access to evidence https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/08/minneapolis-school-class-canceled-ice-killed-woman #fbi #minnesota #reneenicolegood #ice #news #murder #crime

Texas A&M has decided that Plato is woke & thus has forbidden a philosophy professor from teaching Plato's works. Not a joke. Not satire. This is the world the anti-woke "free speech warriors" have bequeathed us. dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...

lol The FT is not fucking around! #grokai #clanofpaedophiles #csam #noncensenual #misogyny #patriarchy #paedophilia #technology #elonmusk #musk #twitter #deepfakeporn

Sickening — the White House has put up a site about 1/6 painting himself as a hero and Pelosi, The Capitol Police, and Mike Pence as the villains. An attempt to rewrite history before our eyes. www.whitehouse.gov/j6/

[ukpol, grok] "We need to hand the personal information of anyone who wants to look at perfectly legal porn, but we'll do nothing about the CSAM and involuntary pornography machine." Is Starmer genetically capable of making any sort of actual decision? I know he has all the personality of a […]

I'm beginning to think we need a term harsher than slopmonger to separate those who are stupid enough to use LLMs from those who try to force their use on to people who don't have whatever brain rot these morons have (people like Slopya Nadella). Wonder if we can get "Sloproselyte" to be a thing...

Attention, authors and writers of: #Scifi #fantasy #speculativeFiction #AI #Robot @cstross#scifi#fantasy#speculativefiction#AI#robotSE FORWARD to others Your work may have been used to train the #LLM used in this reported study. See toot at link. https://mastodon.social/@ErsatzCulture/115838841401363457

Dark as fuck meme. NSFW, NSFL, NMS

Also, as we're doing year end, I realized I will not write something better for 2026 better than I wrote for 2024. (the newsletter's coming back, it just lay fallow because John underestimated the stress of "go from murder trial to showrunning to pilot" in 2024.) buttondown.com/kungfumonkey...

Happy new year, cheese weasels. I'm back from playing the Hogmanay Street Party and then starting an impromptu 300-ish people party on the way home. Now, I collapse.

Sorry, a little more gushing on this message: ⁃ It was sent by SMS to my Spanish number. They don’t care that the number is not German. Their systems will allow this. ⁃ It was sent by SMS, not WhatsApp, which is annoyingly increasingly becoming the default messaging platform for this sort of […]

I’ve just gotten culture shock. Those of you keeping track will know that I did a Christmas market tour early December last year. I ended up downloading the Karlsruhe transit authority’s (KVV) app and buying a day ticket or two off them. These days I’m more […] [Original post on cupoftea.social]

Look, I'm just saying that if you had to pick exactly two role models, you could do a lot worse than Fred Rogers and the goose from Untitled Goose Game.