If, every year each country took the 10 richest people and sent them to 'epstein island' for a few rounds of the hunger games, we would solve world poverty in 1 year. I am not saying we should do this, but I am also not saying w shouldn't do it :-p

The Boroughs: when the only show you know how to make is Stranger Things

Deregulating him so hard, all his teeth are rattled out of his head

#walthamstow marshes #london #cycling

One must imagine Sisyphus on LinkedIn

"DO NOT HALLUCINATE!" I say to the Hallucination Machine, and then convince myself it's made things less hallucinatory How do I know it's made a difference? Did I verify its output? Well no, because then I may as well have just *done the fucking work*. No, it's just Vibes, innit. It *feels* […]

Sports fans ask Capitalists to do something charitable, get entirely predictable reposnse: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c98rnme5ly7o

LLM advocates still don’t seem to be able to comprehend that ordering the machine not to ‘make stuff up’ doesn’t help. It doesn’t know when it’s making stuff up, and it couldn’t change that even if you told it to. (In fact it’s always just making stuff up, and is only ever true by chance.) Part […]

One must imagine Sisyphus when the token subsidies come to an end

RE: https://hails.org/@hailey/116657391001259044 all the criticism has been said, all the takes been had. the only metaphor i have been finding consistently useful for understanding what is happening with people and "AI" is addiction, and specifically gambling addiction.

OMG https://mastodon.social/@runjaj/116657309263853423

What if the Attack-Surface Maximiser was also Extremely Obsequious, though? Would that be good?

I want to give some huge appreciation to everyone who helps pay for this instance! We have a 6 month runway of money in OpenCollective, although our disk space needs (and thus the bill) keep creeping up, so every single donation, no matter how small, is hugely appreciated! If you appreciate […]

I solved the daily #cluesbysam, May 29th 2026 (Tricky), in less than 13 minutes 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 https://cluesbysam.com

So much of our current fuckery is directly downstream of this

Thinking about this a lot lately

Bah I solved the daily #cluesbysam, May 28th 2026 (Tricky), in less than 45 minutes 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 https://cluesbysam.com

RAIN! #london #heatwave

Emailing me to tell me "you left items at the checkout" is a nailed-on way to make me never come back to your website

I feel like this should be "plans B" https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/crlpw74l138o

lmao

Wait maybe we can make NFTs of Pelicans On Bikes?

BRB just boiling the oceans to generate an SVG of a pelican on a bike

Don't let the Perfect be the enemy of the Food

I'm now hearing where it's important to be polite to the idiot robot because then you might get better results CAN YOU FUCKING HEAR YOURSELVES?

Congratulations to Crystal Palace on winning the most prestigious European trophy #football

What if I told you your TV show does not need an Official Companion Podcast?

in all, ahem, seriousness, if you want a Liberated Social Network but you only want stern serious grown-up posts on it, you haven’t liberated jack

Anybody who has ever helped others, especially less experienced people, with programming, or other tech stuff, knows that, when asked a question, the most productive response is the question "what are you really trying to do?". The reason why this is such a good response is because very often […]

"There's no algorithm" people don't know what an algorithm actually *is*, do they?

Every now and again I remember that the Super Brain Genius Number One Special Boy Who Really Wishes Actual Engineers Would Take Him Seriously got shitcanned from PayPal because he thought it was a good idea to ditch UNIX and move to Windows NT

I'm not sure if we've ever been at a point in history before where competence was an active hindrance to your professional success in the way it is now

I solved the daily #cluesbysam, May 27th 2026 (Medium), in less than 9 minutes 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 https://cluesbysam.com

A notorious, unrepentant war criminal writes: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/may/26/tony-blair-labour-abandon-net-zero-support-donald-trump?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Just another day of trying to suppress my feeling like an alien for holding the apparently minority position of "$THING has to reach the point of being useful before we begin discussion of whether we should force everyone to pay attention to $THING"

Why is this happening? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51F90ii9H1E

#emfcamp Workshop Proposal accepted!

Nostalgic for the days when we could nip down to the immaculately air-conditioned datacentre for some "essential maintenance" when it got too hot in the office #london #heatwave

Ooooooooh https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Szznn02Nli0

I closed all the windows and pulled down all the blinds in this loft last night and it's actually worked, it's now Balmy up here rather than the more usual Infernal #london #heatwave

Imagine being a spokesghoul for something called the British Association for Shooting and Conservation https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjep159x1njo

I solved the daily #cluesbysam, May 26th 2026 (Medium), in less than 7 minutes 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 https://cluesbysam.com

It's like a pizza oven out here already #london #heatwave

And a Nation attempts to Sleep

Kickstarter to fund a time-machine to go back to 1972 and tune Fred Thomas's bass on this session https://youtu.be/yQfbrsWXuRg?si=s8TkzM_UiEetQe_h

what you think AI does: cheap code, things break fast but also get fixed fast what AI actually does: subsidized code that will become extremely expensive very soon, things break fast but you don't notice and the bugs accumulate, losing your customers' trust in your product

Even my fucking *meds* are not equipped to deal with this #heatwave

If all you have is npm, everything looks like a supply chain attack.

Tent Test Time #emfcamp