"Just open up the water meter lid and check the reading."

Amazon will work to make you feel like it is your fault and you have to work equally hard to push back on that narrative. You were AWESOME when they hired you. Now they have no use for you. It's them. It's always them, and not you. You didn't change. And even if you did, you changed to please THEM.

AI doing important things has always been "just a matter of time". For the last sixty years at least, we've been ten years away from the singularity. I expect that will be true for the next sixty, too. Same for all the other predictions. It's always "nearly useful", never "useful today".

I desperately want to correct your misuse of those words, but it comes from a place of love and respect - I want you to say the right words you're meaning to say, I'm really not trying to imply you're an idiot for using the wrong words.

What's the next bubble, once the boys with the big money realise Generative AI isn't going to deliver any time soon?

Apparently, you can tell a lot about a person by the things they wish the oncoming rise of the machines would take away. I want automation to do my laundry, keep my bills payable (and paid), this guy wants to keep new neighbours away, if they don't look like him.

AI was the accelerant on a perverse incentive fire sparked by bug bounty platforms that reward spray & pray. Both open source & orgs without dedicated vuln response teams get overloaded when they offer cash there. cURL is right to leave AI shark-infested waters to start fresh.

I realise I'm just a freak, but living in a multicultural city is the best thing of all time, it's just the best possible human experience and i can not understand why anyone on earth would be like "weve got to destroy this"

Don't be dismissive of coworkers who remember disco. It's important, at times, to have someone who can see a problem, and say "Disco's here, and disco's dere. And dis? Disco's right here." Because they've seen it before, even though it's a new problem to the younger staff.

Good. But could The Register please stop using this graphic to represent the UK? It isn't a proper Union Flag, it's what an AI or an American thinks is.

There's no rule that says you have to get off the bus if you mistakenly rang the bell for the wrong stop.

I was going to suggest there ought to be an autistic Ken, too, but he's unlikely to ever find himself drawn into Barbie's world.

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Erich von Daniken died. I read some of his books when I was 12. They were awesome. I read some of his books when I was 14. They were crap. Peculiarly, the same books. I guess something must have changed.

We’re mobilizing across the country this weekend to honor Renee Nicole Good, demand accountability for ICE’s killing of Renee, and make visible the human cost of ICE’s terror: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

I had to have a wolf removed. The doctors said I can live with just one wolf inside me, but my quality of life will take a hit

AI Nasir's time has come.

I've specifically NOT upgraded because the new system I would normally get is now prominently badged as being "for AI", and I'm not going to spend that kind of money until I can figure out how much of that I'd need to go and disable.

To read the UK tabloids for the last fifty years, the answer to this question is, and always has been, "Doctor Who".

Jen Sorensen nails the hypocrisy and racism of the "European culture" argument.

"Although not the app I just posted this on, obviously..."

Generative AI brings its own version of the old nanotechnology fear of "Gray Goo". Because it's not generative, it's derivative. And as it spews its output into the pool from which it draws its input, the quality degrades each time. The result is that everything gets worse.

This thread is about community spaces, but remember a job site is also a community. That "10x engineer" who keeps putting everyone else's ideas down our claiming them as his own, who shuts women and people of colour out of discussions... He's costing you a dozen 5x engineers.

I'd go so far as to remind you that if you're checking and you find ANYTHING that feels painful, uncomfortable, or just different for a week, to go get checked. The doctors and their staff have heard it before. If you've got 'em, check 'em. 23-year testicular cancer survivor.

You wizards ponder your orbs but are you pondering the right orbs? Hi. I’m Don Keidick and I’d like to remind you to regularly check your testicles for signs of testicular cancer. Its as simple as feeling around for small hard lumps once a week and it can save your life. Do it while gooning!

Me: Last week. Excel: Oh, you mean twelve months in the future?

Whenever Google prompts me for the umpteenth time to use Gemini, it reminds me of how desperate Microsoft sounded when they tried to get me using yammer. Which we all know was just the height of popularity.

Stay away from the amber snow.

That's my burrito. I ordered it without guacamole.

✨The Needling’s Top Ten Stories of 2025✨ Good afternoon, engulfed Cybertruck. Goodbye, 2025. Goodluck, 2026. tinyurl.com/5n8nd2dk

In a few short hours, my year of birth will be another line lower in the scrollable list on web sites developed by sociopaths. Before you laugh, so will yours.

Pretty sure that's just Spencer Androli throwing db97531.

And of course when Bagpuss goes to sleep, all his friends go to sleep too

Please, I am begging you, if you are the sort of person who stands on a stage with a microphone on your lapel, around your neck, or even on the side of your face... DO NOT APPLAUD. For those of us listening on headphones, every clap is a >SLAP< across the ears.

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I know a half dozen people this will piss of, for the simple reason that the moon spends about half its time in the daylight sky, and doesn't actually herald nightfall, blah blah...

The 2025 Headline of the Year Nominees 🧵

It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans. 🧵 1 of 9

Pantone just updated their Color Of The Year

My alarm clock just sent me an updated "Terms of Service". 9,464 words. For an alarm clock. Imagine if you'd been asked in school to write a ten-thousand-word essay on an alarm clock. It makes me wonder if Hatch knows something's wrong with their alarm clocks, and are beefing up arbitration to cope.

Zohran: "I mean, think about when you fly.  We have made it such a difficult experience to go through TSA that there's now a financial incentive to sign up for a separate program that can move you through it quicker. We have monetized the dysfunction."

When you're in a Microsoft sales presentation, is it wrong to ask if ZavaScript is the same thing as Zava?

Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.

So glad BBC is able to put world-class advertising in their phone app.

Android phone is starting to get tiresome. No, I don't want gemini every/any where. Yes, I already turned off that notification you're sending me again. Is it my phone or yours, Google? At least offer me some pretense that it's in my control.

Sometimes I watch my Instagram feed, and I wonder if poi were invented so that neuro spicy people can keep everyone at arm's length on the dance floor.

Things will become much clearer if you stop using verbs like "think" and "understand" to describe the actions of a glorified spellchecker. It doesn't understand that "ducking" is the right word to use. It's just the closest match in its dictionary to the word you typed. (About AI, not spelling)

Seattle - a group of seagulls surrounding what appears to be an abandoned cake on the ground. One is chasing the others away any time they get near. There's no way that one seagull could possibly eat the whole cake. He's so busy chasing the other seagulls away anyway. This seems like a metaphor.