I remember blocking them way back when but at least one of those left wing American cartoonists who everyone mixes up is utterly mental.

Being forced to watch K- pop demon hunters.

Happytoast's work is great, this makes me sad But what I find even more depressing is that these things are the canaries - artists, writers etc. but the endgame is _everything_ isn't it? If AI is "good enough" to do a fair chunk of any job then what is anyones job

Was about to tell my wife this before realising that is exactly the kind of thing the aliens do.

re: roblox dude's interview crashout. the thing he wants to say but can't is "at scale, kids are gonna get hurt. that is the price for scale." the thing nobody wants to say out loud is "maybe scaling to a level where harm isn't manageable is bad, and scale should be contained"

80s Manchester had some good bassists. Seems sad we've lost 2 of the best ones recently.

I also think the shift to remote-first work and recruitment are not helping either. You're competing with literally everyone in the country & they can interview anyone at any time. Then they decide to only go for someone with experience because mentoring over Teams is hard.

The magic YouTube auto dubbing that nobody has asked for is very clever and potentially useful but the fact you can't turn it off and it's not always clear it's happening is very bad!

Employers: we can't find any good candidates! The hiring process:

Alternate universe Mr Fantastic never gets powers but saves more lives by inventing the 3-point seat belt and airbags 10 years earlier.

Up until about 2018 whenever you googled a Linux command this website from a university of Edinburgh homepage with all /users/~whoever/rm.html would come up at the top with a copy of the manual. Was very sad when it disappeared.

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The AI thing in WhatsApp, what is it for? I thought it might be for online help but it's... just an infuriating happy passive aggressive lie teller. Why bother with this, an even worse version of Google's summary? But one that says "calm down mate"

Good stuff in this week's Beano.

I wrote to my MP for the first time ever. Have I had even a boilerplate "thank you for your correspondence" response? No.

- there's a monster killing some scientists or whatever one by one - the monster is back, but this time, somewhere else - the monster's back again, but this time there's loads of them - oh no, not that monster again! but this time, another scientist reckons he can train them like dogs - romcom

What frustrates me about this nostalgia whining is everyone can agree that things could be better, that's the whole point of why we do things. But if the only way you can think of doing this is "make things like 1975" then... what does that mean? Your mum cooks you tea? Leeds Utd winning?

Just when you thought the whole crisp bag colour debate was over a new contender enters.

I remember my sister's acquaintance who was "dating" a girl of... 13? Or something?

This is of course ablest. #bluesky #thisisbluesky

Watched the new Frankenstein but can't really decide if it's actually good or not? One of those films that is simultaneously too long but not long enough, and looks expensive but also shite.

In TV series there's always a bit where the main baddy is killed and your happy for 5 mins but then it turns out the new baddy is just as bad but he's a robot or something Anyway this is what leadership challenges are like.

Is it running? Did she do lots of running? I bet she did a bit of running, then lots of running, some resting, eating, then running?

This is the stupidest thing that has ever happened

He prefers Fox News

THEORY: Modern OSes, which load everything up the same after a restart so you barely know it's happened - has permanently broken the term "reboot". It must be replaced. e.g "James Bond must be Reformatted, and a new account created from scratch"

my only conclusion is that people have forgotten what films are.

I just remembered that my mother in law believes Bert and Ernie got married on Seseme Street. I said I think she was mistaken but she said she'd seen it.

I wonder how many of these work in IT!

Can you guess what the "3 conditions"are? www.leicestermercury.co.uk/news/uk-worl... Also: this is bollocks anyway, right, you're assessed on need not "mildness" of cause in comparison to anyone else.

I think then main thing I hate about the current age is that not only do stupid and bad people have a lot of power but they insist that I know about their batshit opinions as well

Oh come on, DWP, just say please, I'm a real human person. Every time I interact with a government service that doesn't want me to pay them I feel sad for anyone that has to rely on them

✅ good thing has happened ❌ For stupid reason

What's great about this is the electrics stop about 5 miles south of Leicester which makes no sense at all.

Massively enjoying telling Indeed.com that I have "Communication Skills" but not "Welding experience"

Bloody Hell, no wonder K-9 and Company didn’t get picked up.

Sometimes when I realise I got a fact wrong I spend hours looking through Wikipedia history to convince myself it did once say it. And it never does.

The issue with this format, as pointed out by Mrs C, is that knitting is boring to watch and takes ages. So they're just going to use chunky wool or not finish a jumper.

Game of Wool? Game of.... Wool?? What is this

Totally happy for Andy Windsor to be living in a big building at the expense of the tax payer. Also no problem with other people cooking, doing his laundry etc. why is everyone complaining. Wait hang on are we talking about a different big building??

Started watching "Horror Express" - a Spanish Lee/Cushing film with a monster in a train - on iPlayer mainly because I thought it sounded daft and I'm quite enjoying it. It's not a million miles off a Dr Who story. Then Kojak turns up, shouts at everyone and then dies. Great stuff.

I've thought about the alternatives and I think that we should replace the monarchy with a nice lovable dog. - great for diplomacy - can live at number 10 - great with kids - adorable tourist merchandising opportunity - if the dog bites someone it can be "sent to checkers" (put down)

woooOOOOOOooo

Things I've learnt from job hunting on LinkedIn - AI is the future and everything you know is useless - AI is not the future and everything you know is useful - AI is some of the future and some of what you know is useful

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Could be snarky about how Andrew is still better off than 99.9% of the country or how this is too little too late, there's still much to do etc but ultimately it is quite nice to see a consequence happen isn't it?

The problem with my ADHD meds is that I don't get so horribly bored, which means I'm actually totally content to just sit in the house and watch videos about trains.

Sooty & Co (28th October 1996). Sooty and the gang round off their Spanish holiday by going clubbing.

Hmm I'd be quite happy to do a week or two of servicing stairlifts with this salary.