Paramount+ wanted to use the image on the left as a poster for the wrath of Khan, so they used everyone's least favorite technology to generate the rest of the image.

LLMs could never.

"He believed that Marie, who is living with dementia, was a man dressed as a woman. "Bailey knocked Marie to the ground and threw her into a wheelie bin before applying pressure to the lid. "The bin fell over as Marie desperately tried to escape only for her to be punched and kicked by Bailey."

Reminds me of my uncle-in-law who had quite a tan after working road-maintenance for years who was walking home and was assaulted by a bunch of racists who thought he was "a foreigner". Hospitalised for weeks and still suffers decades later.

Last year, miHoYo copied my puzzle game Ouros in Zenless Zone Zero. Because they are a recognized, billion-dollar studio and my game isn't well known, some people are now assuming that their version is the original, and mine is the clone. I hope this video clears that up.

"I'll take 'Things That Shouldn't Exist' for $100 please Alex" 'What is "The Panini Bristol Stool Chart Collection Album"'

This via r/LondonFood is very cool ❄️ Someone has scraped the UK government's register of air conditioning inspection reports for commercial premises and created a database of London's cafes, pubs and restaurants with AC:

I was responsible for this (it was literally my idea while I was Product Manager for Media Playout at the BBC) and it is still my proudest achievement ever

Amazing, int’it, that the child rights advocates who threw every allegation under the sun against any civil society group which had genuine concerns about OSA, have absolutely nothing to say about the US lawyer who has filed a 1A case against Ofcom in defence of the suicide encouragement forum. 🤨

I've hit a strange issue with #php when recursively iterating through directories. Using RecursiveDirectoryIterator only finds 1,381 files, but doing it "manually" finds 5,174 files. Can any one explain why RecursiveDirectoryIterator misses the files?

About a decade ago, the perception that society was getting slightly better for marginalised people utterly broke the brains of every person in charge of things. How are you taking a service you became so synonmous with that your company's name became a verb and fucking it up like this?

Musk v Altman JUDGE: The jury has sent a question and the answer is no, the death penalty is not "available for both sides" please return to the jury room and limit your consideration to civil damages.

I am once again begging, praying, weeping for lists of written instructions rather than videos. I do not want to watch your two minute video in the hope of catching the two seconds where you whizz past what goddamn menu the thing is under. Write. It. Down.

What is the best paper to show to my GP with an overview of different medical treatments you can try to deal with Long Covid ? #LongCovid #MECFS

I have been a stand-up comedian for 17 years, full-time performer for 9, the fees for gigs have barely gone up in that time. It's about £250-£300 to headline a gig usually, that's about what it was a decade ago. Petrol is almost 50% more expensive than it was a decade ago. You get the picture.

Someone just told a pro AI bro in my comments: I’m not using it because it’s not smarter than me, I can see why you like it though.

proposal: instead of using x/y/z for 3d coordinates, use h/v/d, horizontal, vertical, depth now nobody will be confused which axis is up (note: proposal is tongue-in-cheek)

Wow, @vivaldi.com mobile combined with nextdns.io does not like worldle.teuteuf.fr .

PCOS (polycystic ovary syndrome) is now PMOS (polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome). The name change follows a multiyear process stemming from a recognition that ovarian cysts aren't the primary aspect of the condition, which affects multiple body systems, and many patients don't have them.

wow — the preprint host, arxiv, is banning authors for a year if they submit papers with hallucinated citations 🤖

oh, oh, oh! i know the solution to this one! you just pass legislation banning seniors from social media rather than legislating the actual platforms! mashable.com/article/meta...

It'd be Eric Morecambe's 100th birthday today

I just spent 5 minutes trying to figure out how many of the Bonbon sweets/candy it would take to fill a standard British bath because of a Tiktok. For a 1700mm x 700mm x 400mm deep bath filled to 80% and a Bonbon of 31mm x 23mm x 23mm I got 23,221 bonbons. OG Creator got around 5,333...

Auditor trap.

I hope the person who made this fitted sheet always has a perfectly ripe avocado exactly when they need it

TIL: In @raccoingame.bsky.social , you can have a max of 999,999 tickets, over 21,000 coins in hand, a score rate of over 6,800, a combo of over 115,700 and no have to do anything for several minutes. No prizes or coins purchased (or able to).

ABC: A CDC official said the federal government doesn't plan to have the repatriated American cruise ship passengers quarantine upon arrival in Nebraska.

in a better world getting caught doing something like this would be an automatic firing & permanent blacklist offense

Panic over x

The extremely rare catcopus.

In advertising we used to call that the “duck”. Where you’d make a good ad but stick a duck in it. So the client would be like “yeah we love everything else but can you take the duck out, not sure re the duck?” And you’d go “oh ok thats a shame but if you’re sure, we can make it work with no duck”

Deepfakes are everywhere, but digital forensics investigators are fighting back. Learn more: https://scim.ag/42dMPBg

MacKenzie Scott divorced Bezos with $36 billion. She has since donated $26 billion to charity. She’s now worth $42 billion, six billion MORE than when she started, after giving away twenty-six billion. Tax the billionaires. I promise that they’ll survive.

Happy birthday to the great Sigmund Freud, who would have been 170 years penis today.

William Perrie, noted ballet dancer and entomologist who appeared on stage in New York and London alongside Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn. Slightly more famous for playing half of Dobbin in Rentaghost

Found the settings for this, which were turned on by default with no notification.

"openai.com" was once the personal homepage of a guy named glenn (2001), and "tiktok.com" was the quaint shared homepage of a couple as their relationship progressed from dating to married with a baby (2000). THREAD!!!

If anyone knows someone who does nice custom painted or etched wine glasses, point me in their direction please!

General: That barrage damaged it! It's hurt! *cheers from soldiers* *smoke clears* General: PULL OUT!!! PULL OUT!!!

I feel that this movie is old enough now that a younger generation may not have ever heard of it, and it's *great*. One of my favorite comedy scifi flicks. Still quote it a lot.

I worked for NARAL and can confirm these stories. These hypocrites would protest the clinic then show up for an appointment when they got knocked up, and then go right back to protesting.

I hate how steam doesn't punish this behaviour positive review, based on the fact it's beatable in the refund period so you can get your money back you liked the game, but actively decided to exploit the system just to get your £15 back from an indie dev you actual piece of trash.

Sure - and I do recommend this overall, but having a dedicated security address also invites any dipshit with an AI tool to effectively DoS you with often bogus (tho not always) reports.

The one search engine which could have capitalised on the "personal human-like AI search trend"

So there are crazy headlines, and then there are "I'm sorry WTAF now?" headlines...😳 Yes, the Telegraph have deduced that Ed Miliband hates mothers because of some new legislation making tumble dryers more efficient and cheaper to run! 🧵 1/24

Brilliant stuff. Really worth your time

Come on #Lego, it's time to lift the heinous discrimination 😉 and, as a gesture of contrition, send Sir David a lego penguin for his big day.

Ricardo Montalbán and Bill Shatner were never on set together during the filming of Wrath of Khan. Montalbán did all his big Kirk-hating angry viewscreen speeches to a young woman who was interning on the shoot. He kept apologising to her during and after scenes, because it made him feel so mean.

It should be very difficult for a bunch of EMF volunteers to run a higher-volume ticketing website than major commercial companies, but we're not even trying that hard. What a disaster of an industry.