Quite hard to save for your pension when you are paying off someone else's mortgage.

When BlueSky was down, the fediverse kept chugging. It’s almost as if one of them is a meaningfully decentralised network and the other is a pile of vibecoded shit run by people who constantly make bad decisions.

Apparently, the ICO should have created a brand new genAI-specific FOI exemption without Parliament delegating them the power to do so...? (The ICO guidance seems unremarkable: AI-generated information is information. Information held by public authorities is FOI-able, unless it is exempt. Duh.)

So @safety.bsky.app has no problem with people repeatedly harassing and humiliating trans rape victims, but a blocklist that is helping trans people block people who participate in such behavior is against the rules. Got it. So much for "choose your own moderation."

I love how every CEO nowadays is a k-holed dork in a leather jacket.

Turns out the "I did my own research (on some rando Facebook or Telegram group)" approach to jurisprudence works about as well is it does for immunology and software development.

I know it’s How Party Politics Works and all but it sure is a hell of a thing to rest your counterargument against boozing in Parliament on “there are only like three people who actually decide how votes go, so the rest of them can be drunk without causing meaningful impact”

i’ve worked in tech more than 20 years. it has never been more ridiculous.

This is the kind of brain you need to transcend writing code and become a senior manager.

That's tens of thousands of authors whose submissions can be desk-rejected from here on out, leaving some more room for the rest of us. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

People who stuck around after mecha-Hitler started producing sexual abuse imagery might not represent the brightest and best.

Careful, when they’re done with the NHS, they’ll start doing modal logic, instantiating tropes, contemplating forms, and chaos will ensue.

Scene: a trendy office (in Shoreditch, perhaps) for a startup that's revolutionising cloud-based data sharding across microservices etc. A team of software developers are having a detailed conversation about some complicated engineering tradeoffs. The head of sales interrupts. He has an idea!

Okay, this is quite outstanding from Bedford Council.

Everyone who ever cornered a developer at a party to tell them about a great app idea is now able to vibe code it and discover for themselves why the developers they talked to all said the idea wouldn't work.

Please can we institute compulsory basic legal education for politicians.

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

An attempt to disconnect our gas connection earlier today👇 SSE Airtricity’s AI chatbot is going a little out of scope 😬

the Spectator accidentally recycled a subhed from a previous day’s article about Tehran

I’m starting to think the people who are excited about “AI agents” have literally never used a computer in their lives

I tried the government's new 'AI Skills Hub'. Let's just say I was underwhelmed. tommorris.org/posts/2026/t...

The Columbia Heights school district says ICE detained four of its students, including a 5-year-old boy, as "bait" to draw out family members.

Letter in Times today

Man with a Masters in Business Administration from the University of Chicago discovers supply and demand.

You sacrifice your liberties after you’ve been convicted of a crime. Properly adjudicating who is and is not guilty requires a criminal justice system which unfortunately needs paying for and is not nearly as sexy as an AI panopticon.

Latest from a website that continues to be used by the British government.

pretty sure he meant the other thing, grok, but very cool that those are your two things

is it normal for encyclopedias to include “skin tone” or just when they’re generated by a white nationalist’s ai?

RIP for a true poster. Absolutely no hesitation in the face of qualified experts.

We don’t dance on the grave of NFTs enough. I had a year where I was repeatedly told by bozos I was going to be irrelevant and extinct for not embracing them, I should be allowed a victory lap.

Some people say politicians lack principles but “I was fine when it was just Nazis but I must draw the line at paedo-Nazis” shows true moral courage and leadership.

Some people in the media, political and commentariat crowd really struggle with this rather simple concept… Other websites exist.

As people are asking me what is bad about it, here are a few points in just the initial pars - I don't have the time or inclination to edit the entire thing!

This is a shockingly bad piece, doing very little to actually inform readers about the current state of quantum computers. Don't let your economics editor write about cutting-edge science and technology! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

“I still believe Stormfront is an appropriate platform to use because I believe in freedom of speech.”

Can’t possibly ask him a legal question. Not like he’s a solicitor.

Controlling the judiciary and amassing wealth through corruption, you say?

Imagine being the person brave enough to leak this in the hopes that media attention could stop it and then the media just……buries it.

There was a leak but not to the media

"Stakeholders" here is code for "people with any knowledge of policy". Policies, of course, being the main things that governments are meant to have, and that one would expect at least some voters might reasonably be interested in.

I'll believe the UK has rule by lawyers when Post Office executives and PPE fraudsters are in the Old Bailey. Also, is rule by lawyers so bad? It's an improvement on rule by generalist Bullingdon Club tossers. Plus, unlike Parliamentarians, someone ensures lawyers actually know how the law works.

They gentrified the tinfoil hat

by this time next year ai will be capable of opening presents with your family, freeing you up to finish those spreadsheets your boss has been waiting on

joining the "cybertruck owners only" group on fb is one of the best decisions i've ever made. every so often when i'm scrolling through fb getting pissed off, i get to see a little treat like this

This kept popping up on the fireplace channel every 15 minutes without fail

lmfao. chatgpt skipping the middleman and just sending you directly to the scammers now

If you need a reason not to legalise weed...

stupid young people, stop buying a new phone every year if you don't want to be broke. wait no, not like that.

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.