When you're in love with someone who doesn't know you exist. #ValentinesDay

Experiments in AI: I took a screenshot of an easy level sudoku (something that would take me 1-2 minutes) and asked GPT to solve it. It had 4 attempts after which I asked it to give me the original grid in text form in case it had transcribed it wrong. It hadn't, but claimed it had, then gave up.

Filed under IDGAF.

nooo not Brett Ratner in the Epstein files.... all my heroes going down

Let's do this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtQ9...

Local Facebook Group User: why won't the clowncil fix the potholes?!!1! Also Local Facebook Group User: how dare the clowncil mildly and temporarily inconvenience me while they fix the potholes!!!1!

Impossible -- Jacob Rees-Mogg doesn't have a soul.

And half the politicians pontificating about it do so on a far-right paedophile website, without the slightest self-awareness about how ridiculous they look.

I've done My Week: Donald Trump (again) for tomorrow. My first draft genuinely had a joke about Trump thinking there were penguins in Greenland but I took it out because it seemed too stupid.

was briefly so excited reading this until I realised he meant Davos

I think I understand #BlueMonday now. Apparently it's when everyone is a little bit depressed, because it's cold and dark and the glow of Christmas has faded and it's the start of World War Three.

I think I speak for all of us when I say (to Trump): Fuck right off. And when you have fucked off, go fuck off some more. And then keep on fucking off until you have fucked off as far as you can.

I've done a bit of a deep dive into this in the past few weeks and the TL;DR I've come away with is that if you listen to the actual AI experts (Yann LeCun, Fei-Fei Li, Richard Sutton) and not the sales men (Altman, Melon Husk, Nadella, Huang, various podcasters), the below take is probably correct.

No one is talking about the Epstein files any more, are they? How odd.

How long before Dominic Raab and/or Matt Hancock come out for Reform? I did check they hadn't already, FWIW.

There's always a tweet.

So the US has extracted *two* people from Venezuela and now they're going to "run" it, without any kind of invasion? Even if the regime immediately folds, surely the people will want to run their own affairs via democratic elections? What am I missing? Extraordinary hubris.

The interventions are always done at the weekend (to avoid spooking the all important markets).

I think the hype curve is starting to curl downwards.

STILL no flying cars.

The most misused and overused word of 2025 is surely 'exponential'.

As someone who has been basically using desktop Linux full time for 25 years now, it's kind of amazing to witness how mainstream it's becoming to hate Windows 11.

Bloody immigrants... unimmigrating.

I can't decide if this is a masterful stealth parody or if this guy is genuinely a world class idiot. I'm leaning toward the latter. rywalker.com/why-good-eno...

Labour has good idea shock From the new Private Eye, out now.

I've said it before, but I'll say it again. The trend in podcasts (and indeed other things) to spend the first minute full of 5 second clips that summarise is profoundly annoying. The whole point of "long form" content is to avoid reducing complicated things to sound bites, or so I thought.

To be fair to his lack of grace here, when *he* finally croaks, I'm going to have a fucking party.

Indianapolis Star, November 22, 1918

Fixed it.

Imagine being of a mind where you actually buy some biscuits and transport them home and take a picture of them, just so you can be angry. It's very odd.

FIFA once again proving it is definitely not an incredibly corrupt organisation.

"It's virtually dark outside, must be nearly dinner time..." *glances at clock* 15:42. 😐

"Farage said the Today programme interview was a "disgrace" and demanded the BBC apologise for 1970s TV shows" The differences are manifold, but in particular: a) the BBC are not wanting to run the country b) the BBC has changed its outlook since the 70s

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

Well, well, well... www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cd...

Presumably this new feature where Twitter publishes the geographic origin of various fake accounts will quickly become useless as the bad actors switch to use VPNs. It's quite surprising they weren't doing so already. I suppose it would be fairly easy for Twitter to indicate VPN use though.

So, on the current poll, Farage would have a very comfortable overall majority, with no effective checks on his powers, on less than a third of the vote. @teamlabouruk.bsky.social members who still think 1st Past the Post keeps the extremists out need to re-examine the facts @labour4pr.bsky.social

Quite interesting that Con/Ref voters are hugely in favour of Labour getting themselves (presumably) a better leader. Or maybe they're just thick and think "someone else" means their own party leaders?

I think I have a reasonably good intuition about how LLMs work, at least at a basic level, so I'm slightly baffled when people who are much more invested in the space see them as a foundational basis for AGI. I mean surely not even being able to learn new information is a fundamental disqualifier?

When something you're watching on Amazon Prime resumes after an interstitial advert, on my LG TV invariably the sound is desynced until you rewind 10 seconds. It's mad that a) something I'm paying for has adverts in the first place b) pirating the same content will deliver a better experience.

What do you reckon the chances are that Reform are being financially supported by Musk? (In some underhanded non-visible way, obviously.)

The paedo formerly known as Prince.

Actual LOL at this. Holy fuck. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

why are people on the left using "populist" in a positive way now, you shouldn't want your politicians to be populists, "populism" isn't good