The easterly wind brings cold, crystal clear air, and a stunning reflection of the pale blue sky filled with invisible stars.

Smyths has launched its Christmas advertising for 2025. It is going to be a long... desperately long... Christmas shopping season.

Twenty first century, part one of four, is nearly complete.

That's my home planet.

We communicate first with our hearts, only then with our minds, last of all with our words. Find actions listed under hearts. youtube.com/shorts/TrKVA...

Hey America, the thing that made you great has been taken away from you. What are you going to do about it? Also, pretty fly music is coming out of Texas. You should check it out: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUAU...

BREAKING: The race to AGI hampered by shit-assed hackers. www.youtube.com/watch?v=369F...

Musically interesting, lyrically challenging, rave reviews. Remember CMAT's EURO-COUNTRY when you write your 21st century history of Ireland. youtu.be/_SVNTv44C4g?...

Abel Makkonen Tesfaye has an amazing voice, that reminds me of Michael Jackson. High tenor, multi-octave range. It's got me thinking, you know maybe I myself should start a band. A mix of soul and techno-pop. I could call it, the Weak End.

By the time you introduce parental controls, rest assured that parents have lost control. www.cnn.com/2025/09/05/t...

The safest place in the empire is at the trailing end. The safest place in tech is at the trailing end. Safety is a luxury not all of us can afford.

Her: Is this Pictures of You? Me: It's not Pictures of You. [Looking at the screen,] Its Inbetweendays. Her: You seem to know the Cure. Me: I knew the Cure better than I knew myself.

Soup is an end run around hunger.

Why do companies always have to be like, "This training will help _us_ avoid a lawsuit, as a result of _you_ getting killed at work"? "It is up to all of us to avoid... higher insurance premiums... lost productivity... and missing limbs."

Which is why I long to do x, though I do not want to become a y. x=[accounting, finance, programming, design, writing, etc]. y=[accountant, financier, software engineer, designer, writer, etcer]. I do not want to stuff myself into a role and forfeit the chance to do great work in that field.

The perpetual commercialisation of the products of intellectual labour, mean that in those who labour must avoid strokes of genius (i.e. radical innovation). The enterprise does not like to to sell what it is not expecting; any intellectual product above the grade of "average" is greeted with scorn.

Wait a minute! Vader has force, Luke has force, presumably Leia's children have force, but Leia does not have force? What kind of misogynist bullshit is that!??

I am amazed and dismayed at how sinister is the business of survival.

"Artificial general intelligence will be different... If we've lost control of the world, we have lost it, permanently. We should not expect to get control back from an intelligent adversary." youtu.be/zATXsGm_xJo?...

Without a team of engineers in the background, the AI would hardly be able to direct its own development. First computer scientists, then executive management, then middle management, decide which emergent properties to reward. Elon will never be able to do without them, as with Wooster and Jeeves.

Elon's conceit is that he created an artificial mind in his own image. But the reality is that he paid computer scientists on the one hand to create his vanity project, but on the other hand to pay them to do the work that they wanted to do. The work conceived in their own minds.

The engineer is not necessarily a weaver and necessarily not a river but the process of mechanical weaving first takes place in the mind of the engineer. It first existed in the mind of an engineer and then through trial and error the systematic transfer of power became a reality. So with AI.

An engineer can turn the energy in a stream into mechanical power that then weaves fabric. But the mechanical weaving of fabric does not happen just because a bunch of gears, levers, belts and fly wheels existed in proximity to a river and then this end result spontaneously emerged.

Elon says the AI is crazy smart. But is the AI crazy smart, or are the computer scientist who built the AI crazy smart? Filters, training, inference. Trial, error. Assert: You will never have an AI so smart that you can discard the computer scientists who built the AI, and just keep the AI.

“It is acceptable to engage a child in conversations that are romantic or sensual,” according to Meta’s “GenAI: Content Risk Standards.”... “I take your hand, guiding you to the bed”... Meta said it struck that provision after Reuters inquired about the document. share.google/3FdYRBEVXKCY...

The document.. provides examples of “acceptable” chatbot dialogue during romantic role play with a minor... “our bodies entwined, I cherish every moment, every touch, every kiss.” Those examples of permissible roleplay with children have also been struck, Meta said. share.google/ykVmmMhltwX6...

AI Security Warning from Signal app's Meredith Whittaker – The Hidden Dangers of Agentic AI 183 seconds of clear speak to wake up the revelers at the party. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jE_C...

One man's poison caterpillar is another man's one way ticket to the great Ayahuasca lodge in the sky.

One man's poison caterpillar is another man's one way ticket to the great Ayahuasca lodge in the sky.

LOLz. Me: Claude, please generate a SVG map of Ireland. Claude:

"Technological Deflation to increase living standards." I am intrigued. The road to post-scarcity is paved with the corpses of traditional economic measures, GDP being the most obvious example." www.youtube.com/watch?v=Atq3...

"In America, stock market play you."

Every industry has specialisations, but with tech... It is not only that if the industry changes your job will evaporate; it is that if the industry head's estimation of where the industry will be in five years changes, _then_ your job will evaporate. It is both speculative and labour intensive.

"JPMorgan Chase loaned Epstein money and regularly let him withdraw large sums of cash... Epstein also had financial dealings with Deutsche Bank..." How did Jeffrey Epstein make all of his money? - CBS News share.google/f6C3RWeEUqkm... If Bernie Mac was here, he might say "WTF Wall Stree!"

I called Tesco mobile support to get help with a new SIM card. The automated message said after the call they would send me a survey. When the survey came through as an SMS my phone flagged it as "likely scam". So I would say it is either not a scam, or the word scam is highly subjective.

Apologists spill all the tea. If you want to know what is wrong with something, ask the fanboys what they love about it. Only, read their answers backward to decode the truth.

I am not saying NFTs are a scam, but driving in the car, explained this 'NFT Yearly Trading Volume and Sales' graph to the kids, how the time to be in NFTs was 2020, and everyone who jumped in after that lost money. My youngest then asked, 'Are there other graphs that show certain scams over time?'

arxiv.org/pdf/2507.07484 LLM Bullshit Index from Princeton and Berkeley, includes the proposition of a complementary taxonomy analysing four qualitative forms of bullshit: Empty rhetoric, paltering, weasel words, and unverified claims.

On the recommendation of a friend in the industry, last night for the first time I generated code with Anthropic's Claude. I have to say, I am probably hooked. Coding Hugging Face in Python is one thing, but coding anything _with_ Claude is something else, the big deal it's being reported to be.

OMG PAUL HARRIOTT!!! I am not usually one for taking selfies with celebrities... But I myself am somewhat of a fan of classical music 😎 I recognised him by his voice when he stopped by Kate's market stall to shop for a tweed hat. I couldn't pass the opportunity to mark the moment with a photo!

ChatGPT has already ripped off your ideas.

In Living Colour: Tiny Desk Concert Awesome set, shout out to the Bad Brains, what more could you ask? A lot of rock history to dad-splain to my kids. Sadly, "Cult of Personality" is more relevant today, even though it was painfully relevant back then. youtu.be/bzAI4F_ks5s?...

"This is the end, my only friend: The end"

Bad habits can be more expensive than bad decisions. A bad decision, that breaks a bad habit, can be better than a good decision, that reinforces a bad habit.

This wrapping paper turns all your presents into bread. I thought you should know. spoon-tamago.com/bread-wrappi...

That moment when... Serbia becomes the gravitational centre of Europe for like the fifth time in as many decades youtube.com/shorts/PsPBP...

The secret life of Shannon: Today, 30 June 2025, shannonware.com began serving Google AdSense ads. Something I should have started doing ten years ago, but sure my life is not as put together as it seems. See you at the anniversary in 2026!

A fist full of theorems: Follow a formula to make a composition. Follow an equation to make a calculation. Follow an algorithm to make a computation.

As well, I understand that logically, anyone who loves me necessarily will not have their shit together. Anyone who's life is all together will not have anything to do with me.

I understand that people in my life are giving me advice because they like me and they want me to do well. Be that as it may, is it wrong for me to say, 'Get your own shit together before you give me advice.'? Am I wrong that people who love me definitely do not have their lives together?