We don't tolerate smack talk about Ada Lovelace in this house

del Toro: don't worry del Toro: i'm going to acknowledge byron with a big quote at the end Shelley: Shelley: why del Toro: because, you know del Toro: he's del Toro: um del Toro: i mean it kinda fits? Shelley: Shelley: put my fuckin quote at the end Shelley: i wrote the fucking thing!

I would want to see her totally renounce all the violence and extremism of maga. The racism the xenophobia the sexism etc. And spend the rest of her life working to get people like her out of the cult Former cult members may have more success than never Trump rational folks

Or what Labour voters have to say about these matters. So if you're not doing it for Reform voters, and you're not doing it for Labour voters ... who the fuck are you doing it for?

TOP TIP: If you want people to stop likening you to Tommy Robinson, stop behaving like him.

Labour: YOU MUST INTEGRATE Also Labour: we might kick you out in a couple years so don't get to comfy yeah

More Israeli theft of archaeological artefacts from Gaza #🏺

Little Lion cub enjoyed watching Kingdom last night.

Could prob accept some pretty draconian small boat policies if there was a genuine safe route policy alongside it. So far we have no details at all.

As an aside the gold locket that they had to raise millions for, that could of gone to actual projects, If found in Finland the finder would have received aprox 42 thousand euros (current metal content price + 20%) and mainly been overjoyed at finding it.

"I've never sold a single item & I've found thousands of coins." 'he keeps his finds carefully arranged in a display cabinet at his home.' ...that's just one #detectorist. Multiply that by perhaps 40,000 people - that's an awful lot of artefacts. #Archaeology 🏺 www.bbc.com/news/article...

One of the main defences of detecting I hear is that they discover things we wouldn't know about otherwise. Stuff sitting on a shelf in somebody's house is lost to us. Stripping it of context strips or of meaning = It'd probably be better off left in the ground.

A study finds that deep sleep rewires the brain to eliminate anxiety. My own study suggests that anxiety rewires the brain to eliminate deep sleep.

In 2023, 173 people in Surrey reported finds to the PAS, equal to 5.7% of the membership of this club + I'm sure there's plenty of other detectorists in Surrey, showing once again that despite claims to the contrary, only a tiny minority of detectorists report any finds to the PAS #ancientbluesky

Just as the BLM movement showed us who is actually racist, and the MeToo movement showed us who is actually misogynist, the reaction to the Epstein Files is showing us who actually thinks sex with minors isn’t that big of a deal. We won’t forget.

And if you did believe that video, you can relax No one other than the council can decide who can and can’t sell alcohol or have music licenses Not to mention that the Muslim behind the mosque has been busy adding bars and restaurants to the rest of the Trocadero for years! 🍷🍹 20/

I sleeps.

Good piece here by @adamrutherford.bsky.social , as I'd expect. #Archaeology arutherford.substack.com/p/the-irony-...

Kiddo is sick, so I made chicken noodle soup. (Carrots and sprout based)

Is it just me or are more and more replies on this site just rephrasing the post or reply they are replying to, more verbosly and very gramatically correctly? Am is me just getting paranoid and seeing AI everywhere or is AI everywhere?

I ENTIRELY understand why a party way to the left of Labour needs to exist. I have NO IDEA why it needs to be Your Party, other than ego. The Greens are RIGHT THERE. Corbyn will be 78 at the next election. And it's a shambles. Give up, lads. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

And yet they still don’t get it. And let’s be real “Christians” actually ignore most of their book too. Because there is no hypocrisy quite like Christian hypocrisy.

If you want shoulders covered and shorts past the knee, you need to say that. If you want no cuss words on clothes, you need to say that. If you want nothing that could be perceived as demonic imagery, you need to remove half the grotesques from your own building and THEN say that

After an economic crash you always see headlines like What Was Everyone Thinking? What do you mean everyone, most of us are waving our arms and screaming every day, it's a handful of insanely rich assholes who aren't listening

Running Bow-wow and Little White Dog

After initially confirming the project to Tech Radar, Ofcom went silent when pressed on questions about what data was being monitored, what privacy protections were in place or who the company doing it was.

Musk: so what you think now? i'ma pretty smart, eh? King: Barker: Lovecraft: Koontz: Poe: Mary Shelley: finish him, joyce Musk: now waita you a minute Joyce Carol Oates: [unsheathing katana]

This is insane! There are many words that you can't draw a picture of. Describing a picture is not understanding a text. Ok, phonics and whole word have their issues too, I was in my 20s before I knew I pronounced quay incorrectly, but I still recognised the word its meaning, and didn't say pier.

My onion thieves. Bastards. Cute bastards, though. So, voles not moles?

Digging out my compost bin and found mole tunnels. (Probably a loop).

Just rememered when I was watching a US drama and my kid said 'who's that?' I said 'the president's husband' and kiddo said 'they elected a gay president?!?! Cool'. Baby, it's great that you are LGBTQ+ friendly, but I'm worried that The Patriarchy made you go to gay man rather than straight woman.

Noah Smith is paid in the high six-figures to write a blog read by Americans who believe themselves to be intelligent. Yet, he is both unable to read a sign and also for some reason chose to have a 90 minute layover for a flight that takes 90 minutes. onemileatatime.com/news/economi...

Today's harvest. Teaspoon for scale and, later, for tea.

BBC impartiality: A full list of all the British MEPs who appeared on BBC Question Time.

I got this useful bon mot from a middle school teacher recently. In response to, “I DONT UNDERSTAND,” he calmly said, “okay what steps have you taken to understand?” And that’s when I realized that a lot of folks have no steps.

Sprouts and weeds still doing well at the allotment.

There was a time when I'd have cared deeply about the BBC. But they adopted a deliberate policy of kowtowing to the right, backing away from every fight, believing compliance would protect the license fee, and the right would leave them alone. Stand up to bullies, or get knocked down by reality.

1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death. Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written." Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating. 🧪🧬🧫

One can’t help but suspect that the Telegraph is going to be disappointed by whoever is appointed if they are to the left of Attila the Hun.

the right winger who was appointed to lead the BBC in the hope of appeasing right wingers has been driven out by right wingers for not appeasing right wingers enough and the BBC has the chance to do the funniest thing ever

Quite right too. It's like when Laura Kuenssberg resigned after she edited footage of Jeremy Corbyn so that he was giving an answer to an entirely different question. Oh, did I say "resigned"? Sorry, I meant "got promoted", because that's BBC impartiality, right there.

Like why would the bbc need to ‘balance’ its cover of the US in this way? When the BBC covers, say, Xi critically should it also run a programme dedicated to the CCP’s achievements?

A David Attenborough documentary ending in a cliff hanger is not cool

And there are many other reasons I don't use LLMs. They're not reliable, they are built on theft, their creation incurs environmental costs & direct harm to people. The broader societal push to use AI for everything is destructive in countless ways & has horrifying political ramifications.

I get this a lot too. I don't use ChatGPT or any LLMs in my work because I want my writing to sound like me, not like the averaged-out voice of the internet. But also, writing is thinking, and thinking is a habit. I don't want to get out of that habit.

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Reports OpenAI's theft bot was not intelligent enough to realise it needed cover up its activities by deleting its database of stolen intellectual property, so the humans in charge did it and now could face charges of intentionally destroying evidence.