My crankiest old man take is that referring to all art/entertainment/journalism/criticism/comedy/advertising as “content” helped pave the way for broad-ish acceptance of AI slop.

my £400 excess car insurance covers up to £100 medical expenses for passengers insured in accidents, and i’m having a hard time imagining what that’s good for

everyone is mad at microsoft for copilot pricing, but these people didn’t have to pay £45/month for visual studio, an IDE that can’t reliably execute its own build system

couldn’t find that short anymore where a woman keeps annoying her partner by saying “my wife” in borat voice so much that she ends up leaving her, so now i have to reënact it. i’ve reached the “having wife” and “annoying her” part so far.

GREG DAVIES: seems like a kind of a shit task. Everyone just seems like they're going home normally. ALEX HORNE: well before you say that let's have a look at how Odysseus did. cut to panel of AJAX, MENELAUS, AGAMEMNON, and DIOMEDES who are all staring at ODYSSEUS with his head in his hands

Blue Origin, more like Orange Conclusion whatever

the anger externalisation squad has logged on www.patreon.com/posts/159370...

[Now that's public] I've cancelled my donations to Wikipedia after some of us found out this happened. Again, "benevolent" executives are the fucking problem.

common misconception—it’s not that our houses are built to keep heat in (anyone who’s endured a British winter can tell you that). no, the reason hot days are so unbearable in the UK is because this is an evil country and we are being given a small taste of the fire that awaits us in the afterlife

giving human cells photosynthesis is 100% how we end up with some sort of post-apocalyptic race of cactus men who monger war in the deserts

my theory: easily half of the AI backlash is driven by constantly being confronted with some of the cringeworthiest copywriting (human or machine generated) ever produced

this is a very good overview of the UK backsliding www.liberalcurrents.com/the-end-of-t...

JACK: Good God, Lemon, do you even know what a profit margin is? KENNETH: I know that one! It’s by how much the Lord decides you missed going to Heaven. LIZ: We make smart decisions. I’ll have you know we decreased Jenna’s mirror per diem by 80% just by eliminating Tracy’s slingshot per diem.

If you back an anti-trans candidate that you *know* will kill trans kids, because you are anti-trans? Then you are an evil, broken person. But if you back an anti-trans candidate that you *know* will kill trans kids, not because you are anti-trans, but because you chose to save yourself? Worse.

i love strudel so much i stopped doing it

Millennials: we have got to start talking up the Financial Crisis. The Greatest Generation dined out on the Great Depression for 80 years. If we’re not all out there talking about how we had to have five roommates and sell our plasma to buy ringtones I’m worried we’ll be missing our shot

YOU’RE LISTENING TO SISYPHUS FM, THE HOME OF NON-STOP ROCK

the AI WAR CAR is back

i would have rather america accelerated global electrification by building an unparalleled domestic green manufacturing industry but i'll take petrostate gangsterism scaring everyone into going green if that's the only option on the table

this is what I mean when I say "don't let orgs and managers see discriminating against trans folk as the path of last resistance". transphobes are persistent and annoying. be just as annoying. show them compliance is going to be a legal nightmare

they couldn’t even find a way to means-test this :(

the 2021 Ioniq EV is basically a 400V battery on wheels, but to get that full car experience Hyundai added a bonus 12V battery, that died under mysterious circumstances. Now I have a 300A jump pack to help it fulfil its sole purpose: flip the contactor for the big battery.

I’m using 3D models from those Nintendo Wii avatars to make a movie about a dying, famously-cruel French riverboat chef. Thinking about starting right in the middle of food prep—could be the first time we’ve seen a mean Mii pass, plus mise en place in mise-en-scène on the Seine.

GARBAGE - dashare.zone ADMIN

so the candidate for the labour left is running to the right of wes streeting, candidate for the labour right, but he won’t even get in unless the greens stand down, which they’ll only do if he can sell himself as part of the progressive alliance. i don’t think he actually wants this job

I am yelling boo-urnham

Ok I've designed an LLM prompt to make Google AI just give you a list of links. It's longer than you might think because it kept ignoring the instructions. This is efficient. This is The Future™

second day in a row that i’ve crashed vscode by typing a regex into the search box. nobody asked you to evaluate it live! i wasn’t finished typing it, just hold on a second and i promise you it’ll be fine

from my then new-to-me iPhone 3GS: my sister’s new, hacker-green 2012 alienware laptop

i expected they’d recommend “engagement politique qui va un peu trop loin à mon goût si vous voyez ce que je veux dire” or something

I know Death is a band but this is the most ominous YouTube video title I’ve ever seen

oh no the girls are z-fighting

🏆 You have unlocked the ANDY BURNHAM skin for KIER STARMER!

“erm you can’t just criticize me for using AI; it’s a tool” buddy fucking watch me. you have no idea how broad i can get. the sheer array of sweeping judgment at my disposal is staggering. i can, and will, generalize about you in terms that will make your head spin

pushing out diverse people to accommodate diverse views about those people's inferiority, be fucking serious

god gives his toughest monkeys to his strongest circuses

this is the best-targeted promotional email i've ever received

COMIC: How to Hold a Grudge

i'll always remember where i was when i heard that Wes Streeting had resigned as health secretary in order to challenge Keir Starmer for the leadership: i was at home, checking the news to see if Wes Streeting had resigned as health secretary in order to challenge Keir Starmer for the leadership

Wes Streeting is already facing growing calls to stand down as PM

Watching The Pitt and the only time I’ve shouted “bullshit” so far is when she said “you’re gonna want to lay off mixing adderall and energy drinks” and I say that’s only the case if you’re a fucking weakling little baby. That said, my blood’s probably 80% Monster Ultra Rosa and 20% methylphenidate

I love seeing big engineering when I'm out and about. Today I saw the Seaway Alfa Lift semi-submersible installation vessel at Newhaven.

BREAKING: First Ever Green Mayor Win 🎉 Zoë Garbett has been elected Mayor of Hackney – huge congratulations!

most of the people in labour responsible for making those decisions are fine with this, it should be said. losing to reform is perfectly acceptable if it means keeping the left away from power