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Less than a decade ago

Murderer says taking murderers’ knives away won’t help the average victim

One of the most psychotic legal proposals I've ever seen

wrote about it in Escape in 2022 but being online right now really is like living in a flat owned by a shitty landlord; you have to make a home, somehow, and live your everyday life while trying to block out the knowledge that you have no rights and anything may change in your home at any moment

finding it hard to put into words just quite upsetting I find the idea of Google getting rid of the "ten blue links" format of search entirely, genuinely feels like your landlord announcing he's removing your kitchen and replacing it with a bouncy castle, I need my kitchen, let me keep my kitchen

im going to start loudly booing the people who bring up their ai trash and grifts in real life too. why let the college grads have all the fun? be the change you want to see.

The world’s largest sand battery got through Finland’s harshest winter in years. 2,000 tonnes of sand, heated to 500-600°C by cheap power, feeding district heating in Pornainen. And it worked. Result from one install: oil down 100%, emissions down 70%. Industrial process heat is the real prize.

Wesley Streeting, 2026

I’m sick of YouTubers acting as though peekaboo is a puzzle with a correct “answer”. The questions raised by Mother’s work, and the discussion they stimulate, are the whole point.

HORIZON: ZERO DAWN (2017)

He could do one thing today and another thing tomorrow without being defined by such activities. Thus far, only AI has lived up to this dream, as it's employed to make art and bomb countries without ever being an artist or a pilot.

Marx dreamed of a world where you wouldn't be pigeonholed by your job. As he put it, a man could hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, and critique ideas at dinner without ever being a hunter, fisherman, or critic.

Their mastery of headline syntax remains their strongest superpower.

Once these Let Billions Suffer voters see how gruesome letting billions suffer gets they will surely come crawling back to the Let Millions Suffer party and we’ll finally be able to win elections without catering to those troublesome Nobody Should Suffer radicals

Don’t get how Pain Suisse are everywhere now, but I saw precisely zero en Suisse.

Kittens at Play 1897 Henriëtte Ronner-Knip (Dutch, Belgium 1821–1909) Oil on Canvas Dimensions: Height: 113 cm (44.4 in); Width: 85 cm (33.4 in) #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt #catlover #caturday

GitHub Copilot allowed this guy to spend $25 for every dollar of subscription, or put another way, $11,432 of tokens for $451

WAITRESS: Welcome to I Love The 90s Grill and Bar! What can I getcha? KID: I want the Macarena And Cheese! WAITRESS: For you, ma’am? MOM: The…Rodney King Crab? WAITRESS: And you, sir? DAD: The eggs. WAITRESS: You have to say it. DAD: *sigh* Jesus Christ. Okay. I’ll take the Sarajevos Rancheros

I sometimes feel insane that we don't constantly talk about the time Labour gave a black guy who was poised to unseat Nigel Farage the sack because he was a better poster than Keir Starmer

so much of modern conservatism is just loudly and publicly proclaiming either "I am terrified of everything" or "I am a complete fucking idiot"

I ORDER MY COFFEE BLACK. NO SUGAR. NO MILK. NO WATER. NO CUP. THEY HAND ME THE BEANS. I EAT THEM IN THE PARKING LOT LIKE A HORSE. THE BARISTAS HAVE STOPPED CHARGING ME. I HAVE NOT SLEPT SINCE TUESDAY. I CAN HEAR THE WIFI

Funny things still happen over at the bad place This guy put a prompt in his LinkedIn and now AI recruiters are writing him in Old English and calling him "my lord"

Also to be clear it will be Labour's fault if we get a Reform government because they could stop it all by introducing proportional representation. It is literally that simple.

It's interesting how it is always the left wing's fault that fascists rise to power, as opposed to the centre's. This is, of course, despite the fact that the centre are the ones in power who have declared that racism is 'reasonable', transphobia is acceptable, and the disabled don't need money.

Wes Streeting origin story

Love this for them #subnautica #videogames #gaming

I do think shame & consequences for unsupervised LLM use is part of the solution. Else we’re all sunk.

Begging that at least one Labour mp comprehends this (unlikely)

"Was anyone here bitten by a zombie and decided to keep it a secret?" "Who is going to make a doomed attempt to make a deal with the terrorists who have taken us hostage?" "Which of us betrayed humanity to the alien invasion in exchange for a senior position in the puppet government they install?"

The human body needs more metrics, I’ve been spoilt by the Freestyle Libre. Like, when I fill my lungs and sinuses with brine and expel various colours and thicknesses of goo, is that *progress*? Am I working through a backlog, holding it off, or slowly losing?

[BATCAVE, INTERIOR] ALFRED: "Sir, I must say, the persistently damp environment of this cave is clearly damaging the very complex technology you rely on to fight crime" BATMAN: "OK, fine, we'll move" *ONE MONTH LATER* [BATHOUSE, INTERIOR] BATMAN: "... this is worse, if anything"

interesting rationale from a prospective juror in the Elon Musk Twitter stock manipulation case

Wife: "How did you sleep?" Me: "Not great, got a lot on my mind" Me at 3.46am:

A fun little afternoon exercise, what if a central York map but in the style of 3D era GTA? An experiment in squishing recognisable places down while keeping the general plan and feel of it.

why do we not have lower case and upper case for numbers

Now and always.

my theory is that during the pandemic a lot of normal people hung on social media all day for the first time in their lives, and since they didn't have any defenses from doing so since the early internet they just kinda went Internet Insane, and now we have an industry keeping them insane for profit

Something very striking in the fact the markets - and I know they're different markets - are freaking out about the idea of Andy Burnham as PM, but entirely blase about the situation in the Strait of Hormuz and the fact we're about to run out of oil.

lol

Before World War I, there was a prevailing theory among economists that no major war between great powers could possibly last more than ~6 months because economic factors would force governments to end wars so as not to destroy national economies. This is quite literally economic theory from 1910.

OH WOW i.guim.co.uk/img/media/70...

love it when Somerset is in the news for daft shit, makes me really miss it

Keir Starmer today

Well, the left hate him because he's the figurehead of a multi-year effort to excise them from democratic representation, the right hate him because they think he's a Muslim communist and everyone else was pretty disengaged already and he ran on change then didn't change much. That about cover it?

You know that there’s some headline writer out there waiting for Miliband to take over from Keir so they can finally use the line Red Ed Redemption