the strait of hormuz needs to have regular, predictable open hours or frankly they are going to lose me as a customer

Not known for their Sense of humor economist.com/culture/2026...

And right before he does, literally minutes before, *someone* is consistently making absolutely huge market bets, and they've made hundreds of millions of dollars now But that's probably a coincidence we should give no further thought to

"Hello, I am mental"

The only reason companies get to be absolutely awful is because legislators allow them to be, and I think we should reflect upon that more as a society

It is fascinating imagining different politicians attempting this same thing

I feel it's important to share with you all former MLB baseball player Munenori Kawasaki's guide to maintaining your athleticism. youtu.be/LdGai72Tt8Y?...

Telling another cowboy to stand down:

"I got this friend, big fat guy, I won't tell you his name, he's so fat, wants me to stop talking about him being fat and neurotic and unstable and fat, let's just call him 'Elon M', and he's so fat, what was I talking about?"

If I might translate this: you can run an LLM on a cheap (~£300, e.g a Raspberry Pi5 with AI Hat+ 2) computer you own, in your house, disconnected from the internet, which will never give your data to Sam Altman or Elon Musk or Mark Zuckerberg, and will outperform ChatGPT from a year ago

A few months ago, any LLM that I could run on my Macbook scored 0% on an agentic coding eval I put together. This month's Qwen 3.5 and Gemma 4 releases both scored 90%. On my blog: simonpcouch.com/blog/2026-04...

I think a lot of AI/corporate doomers are still fundamentally not understanding that open-source models you can run locally on consumer hardware are no worse than two years behind the frontier models and for most purposes a lot closer

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Schrodinger’s Strait of Hormuz

Mistake #2: Not noticing the sixth child was just snatched by Slenderman.

Mistake #1: the dog is a racist, i can tell

I love how alien these are becoming and hard to spot, I missed the style needing an extra vertical support. Did wonder if the girl wearing trousers was meant to be an error.

Keir Starmer must be sacked for employing Mandelson because he thought he was in with Trump, say people who have a ten year history of writing opinions on why Trump is great and we should bend the knee to his every whim.

my unpopular opinion is that we're better off with Kash running the FBI and we should hope he keeps his job as long as Trump does

This picture of Astronaut Christina Koch after the Artemis landing is frankly incredible and beautiful.

I will never tire of pointing out that an LLM is exactly as intelligent as a Magic 8 Ball They're doing the same trick Increasing model size is like adding more 8 balls Would a million Magic 8 Balls be intelligent? Would a billion? Is there any number of them which would qualify as intelligence?

The worst part being when you tell people this and they go, "Well, man, what even *is* intelligence? Aren't we, in a way, just predictive?? What's the difference???" Then they open up draft kings

RE: https://social.marxist.network/@yogthos/116421997138435810 This was only a matter of time, but congrats on China on reaching the 125 GWe milestone! That's around 1000 TWh of clean energy (around 10% of their electricity production) and there's at least another 100 GWe in the pipeline.

It's a long thread but the "headline story" will be passed off as fact by the Reform and pub racist lads

Why do the Japanese like their buns askew (2026)

Machine translation is a beautiful thing

A lot of Gargamels.

Would those top party consultants be the same ones whose advice led to them losing in 2016, led to them not doing shit to stop Trump during Biden's presidency, led to their disastrous 2024 campaign, & led to this current moment where America has a mad king? Because if so, maybe ignore them, eh?

Women are my favourite guy

Shit Still, look at them in this picture; they be fuckin (& maybe want a third)

A VCR never sold my private info to a nazi

Valve is still learning about bad bitch blasters

First test of this set-up - I drilled a 15.5cm deep, 3mm wide hole in a bit of scrap My technique needs work, & the bit wasn't quite straight, but the hole only deviated by 3mm over that length, which is about 1⁰ if you do the trigonometry (I did) Not bad at all

soldier, writing a letter roughly 12 hours before getting blown up by a friendly drone strike because of bad ai intel: "mr hegseth sent us a big bag of convenient dry food that we can take on the go, and there's a cute dog on it to remind us what we're fighting for"

RIP to Nottingham's Xylophone Man, I very much doubt that you were actually a millionaire out to trick people

Peter mandelsons entire career is like a cursed pharaohs amulet that kills everyone that tries to use its power and every other week some Labour party idiot picks up and goes have we tried using the pharaohs amulet

Can we ever forgive America for making life so exhausting?

What a coincidence, this is also my opening move in Cities: Skylines

"Jesus Christ, Superstar. Came down from heaven on a Yamaha." Stunts 3:27

One other prediction: Hegseth is going to deal with this by banning military personnel from taking pictures of their food, rather than by sending them proper food Possibly make examples of some people Maybe he'll ban all communications with home entirely That's what a bad leader would do

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The thing about the right is, they want to be able to attack their opponents as if politics were an existential battle of good versus evil they are on the right side of, but demand to be treated by them as if politics were a good faith disagreement among gentlemen about optimising the tax code.

Fucking hell The US military has been, for at least the past 50yrs, simply the best logistics operation ever in all of history. Not to sound flippant, but their ability to serve burgers & ice cream at scale to personnel anywhere on Earth in 48hrs or less is impressive as hell & key to their power