Tired: Milkshake duck Wired: Crypto scam tortoise

I'm sorry but we can't be calling storms names like Dave

These people are just plain lying, both to us and themselves, and it's about time it gets called out as that rather than endless sympathetic pieces

Sadly the idea just didn't have legs

Many things make me feel irredeemably old but none more so than seeing Theo Walcott with a salt & pepper beard

This post honestly reads like a piece of epistolary science fiction, like some apocrypha from the world of mmacevedo

Eat the book, eat the book, eat the book...

The actual post announcing Anthropic's product is much more nuanced than just vibecoding. Also it's worth noting that IBM (big in the same space) also use LLMs extensively in modernising COBOL as well claude.com/blog/how-ai-...

Proper sickos.jpeg day this, absolute scenes

Davina McCall outside Mandelson's house

The aesthetics of this (not the message) are very Morris/Brooker coded, as if you had actually got Nathan Barley to slap together Nazi propaganda short-form video for you

The reaction to the removal of 4o from the ChatGPT interface is genuinely one of the strangest things I've ever seen. This community might be relatively small but there is a level of unprecedented fanatical devotion here

Evict your neighbours for cooking spicy food Free parking spaces for landlords WW2 service medals for anyone born 1946-1962 Benefits withdrawn if you are found to be a cyclist

RIP. Iconic in Falling Down, itself hugely underrated as a film

Raheem Sterling has joined Feyenoord Rotterdam. He's already played for Liverpool, so he's now 2/3 of the way to completing the cities mentioned in the Beautiful South's "Rotterdam (Or Anywhere)"

Can't think of the United Strand guy without thinking of

In my very first job, the Intranet software I was tasked with with using (Frontpage 98), helpfully named the header for the knowledge base page "knobhead.htm"

Even if this did ever get the go-ahead successive governments would pare it back until it's just a guided bus on a brand new motorway between Liverpool and Manchester

The rest of the world: Just use the letter J, it's right there Italy: No

"The deals you want to be involved in require discretion, trust, handshakes, privacy. This book announces that you are willing to sell all of these for a farthing" is such a perfect summary of Mandelson. The world's most notorious sex trafficker was a better judge of character than the current PM

Why does he look like John Torode

Gene Roddenberry: I invented Romulan Ale as a cautionary tale Pakistani distillery: At long last, we have created Romulan Ale from the classic Star Trek episode "Don't Drink The Romulan Ale"

This is an all-time heckle, up there with Gough Whitlam's response to "I'm a Country member"

Appears this is also true for fascism.

What's wrong babe? You've barely touched your stained glass England shirt

After reading this all I could think of was this Tweet

Think part of it comes down to that Tumblr meme about the two meanings of "respect". MAGA interpreted respect for the dead as the with-reverence-and-fealty version not just with-politeness version and then tried to foist it on everyone

Might have to bring the Daily Mail Headline Generator back

Don't forget the enormous piece of blank space when opening the app: bsky.app/profile/goon...

Big fan of whichever sub-committee at the Met Office went "for the new app design, let's put our logo in three different places on the screen, so people know what app they're using. And let's put the bottom one floating over actually useful info, that makes perfect sense"

aye

Whatever you do, do NOT look at any of the recent "Dilbert Reborn" strips he drew in the last few years before his death, some absolutely unhinged stuff

My answer is Ballard. Not only the perversity of "Crash" is chillingly parallel to that of LLM-generated atrocities, but this passage from "High Rise" describes a strain of sociopathy all too present in the narcissistic strain of people who are Very Online

Found this quite interesting (in Danish but you can hit translate in the browser) on the Greenland situation, how it isn't as clear cut as it might appear, with the Greenlanders and Danes not exactly in lockstep www.dr.dk/nyheder/poli...

Absolutely top notch WTF paragraph from a footballer's Wikipedia biography

RIP King

Noticing an uptick in will/inheritance dispute posts on Reddit legal advice subs after Christmas, wonder if it's a coincidence or a result of vexatious family dinners

Catching up on Stranger Things and can't take it seriously because every time they say Vecna I just think of the Vectron sketch from Mitchell and Webb

Alan Clark always comes to mind when this topic is raised

Fascinating thread this. For me the ones that drop off quickest are comedians and comedy writers - and it's not even because the comedy is offensive by modern standards, it just quickly becomes forgotten

there are no limits to what you can do with a car and still be allowed to drive again one day

Two ways to read this. One is “she lost on every substantive claim, completely failed in her attempts to ban trans staff from the workplace, and won mild procedural victories against her employers handling of her case”. The other way is, I guess, “point one is longer so it must be more important”

Really struggling to like Pluribus. It feels very much like Lost (pejorative), as opposed to e.g. Severance which feels very much like Lost (complimentary)

What is up with the thumb on the middle hand. What is it doing up there

Absolutely sensational if this is the Pagliacci origin story

sickos.jpeg www.itv.com/news/meridia...

BBC website's standards have been dropping through the floor of late but even I'm shocked at how bad the state of literacy is, not knowing how to spell palate correctly

I think at this point if you're including Diane Abbott - a woman who has never held government office, has been a backbencher since 2020, and is scarcely a government ally - on your list of political wrongdoers, we all know exactly what your real concerns are

Four boomers on a table in my train carriage. All of them with tones enabled on their phones. A cacophony of pings, whistles and boings. How do these people live

Saw the Running Man tonight and it was... okay. And that's fine. More films should be just okay