Like an AI bot, Trump will come up with a form of words to meet a given situation. These words will not correspond to reality, but they will be words that have worked before. Here his personal language model selects “in negotiations” as something to say to get of this situation, and so he says it.

But zooming out a bit, the fact that Trump is trying to deploy ICE this way should be a bigger red flag for Americans. He's essentially using ICE as his own private army, the same way the Ayatollah uses the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to protect the Revolution, but not necessarily the country.

I am actually horrified to see ads for Gemini, CoPilot etc on TV and billboards that present the bots as though they can provide useful information to people who need answers. And without *any* disclaimer that the output is unreliable, potentially dangerous. This is insane. How is this allowed????

Now that we’re realistically in a prolonged regional war I want to talk about how Iran converts US operational overmatch into a sustained, costly quagmire. But I also get that I’m a rando girl on the internet to anyone who will see it, so I have included cat tax.

GB News has turned into the Reform channel. After a New World investigation found hundreds of breaches of the rules on accuracy and impartiality, Ofcom has failed to do its job and act. We've seen what Fox News has done to politics in the US. We can't let it happen here.

One thing this Iran operation should do is embarrass the hell out of Russia. In the opening minutes of the war, most of Iran’s leadership was dead, and their air defense was largely neutralized. Meanwhile, four years later, Zelenskyy still stands. There’s levels to this.

My husband's BP was high at the doctor's office. The doctor addressed the issue. My husband said, "Fox news was on in the waiting room." Now they play the Food channel.

If you can see this post an Archer

When an IT greybeard prints a boarding pass instead of being judgemental you should ask yourselves: “what does he know that I don’t?” The answer is “been there, done that, seen the film.” Possibly more times than you will experience in a lifetime.

Understatement of the morning.

As a child I read Flatland, written in the Victorian era, in which women are triangles with lethal points. They were prepared for this future.

Someone came into the library where I work and asked me if we had a book about Pavlov's dog and Schrödinger's cat. I said it rang a bell but I wasn't sure if it was there or not.

What do you call someone who can't stop watching films with strong female leads? A heroine addict.

We turned away from the light when we invented a way to go online without the computer screaming in warning.

Haha! You may enjoy my breaking news cartoon…

I know my geeks will love this. This is an arithmometer. It's your Texas Instruments digital calculator's great grandpappy. They started making these in the 1850s. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arithmo...

Rubio just said Iran was slaughtering its own people in the streets, and I just wonder what he thinks happened in Minneapolis.

Say “We think of you as a vassal state” without saying “We think of you as a vassal state”… www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

This is Hippo. He's visiting Scotland for the first time. Had no idea they made squeaky toys for humans too. 14/10 (TT: kelseydarragh)

🖼️: Tango

A total solar eclipse seen from space. The shadow of the Moon looks like a giant bruise from the perspective of the astronauts aboard the ISS. #astronomy Image: NASA

Abolish the legal gender marker entirely. No government can be trusted to have a database of which people have changed theirs, no government has any business tracking what your gender is "supposed" to be in the first place.

That's a bloody awful pun, and I love it.

Happy #Caturday 😸

#PolishMeme "What if it is a prince?" "What if it's prince Andrew"?

Is it just me or do other neurodivergent people find marketing-type talk/communication doesn’t work in the same way for us?

Stop pretending we are ready. No European country has too much firepower. We lack cruise missiles. We lack ballistic missiles. We lack air defense. We need to step up on unmanned warfare and stack up much more on munitions

R.I.P. Palmerston, Larry the Cat's old friend and nemesis. www.royalgazette.com/general/news...

This must be how the vetting of Lord Mandelson was conducted, prior to appointing him Ambassador to the US ⬇️ m.youtube.com/watch?v=VtPG...

Guffo, Le Monde

Cartoon on Washington Post‘s mass layoffs

Very tidy Data Centre: Maslow's Hierarchy of Leads

Have never met anyone who went to Queen Mary who didn’t like it - I met my wife there. Caltech, though amazing, was a different kettle of fish. It pushes its students extraordinarily hard - and there is a human cost. Thanks for the inaugural lecture tip.

Learning to code is 90% turning your brain into a procedural modelling device with a strict set of patterns that mirrors the computer and only about 10% learning any given language.

Ruin a movie by replacing one word in the title with "sausage": Sausage! Sausage Hill Sausage Now The American Sausage Sausage Day Afternoon A Conneticut Sausage at the Court of King Arthur The Sausage Redemption Hotel Sausage

Cartoon by @andertoon.bsky.social.

Cattus Magnificus.

As an older tech person, it's legit heartwarming watching the TikTok generation discover why we all hate Oracle.

Change a letter, ruin a film: The Bog Country Big Fake Ben Cur The Rube Fuck Soup Star Bars The Italian Joy The Italian Jog The Muppets Bake Manhattan

Here ya go. Enjoy Cats vs Bears😂😂😂

CNN: DHS officials have come to FEMA staff and told them to limit the use of the word ice…they are worried that by posting something like, watch out for the ice, that it's going to become a meme….

When I was in high school I did a constitutional debate program and witnessed this exchange: JUDGE: what’s your favorite amendment? KID: the third JUDGE: why the third? KID: because if there’s soldiers in your house, the other ones really don’t matter BORN READY FOR 2026