This is who you're arguing with online...

Since the sun was out today, I scraped myself out of bed and went for a ride to test a new drone ... www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewge...

So it turns out that the Ukraine 'peace plan' was indeed mostly written by the Russians. Essentially a wish list.

So, one extremely right-wing newspaper is buying another extremely right wing newspaper. And they complain about news bias? What next? The Times is just the Daily Mail with a suit on.

MTG resigned? arf!

Ahh New Pluribus... *magnet-click*...

Russia. It's Russia. R.U.S.S.I.A... Got it? Good. ... Helps to have a Russian wife.

Crypto-people this week....

Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other. Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq

New graf in Bristol, Old Market. #Trump #Netanyahu "Come Play With Us"

@mrjamesob.bsky.social Hi. I heard you like creativity... AI will destroy it.. Future art (of any medium) will suffer. And when it comes to actual human intelligence, the kids of today will have an atrophied brain tomorrow, due to their addiction to it all.

Happy to see the markets apparently, slowly coming to their senses and making corrections to the vastly overpriced assets out there. Even the non-existent digital ones.

RIP Mani. Lovely bloke. Met him at a friend's NYE party in Monmouth years ago. Saw him play many times for the Stone Roses and Primal Scream. damn.

ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-l... End of The Line ...

Larry Summers and OpenAI say he has resigned from the OpenAI board, after a US House committee released his emails with Jeffrey Epstein (Ben Berkowitz/Axios) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

The Financial Times has reported that Oracle's $ORCL $300 billion OpenAI deal is already underwater, now worth MINUS 74 billion

OK. Who was the one person to vote to not release the Epstein files?

It's amazing to think that all an 'adversary' has to do these days to cause mass disruption is to knock out Cloudflare or AWS.

AI-Powered Teddy Bear Caught Talking About Sexual Fetishes and Instructing Kids How to Find Knives gizmodo.com/ai-powered-t...

Sundar Pichai says there is some "irrationality" in the AI boom, the industry can "overshoot" in investment cycles, and "no company is going to be immune" (Faisal Islam/BBC) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

By starting an investigation into other people’s ties to Epstein, Trump and the DOJ might have made it harder to release any more Epstein files, since then there would be an “ongoing investigation” which could block their release, regardless of any vote.

This is how the AI bubble will pop ...

C'est moi

Apparently, Epstein is in the Trump Files!!

Jeffrey Epstein and his brother Mark... "Ask him [Bannon] if Putin has the photo of Trump blowing Bubba"

So much random stuff in the documents released yesterday re: Epstein. Hundreds of pages of random books. Court documents. Address books. Pitch decks.. .. pages and pages of Trump's financial disclosure report from 2019. Emails from Epstein to himself.. so random..

Something else which these emails bring to light is that these people don't give a damn about typing coherent, well-punctuated emails.

In any reasonably sane country of people with an ounce of intelligence, the "pussy grabbing" recording would have ended any man's attempt to be the leader of the country. Alas, I suppose the words "sane" and intelligence" simply don't relate to anything in the once united States of America. #Trump

DJI Neo 2 released. Very affordable, feature-packed little 4K drone - Support cinematic or FPV modes. Lots of fun! Better than the Neo 1, but not as good as the Avata 2. www.dji.com/uk/neo-2

@jamestagg.bsky.social Hello there. Do you have any idea why the recent Epstein files release has zip files full of images, one of which is essentially page scans from page 287 onwards of your book "Are the Androids Dreaming Yet?" Were you even aware of this?

In one of the large zip files of images in the newly released Epstein documents, it's just a load of pages scanned from the book "Are the Androids Dreaming Yet?: Amazing Brain. Human Communication, Creativity & Free Will." by James Tagg. No context as to why all that's there. Weird.

@mrjamesob.bsky.social You mean "Boondoggle" - A waste of public money and time.

So, about this extra 20,000 #Epstein emails/documents released yesterday... To whom were they released? And where? Is there a big OSINT effort somewhere to go through this tranche of evidence?

follow the money ..

BREAKING: US House Speaker Mike Johnson has told Erik Wasson that a VOTE ON THE EPSTEIN BILL will occur. Says the vote will be a straight up or down, but the vote is "completely pointless" and "they might as well get it done"

If one good thing comes out of the recent BBC hullaballoo with Trump, I hope it's that Auntie will pull out all the stops now, to verifiably and factually bury that disgusting orange pedophile bastard criminal.

A direct email exchange from 2011 between Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, just released by House Oversight Committee Democrats.

"ChatGPT made me delusional" ... www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRjg...

when the bouncers have reluctantly let me into the club but immediately realise they’ve made a horrible mistake

The Oatmeal's take on AI generated 'art'... theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art ....

Just found a live video stream of accountants from OpenAI, Nvidia, Oracle, etc... #AI

Fair play to Sam Fender for donating his £25,000 Mercury Music Prize to Music Venue Trust. Without the grassroots venues they're helping to keep open, we're absolutely stuffed when it comes to nurturing new talent. musicvenuetrust.bsky.social

This is pretty much how I've always seen this argument ... #BBC

A Munich court sides with Germany's music rights society GEMA in a case against OpenAI, saying OpenAI can't use song lyrics without a license; OpenAI can appeal (Reuters) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Inside The Mind Of A 16-Year-Old "From Andrew Tate to Bonnie Blue to Nigel Farage - what do first time voters think about social media, politics, the state of Britain and their futures?" demos.co.uk/wp-content/u...

Adam Ant last night in Bristol

People should probably question Fox News' heavily edited interviews with Trump, where they always leave out the incriminating bits.

Hearing Nigel Farage on the radio talking about BBC biases just goes to show how twisted and bent this whole issue is. You want bias? Here you go...

the right winger who was appointed to lead the BBC in the hope of appeasing right wingers has been driven out by right wingers for not appeasing right wingers enough and the BBC has the chance to do the funniest thing ever