The AI image generation was really quite bad indeed - for example in one prompt I asked for a man sitting behind a desk with his arms crossed. Folks - the image that came back had two dismembered arms on the desk (?) and I asked for an image of a young man wearing a hoodie with a logo of an owl on

What I am doing about 3.45pm Wednesday - my #HouseofLords fatal motion explained protectthewild.substack.com/p/a-critical...

All is so very peaceful in Sligo this evening.

House of Lords should strip Mandelson of peerage, says Starmer. That alone won't do. Mandelson leaked sensitive govt info. How many times did he do so? Who benefited from the leaks? Mandelson advised Starmer. Starmer made him US ambassador. What did Starmer know?

With FIFA World Cup matches due to be played in 11 US cities, the shooting of innocent people by ICE raises serious concerns about the safety of fans travelling to America, especially those at risk of racial profiling.

It's time for a truly massive general strike. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-thought-enough

The real threat to Greenland isn’t from the north — it’s from the west.

Project Zeno ~ Concept maps, simples

When tools for production are cheap and abundant, process and perspective become the edge. #ai #tools #design

All too timely poetry on the Tube. We need much more #PublicArt - space for reflection, not just selling things

Alternatively: this is, for computing, business as usual, operating ever nearer the edge of failure while users still largely treat computers as more perfect (and more magical) than they can ever be.

GenAI was described by Pratchett in feet of clay in 1996 btw ⬇️ wiki.lspace.org/Dis-organiser

America has 925 billionaires as of this year. Collectively they have a record $6.9 trillion in wealth. The bottom 50% of Americans control $4.2 trillion in wealth. When 925 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

#GoodNews #CampaigningWorks www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/new...

If this blows up it will take Blackrock and possibly JP Morgan with it...

#WomensHistory #WomenInScience Hertha Sponer conducted early spectroscopic work in the 1920s and 1930s that experimentally confirmed the predictions of quantum mechanics

Remember: The richest 1% evade over $160 billion in taxes every year. That amount would fund SNAP for a year with money to spare. Ask yourself who the real freeloaders are.

Exactly. Musk and the DJT cabal are all heartless and cretinous murdering wannabees already, if not actually.

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12/10 ~ Exactamundo

“The wealth gap is choking off growth, funnelling resources into property and financial assets rather than productive investment. It is worsening the housing crisis, which now stands as both a symptom and a driver of broader inequality” @fairness.bsky.social fairnessfoundation.com/risks-2025

Contrary to the PR hype the UK banking industry is not a paragon of free markets, efficiency, or honesty. It is scandal-ridden. Can you name a pristine bank? Govts shower subsidies and favours upon the industry in the hope that it will deliver economic renaissance. It never has.

The state is not needed for censorship. Private companies are shaping public discourse with censorship (lex X), withdrawing sponsorship (lex BA) and disciplining employees for political statements. Theroux will be fine, but ordinary people are being silenced. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...

You are otherworldly, a mind that travels to unearthly dimensions of specters- seeing mazes upon mazes of unknown life beyond imagination- and I’m here for the show #vss365 #poetry

The US right-wing Christian fundamentalists have been seeking traction in the UK for decades. The risks are now even greater www.theguardian.com/global/2025/...

Warning signs from an obscure part of the financial markets have got policymakers rattled, and one of their oldest and most profound fears may be about to get very real.

Alternatively "Swamp the drain"

Everything Trump is doing now is a preamble for his regime's real goal: to invoke the Insurrection Act. I don’t want to unduly alarm you, but you need to be aware of this imminent danger. Let me explain what’s going on.

Totems of Weaponized Inadequacy

12/10 ~ Perfectamundo!

Any fool blithely saying they’ve now had a bit of a think about the ECHR and we should leave - is part of why we’re now stuck in the mess of Brexit, being told by the far right to hand our human rights over to them to administer. FFS people. Have you learned nothing from the last decade of failure?

I'll tap the sign again.

Same klan, different klux

Stephen Miller describing the Democrats as a "domestic extremist organization" is a prelude to the abolition of elections and a complete fascist takeover of the USA. Nobody should be in any doubt whatever that that is what these people have in mind. That's where this is going.

After thought consideration (and swearing into the void), I declare I am my own Large Language Model (LLM) Thank you for your attention to this matter.

GPT-5 has been pretty underwhelming so far. No shocking - the GPT-4 series also had similar issues at first. However we start to see LLM hitting their limit. Getting to the next steps won't happen without a fundamental shift from LLM into new architectures.

I think one my absolute favorite things about the JavaScript ecosystem, that nobody ever talks about, is support for source maps, and just how complex and innovative that is. 🧵 [1/5]

I want you to know that in the UK now, 2,025 autistic people and people with a learning disability remain locked away for nothing. In care facilities this is going on everywhere ⬇️ The human rights scandal of it is catastrophic. www.itv.com/news/2025-03...

Patriots, Reformorons, and most importantly, idiots.

A reminder that while a few horrible people try to destroy everything, so many more are making the world better. Michael promotes earth-friendly, carbon sequestering building technology for our collective future.

Gender pension gap equates to £7,600 a year, say union leaders. Despite equality laws women continue to lose. Women punished for child bearing and caring responsibilities. Lower pension results in greater insecurity and anxiety.

Please spare a thought today for Paul Swank, a young man from Missouri who parachuted into occupied France, and was killed in action on August 17th 1944. valor.militarytimes.com/hero/22714

The DC sandwich slinger, a US airforce veteran and former DOJ attorney, was freed earlier this week. A federal judge ruled charges against him are ridiculous.

If you walk the dogs all the time, you can see every change. There is some progress around me, but it is so so hard, to see all those new and not cheap combustion engine cars popping up, no efforts on insulation, etc. Seems everyone was waiting for a new rule set and nothing happened.

The upward redistribution of wealth over the past 50 years has shifted $80 trillion from the bottom 90% of Americans to the top 1%.  That’s $80 trillion that would have gone into the paychecks of the working class. The greatest trick of all is trickle-down economics.