Another day out by rail, so having yet another go at getting the new Discontinuous Electrification (DE) and battery trains section of the #OLEBook right. I think I'm on the home stretch now! #thiswritinglife

Dead Shitposter's Society

Wednesday

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Heard an interview today where a guy said (and I'm paraphrasing) "LLMs have had years to train on every aspect of chess, read every book and article about it, review every match, but when they play, they STILL makes illegal moves. That tells you everything." And. Yup.

A reminder that if you live in England or Wales & were born between 1970-1990 – or even before 1970 – you can help protect your community by getting the MMR vaccine free from your NHS GP now. I did last year. www.nhs.uk/vaccinations...

Does anyone know if the class 230 battery train is running today? RTT is saying it's not

Just checking, it's now ok to flee your homeland, because you're afraid for your safety, and seek refuge in another Country? Glad we've cleared that up. Let's hear no more about immigration and refugees then.

The pronoun labeler, which was by far the most useful labeler on the site, was deleted by its creator. But thanks to @ripperoni.com there’s a new one available. I highly recommend it. It’s a great way to share your pronouns or see someone else’s pronouns at a glance. bsky.app/profile/pron...

Question to which I’d like the answer to be ‘yes’. As much as I enjoy a bus ride, particularly on one of our new green electric buses, the option not to sit in traffic for a chunk of the journey would be very much appreciated.

Why no Autumn Olympics for conker and leaf-based sports?

Drafts are not for overthinkers and perfectionists. They’re for wonky people trying to screenshot charts and copy report links from across the internet for their interminable threads

it will really be something if the Epstein Files unseat a British Prime Minster who isn't in them, and not the American President who was Epstein's best friend.

i'm not scared of AI taking my job. i'm scared my parents won't be able to tell whats real or not anymore.

AI intends to kill us all

I really hope people advocating to ban kids from SM read this. Some kids are isolated by disabilities or circumstances. Furthermore, some kids grow up in abusive households. “Ideally, a child’s exposure to online worlds should be moderated by their parents” isn’t a reassuring sentiment for everyone

Please do watch the new episode of The Muppet Show if you can. It’s good for what ails ya.

@bsky.app free dril

DO NOT DO THIS TO DRIL OF ALL CREATURES ON THE INTERNET COME ON @bsky.app

Nigel Farage is going to "save pubs" by cutting 5p off the price of a pint of beer... The £3 billion cost will be funded by reinstating the two-child benefit limit. This might be the worst policy anyone has ever come up with. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Here in the UK it is cold and wet but there is at least the positive that the days are getting longer quite rapidly now. At 51 degrees north where I live we will gain an extra 24 minutes of daylight this week as this #dataviz shows.

It was scary 😁🤣

Where is my packet of googly eye stickers when I need one.

Getting up to speed, having been ill last week. Might take another week off having just read this quote in Rail: "30% of the £40 billion allocated for electrification & signalling in a Control Period is because of increased costs due to the boom-and-bust cycle” www.railmagazine.com/news/railway...

Fun fact: In blind tests, people can't reliably tell the difference in sound quality between a signal conducted through expensive audiophile cables or a banana. "Premium" audio cables are a scam. Especially considering that for the price of 1 meter of cable, you can get several meters of bananas.

It’s time to ban social media for the over-60s, restrict their screen-time and implement upper-limit age verification.

if they can offer free AI training they could offer free media literacy training too. i know which of those would do more for the public good

so the whole pitch was "this thing will make stuff easier" then why do I have to learn it? I thought the whole point of technology is that it will conform to me, not the other way around

Well this is excellent news - if studying atUniversity of Salford and being the (actual) first member of a family to get a degree qualifies a person to stand in the Gorton and Denton by-election, then I guess I'd better stand. Anyone want to contribute to my campaign fund?

And half the politicians pontificating about it do so on a far-right paedophile website, without the slightest self-awareness about how ridiculous they look.

Horrific. We are disembloweling any sense of online privacy in the name of child safety.

For self-defence, I've turned off 'autoplay' for films & gifs. I've also added some words to the muted words list.

GRAPHIC 👏 MEDIA 👏 TAG OR DO NOT POST IT

PLEASE learn how to use content warnings if you're going to post video of an execution. I can't believe I have to say this.

at least use the graphic media tag

Just so we're clear, and so a tiny handful of wankers online don't create the wrong impression, the vast majority of your European friends are incredibly impressed by Minnesotans' courage against both the ice and ICE.

Turn off autoplay, put your phone down/back away from the computer a while, the way social media and the news works you're probably going to end up seeing it some time but it's abrupt and appalling and just... If you don't need to, don't, the knowing is enough. This is exactly what it is.

For Jim Moir/Vic Reeves' birthday, a reminder it's thirty years this year since this advert.

It is extremely exciting to be goverened by people who literally do not understand how computer make beep.

tremendous thread, enjoying this

Heard a lad earlier talking about ‘Belgian whistles’ “A basic website costs 10k or 25k upwards if you want all the Belgian whistles” BELGIAN WHISTLES

Amazing sob story: "ChatGPT deleted all the work I hadn't done" www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I was only just yesterday talking with my hairdresser about section 28 & how wonderful it is now to see kids wearing pride badges on their school blazers and bags when only a generation ago repression & anti LGBT+ bullying was state mandated at school. I refuse to cede an inch backwards.

If it ever seems like GenX and elder Millennials are obnoxiously loud about queerphobia and, specifically, trans rights, you have to remember we grew up in a society saturated by homophobia and decided "never again". This shame and hatred must not simply be redirected. It must end with us.

Incredible thread...

Head canon: Pingu is clearly seen interacting with a polar bear. Pingu therefore can only be a northern hemisphere penguin - aka the great auk, aka the OG penguin. Pingu is amongst the last survivors of a species thought to be extinct.

In Glasgow today for Scotland's Railways & engineering & innovation conference. 100% agreement with Bill Reeves: discontinuous electrification is 'a start' & can infilled later, but doesn't support freight & doesn't allow fleet cascade.

Rule of thumb with transport crashes: ignore generalist media. See also reporting on the Air India incident.

The New World asked me to speak to some British trans women about what life has been like for them over the past few years - here's what they had to say, in their own words: www.thenewworld.co.uk/marie-le-con...