The large "tech" (actually ad) companies, Google, Meta etc, are convinced people will continue using them no matter what, and this may well be when we test this assumption.

Website design peaked at around that time. The only noticeable UX improvement is responsiveness for viewing on smartphones. Otherwise modern sites tend to be bloated and slow without offering users anything more.

I've done it, I broke the algorithm. I see ads for dealing with tax if you earn more than £100k, and how to survive while unemployed.

Tina Turner put one hell of a caveat in Simply the Best, pivoting from all the rest to everyone I've ever met which would be a considerably smaller number of people. I hope someone raised it with her.

I seem to agree with more of his opinions than any potential new Labour leader.

London mayor Sadiq Khan blocks £50m Met police deal with Palantir

Among many silly opinions in this piece, I LOLed at this. I've observed unspeakable waste of time and money in private companies providing services. www.cityam.com/a-state-of-t...

Just a reminder, if you too are not too keen on the upcoming Odyssey film, you could always watch this film (again) that's, sort of, based on the same story, but is actually pretty fun ;) youtu.be/sRnxr4XF9yA?...

The longer you look at this, the worse it gets

Let's see how well Londoners deal with climate change next week.

Apollo 1 crew before testing:

Labour members in the 65+ age group are the most keen on: 1. rejoining the EU 2. raising taxes 3. hostile environment

Did Ukraine give us our only point in Eurovision for NOTHING

Bluesky finally going mainstream?

Arsenal win English premier league

For 25+ years, the implicit deal of the internet was: 1) Publishers create content. 2) Search engines index it. 3) Search sends visitors back. 4) Publishers monetize visitors through ads, subscriptions, products, reputation, or community. ⚠️ AI-native search changes step 3.

Oh no. I'll need to become a morning person within 30 days. Any tips?

If he is looking for a new challenge, he can have a go at Labour leadership.

It's fine, I will simply walk into the sea when I run out of money

Everything is your fault. Not saving for retirement? You failed! Climate change? Your fault! Wasting 2h daily commuting? Idiot! Not eating 5 a day? Bad choices!

Food discourse will only die out when we're all on rafts, eating algae and drinking brackish water from a solar still, wondering how ethics in games journalism led to the end of the civilisation...

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Despite subsequent governments being progressively harsher on people migrating to the UK, some voters are never satisfied. Even if arrivals went to zero. They want "some" people already here legally to be deported. I am sure they have specific criteria about which ones.

At least it normalises such policies and such conversations. And nobody can claim we didn't give Brexit a go. 6 years of hard Brexit and the only good thing is that the Tories are done.

Not now highly lethal Ebola strain.

Good news, a human from Anthropic reached out to the CFO of Spindrift, and he is pleased to report that they were "maybe even more helpful than Claude (the most helpful AI tool in the world)." Again, NO lesson to be learned from this experience, do NOT try to infer one.

Do journalists always do voxpop interviews of voters in Northern towns at a time when you only find pensioners, teens skipping school and the unemployed at Costa because they want to get on the 5:15pm train back to London?

I wrote back in November about how easy it was to find leaked passport photos and driver's licenses online. The spills have only gotten worse in the months that age verification laws rolled out. We're reaching a point (if not already) where our government IDs aren't worth shit in the digital world.

Starmer faces his Waterloo

I hadn't realised dBase was still out there, and now it isn't.

Ford Prefect about Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Men will do *anything* except go to therapy

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me three times, wow you’re really good at this

I am sitting in a coffee shop with low level casual music playing. 2 people here, managerial types, are having 2 separate business meetings over Zoom. I don't understand people. There's music. The WiFi here isn't good. WiFi at home costs a few coffee cups, and you don't annoy others.

The good taxpayers of New York have given me a pair of Meta glasses because I am low vision disabled, and I seem to have used them more than a lot of people on here, so let me say a little about my experiences:

There was a time when light manufacturing or entertainment buildings were converted to residential or offices that paid more. Residential facilities are now the victims, data centers pay more.

Man Inspects Perimeter To Find Most Vulnerable Entry Point To Hamburger https://theonion.com/man-inspects-perimeter-to-find-most-vulnerable-entry-po-1849717059/

WTF is "preparing to resign", can the man not find a pen

But it's also just the inability of our media to cover Brexit? You have a series of contradictory promises and blatant lies, the desired output of which is fundamentally undeliverable. Faced with articulating that, there is a retreat into covering controversy, which further enables bad politics.

The UK News Forecast is in.

lol

you can use LLMs to produce the best code of your life you can use LLMs to produce the worst code of your life

A British political system ruthless enough to topple failing leaders when they have run out of road still looks a lot healthier than an American political system that can't bring itself to topple a failing leader that has tumbled into complete insanity

Burnham, disembarking Avanti West Coast

I just now decided to have a look at Greece's entry in Eurovision, and I am sorry but WTF is this?

slightly increase a band empress

We lost Douglas Adams 25 years ago today. This has made a lot of people very sad and has been widely regarded as a bad move.