mission accomplished FOR NOW but they will try again and we will have to remind them what their place is.

-5 minutes until the vote happens

vote in 30 minutes, if you haven’t called this is the best time to do it, make them feel the pressure or say goodbye to privacy in the eu pretty much indefinitely

I am sorry for the subtitles being slightly off on my last video, I fixed them hours ago but YT is having problems updating them for some reason, I am working on it rn

the posts i originally quoted about this got removed so fuck it we ball here is my own take on this fucking dystopian mess of a thing

MEGA IMPORTANT IF YOU LIVE IN THE EU NEW CHATCONTROL VOTE HAS BEEN FORCED FOR TOMORROW if it passes, we will see MASS AI SURVEILLANCE FOR MESSAGING eu-wide E2E ENCRYPTION MIGHT BE PARTIALLY OR COMPLETELY OUTLAWED IN THE PROCESS, MEANING THE COMPLETE DEATH OF PRIVACY THANKFULLY, we have a WEAPON

explaining sandwiches to a person from Hamburg: ok imagine a Hamburger

wait the fuck you mean Nokia owns Bell Labs now

i am using qwen code on my framework desktop, idk why it thinks it's claude code but it's probably the CLI that I am using either that or I did fuck up something with Claude Code during some tests that I made will look into it

NEW VID OUT :D www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1kf... I am still fixing stuff in the description so if anything is amiss there lmk lol

new video is uploaded and ready to go, just waiting for sponsor approval, will also make it available to patrons early in a few hours (just touching up the description/preparing subtitles rn)

TOM SCOTT READING QUOTES IN THE LATEST @theabigailthorn.bsky.social VIDEO

oh ok

dylan brady is extremely uncle coded (in a positive way)

VW South Africa kept making the original 1974 MK1 Golf up until 2009 under the name Citi so if you want and have enough money to import it you can get a newish vintage car from there ig

i love the piaggio porter because it's the funniest shit ever to just stumble upon what is clearly a japanese car pretending to be an italian car being used to do the most random shit all around europe

kagi works great

i was today years old when i found out that self control wasn't actually an original laura branigan song but yet another cover

trying to figure out what is wrong with my windows 11 computer when it gives me the most generic error screen imaginable

The Strait of Hormuz is open for transit

map👍

All of these are such a vibe, but Max Payne is just on a different level. Such an amazing use of photo textures and light, looks just as good as I remember. This makes me want to pick up and old prototype of mine, need to bring back the grimy game cities!

Before Sony kicked in with their classic PS1 ads, they were definitely still in their "90s cool weird dudes" era. "If you open your mind to the power of PlayStation, it will be difficult to close it"

WILL SMITH IS STILL ALIVE AND WELL INSIDE PROJECT GOTHAM RACING BABY

i have decided to open the main xbe from project gotham racing in a hex editor to kill some time while i am rendering some stuff and found the placeholder names for the game radios that are: Shite Dance, Shite Rock, Wank Dance Collection, Wank Rock Collection

🚨🇮🇹 Gigi D’Agostino banned Country Music in Italy He said, “It is not an Italian value, but an American degeneracy.” The Italian Ministry of Sound confirmed that any cowboy hats detected within 500 m of a discoteca will result in immediate deportation to Nashville. Your thoughts on this?

finding intel xeon engineering samples on aliexpress for the price of an average takeaway dinner:

i love how as humans we keep rediscovering and playing the same melodies over and over again lol

i have killed a mobo doing this before but that was a learning experience

this vision came to me in a dream

the difference in pricing to get the same internet package/speed between euro countries (even neighbouring ones) is INSANE like in my country with some haggling i can get true unlimited 5G for 15 euros a month but in others you need to pay 50 for the same exact offer

there is a 1999 news service from the italian TG5 news broadcast talking about the PS1 on YT where like half of the time is spent on a store clearly selling burned games and on one of the discs you can read the text WE ARE SORRY SONY BUT WE ARE UNEMPLOYED

has kimi k2 been trained on my old tf2 trade plaza chats

In 2000 years, after culture’s long slowdown, when the pre-AI-slop era gets mythologized as the last “real” golden age, people will be quoting Top Gear the way we quote the Romans today.

guys who used to google "ending explained" after watching a movie have evolved into guys who watch ai voice recaps of movies on instagram reels before they go to bed and do not know half of the stuff the model is recapping is hallucinated

I don’t think that we need to think Anthropic are heroes of the resistance or whatever, but I do think it’s illuminating who is able to see a couple years down the road and think “oh shit, I might be held liable for this stuff” in a way that, say, Planatir clearly isn’t.

shoutout to chinese companies using car DVR boards for everything and to 4pda for having threads with people experimenting with modifying car DVR firmware packages

We cannot and should not let generative AI take away these tiny, insignificant, but probably fun as hell jobs from artists

when is vw going to drop dieselgate 2 btw my 1.9 tdi is waiting impatiently

In 2002, Silvio Berlusconi owned Italy’s largest private TV network, Mediaset, while his government directly influenced RAI leadership. After attacking critics during a visit to Sofia, Bulgaria , calling their work “crime-like” , their shows disappeared from TV.

i was checking out the manual for an italian distributed hong kong made computer shaped famiclone from the 90s that ran educational programs and I found ALABMA

I have uploaded a small teaser for my next video on Patreon, voiced by the great @raycevick.bsky.social so yeah check it out if you are supporting me there, the actual video will be hopefully up before this weekend (working on cleaning up some sequences AND the sponsored spot, gotta pay my bills)

business skype call

this is going to play a small part in the next video lol

i was talking to my friend about idk political/military stuff happening in the US and he literally just went What The Fuck Sis Why Do You Care About Yankees When You Live In Paradise And The Sun Is Shining Let's Go Get Pizza And Fuck That Shit and I mean he kinda has a point

new video is coming out soon it just took longer than expected because for some reason I decided to do something kinda complicated on paper (not really in practice, just puzzle-like really, pretty fun) just to prove that if I could do it with zero real experience so can you