Wait what the FUCK

Wait what the fuck

Big takeaway from this story is that Dubai is such a terrible place to live a guy voluntarily took three decades in prison over staying there lol

Clicking through on “disappeared” here is honestly fucking horrifying

ME: I need a molded plywood splint to reduce injuries suffered by wounded servicemembers in transit CHARLES & RAY EAMES: here you go ME: I also need an educational film illustrating the powers of ten and the nicest chair anyone has ever seen CHARLES & RAY EAMES: you're not going to believe this

They have competitions of speed running making crank dat. youtube.com/shorts/j7gI_...

It’s the equivalent of putting toddler locks on the cupboard of cleaning products under the sink

This dude got everyone in the world to sing the first two bars of Seven Nation Army for about a decade, Americans ought to simply run him for president

Nice returns. Diminishing?

I don't know who needs to hear this, but i will NEVER call you to ask for your verification code. it is 648319

we've lost so much

There’s a guy on Vinted selling “William Morris” prints that are… just genAI slop that isn’t even vaguely in the style of Morris?

I wrote about how all our politicians and media are incompetent. I guess that means I’m officially back in the writing game

Co-sign on this one. Shingles is one of the all time top miserable experiences. And I say that as someone who’s had one of their legs reconstructed

Thinking of this in the context of colleagues this week. Thanks to the GFC and covid, we’re all mentally in our early 30s even as our backs give out and we go grey

Been at an intense work thing all week so belatedly catching up with bsky, which seems to be having fun with the bitcoin crash and the emo secret policeman, good to see

More broadly we're in one of the very, very few periods in global history in which, with some notable exceptions, life has got better for virtually everyone on the planet, consistently, for several decades. That's a hell of a mental bias towards Whiggish thinking to try and overcome.

People will often come close to directly stating this, such as their disbelief that Trump could order a nuclear strike. I remember in autumn 2016 people telling me that republicans would never let Trump be elected

he's really adorable and sweet, I hope he's able to make a good movie one day.

Thinking back fondly to when salvia was legal. You could walk to the corner store and buy a little thing of scuzz that sent you straight to the hell dimension from EVENT HORIZON.

I don't even believe in the antichrist but at some point you have to admit you've lost an argument

what the fuck man

It makes sense that the actually-real global cabal of powerful pedophiles made destroying USAID one of their first priorities. They have to protect the global supply of profoundly desperate poor kids - that’s exactly who they target for trafficking and rape.

That’s uncertaintyslop. You only like it because you’re epistemically humble

hearing that the history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles. annoying if true

The funny thing about a certain type of angry conspiracy guy is that they’re literally being confronted with an elite paedophile ring and a tyrannical government at the same time right now, and because it isn't being done by the people they wanted it to be done by they’re all being pussies about it

Mad to me that these sites don’t force / allow you to put dimensions in when you’re selling so that people can search by size. Seems such an obvious feature

AI tools are immensely powerful. The use of AI as a general purpose chat bot that is used like an encyclopaedia is the worst possible use of AI. AI is now, given good instructions from a knowledgeable user, capable of doing absolutely vast amounts of work extremely fast.

🎵 Workin' 9 to 9 That's no way to make a livin' Eatin' massive steaks Your heart is gonna give in When you die Nobody's gonna mourn ya They'll stick you in An unmarked grave in a corner 🎵

I had buddies working in tech in China after the tide started to go out and their companies went all 996, and 996 is either: super-strength presenteeism for 99% of employees, or is “CEO hours” for the execs, where you also count going to the gym and “offsites” as working

My sector has a reputation for burnout but at least we are doing something life-saving at the point of delivery. I can kind of understand the faustian bargain for wealth (either as a founder, or something in banks / big law) but otherwise… why would you do this lol

Like a lot of his films it asks “how much do you have a choice when someone in power is incentivising you to make a bad decision”. This film’s also about privilege and how people react to its loss. And “Can you elect not to compete, if others see you as a competitor”

I suspect that this is probably a lot worse for you, physically, than drinking and doing drugs but working normal hours with a sensible diet and moderate exercise

Watched No Other Choice last night. What a picture. Going to be sitting with that a while

reminds me of a friend who explained why recent years have felt so weird to so many millennials here and it’s because “we went into the pandemic young people and came out of it old”

from a biz perspective it's a question of if you have anything that is 1) slow to do, but fast to verify or 2) time consuming entirely because of how much reading you gotta do each time that it turns out an llm can do

The bargain of being hegemon was that you would shoulder the enormous cost of the enforcing international order at the much larger benefit of defining that order With elite gatekeepers disempowered by the internet, the people who understand this don’t have the power to keep it alive.

I have a lot of sweet potatoes and I am going to make a sweet potato corned beef hash for lunch. Wish me luck

Warehouse for John Lewis department store, Stevenage 1963 Felix Candela with Yorke Rosenberg & Mardall Image from RIBApix

You can either have world-renowned institutions which are a pillar of UK soft power, our economy and basically subsidise a broken funding model... or you can have a prejudiced, self-defeating immigration policy.

9 months without being able to do any cardio at all or really leave the house much and my blood pressure is completely normal. Exercise is a lie

This nurse has a textbook case of nominative determinism lol

Posting graphs of clean energy uptake definitely a happy space for me while I’m taking care of a sick kid, very possibly coming down with whatever he has and have medical appointments for three unrelated things this week already 🫠

Imagine! How could wind and solar ever compete with fossil fuel electricity across an entire year, across an entire block of 450 million people!?😉

HUGE moment for the EU car market as battery EVs overtake petrol cars for the first time ever But there's no "natural" demand for EVs amirite? Article by @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-evs...

Reminder that British journalists have a weird fetish for Harry Potter because it's a fantasy world where nobody mentions how fucking weird it is that everybody was privately educated in just five schools

I’ve been making this for years (I think the recipe was published a good decade plus ago) and coincidentally fed it to a sick, fussy kid a couple of hours ago. Key thing is that it tastes *nothing at all* like marmite on toast. And… it’s Nigella, c’mon it’s a guarantee