The boosters of AI are more like the manosphere crew than they realise, they’re just negging the entire human race instead of just women.

There's a section in one of my journalism classes where I prove to my students that AI is not going to make them irrelevant: We read recent Buzzfeed travel guide articles to places they've actually been to that were written by AI and they immediately feel better.

Feel like we’re 30 seconds from a rash of MacBook Neo mindfulness/digital detox articles. Have you accepted the limitation of 8Gb of RAM into your life? Let go of the 100 tab lifestyle.

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Amazing comment from military expert Phillips O'Brien in Paul Krugmans latest newsletter that Ukraine has provided more military aid to the US (anti-drone systems) than the US has provided to Ukraine this year! open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

*Trigger Warning* “Be careful, Dave”

As someone who went on the Internet for the first time in the early 90’s, I fucking loved the Internet. It has given so many things in life, and afforded me so many incredible experiences. And to see it, and technology in general where they are today is kinda soul crushing.

The defence of not voting Green because they’d “fuck up the economy” doesn’t work as well as it used

"Hey, you over there, in the shadows!" may well be one of the best jokes ever written

The banknote thing is the whole stupid microcosm of modern culture in miniature and we should all just stop engaging with these kind of arguments entirely. Honestly we could just put 10 year olds in charge of things and get a better level of discourse.

Had to check this was real and it is!

The trailer for EVERYONE IS LYING TO YOU FOR MONEY. In select theaters starting April 17th 🍿🤑🤣

Talk about unfortunate coincidences - he’s got the same name as the bloke who promised not to raise them, then supported tripling them in coalition with the Tories.

this is, all else being equal, easily the funniest thing the director of inside out could have said

Remember this video from the golden age of Pixar? “It Gets Better” was 16 years ago, perhaps Pete Docter should do an “It Gets Worse” sequel as he tries his hardest to enshittify something that was truly great youtu.be/4a4MR8oI_B8?...

Fully onboard the Angine de Poitrine hype train youtu.be/0Ssi-9wS1so?...

Suede’s best lineup: Brett Anderson (vocals), Bernard Butler (guitar), Mat Osman (bass), Simon Gilbert (drums), Stephen Fry (euphonium), Ian McKellen (kazoo), Pam St Clement (vibes).

conversely, if the codebase is kept in a good state (simple data flow, good constraints at boundaries), claude can make way better progress within it and introduces less incidental complexity with each change. the problem is, if you don't know what "good" looks like, you won't be able to maintain it

having used claude extensively for the past couple of months, i think there is still a lot of value to understanding your code and steering it intentionally. the amount of incidental complexity claude accumulates otherwise (which mostly results in bugs that it can't ever fix reliably) is staggering.

And by a distant moon I saw Ten thousand raiders, maybe more

So many things feel insane these days, but the constant press suggestion that somehow we’re the problem in our relationship with Trump/The US is beyond understanding

Someone mentioned this at work and I looked up my Steam account “Member since 13 October, 2004” - way to make me feel old Gabe!

“I have usernames older than you.”. Holy shit

We turned away from the light when we invented a way to go online without the computer screaming in warning.

The many AI people saying “software is a solved problem” need to show me receipts

Weather forecast in London: Sunny Reality: so foggy I can’t see the top half of The Shard from Waterloo

Finished Season 3 of Industry, hard to believe that a series can get so much better this late in the game, also can’t believe they Ralph Wiggum-ed my boy Rob, he needs to stop trusting rich people #Industry

GAFF: Too bad she won’t live! But then again, who does? DECKARD: I double checked and you’re right—she won’t live. I made a mistake, and that’s on me. Nice catch!

friend sent this over from the other place and unfortunately I did laugh

"Dad when was the first time you were scolded for not agreeing with a war?" "Ah son, let me tell you about the first Iraq war. We were lied to about babies being ripped out of incubators and everyone looked up Kuwait on a map. We wore Global Hypercolor t-shirts, which was the style at the time"

Are we going to have to rename Massive Attack to Massive again?

Watchmen meme but this time it’s me and I’m watching the US start a war in the Middle East in 1991, 2002, 2026

Having been to Pompeii, Herculaneum and Vesuvius in last two days kind of feels like I might be thinking about the Roman Empire every day for a bit. Also not sure what civilisation spent a lot of the last 2000 years doing when the Romans seemed to have a lot of it sussed back in the day

Not sure what I’ve done in particular to annoy the unions in Italy, but after the airport strike on Thursday that moved our flight to Friday, have now encountered a train strike. Still, solidarity!

The Terminator but he keeps shouting “I’m owning the libs” as he kills people and posting it on TikTok

Pompeii is amazing, everyone tells you it is but you don’t appreciate the sheer size of it until you get there, it’s an actual city, like walking round one of those books about the Romans you read as a kid.

Still amazes me you can just get up in the morning and be in somewhere like Pompeii by the afternoon

Starmer continuing his groundbreaking attempt to please nobody none of the time

This is some kind of nonsense century checkpoint, every sentence is cursed

“I taught my dog to vibe code“ - we did it guys, we’ve made AI uncool

The real questions about AI and the economy is “How many jobs do you think that that guy from Memento could successfully do?”

Really great to see PinkPanthress win the best producer Brit, well overdue for a women to win it anyway and she’s the real deal, was obvious from the first TikToks she put out

Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die was great but then I would say that as, like Gore Verbinski, I too am a middle aged Dad who thinks my kid’s should get off their phones.

Honestly, the first 2 seasons of Industry aren’t that good but season 3 makes up for it in just the first 3 episodes. Like someone watched Billions and went “we should make it more like that!”

If you were on the fence as to whether the current AI era is as ridiculous as the dotcom days, “Japan’s largest toilet maker is undervalued AI play, says activist investor” is a real Financial Times headline this week

The people who end up listening to purely AI generated music never liked music to start with

Starfleet Academy is fun, people should lighten up