not often i say this but i believe him here

One of my many hobby horses is that the problem with WhatsApp in the workplace is that it replaces both written and informal chatting in ways that are often deeply inferior to both.

People are going to get hurt. It is insane that we are in this position. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

The fact that two low-budget horror films have beat out an actual Star Wars movie in the box office makes me so damn happy.

Oh my, that’s… not good

Happy Strait of Hormuz Opening Anchored for Simplicity Day to those who celebrate.

Hard to imagine how you lose a war that's fought entirely outside your own territory any more thoroughly than the US has lost to Iran. Is there a single way in which the US is strategically better off now than it was in February?

Today Microsoft moved all its GitHub copilot subscribers to token-based billing. If you want to see what happens when people have to pay the actual costs of AI, the day is finally here. It's obvious that every customer sees the deep, meaningful value and isn't angry at all.

My worry is net zero increasingly getting the reactionary centrist Very Real Concerns treatment that immigration has had over the last 20 years, accepting the oppositions' framing & attempting to meet them half-way and in doing so undermining & underplaying the moral foundations of your own argument

“This is censorship... This is a demonstration that some of the worst abuses in our time are not confined to kings, emperors, governments … but to a class of companies that have assumed the sovereign affect, and seek to assert their power the same way that some of those despotic nation states do.”

Pigotry

Wild to watch the limits of the imagination of the human race shrink in real time.

BBC couldn't get copyright permission to play the Horst Wessel Song.

£300,000+ a year.

the image of Sturgeon cautioning against panic buying while, just off-screen, Murrell is frantically trying to wedge 100 toilet rolls, eighty tins of baked beans and two twenty-litre cans of petrol into a cupboard

Stop calling it a ballroom and start calling it a throne room

Really enjoyed 007: First Light. Not a perfect game, but a solid, entertaining and a well written enough game that one can happily overlook its occasional flaws. And if the Gamergaters and performative ranters of X want to miss out on that because it has characters of colour, that’s their loss!

When the waiter tells you "Are you sure, it is very spicy":

The Arrival (1996)

Oh did you guys not enjoy Chud Stalingrad

Dance of the Eagle by Sainkho Namtchylak www.youtube.com/watch?v=2X_E...

Well that clarifies things then: Google’s AI is clearly a four-year-old.

Happy Saturfish everyone!

Where are the orcas when you need them…

One of the saddest things about this era is discovering how little people charged for their souls.

"godd powah grubby tutty booba saweet nooky"

Rip-off Britain strikes again.

Wonder just how many couples will be dressing up as Angine de Poitrine this Halloween

Reads like Clockwork Orange with a life-changing brain injury.

A simply devastating read

Isn’t that just Blackpool

The 1970s, when a temperature of 23C saw front page stories of "sizzling" Britain.

Genuinely curious how 007 First Light ended up with Lenny Kravitz voice acting

fr tho

This is very grim, but also probably a vision of the dark future we're heading towards if something isn't done about this sort of activity.

"MeToo was a movement against all men" is such a telling-on-yourself idea to espouse

Same, wolf, same.

This video is an absolute masterclass in Hitchensism because at no point does he actually mention what Graham Phillips has done (moved to occupied Donbas in March 2022 to make propaganda films for the Russian government).

Why was he exiled Peter? What views did he express Peter? Oh yes that's it, he went to the occupied regions of the Donbas and made propaganda films for Russia. There's a word for that, in these times of war.

Why not get dependent on a package that is pre-enshittified. Simply why not.

Strongly believe with all my heart that there is something fundamentally wrong about this. It feels like both a moral and societal ill to make machines imitate a human likeness, let alone ersatz puppets of the dead.

Ridiculous creature.

'and taking top spot, congratulations to a Mr Murrell, from Glasgow'

"Tech doesn't have an image problem. It doesn't have a message problem. It has an intention problem. What's wrong with the axe murderer who broke into my house is not that he hasn't successfully persuaded me to buy into his narrative. What's wrong is that he's trying to kill me with an axe."

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I know anecdotes are not data but if anyone is doubting that Restore-adjacent sentiment is a thing outside the internet, an old friend told me today they'd been told in openly hostile terms by a new colleague that they can't be British or English because their mother is Chinese

a time-honored tradition for key affiliates of disintegrating Nazi regimes

Okay I've been stewing about this for the last day, but as one of BSky's resident Luddites, I need to say: this isn't an AI Special as the BBC are presenting it, it's a *pro*-AI Special. There isn't even a hint of a sceptical voice in there. Where are the unions? Where are the creative industries?