Wonderful.

If you ask me, the Nobel Peace Prize lost all its value when they gave it to Obama. harvardpolitics.com/obama-war-cr...

Trump will shortly also be winning an Oscar, a Fields Medal, an Olympic gold for wrestling, and a Best In Show.

A normal human: "I had put 100 quid aside for that thing, so I'll buy and plan things according to that amount." A state building project: "Oh sorry, did I say 1 billion quid? Because I meant 4."

Project cleanup continues. Already I've closed three google accounts and one facebook account and shortly I'm killing dropbox. Moving everything to the Switzerland-based non-profit Proton (they do email and cloud storage and lots more). And it even saves me money.

Starting the process of divesting myself of google and dropbox. And it was such a delight to kill a google account I've had for 20 years (after making sure it wasn't being used as a login to anything). Just gone. Wonderful.

Waiting 3 to 4 minutes for a game to load on the computer only to then find out it was shit (although maybe that last part is still relatable).

Perfect moving-house kinda weather.

Drank some wine, so I'm watching Aliens. It's been a while. The Aliens, I mean, not the wine.

We could all use some fucking cheering up right now. So if anyone in Stockholm wants some stand-up comedy in English, my friend is setting up this show with the Irish comedian Katie Boyle on Tuesday jan 27th. It will be a fun night. fkpscorpio.se/en/events/de...

Must be 20 years ago now when I entered a Stockholm pub, noticed empty seats beside two women and asked if I could sit there. "No" said one fiercely. I backed away. I told my friend at the bar who looked and said "Hey, that's Robyn!" I had not recognised her at all, I just wanted the damn seats.

Mood.

I have kept my twitter account (although I never use it these days) in the belief that maybe just having it costs Musk money, and by keeping it alive it prevents some asshole from taking my name and pretending to be me. Is this the correct way to think, or should I just close the fucking thing?

Presenting the new Meta AI glasses.

Ridiculously scenic walk through the local woods today. Gotta love Stockholm.

On a dark and stormy night, I took refuge in an ancient place of burial (my garbage room) and found this blade. Discarded, forgotten, clearly enchanted. From the rune on its scabbard (the letter Å) I named it Åska (thunder). Come little blade, for adventures great and terrible now await us.

I'm convinced that Trump does not understand the concept of lies or truth. He believes that, like him, all people just say whatever they want when it's to their benefit. He cannot begin to grasp the concept of truth or expert opinion or evidence or a moral compass. It's all alien to him.

Apple have recognised that their airpods are awful, ugly, easily-lost knobs of pointless plastic and have made them larger and connected them with some kind of band, adding soft "cushions" around the ears. Genius! The Apple designers have done it again! And all for only 600 of my dollars!

Never has a video made me say "Fuck Disney" like this one. Disney: The religion perfectly optimised for capitalism. youtu.be/IjmQK_DGWgs

Carry On Arrakis

NEW FRIEND VODKA And I don't even like vodka...

From now on, this will be my standard response to the "But AI is just another tool!" dimwits.

I once made Flash crash (remember Flash?) and after much investigation I discovered it was due to an asset having a particular hex value of brown. When I changed it by a single number, no crash. Favourite bug ever.

The people who say they are fine with AI generated art - if it’s good art then it’s good art, doesn’t matter how it’s made - would those people also be okay with watching an AI-generated sports game...? (1/2)

NOT NOW SUN COLOURS www.vice.com/en/article/t...

I would smash that guitar over his smug head, consequences be damned. Anyway, he'd forgive me, right?

Publisher says no.

A workmate returning from a fag break sat near me in the office a while ago and I could not believe 1) The level of smell and 2) That people still smoke actual cigarettes.

Home for Christmas. As are the crows.

My "Can everyone please shut up?" is the constant hand-wringing about population collapse. If our economic system requires constant eternal growth of people to keep our elders alive and pay pensions. then it's a shit system and does not deserve to live. Fucking change it. Tax billionaires.

"Today is a good day to deliver gifts!"

You know you might be playing too much ARC Raiders when upon passing this view in Limerick your first thoughts are wow that's a nice vaultable wall and I bet there's some juicy electronics parts in that tower and check out that skylight... #ARCraiders

ARC Raiders is ridiculously good. No shooty-runny-looty game has the right to be this excellent. It's even got a rooster that collects resources for you. A ROOSTER. Just goes to show that you don't need endless sequels. A new IP done well by smart people can blow everything else out of the water.

A fantastic post. And I agree. Men as they age slip easily into bitterness and despair (explaining the rise of certain political movements who thrive on that). They confuse the losing of their youth with the world somehow going bad.

They've got to easily reach 88 miles per hour in case a flux capacitor one day becomes available. Or in case a really wide gorge needs to be jumped at some point.

My fortune cookie is not fucking around.

People who say "There are no bad questions" have clearly never been to a panel at a writing conference.

Stealworkers

Found an AI slop peddlar on LinkedIn moaning about luddites or some bollox. And - in all honesty - he describes his current role as "Creative genius and mastermind". A guy WHO MAKES AI SLOP. Not even an AI could make this shit up.

Dublin-adjacent people of a certain age ... Who remembers the cafe Chu-Bangs in Ranelagh, mid 90s?

Your classic we-can-English moment. The phrase "mjuka paket" does not directly translate from Swedish and "soft gifts" is not a thing. Copywriters, people! Copywriters!

Making my christmas acorn soap in my safety glasses and lab coat like a massive nerd.

Till human voices wake us, and we drown.

Saw some art. It did the job.

With age comes the realisation that Quentin Tarantino, who as a young man you thought was edgy and amazing and a genius, is actually just kind of bad and annoying and always was.

I've moved over to Deezer and I'm very happy with it. As much as I like oaks, there's one I could do without.

In my garbage room someone threw away a weird barrell and inside that barrell was another barrell and inside that was another barrell and inside that ... and now I'm getting Third Policeman vibes and I need a lie down and a brandy.

Giving your elected leader the power to pardon criminals really is the most spectacularly dumb idea. You may as well just close down all the courts.

Honestly one of the funniest things I've seen this week...

If you were rich and wouldn't use at least some of your money to help your friends and family and buy a nice farmhouse to potter about in, then you shouldn't have it and fuck you.