RIP Cecilia, who clearly wished to become an internationally famous artist while holding a cursed monkey paw www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Holiday Music youtu.be/R_p0_u_p5Hw?...

This is an excellent, level-headed, informative piece. I'd kill for a government which could discuss the issue with the same sense of objectivity and calm.

The Spectator is just a few columns away from endorsing Advance UK

You couldn't make Trigger Happy TV today. Not because of woke. It's simply that most of the audience wouldn't understand that the loud guy with the big phone was doing something bad.

So, uh, first off, the US gov't getting a $10b stake in Intel (by converting grants to equity) is not "giving us $10b." And, second, this is insane. Nationalizing US businesses used to be the sorta thing that Republicans freaked out about. As a former Intel employee, I find this all very stupid.

Today I learned Victoria Beckham's album was the fifth most expensive ever recorded for some reason?

It might be quicker than you think to walk station to station—TfL’s new walking maps show just how long it actually takes to get around the West End and the City on foot. tfl.gov.uk/modes/walkin...

I'm just real dang happy with these little guys

Turns out that AI-generated summer guide printed by the Chicago Sun-Times was made by magazine giant Hearst. We spoke to them. www.404media.co/viral-ai-gen...

There are certain things that AI is particularly and notoriously bad at and this is one of them.

Wait, is this -- is this real? They actually published a list of books that may or may not exist? (The Last Algorithm by Andy Weir is, for example, not an actual book!) Please, jfc, tell me this isn't real. I'm not finding it online anywhere, which makes me hope it's fake? Gotta be fake, please?

This might be a sleeper among the stuff Microsoft showed at its 50th anniversary event: Quake generated entirely through AI. www.theverge.com/news/644117/...

A lot of investigative reporting relies on @archive.org, which is an invaluable resource for journalists of all stripes. But don’t sleep on the alternatives. The coverage provided by any.run or @domaintools.bsky.social isn’t nearly as comprehensive but the pair can fill in crucial gaps.

Blackwell GB200 NVL72 is in full production. #GTC

🌨️Here's a long feature from me on efforts to build a subsea internet cable directly through the North Pole. This is a project which could have big upside for connectivity, but also comes with myriad problems. It was a fascinating one to research: www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/analysis/...

Allegory alert!

Apropos of literally everything … time to reflect on this post from a year ago.

Finally some good news

name a more iconic safety engineering duo than Boeing and Elon Musk

Agree with this (unsurprisingly) - it's such a bad habit, wastes huge amounts of time and you just look a bit worse when it comes out. I'm a huge fan of the FOI Act for letting people ask for the information they're intested in, but I'm also a fan of not having to ask.

The perfect headline doesnt exi— www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Today I Learned. Lemon pigs originated in the latter half of the 19th century as a children's amusement, subsequently adopted for the dining table, re-emerging only recently with good luck associations for the New Year. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemon_pig

An explanation, for tonight

If you've been good this year, Kirk Windstein will come to your house and leave you a big bag of tasty riffs. If you've been bad, Lars Ulrich is gonna add nine unnecessary riffs to every song you've been working on.

GoDaddy will charge a mere $119.99 to try and buy Facebook.com on my behalf.

Yeah me too. I'd love it. Bit of pocket money, go in when you like, look fabulous in robes, do some light legislative work, enjoy the subsidised booze. The perfect retirement.

Why do they *always* time this when it's useless as a Halloween costume?

This is the first ever photograph of the moon. It was taken in 1840. It's SO shit. If I'd taken a photo of the moon that looked like this I wouldn't be bragging about it.