www.citriniresearch.com/p/2028gic This is genuinely one of the more scary takes I've read. (tl;dr Demand collapse due to AI layoffs) Waiting for the @edzitron.com version :)

We're not there yet, metropolis is safe.

I can't tell if the insanely large amount of overwhelmingly ai-positive articles saying "programmers are toast, all ICs will just manage bot farms" is just because I've been depressively doom-reading them, if it's real, or if someone is spending money to make it seem real. So depressing.

Me wearing a Darmok and Jalad tshirt. Dear Lady Wife: is that a klingon thing? Me:!!!! DLW: OK OK romulan? It's been a good run but .......

Watched "allo allo" on Emirates. They blurred the fallen Madonna with the big boobies....

(Unknown source)

Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin

Today : vendor sends spec and example data Lee : ooh that data isn't valid. But I'll see what llm thinks LLM : That data is totally valid acc spec Lee : what about x? LLM : thanks for pointing that out! this data sucks and violates spec. Yeah, the revolution is gonna be great.

Where, oh where, does one find 30 year old episodes of university challenge?

China - STOP SHAGGING China(2) - START SHAGGING Korea - IF YOU SHAG THERE'S MONEY IN IT FOR YOU France - ici c'est un sternly worded letter.

Just Fancy That! Sam Altman on ads in ChatGPT. From the new Private Eye, out now.

If Skyrim has taught me anything, it's that there's a lich at the bottom of this.

Look, I'm as mature as the next man, but, hur hur.

Oh the UK is DEFINITELY getting hosepipe bans this summer.

People whose job it is to sell AI get little credence for their articles saying that if you don't use AI you're going to be obsolete.

The bad guys sure know how to track the hero scientist

When did the people who do subtitling fall in love with the word "(scoffs)"?

Possibly my proudest achievement in work has been to normalise the usage of the word "rectillious" (lit 'pulled from my arse') A colleague on a status call just now "please bear in mind I am determining these timelines rectilliously". SO PROUD.

4000-tonnen.de Neun und neunzig kartoffelton auf irgendweg zum horizon, hielt man für UFO aus dem aldi......

Its's hilarious that in the LLM world kids will watch this and not see an issue.

Oh good, enshittification continues, now my google news feed has top line scamvertorials.

Presented without comment.

Dying Light the Beast is fun, but there's a pretty serious problem with "kill all enemies in area" completion condition detection, had 3 quests bug out so far. (Reload from last checkpoint seems to fix, thank goodness)

Back to work (boooooo) This is professional work attire.

Holiday films so far - Notting Hill Gremlins Thomas Crown Affair (Brosnan ver) Coming to America Love Actually The Holiday Trading Places A Knight's Tale (Simply one of the best films ever) Still in the queue Red Stardust And for NYE Dinner for One

When the belt sander eats the power cable!!!

Godalming's gone full "The Holiday" mode. Where's Cameron Diaz eh?

Ironically, I don't think about it much, so I couldn't remember the name of the Ebbinghaus curve.

This is professional work attire. ....For those who come after....

The glamorous life of restringing cat6e to the satellite dish. Sometimes living in the country ain't all its cracked up to be. (The last run lasted 6 years before a mouse got it, at least - tempted to do SWA but it's so ***** expensive)

I went to a museum today and saw an ACTUAL Putin.

*wonders if the crowd will do a wave*

Scusa se insisto

Finally, AI I can get behind.

Christmas movieathon. Day 2. Starship Troopers. Shut up, its a Christmas film.

I can't be the only one that sees it, right?

Klowakha? Freaking genius. I gave up on lower decks about 10m into episode 1. Then went back after the SNW crossover. How wrong I was.

Hey @nature.com, have you got an explanation for how the hell THIS happened? & especially why you accepted a paper with such a bizarre piece of genAI slop in it?! & more to the point, why we should take you seriously at all going forward? www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I am not 100% convinced Quora is a source of reliable data these days.....

I think bsky's alt text obsession is spreading..... can't even disable a child lock without holding down the alt text....

Always check that you didnt accide tally pick up one of your train nerd child's tshirts before you go to work. (In other news, I am wearing a jumper and dying)

Escape from the abyss was the most brutal bit of platforming I've seen many this long while. FINALLY PUT.

The noble dog has had a most worrisome lump removed but remains noble, stoic, and daftly happy, as is the Setter Way.

High Potential is a super tv show, but dear god the product placement for Amazon is about as subtle as a brick in the teeth.

Long fingernails can almost exactly simulate the noise of a super clacky mechanical keyboard. I thank the lady on the packed train for demonstrating this.

Perhaps running the A and M together is not the typographic win anticipated.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... How did they write this article and not manage to slip the phrase "Oranges are not the only fruit" in..... sigh.

It's very trendy for the woke left to mock the police these days, but this is the kind of thing that you and I might miss.

Another default pairing set of headphones falls to drive by Barbie Girl! Noone in the office is safe.

Yes, that's right......