"Hey, I need to do some walkin' here!"

I think the last time I even thought about basketball was when I saw Airplane! and didn't understand the Kareem Abdul-Jabbar joke whatsoever in about 1982

Phil Silvers *is* in a war film...

Of course in the UK, Top Gun was called Boss Gun...

Every time FB shows me the Threads recommendations I want to go on Threads even less. I'm sure Meta will work that out eventually.

Aside from *who* has ended up with Visa problems, what the fuck are FIFA doing asking for a Visa in actual match week? That is properly amateur shit even by 2026 (lack of) standards.

@lindamarric.co.uk What.

No it was Ministry that made Twitch

I'm muting that now. The point was at least one fighter jet better than *that* one exists, I do not want avgeek Top Trumps in my replies, thanks.

@samthielman.com Bonus points for this AI boss with his AI boss grade takes, because he started out as a computational linguist. So it seems not all LLM actual engineers have the juice after all.

as someone else pointed out to me, part of the problem is it is easy to amaze normal people with confident but untrue statements about defense tech, and that makes it easy to take advantage in situations like this interview

I haven't watched BACKROOMS yet but I am already glad Ejiofor gets to do this again, this time in a movie which doesn't fall apart immediately after the interesting bit with Ejiofor in it. (Yes I am complaining about Life of Chuck again)

Just need everyone to know that the Belgium men's soccer team has new jerseys based on the art of Rene Magritte and this is the official photo shoot

Funny way to say "we apologize for uncritically repeating rumours in a toxic news environment yesterday," Reuters

Scotland fans get it

I see Ministry of Sound have now put up a different ad for the Day Rave and turned comments off. Perhaps a comment "someone" made about lazy rent-seeking cut through to the media team eh?

Here, something Belgian for you, who doesn't want that? #raveyardshift music.youtube.com/watch?v=rL8k...

Now I'm curious how many years AFTER Kibo the term "shitpost" was invented.

If that allusion was even slightly older it'd be Swiftian by vintage

I knew K*bo would turn up on here eventually

This is a really cool piece on how Alan Alda has funded an initiative to help researchers better communicate their findings to the public through learning improv skills.

(Yes I am complaining about how The Atlantic is seen as an authority on many things even though they mostly kick out a serious of op-eds from people not in the field. And yes I know who Chiang is. Not the point.)

Doesn't mention Searle once even though the entire thing is a restatement of Searle's work. It doesn't discuss *any* relevant history of natural language processing. Not gonna take that too seriously really.

(One less follower now, obviously, but they were on the bubble already)

That's your D-Day take? And you have how many followers on Bluesky, The Critical Thinking Site? Fucking hell.

what’s the opposite of vibecoding? stillcoding?

PS1, not PS2, dammit

Can we just take a moment to recognise that the Wu Tang: Taste The Pain four-player (yes really) street fighting game on the PS2 was incredible

I suppose no 1 dog's insistence on destroying food packaging for funsies is actually cheaper than no 2 dog's toys budget.

I wrote about a particularly embarrassing few weeks for AI hype, and how big tech is desperate to get ahead of an economic collapse they'll be directly responsible for (in more ways than one)

I am very much looking forward to hearing them explain the plate racing joke.

Oh, and a TV series of Gil "The ARM" Hamilton purely to piss off James S A Corey.

TV series of the shorts in Greg Egan's Axiomatic, mostly to piss off all the screenwriters who've put every single idea from this book into something else by now.

@chartlifepod.bsky.social @superjules84.bsky.social I don't know what genre Female Of The Species is either but I do know it's the same genre as various Neil Hannon vehicles. Scott's delivery here is very much like Hannon's H2G2 theme, where he says he was directed to be "even more of a cad"

Dipped back into Enthusia. Generally enjoyable game let down by mushy and imprecise controls and some weird gameplay decisions (someone looked at Gran Turismo's prize car system and decided to make it even more frustrating). Enjoyably varied car selection though.

I know people are, y'know, people, but the strangest thing about being coeliac is the constant stream of people going on Facebook pages and saying "I can't find basic meal X anywhere near me" and it's always something that at least 10 household name chains have.

Chase and Status

This is a good idea, an actual good one. Though I was briefly involved in a much more limited carbon reporting tool at a corpo and, well, it's Quite Hard even for traditional systems.

Fuzzbox's guitarist, Kara Swisher on the better timeline #totp

Of course technically her album should have been called Raw Like Sashimi 🤓 #TOTP

Always felt like WASP *thought* they were writing clever songs from an angst-ridden point of view like what Anthrax do, but they are very much not Anthrax and they are lacking in Benantes #totp

Is one of the Boosh songs a spoof of Mindless Boogie? There's something oddly familiar about it #totp

Except you're specifically talking here about LLM and the current public abuses of it, so we can indeed talk about the whole of the rest of AI if we want and indeed discuss what it ought to be doing instead of what it is doing.

Russell at this age has a slight David Dixon quality doesn't he? Everyone says Ron's the unearthly one, but ... #totp

Chas n Dave's little war story there a lot gentler than Roger Waters innit #totp

Sorry. Your password must contain one number and one special character. #TOTP

A fine example of subtle innuendo in pop, here #totp

Mmm ok maybe that's why it works in clubs then