My proposed Minister for AI

Did anyone check the half-time interviews from the French team?

Appelez l'ambulance! Mais pas pour moi!

People who keep pointing out that golf courses use as much water as data centres as some sort of defence of data centres drastically underestimate the amount we also hate golf.

I would just like to say that earlier this evening I predicted a 5-0 result and was roundly mocked and...well.

Some posts by J. Michael Straczynski on the subject of actors "improvising" his scripted lines. I'm certain this isn't something the actors would ever have claimed. It's just fans deciding that they'd like it to be true.

How to even respond to this. She's pointing at the sign.

And what it means for people who don't or can't.

Nobody disputes that having access to a car in a car-dominated society is good. It gives one access to jobs, healthcare, food, education, social opportunities and more. All we're asking is for people to go one step deeper and ask why access to such basic rights requires buying and operating a car.

So much guff spouted about Starmer’s legacy. His legacy is that Clive Myrie gave an interview going ‘I am relieved I didn’t have kids’ and that millions of people in this country now feel unsafe.

We’re rapidly approaching a situation in which it becomes legally hazardous to express any criticism of “gender critical” views. The combination of well-funded lawfare and well-funded media moral panic is extremely dangerous to free speech for everyone, as well as obviously to trans people’s rights.

We also very much need a clearer delineation between news and analysis. Analysis is fine, great even. I listen to lots of podcasts which are just analysis but we also need news and news has been crowded out by analysis.

The Luddites' actual argument was that automated looms meant expensive, skilled workers were being replaced with literal children, who were then getting maimed and killed, and maybe this is bad.

I am not a climate scientist but when I was a kid the number of times we couldn’t go outside because of Canadian wildfire smoke was zero times

A reminder that this is the guy we're all now supposed to be listening to on the subject of the safety of MPs

Every AI service is built from the carcass of the industries they destroy. I bet you if you dug deep enough into Claude, you'd find the software source code for popular productivity apps, games, etc. They are corrupt criminal enterprises shielded by vulture capitalism and wealthy financiers.

Having a contest would have been smart, actually point 273729272

The Luddites loved technology. They owned looms at home and would ‘mod’ them to count threads. Their battle was against worker exploitation. The degradation of their rights, safety and wages. They were against a handful of rich businessmen owning the means of production. Sound familiar?

The biggest example of this in recent American politics was January 6th, where a substantial number of politicians asserted that it had put them personally in mortal danger and that Trump was responsible, and also didn't really seem to think anything should be done about it

#Delft #Delftholland

#adoorablethursday #photography

everybody knows “curtains for Zoosha” as a foundational getting-old tweet but I believe “peeble streamer on doop” is a concept worthy of wider recognition

My non-expert opinion is that Argentina should probably have put more effort into scoring goals and less effort into shithousing

I'm fed up with a certain third spaces convo that's being weirdly obtuse but one thing I do want to say is that while white teen boys may have been able to hang out freely and safely in parking lots, & parks at night, teen girls and kids of color have a different experience.

You probably don't hate tech companies as much as you absolutely should do

well we officially know George Lucas has no concept of what the Luddites actually believed

I really just find the political media increasingly baffling. Shabana Mahmood a tough and effective Home Secretary? When she has nothing to same on crime and chasing phantoms on immigration. Ed Miliband a dangerous radical? Just for pursuing the Nero Zero policies that were consensus until 2023?

An unfiltered view into just how little taste some people have.

The last time he had creative control over Star Wars it looked like one long FMV cutscene for a PS2 game so I'm unsurprised he has bad takes about technology.

A security detail would know where Farage was and who he was meeting at all times. I can't help thinking that might have been a factor in Farage declining the offer.

No pressure lads but the territorial integrity of the United Kingdom is at stake.

The great thing about Britain is you're free to think whatever you want to think and say whatever J. K. Rowling's lawyers permit you to say.

shoutout the chucklefuck pundit who insisted once that “environmental racism” was a nonsense term

I first reported this to the council a month ago, when it wasn't quite this bad, but no response or action taken and the situation has deteriorated to the point that the only pedestrian and bike infrastructure between our estate and the rest of the town is basically unusable.

Nearly 11 years ago, I’d had a great night out with friends and got back to my flat in a state you’d call ‘rather tipsy’ You know when it’s late and you should go to bed but you’re not tired, you’re wired? That It was nearly getting late but I wasn’t ready to sleep 1/

Why has the piss tank post woken up again?

A lot of Democrats this past weekend told us what a great sense of humor Lindsey Graham had. This is an example of that "sense of humor." He was a jackass.

This photo got rejected from a group on Flickr because it "looks AI". I am going to become The Joker.

Hey guys meta announced a new policy where they send a killer to get you so be sure to go to settings>my account > killer> disable killer to turn that off

let us not forget one of his greatest roles

Best “remove glasses to look at something unbelievable” in cinema history.

The polar opposite reactions here to the deaths of Sam Neill and Lindsey Graham are such a reminder that we all have a choice whether to live our lives in a way that brings joy or misery to those around us. I think if you’re remembered fondly as Sam Neill is today, you’ve pretty much won at life.

Never forget that time Sam Neill gave a quote about murder that was so beautifully kabonkers, we all assumed it was a Clickhole bit initially

Gas power plants can carry on chuggin' though www.theguardian.com/environment/...

my god, this is amazing. apparently from a NY Times interview with Neill and Goldblum. Resharing with alt text so everyone can enjoy

In tribute the BBC should rebroadcast "Space" with Sam Neill which I had on DVD and absolutely wore out. It's popular science stuff but it's great youtu.be/UYbTHEw3dLU?...

My favorite Sam Neil fact will always be that he designed a future Australian flag that replaces the union jack with the aboriginal flag for Event Horizon and insisted the film use it.

Okay so Chicken Tikka Masala is a British Curry invented by Indian immigrants living in Britain and Katsu Curry is a Japanese curry accidentally invented by the British who were trying to copy curry invented by India.