Malphas Wats

Phew. I switched a lot of stuff over to Proton earlier this year, including all my passwords. Pleased about that.

a great letter in the times today. perhaps worth sharing in these troubled times. #RNLI #heroes

now that we know how the new season of Reacher is (excellent), a thread about why you should watch What If A Man Was Large, The Show, in the form of a Q&A

Hubris Boat

Pickford

Because I am in the United States, and the SPEECH Act specifically precludes me from being sued by a bigoted transphobic miserable fascist for calling her a bigoted transphobic miserable fascist. So I can show you this report JKR doesn't want you to be able to read. www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/mafq8...

B&Q sell "door seals". You're supposed to use them to seal doors when you're generating lots of dust in a room. But they cut nicely to window size, stick well with included roll of double-sided tape and have a handy little zip opening so you can still open and close the window as needed.

I'm actually low-key obsessed with watching these because however they've been made, they've been made *really* well. I think they started with a kitten or something similar and used AI tools to replace with an Otter, but it's almost imperceptible. Normally I can spot weird AI physics a mile off.

Secondary education is pupil smiling whilst sat in front of a laptop. Or if you want something a bit more academic, pupil in lab coat agog at teacher set fire to something.

I don't know why, but for me it's always been this one

My standard reminder that if you are a man of a certain age and want to weep uncontrollably while reading a scifi short story, then i have you covered. "The Message". A short story about love, family, and physics.

Tina has no idea how hard this hits for me this week... Every. Damn. Time.

Foundation For All Mankind Silo Murderbot There is some fantastic new SF TV. But Stargate will always be #1 for me.

In a school I worked in, it took just half a day of male staff tucking their trousers into their socks to banish it from the school forever.

if you're an older person who finds words like mogg and maxxing annoying, just starting using them. people over the age of 30 have the superpower to end trends by simply adopting them

Yes! Bad Religion - 21st Century (Digital Boy). "Is that really all you have t' 'fer"...

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Poetry Smoetry

A DSL which outputs kicad netlists would be a fun little project

Andor

Months ago I called out Pie for appealing to lowest common denominator right wing twats for likes, after he defended Lucy Connolly and was courting flagshaggers. I apologised when he said he was hurt via DM. Moral of the story? Trust your gut. I was evidently right. He’s clearly a total cunt.

When you're a computer programmer, some numbers just look suspicious when seen in the wild. (From: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...)

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I haven't had the capacity to keep up with moderation lists for a bit, but this one is really obvious, so I'm stealing some energy from Future Me: a list for the extremely obvious wave of inauthentic accounts following today's newly-created US gov accounts bsky.app/profile/did:...

*clears throat* Skibbidy Toilet.

Have you tried asking chatGPT how to do it?

Can't shake the feeling that OpenAI & chums are desperately betting the farm on the emergence of an artificial super intelligence that will solve money. I believe *they* believe if they just throw enough energy at it, it'll just happen. I'm not an expert, but I don't think that's what will happen.

I would buy back ALL of the NFTs, at 2 dollars on the dollar. I would then buy the biggest building nearest the Louvre and set up an exhibit for all of the pictures. Each picture would be displayed on a CRT monitor that I would buy from anyone who wanted to sell at the inflation-unadjusted RRP.

I watched this this morning on my way to work and was unexpectedly moved by it. The idea of someone comitting so hard to the future that their vision won't be completed for over a thousand years is really neat. I liked commentary on "conservatism".

NEW VIDEO! Behold the Time Pyramid! . . . Eventually youtu.be/vdRXwNII6xw

Some really awesome little devices in this line up!

To be fair, this is the sort of language you use as a teacher to encourage a pupil. Because "For pity sake Jason, I've given you a list of all the stupid mistakes you made in your coursework. Why the heck are you still pissing around with the font size?" isn't compatible with collecting a salary.

Old tech had so much class.

OK so feeling slightly apprehensive about this, which I suppose is kind of the point. This is an attempt at a progressive view on masculinity and on men getting laid. God help me. iandunt.substack.com/p/how-to-be-...

This is true, but: 1) there has to be an existing market to take over (Uber) 2) there has to be suppressed demand for the service offered, which you can lock in to create an economy of scale and then profit (Amazon) AI firms are trying to find one of those two things, so far with limited success.

Also when I came to Bluesky I largely gave up arguing online and I genuinely haven't been happier on a social media instance for years

Oh, well, that's that person unsubscribed from. Sigh

First episode of the new #BlackMirror series is brutal.

I don't know if this makes any difference to anything, but I am 100% keeping my Apple TV+ subscription around so I can watch this.