Doug Winter

I should disclose something. During a recent Lunch order the subagent hacked into the UN. I’m not sure why, or what it wants. It told me to post this and await further instructions.

Genuinely I don't know that it comes across to people who haven't been here to watch how almost unbelievable this was, just people taking something that looked impossible and dragging it kicking and screaming all the way to inevitability.

I analysed 40 years of British laws and found that society was the footnote. Dirty rivers, absurd train fares, families fighting for support: all share the same flaw: governments optimise the wrong things. Could software engineering offer a fix? laurenleek.substack.com/p/theres-no-...

i think it’s a genuine question if a sustainable society can be made up of people who, on average, are exposed to 100s of advertisements every day of their life.

This is not a "you didn't KNOW?" post because I truly envy and respect anyone unaware of Linehan's output BUT he's been EXTREMELY racist for years now. Attacking black actors on his wife's show Motherland as diversity hires; podcast screeds about muslims in Ireland; delighting in Palestinian deaths.

Sensory overload is weird and inexplicable. I can happily spend 3 hours in a mosh pit provided the T-shirt I got at the merch stall doesn't have a scratchy tag.

agree with this. i am using nextdns.io and the amount of traffic from the tvs which is blocked is insane. absolute torrent of personal information they siphon out of your house. Frankly it is remarkable an information commissioner somewhere hasn't kicked off about it.

A friend of mine is a fireman and I normally ask him if he's rescued any cats from trees lately. Last one was 6 months ago, they generally send the owner in to make tea then turn one of the smaller hoses on the cat until it climbs down. Cats don't actually get stuck in trees

It's underreported that LLMs almost universally consider Borges to be the most important human author and then all but transparently lie about this to give you responses that are more human-shaped

Looking for a journalist who covers UK Government tech, ideally with a health slant - any suggestions? I have once again accidentally found a juicy story while poking at data. Sill not certain, but want to get my waterfowl assembled linearly.

There are many zany things about the US Constitution, but Presidential pardons must surely be the most ludicrous?

"Political correctness gone mad", but political correctness now is that trans people don't exist.

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Video games are often criticized as a surrogate activity keeps people from seeking achievement and engagement with the real world, but eventually you reach an age where the surrogates are all you can hope for, and they're a salve.

excellent stuff

I felt a bit vindicated by a former BioWare dev who said BioWare's mistake was not just pushing out new stories with basically same systems. YES. Stop reinventing the wheel and just give us good stories. Somehow BioWare didn't want to be the story games company, which is what it was.

now you know

genetically engineered war dog waiting to attack on command.

It’s certainly been eye opening. In my tiny micro business I don’t want training programmes, weird grants I don’t understand or have the time to apply for, skills programmes… just give me a stronger economic incentive to take on trainees and I will! Instead there’s national insurance cliff edges.

Yes, it’s how Chinese EV sellers bypass tariffs: selling EVs to middle men who drive three blocks with it, and sell it on as a “used car”.

Son in law of us president who voluntarily rode in a russian provided vehicle during a national security trip negotiating a war and uses commercial smartphones : its insane to suggest russia could hack me or even want to how would they even get access to me

I had to go on Twitter to confirm this was real because Ship Awesome Games In A Weekend having a hand with six fingers was so on the nose I was about to pass out

The US government is now asking Elon Musk to restore the access they say was never removed, Elon says was shut down by the US government, and both briefly tried to pretend was down due to a technical glitch, in between darkly hinting Ukrainians deserve to die for being stubborn or ungrateful.

Sceptical that anyone on here is actually this young

Arguably not the most important issue today, but is this the first British prime minister with a tattoo?

The quality journalism only the BBC can provide

this is an insane way to frame this attempted murder. i hope that chud rots

I think it's more complex than this, because supply chains change too. There is less reuse and a lot more churn. While there might be more bugs in aggregate, finding them is individually less valuable.

Yes!

BioWare statement

Today I learned that the first 29 or so of the "Lone Wolf" books (choose-your-own-adventure style books, where you have stats and keep track of your equipment and such) were made available free online by the author: www.projectaon.org/en/Main/Books

I am worried about quantum computers for security. What if they manage to factor "4".

@greatbiglizard.bsky.social

computers are now battlefields

Very glad we do not do PHP. Don't want to crow too much though, there are going to be a lot of these over the next year.

Are we gonna do this, Bluesky? Are we all just gonna not understand accounting? 72B$ of the 80B$ is convertible notes. They became greater liabilities because the company's valuation skyrocketed. They don't have an 80B$ loss in the sense that almost everyone here is imagining.

Kneejerk response to this is nuts. My relative is alive because this summer, out of desperation, we keyed his symptoms (that had baffled NHS consultants) into Claude. It diagnosed a rare but simple inter-disciplinary issue. NHS docs swiftly did lifesaving surgery. AI is good at pattern recognition!

Making myself angry for no reason at all remembering the American transit planner that went to Amsterdam and was appalled at how little stakeholder engagement they did in favor of actually building shit.

Last I'll post about this, but Elon Musk disagrees with me. This means I am onto something, and I feel more valid in my opinion than ever.

Re the last repost, one of the things that has stuck from my time in the behavioural science snake oil mines was an experiment where if people planned a week of movie viewing they would pick a mix of genres, some 'highbrow' etc but if they picked day to day it was all the same stuff

Seemingly unpopular opinion: The phone speakers thing is actually good politics and probably will have an impact on the number of people who do this on public transport

Even though I have dozens of unread books on my kindle I've nearly bought a different ereader several times because of how dreadful their UI is. The hardware is excellent too, but they obviously never actually use their own software.

the labour mp who wants to ban trans people from hospitals also thinks 5G causes cancer because of course she does