Filip

Filip

@ftw.bsky.social

mad scientist, collector of hobbies, anxiety haver. https://open.spotify.com/artist/5YSDEDMFMVaSTfFHdTzxCB

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I've been researching the studio behind the terrible Doctor Who phone game, and folks, is it good when you're sued by one of your subsidiaries?

And if you want to listen to us talk about these and other things, subscribe to cruisingthroughdoomsday.podbean.com on your podcast app, where this episode will come out eventually

cruisingthroughdoomsday.podbean.comBreaking Through Circuits (formerly Cruising Through Doom’s Day) | Georgia Harper & Filip WielandGeorgia Harper (Are You Autistic?, Big Who Listen) and Filip Wieland (music on Spotify) review each and every piece of Doctor Who: Circuit Breaker they can get their hands on.
Simon Hawthorn@simon.insanity.tube

An evening conversation with @ftw.bsky.social and @mindtheflap.bsky.social devolves into a discussion of the Great Emu War 1932, memento mori. avocado bathroom suites, the evilness of the name "Andrew" and whether Daleks have a trade union.

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Replying to @tef.bsky.social

i guess the closest i have to a glib position is "you shouldn't have to pay a defence contractor to use a computer" plus "subsidizing tools that enable widespread fraud is bad" plus "you should not be surprise if people are judgemental about software that has killed several people"

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This means that the increased price of RAM and consumer electronics was a result of an artificial "supply chain crisis" created by Jensen Huang pushing NVIDIA's customers to take early delivery of GPUs. Jensen Huang is responsible for making life worse for everyone.

Ed Zitron@edzitron.com

NVIDIA seems to be channel stuffing, forcing Amazon and other customers to take early delivery. The argument that these things are "scarce" when you don't even have anywhere to plug them into is nonsense...unless NVIDIA is saying you NEED to take them now, or else. GPUs are stacked in warehouses.

Looking forward to Prime rising to £100/mo with even more ads on the no-additional-cost Prime Video tier. Would push me over the edge to cancel it tbh.

Ed Zitron@edzitron.com

Business Insider also reporting that Amazon projects it would take delivery of $3 billion a month in GPUs “every month for the foreseeable future,” all while not having anywhere to put them, as part of an “early rack receipt” program. Extremely strange!

If you try to tell me that sex matters I'm just gonna assume you've not had any in, oh, years at this point

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3D graphics were an experiment we ran for a few decades, the study period for which has now concluded. Thank you for your participation. We will be returning to 2D pixel art only starting January 2027.

Sorry, your AI girlfriend is now on Disney+

Techmeme@techmeme.com

Character.AI files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the US, agrees to sell some assets to Disney for $20M, and plans to keep operating as it completes the sale (Rhea Rose Abraham/Reuters) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

inb4 the pope calling for a holy crusade to blow up openai's data centres

Joshua Murray-Nevill@joshuamurraynevill.bsky.social

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... There is something to be noted when the two loudest voices warning about the advance of AI, the internet and the resulting opportunity for chaos are...The Pope and The King.

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Seems worth reminding people that the BBC very much have form for this: www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrit...

mirror.co.ukBBC accused of blurring Ricky Wilson's 'trans rights' top on Michael McIntyreThe BBC has been accused of blurring the lettering on singer Ricky Wilson's t-shirt that read 'Trans Rights Are Human Rights' while he appeared on Michael McIntyre's TV show

Bethany wore a “Protect The Dolls” t-shirt during rehearsals. The BBC posted it on their socials then quietly deleted and reposted it without showing her from the front. On TV last night they actually blurred the message #Strictly

We're all just blocking the tweet, we're all just blocking the tweet Five mods do the job of one, we're all just blocking the tweet

Ross Kemp speaks to me, trying to project cool and collected while actually being an anxious little shit about everything

Scott Bryan@scottygb.bsky.social

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Living for Ross Kemp thinking that Bella Ramsay has killed him in plain sight for putting a hat on him #CelebrityTraitors

To the bloke on today's You Be The Judge: get out of there before you realise she's also going to go full bridezilla

There's a simple test for whether you think LLMs are conscious: do labs want to pay them for their labour? No? Then it's a pile of matrix multiplications that is oddly good at python.

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A24 is potentially doing something really fucked up here, but also they have the opportunity to do something extremely fucking cool and make the movie Creative Commons people would still pay to see it in theaters. but you want to benefit from a community project? then contribute to it

sarah zedig 🐐@hmsnofun.bsky.social

UPDATE: SCP Foundation have posted a statement saying they were not consulted or contacted about the A24 SCP project. scp-wiki.wikidot.com/statement-on...

Going for a dip in the sea with the boys (gone terroristic)

Emma Yeomans@yeomans.bsky.social

Extreme right-wing protesters are in a stand-off with the RNLI in Portsmouth. The group, led by Danny Tommo, are waist-deep in the sea and threatening to go "under the water" if police try to arrest them. Six lifeboats monitoring. Volunteer rescuers giving up their evening for this.

So the balaclava bellends who blocked the roads in Dover today are getting prison sentences for terrorism, right? Right?

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This is the single biggest physics discovery of my entire lifetime. Or something's wrong with one of the cables. One of the two

Michael Greshko@michaelgreshko.bsky.social

BREAKING: The world's most sensitive dark matter detector has announced it has spotted something it can't easily explain: a single event that's tantalizingly consistent with a type of theorized dark matter particle. Very early days yet, but pretty wild. 🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...

There's a reason why the pros do it in cages

David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈@whysharksmatter.bsky.social

The influencers getting bitten chasing the perfect shark shot | I’m gonna need everyone to make better choices. Including the “influencers” who do unethical things with sharks without even a basic “don’t try this at home” disclaimer.

If there's any justice in the world there's going to be a coroner's inquiry into Jason Arday's death and a recommendation to the media to stop this sort of bullying