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"When the facts change I change my mind with them, pray tell what's your policy sir?" seems like a pwn by Keynes, but judging by the way many in our press talk about Brexit and Rejoining they would simply have no shame whatsoever in responding "I never update my opinion, and if you do you are evil".

Stop anthropomorphizing AI. Only humans “hallucinate” or “make mistakes”.

Turning Point UK do not appear to have engaged at all with their chief executive offering to organise for cash a violent beating or a murder by UVF paramilitaries. They did post: "violence in Britain only comes from the left"

i started home-carbonating in 2012, and this line about soda bottles from Richard Kinch always stuck with me: www.truetex.com/carbonation....

Other people who would have increased that number: F. Nightingale (Italy), R. Kipling (India), J.R.R. Tolkein (dutch South Africa), T.S. Eliot (USA), R.E. Grant (Eswatini), Emma Watson (France) etc. But that's clearly not what they are unhappy about - they use "foreign born" to launder plain racism.

What film has the most of these? Pusher (1996) hits 3 and spiritually has 3 more of them. No microphone feedback though.

Spain’s Left has missed its last chance to unite ahead of the snap election on 29 November — a historic failure, not so much because the numbers don’t add up, but because it now fails to offer an alternative.

Millennials are on a bit of a run right now.

None of this requires LLMs to be sentient, or have moral standing. It's just weirdo behavior.

Head stabilisation of a kestrel. Original post

Why do so many more people manage to get top grades in STEM A-Level subjects? Are STEM A-Levels just much easier?

Curing Melanoma would make sunscreen discourse so much worse

A fun and surprising fact is that there is actually plenty of water for human habitation in the southwest! In fact, Phoenix peaked in water use in the 1970s even though its population has exploded, because converting farmland to housing or industrial uses SAVES tons of water bsky.app/profile/jdba...

Socialism is when you can drive as fast as you want

A *liter* of wine?!?

Renting films on Google Play/YouTube. They always have missing subtitles or quality issues and I do it anyway

the nation fact checkers being unable to determine who was president in 2008 does check out

Replace farms with data centres.

new issue of Vizier Monthly is out

More relatable humor this week

Drawing! Art in general isn't too bad tbh but drawing needs like 20£/€/$ for top of the line stuff

Hello, aspiring actor. This is your agent. I’ve got a great opportunity for you to be in a film with Robert Pattinson. Now, there is one small thing we need to discuss regarding the role

one of my favorite Greg Girard photographs. as described by him: "Hong Kong. Towards Central, Wanchai, Causeway Bay and North Point. 1992."

Lol at including TWoK with those others.

One of the advantages of speed cameras is that they provide enforcement without actually needing police to be involved. Unless by "police state" you just mean "state in which there are consequences for breaking the law".

"Individualism and socialism are in truth not antagonistic but correlative. ... there is in free trade nothing that conflicts with a rational socialism. On the contrary, we have but to carry out the free trade principle to its logical conclusions to see that it brings us to such socialism."-H George

Shocking.

The megaphone given to an extreme-right framing of this incident by supposedly centrist politicians is a gift to their harder right political competitors

New from me: Until recently, the gap between comfortably-off and just-getting-started could plausibly be crossed in a decade or two of hard work. Growth in asset prices means that’s no longer true: even a lifetime of striving doesn’t offer a realistic prospect of feeling you’ve “made it”.

Really terrible rankings, although I guess Vanilla is better than most of the others listed since it isn't actively bad.

When Dems get back in power they have got to stop these gas powered DCs. Easiest layup in the world - I'm surprised they're not out there loudly warning that it's not going to payoff with them in power whatever happens to the tech market more broadly.

Well worth reading

problematic quaila gap

Given the implicit factory farming analogy, I'll assume everyone upset about this is vegan as well

Politics aside, do people believe federal government gas stations with deeply discounted prices are a good POLICY idea? What are they intended to accomplish, in your view? What problem do they solve? www.cnn.com/2026/07/09/b...

95% of people's concerns are best addressed by environmental, data, or privacy regulations also applied to non-AI actors