James Laverack

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The first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead: www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/micr...

Infosec today

what do you mean there's two cvss 10 rces in php the same day that an intermediate ca gets cracked. WHAT DO YOU MEAN!??!

This will kill people

Kubele 2026-10-16 1/6 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 rawkode.academy/games/kubele

Just going to put these two things side by side. One is the headline of the BBC live blog about the independent review on mental health, ADHD and autism. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c6... The other is an excerpt from the exec summary of that review. www.gov.uk/government/p...

If AI is conscious then its use is slavery.

IDK Amazon, is my six year old Mac mini “high-performance?”

I like seeing the dev of the SNES core on the Pocket actually telling one of these dudes off. Holy shit.

I'm horrifically disappointed to see people hopping into a harry potter art trend after all the heinous garbage jk rowling has done to multiple communities Not so friendly reminder that she's using this as free advertising and you ARE supporting her indirectly for this.

I sorta soft-launched it, but I'm not going by Alex no more. I am Katie now.

Bluesky hired a head of communications six months ago and still has staff popping onto their official personal profiles, with their faces and everything, to say "Thanks for asking... Yes! Here, you can wish out loud for every trans person to die! That, specifically, isn't against our rules."

Do I buy a medium format film camera… 🤔

Out and about in #Bristol at night. #Photography

Bristol is a beautiful city ruined by landlords. Hopefully this kind of thing results in something.

I got to photograph the World Riichi League event in Bristol the weekend before last. 😀🀄️📷 flic.kr/s/aHBqjD4BQU

Riichi Mahjong tournament #blackandwhite #filmphotography 📷 Canon EOS 3 🎞️ Ilford HP5+ 35mm 🗺️ Bristol, UK

sorry, but torturing the omelas kid is just a smart move, polling-wise. i personally wish there wasn't a kid in the omelas hole--of course i do!--but let's not get distracted by purity tests, here.

brennan.day/normalized-f... There is no ambiguity here. DHH doesn't claim his words were taken out of context, there is no charitable reading possible. He's a racist calling for ethnic cleansing. The purpose of Omarchy is to create a space where people like him can be openly racist.

If you're not using asbestos yet, you are being left behind. Everyone is using asbestos, there's no point in trying to fight it. Asbestos is the future.

…that means that YOU CANNOT PROMPT ENGINEERING YOUR WAY OUT OF THE FUNDAMENTAL ARCHITECTURE OF THESE SYSTEMS. They are GOING to output bullshit, because they are Bullshit Engines.

I have never seen a moral panic grip a country so quickly or thoroughly

kiss me, you're beautiful - these are truly the last days

DHH is a racist and fascist. Tobi Lütke as well. There are so many Linux distros out there. I will never understand why people want to use (and fund) the half-baked config files of a known racist and fascist. Fuck DHH and all of his collaborators. Bella Ciao.

“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.” Frank Herbert, Dune

Before you say positive things about DHH because of Omarchy, a reminder that it's been like 3 weeks since he published a blog that compares Roma people to the wolves Denmark eradicated in the 1800s. He's an open, virulent racist and always has been. Everything he touches should be radioactive.

The most crucial part in each "AI Winter," & the thing that I genuinely think cannot come soon enough, is when we as a culture remember that we're able to disambiguate the term "AI" & we go back to actually descriptively naming the process(es) we mean. Really can't wait for that to come around again

A moth decided to go to sleep on the handle of my gate this morning. 📷 Canon EOS 5D Mark IV 🔭 Canon EF 24–70mm f/4L IS USM

If you think that local models fix it then you don't understand what the problems are.

The two people quoted are not ADHD experts. And given the point of the documentary seemed to be that non-medical interventions work best (against all evidence, based on a sample of one child), I’m not sure what they’re arguing against here. This is pure culture wars shit.

Anyone who thinks the Guardian is different to the rest of the UK's garbage media are just lying to themselves. They are quite happy to buy into the latest obviously bad faith bullshit culture war, every time.

If you’re worried about a watermark outing you as violating customer policies or compliance requirements, the watermark might not be the problem here

🗺️ Bedminster, Bristol, UK 📷 Canon EOS 1000 🔭 Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 STM 🎞️ Kodak Ultramax #FilmPhotography #Bristol

And furthermore, when we talk about writers being "influenced" by the work of other writers, we are describing a process that is in no way analogous to generative model training, and to suggest that it is is just shows that you don't know piss about the subject matter here.

last night i played a round of "blood on the clocktower" for the first time which, as a long time fan of social deduction games, might be one of the best i've ever played. immediately i could tell that it has VERY good meat on its bones and solves a lot of the genre's most common issues.