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I don’t know how people could say that programming and art are completely different disciplines when both workflows involve going ‘This will never work, I’m a failure’, changing one thing, then thinking you might be the smartest person alive

No joke. I think this is the most important video I have ever seen about mobile games. This guy breaks down how this game psychologically profiles you, and makes the game harder or easier in order to show you ads

It’s the 111th anniversary today of the birth of Harry Rée, who was a teacher and conscientious objector when the Second World War broke out, and by the time it ended, when he was 31, had invented ‘blackmail sabotage’ and got a DSO, an OBE, a Croix de Guerre, and a Medaille de la Resistance

are AI coding tools capable of delivering useful work: verifiably yes is there actual real demand for AI coding tools: verifiably yes is that demand sufficient to support the economics: a lot of people would sure like to know!! is AI ontologically evil: to be determined by the RoboWars

English football just finds itself in a completely ludicrous, damaging situation now. And it has been a very long time coming

It's both shameful and deeply humiliating for what was until recently the world's most powerful democracy to be reorienting itself so that it can be more like, and closer to, a second tier criminal autocracy like Russia.

Reprehensible. Europe must respond with more help for Ukraine to rapidly escalate drone production so that Trump ending sanctions on Russian oil becomes irrelevant. Market access won’t mean shit for Putin if his oil production capacity is annihilated.

Things I want AI to do for me * Emptying the dish washer and putting plates in cupboard * Washing my clothes and putting them on hangers * Using the bog brush to scrape shit from the bog that kids leave there * Putting the bins out * Looking for mould cups that I leave by the sofa

On 8th Oct 1952 the worst civilian rail disaster in UK history happened in London. 112 deaths. 340 wounded. That accident, and the actions of one woman from Florida have saved THOUSANDS of lives since. That disaster helped lead to the creation of paramedics. /1 🧵 www.youtube.com/watch?v=YU60...

ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

The first computers were human. Now, as computing has been woven into the very fabric of civilization, we are compelled to ask what it means to be human.

@theguardian.com nothing on the biggest news of the week (for some of us)?

bad news babe a rogue openai agent must have hacked our refrigerator last night and drank 15 beers

I will vote, make calls, knock doors, take up arms for whoever destroys the online gambling industry

Weird coincidence that all this is happening the same day as the AI air control rollout. “You’re absolutely right - a forty five degree angle of approach is entirely too steep for landings, and that’s on me. Would you like me to call some local mortuaries?”

@gautpaul.bsky.social

Tinkering with my app photos-wallpaper.app took me back to the day I was sat behind a full-on race prepared 427 Cobra at the lights.. glorious.

Weird dog

Happy Baby Safety Month.

Missed this one yesterday. One of the finest sentences ever written.

For me this local farm effort is the winner.

Hey @mozilla.org we use Firefox ESR at work and I just saw an email saying it’s deprecated and we need a new solution but I see nothing on the website about this, is it true?

One of the weirder trends in Big Tech’s AI obsession is the idea that expertise is becoming less valuable. Imagine two arguments: 1. AI enables radiologists to review more scans. 2. AI enables anyone to be a radiologist. “Everyone is a builder” increasingly sounds like Big Tech embraced #2.

git commit -m “Humanization”

From 2019, don't think I ever posted this one

omfg @gautpaul.bsky.social check this out!!

Just got outta the TERMINATOR 2: JUDGEMENT DAY 35th anniversary rerelease and Jesus Christ, man. What a movie. They had to do all that shit for real. They had to fly that helicopter under an overpass. They had to blow up that building. They had to find an actor who could turn into liquid metal.

macabre = “muh-KAHB” Worcestershire = “WOOSS-ter-sheer” omnipotent = “ahm-NI-puh-tunt” reticent = “RET-uh-sunt” epitome = “ih-PIT-uh-mee” myriad = "MEER-ee-ud" Never make fun of someone if they mispronounce a word. It means they learned it by reading.

Hey @bsky.app can we have a setting that strips hash tags into normal words? They are just blue noise nowadays, nobody uses them except boomers

[taps the sign] According to USGS GNIS "Per Secretarial Order 3453, Lake Ontario has been renamed to Lake America. The basemaps for GNIS are in the process of being updated." So Google (& Apple, OpenStreetMap, & everyone else who ingests GNIS) will start calling it Lake America within a few weeks.

Autocorrecting every instance of 'America' that you type to 'Ontario'. Not just for the lake. For everything.

This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.

[Exit Queen.]

Assume away. You will not be wrong. With regard to humanity, men are generally the biggest shitheads that nature and nurture could possibly construct. In all respects, women -- whether birthed as such or transitioned as such -- are moderately better.

They're even more unpopular than data centers.

If you missed the solar eclipse, this is what it looked like: