Anybody got a spare clean room?

Wetflix.

Science: It Works

I understand that, I follow the account, I'm not an idiot. You will note I realised it's AI-generated. But a "parody" picture that looks like a real one will get shared elsewhere without context and add to the general enshittification of the internet.

I understand that, I follow the account, I'm not an idiot. You will note I realised it's AI-generated. But a "parody" picture that looks like a real one will get shared elsewhere without context and add to the general enshittification of the internet.

Where's this from? Farage is disgusting, but he isn't stupid and unless you have a source for this I don't believe he's been dumb enough to wave a Nazi flag outside a pub. Adding to the AI disinformation cesspool does not help the cause of defeating the people like him who benefit from post-truth.

I watched this through exactly once and bits of it have lived rent-free in my head ever since. Chilling and brilliant.

Maryan Zablotskiy shares about the historic experience of piloting a drone from a distance of 2,000km:

"Last week,I conducted a historic experiment: I piloted an FPV interceptor drone first from my office, then near the state border, and then from about 2,000 km away from the drone - from abroad⤵️

Useful corrective here to all that crap questioning the patriotism of young people

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I don't really get why they don't just hand redistricting to a non-partisan body, do the redistricting fairly and then spend their time on something productive. Five states, lawsuits, I don't know how many days of work, and all for essentially no change. Great job guys.

Archaeologists stunned to find copy of Homer’s Iliad inside ancient Egyptian mummy Papyrus fragment discovered inside mummy buried in Roman-era tomb around 1,600 years ago

An Egyptian funery technician cuts a few corners to save on costs and 1600 years later they're finally getting exposed as a shoddy operator, except everyone thinks it's really cool.

SpaceX obtains right to buy AI start-up Cursor for $60bn Elon Musk’s rocket and AI conglomerate is seeking to catch up to rivals OpenAI and Anthropic

Sigh. That'll be me switching IDEs then, if this goes through. #Cursor

SpaceX obtains right to buy AI start-up Cursor for $60bn - www.ft.com/content/d23b... via @financialtimes.com

Maybe. They're probably getting used to Trump making threats and then not following through by now though.

No, it's as opposed to sea-based supersonic flight, where they take you out on a submarine or a cruiser and then fire you out of the vertical launch system.

And then misled parliament (charitably, by accident), and then doubled down. If he doesn't resign after all that how is it different from Johnson refusing to acknowledge wrongdoing?

I agree with you. The problem in this situation is that he's taken a situation he (charitably) appears not to understand (difference between clearing a political appointment, eg minister, vs clearing a civil servant, eg ambassador) and thrown someone under the bus because of it.

It says an enormous amount about the Royal Navy in the late Victorian period that they could essentially build HMS "Fuck That One Ship In Particular" as and when required.

It'll also mean everyone else born within twenty years of that date will have to show ID to buy cigarettes for the rest of their lives.

"This store operates a Challenge 55 policy. If you are lucky enough to look younger than 55 you will be asked to show ID to buy tobacco products."

Verge headline: Silicon Valley has forgotten what normal people want by Elizabeth Lopatto Illustration of a brain melting in the sun

"In the place of problem-solving technology, companies have jumped on successive bandwagons like NFTs, the metaverse, and LLMs. What these all have in common is that they are not built to really solve a market problem. They are built to make VCs and companies rich."

Read more: buff.ly/Yu2AUFy

Titanic? I mean, at least it was *supposed* to...

But we don't need historians. AIs can just read every document ever written and tell us what happened when the Vikings invaded feudal Japan!

Is it actually saying that? Or is that a joke? I can't tell without asking one of the AIs, but it's funny either way!

Index of Poems I Shall Never Write (Don’t Tell Me About) Your Brand New Podcast p. 42 At the Alphabetti Spaghetti World Championship Final p. 32 Bad Hare Day p. 40 Easy Peelers are Not the Only Fruit p. 52 I’m in Love with the Woman in the Green Cardigan in the BBC Question Time Audience p. 58 Kim Kardiganashian p. 45 Life Hacked p. 60 Linked In, Dropped Out p. 27 Mister Krankie Meets the Clambake King p. 14 Nocturnal Blossoms: Petals of the Moon p. 18 On Sleeping in a Dudley Travelodge p. 68 On Waking in a Dudley Travelodge p. 3 Poem for Silt Awareness Day p. 6 She Never Did Care for Hollyhocks p. 23 Shit! It’s Jeremy Clarkson! p. 1 Sixty-Four Failed Attempts to Guess a Wi-Fi Password p. 64 Taking Cocaine with Wendy Cope p. 9 Ten Unexpected Items to Find in a Bagging Area p. 50 The Last But One Will and Testament of Brian Horatio Bilston p. 55 Third Wordle War p. 47 Untitled p. 21 What We Currently Know and Don’t Know about Gnomes p. 31 Whither the linnet? p. 10 Yes, I Know It’s Called ‘Petrichor’ p. 34 Your Spatula p. 37 Brian Bilston

Today’s poem is called ‘Index of Poems I Shall Never Write’.

Give it a day or two and ChatGPT will be confidently asserting that you have in fact written these poems, and each one is so many pages long. Look, they're right there in the TOC for the book!

And I'm sorry, but Starmer has to go. He has thrown a civil servant under the bus and done so when it's completely Starmer's fault. If he doesn't he's got no more care for the rules than Johnson.

But the PM treated it as a political appointment. Announced without knowing Mandelson had clearance. So Robbins (unelected civil servant) had choice of clearing Mandelson or maybe toppling the government, and no recourse to ministers. Impossible position because *Starmer* didn't follow procedure.

You're critiquing my tldr with points that are answered in the thread. Civil servant clearances (and ambassadors are civil servants) are *not* a matter for politicians. The buck stopped with Robbins to make that decision. He was explicitly not supposed to shunt it to the PM.

Had he taken the opposite decision, possible outcomes included the fall of the PM. That isn't his decision to make unless the evidence that that was the correct course of action was overwhelming. That's very unlikely, clearance decisions aren't that clear cut in general.

Absolutely. But that's the point, he didn't. He did exactly what he was supposed to.

Good explanation of the Mandelson vetting, which didn't make sense to me until this.

tl;dr: Olly Robbins followed procedure. Starmer put him in an impossible position by announcing Mandelson's appointment before his clearance recommendation came through. Robbins should not carry the can. #ukpol