It’s super funny to me that Who’s Gonna Drive You Home is by The Cars. It’s like if The Beatles had a song called Who’s Gonna Scurry Out When You Lift That Big Stone

@mayor.nyc.gov: "If you are a Mario Kart fan, government is Yoshi and philanthropy is the Golden Mushroom, that edge we need to beat Bowser on the Rainbow Road. To belabor this metaphor even further, Bowser is corporate greed in this scenario."

lol that makes no sense

Critical Atlantic current significantly more likely to collapse than thought Scientists say finding is ‘very concerning’ as collapse would be catastrophic for Europe, Africa and the Americas

if Ireland's farmers thought fossil fuel price hikes were causing problems for farming here, wait 'til the AMOC shutdown hits www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Well they were not wrong!

Picking up Ebola Marburg on your hols? That's a 1 star review on TripAdvisor I would have to say

ai has a “pr crisis” because we’re being told that it will replace everyones jobs and the plan from there appears to be to have to deal with not having a job or money. no one believes that the tech billionaires will bestow UBI or anything at all onto the “permanent underclass”

I had a quick read earlier -- I _think_ it's an interesting paper with an interesting finding, but I'm not sure how revolutionary it'd be in effect. It sounds like AI can already search for equations using existing approaches but this may swap breadth of the search tree vs. depth

Oh shit, the dolphins have invented maths

it is not inevitable or even likely that social media, as we know it, will exist for the rest of our lives. future generations will look much more harshly on this stuff than we do smoking.

70s Russian SciFi: Aliens dump trash on Earth that grants wishes but also kills the first who enters.

Japanese sci-fi: two robots in space, yearning

American sci-fi: man gets the author's beliefs on polygamy confirmed by the aliens of ramalama IV

french sci-fi: two horny bounty hunters visit the Galaxy of Breasts

British sci-fi: nuclear war. Everyone dead. America's fault

In happier news, I vibe coded up a script to select nice family photos from the Immich server and use them as the screensaver on the big TV, and it is delighting all and sundry (except for the 16yo who isn't keen on her baby photos being displayed to visitors)

relevant to Viktor Orbán's interests (it seems)

Do those calling for the Irish government to allow oil and gas drilling think that those companies are going to sell it to them at a discount? No! They‘ll sell it at the global wholesale price.

wow that is really bad

Lads, when I wrote the other day that what we are witnessing in the country was a laundering of legitimate grievance, theft and ransom, I wasn’t messing about.

We’ve got Irish MAGA on the streets and we need to have a clear view of how to dismantle it - and quickly.

#FuelFascists

(btw in Ireland the local equivalent of a teaboo is known as a "west Brit")

Lol brilliant. I am stealing that

You forgot to apply Humpernick's Razor. This is a classic Wise Man's Apron. Textbook case of Not My Circus But I Have Equity In The Monkeys. We don't say ex falso we call it Plastic Surgery because it can give you any posterior you want. Why do you think it sounds like a cult?

Roger Scruton cafes!!!!! omg 😂

people who successfully extort money with strong-arm tactics are famous for doing it just the once

There is not a snowball’s chance in hell of any of these payments actually helping ordinary people with the cost of living, but they will embolden the company owners to demand even further concessions to line their own pockets.
Slow clap to everyone who scolded the left for not supporting them

The labour councillors were on the blockade?! What

Omg sweary, not sweaty 🥵 thanks autocorrect

It looks like the 17th century Basque-Icelandic pidgin is basically an extremely sweaty Minionese

Spot on

France 🇫🇷 doubles electrification support to €10bn/year through 2030 — EVs, heat pumps, industry.
The reason?

The Strait of Hormuz crisis making fossil fuel dependence impossible to ignore.

Geopolitical shocks don’t just raise prices. They change what’s politically possible.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

We are hearing exactly the same thing from our home grown right wing loons in Ireland too. Stupidity