Is there a temporary outsourcing the dog scenario? Friend here has similar and generally dogless people are often like 'hi can I be friends with your dog?' (I am dogless people)

ADOBE: welcome to photoshop. what would you like to do. here is an AI tool
ME: i would like to draw a rectangle. i am selecting the rectangle tool
ADOBE: did you say AI?
ME: rectangle please
ADOBE: sorry but i can only do that in an insane way now. here is a new layer and a vector for some reason

Happy 75th birthday to the great Peter Davison. Wrote a thing:
paulkirkley.substack.com/p/the-secret...

Haha

Just invented a new kind of revolving door with a horizontal axis instead of a vertical one. Not only is it inconvenient and dangerous, it's also considerably more expensive.

I'm so grateful for people finding a way to do that, genuinely. I work for a charity so I get to cheat on Doing Good Things but it feels disingenuous often. Thank you.

Oh this is lovely, yay for you

Thank goodness they've rehearsed some scenarios like they did before the pandemic, and, uh, never mind

Tbh this is understating it. Yes CO2 but fertilizer too, and heating oil cost hikes which will impact UK harvests/prices unless we're incredibly lucky with weather over the next few months. Add on higher fuel costs for transportation (imports and within UK).

a chart showing 3 msft gas data centres vs countries

a chart showing 3 msft gas data centres vs countries

New @stand.earth: Microsoft's 3 new gas data centres will

- Increase Microsoft's emissions 160%

- Have higher emissions than power sectors of each of Greece, Ireland, Sri Lanka, NZ etc...

- Have higher emissions than pwr sector of 15 lowest-emitting countries combined

stand.earth/press-releas...

Oh Gravy
You came and you gave without taking,
But I sent you away
Oh Gravy
You kissed me and stopped me from shaking,
And I need you today
Oh Gravy

The thing is, even though Magyar Sucks Too, the *hope* is that the outright, foreceful rejection of Orban's authoritarianism will be seen as an indication that Hungarians were prepared to do almost anything to get rid of him, even voting for a barely-lesser evil.

Opposition leader Péter Magyar at a rally.

Orbán's electoral crushing is a far greater achievement than most people outside Hungary realise.

He systemically consolidated power for 16 years, fixed the electoral map, abused govt power for political purposes & censored media.

The hurdles that Hungarians overcame for this moment were immense.

This is more than three-quarters of the way there! Just on the offchance I have any followers with decent incomes: if you'd spend £5 on a pint tonight, could you swing £5 to a trans woman building a safe home in the UK after seeking asylum from Jordan? Thank you!

Sam Altman Says It'll Take Another Year Before ChatGPT Can Start a Timer An $852 billion company, ladies and gentlemen.

Putting aside Sam Altman just continuing to emit huge lies constantly, this is an amazing example of what I mean when I talk about how GenAI is replacing *extremely low energy* digital tasks with *WAY WAY HIGHER ENERGY* replacements that *do not even work*

Why TF is anyone using ChatGPT as a timer!

Okay, so this is a VERY interesting story on - allegedly - the impact of AI on an accounting firm. Would like to see how this one develops because it's about a legitimate but perhaps counterintuitive focus on talent pipeline giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Lebanon: ICRC outraged by deadly strikes in densely populated areas The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is outraged by the devastating death and destruction in densely populated areas across Lebanon today following intensified military operations.

Difficult to describe how unusual it is for @icrc.org to speak publicly like this.

"Heavy explosive weapons with wide-area effects struck densely populated urban areas, including the capital Beirut, without effective advance warnings."

ICRC Outraged by Deadly Strikes in Densely Populated Areas

Confident in my ability to properly ship, I take the strait. I smile at my opponent. Supreme Leader Khamenei does not return the gesture. He’d be prettier if he did, I think. He fires. The rocket passes cleanly through my bridge, killing me instantly

And no, you cannot rewind time When you listened to someone else’s idea and things didn’t quite turn out how you planned but it’s definitely not your fault

And no, you cannot rewind time

When you listened to someone else’s idea and things didn’t quite turn out how you planned but it’s definitely not your fault

By Steve Pottinger

Counting, this New Year’s Morning, What Powers Yet Remain to Me The world asks, as it asks daily:

"The world asks, as it asks daily:
And what can you make, can you do, to change my deep-broken, fractured?"

- Jane Hirshfeld, "Counting, This New Year's Morning, What Powers Yet Remain to Me"

Text of "Poem (I lived in the first century of world wars)" by Muriel Rukeyser. Text is online at https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47657/poem-i-lived-in-the-first-century-of-world-wars

Muriel Rukeyser, always but especially today. Full text at www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47657/...

Earth appearing as a bright crescent behind the Moon’s surface

OH. MY. GOD.

THIS IS THE EARTHSET PHOTO FROM ARTEMIS II. IM SPEECHLESS.

I am finding it hard to concentrate on my work today and god I wish it was because it's really sunny

An Explanation (Which I Would Be Very Grateful If You Took The Time To Read) What follows is a minor modern horror story.

THREAD.
Substack is evil. I can't emphasise this enough. Their line that anyone can leave easily & take their subscriber list with them is bullshit. I left & it cost me a large sum of money. It forced me briefly back onto Substack to try to clear up the mess... tomcox.substack.com/p/an-explana...

Oh my gd, the Artemis II crew doing a parody of a bad 1980s sitcom intro from in space.

Source: www.instagram.com/p/DWwuHPfCZ8Z/

I think it would've felt slighter and maybe a bit ITC? Aristo dandy slumming it in CI5 with his scruffy mate - which AA would've been lovely for - yet somehow aiming for gritty. Wardrobe and scripts settle down a lot once they're writing for what they're actually making. Lew too.

I think they conceived him as a Roger Moore Bond type with a cocktail in hand vs Doyle's chippy ex-copper with brains, which might have worked if they'd stuck with Andrews. The merc vibe fits so much better.

My main feelings about this episode relate to Bodie's brown cardigan/shirt with little hearts on/brown poloneck ensemble. Though not his worst of S1.

If you see a stolen KitKat, no you didn't

NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA