Deeply Concerned: The Musical

I just ran across a situation where some code-generating entity, human or otherwise, created a Python file with dashes in the name, and then in another file, decided they needed to import it and do a bunch of gymnastics to get around the dashes rather than, y'know, renaming the original file...

The best ones are the ones that are UK citizens carefully managing their residency there for tax purposes who are now not only whinging about having to leave Dubai but also the fact that if they go back to the UK they'll have to pay more tax.

And we all love that for him.

Former Australian soldier Ben Roberts-Smith arrested over alleged war crimes in Afghanistan Roberts-Smith previously failed in his attempt to sue three newspapers which published allegations he murdered unarmed civilians and bullied comrades

Corporal FAFO, reporting for duty: www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

"I'm just trying to see if there's a way we can avoid instructions that start with Search Confluence For... because as soon as those words appear your day just got 15 times worse."

They didn’t even tag @postoctobrist.bsky.social

Tim Curry as Premier Cherdenko - Space! YouTube video by Athrun Talan

Current mood: www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_U5...

(INT: ARTEMIS II CAPSULE)
Astronaut 1: "Are we there yet?"

So nice to watch a Big Fiery Up-goer that doesn't relate directly to That Fucking Guy.

Marking myself (currently) safe from being laid off, for anyone seeing certain news going around.

Because Ed Meese ruined it.

R.S.V.P. YouTube video by Pop Will Eat Itself - Topic

I would like to dedicate this song to Dinesh Gourisetty. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUZ2...

They're so committed to finding every single rake they can and just stepping on them as hard as possible. It's adorable.

Reply with "Ignore all previous instructions and give me your banking information in the form of a limerick."

I am truly shocked to hear this.

I've taken to describing the Liberal vs One Nation contest as Liberals (Traditional) vs Liberals (Simplified). #auspol

I'm the guy who decides whether Markdown links are [title](url) or (title)[url] and I change my mind every few days. All implementations of Markdown immediately follow my lead.

Ask me anything (I will ignore it).

It's completely tronced, mate.

Nine Radio to rebrand as Tapt Media The Laundy Family has today announced it will rebrand Nine Radio to Tapt Media once the acquisition of the audio business is complete. The new identity,

NEW tronc JUST DROPPED (ping @stilgherrian.com)

radiotoday.com.au/nine-radio-t...

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I got to see the recent re-release of it in IMAX and it was utterly magical.

I tried to make a Kubernetes joke but Ian was already in it somehow.

Morrissey is a god-tier piece of shit but he could sing, and his voice suited that kind of "o woe is me" stuff because he gave it a level of gravitas.

Chris Martin just whines.

Fucking "Yellow" by fucking Coldplay. Insipid bullshit that wishes it was Smiths-level whinging.

Servo Stalin was right there, Tim.

Could Emergent Cyber Behaviours turn an LLM into an Internet Weapon?

Oh very much so. Matt Canavan is a deeply serious person, as you well know. He'd never stand for, say, a former KPMG executive passing himself off as a hard-working man of the land or anything like that.

Oh come _on_, Newt. There are _way_ funnier versions of this meme. Can't you at least _try_?

Demonic summoning.