Codes of Conduct are hard: Gerrymandering is a great name. We should start naming bad things after terrible people again.

This explanation of how screwed the country is seems pretty accurate. It has just been shocking to see how senior people in the Labour party just don't equate holding office with a responsibility. They think it's just a reward, and they should gather as much money as possible.

cc @isaac-kh.bsky.social

Poe's Law, except for enemy action.

The Labour government seems determined to strip the right to be governed under the committee system from the country. They're over-ruling a Lords amendment to continue it to be an allowed choice. @bristolgreenparty.bsky.social @carladenyer.bsky.social

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the arc of history is long but it bends, confusingly, towards Peter Mandelson accidentally making Kemi Badenoch the Prime Minister

End of waking watch patrols in council high-rise homes

"End of waking watch patrols in council high-rise homes"

It's great news that it's ended, but we need to look at why the council had to spend so much money due to failing to invest in the safety of the buildings.

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TBF the costs are probably high because no-one wants to have an oil tanker of unknown and dubious safety status, anywhere near their coast. But it's still not a great look.

I like how these AI tools will slip into a foreign language, and that's just the nature of hose they are.

"Cherish your system-failures." - Systemantics

Mr Olson is 'quite' good at analysing things. And *finger guns*

Pete Hegseth Nailed It. No Really. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/pete-...

A machine doesn't think you made it up. Unless it is also hallucinating.

For any company with even a small number of developers, that is a lot of incentive to invest in a local hardware solution.

* obviously, what 'productively' actually looks like is up for debate, with the huge "maintenance burden" ticking time bomb having only just started.

With current tech, my own personal experience/guess, is that a software developer who uses AI tools productively*, is looking at a bill of between $100 and $1500 for LLM tools per month.

Second - there's a huge difference in cost. A lot of home automation tools (e.g. smart lightbulbs) cost fractions of a dollar to operate the server resource needed for them. People pay $5 (or whatever) to operate the lights as it's not worth their time to setup a custom solution.

IMHO, ....first, if you're running your LLM on local hardware, you are going to have fewer outages, and much fewer other interruptions in service - e.g. a company reducing the 'thinking depth' might make your learned way of working no longer possible

Er, what does "kolds" mean here?

HiPOD: Strange Patterns in Echus Chasma

This image shows bright and dark patterns with curving boundaries, a good example of Mars art. What caused this appearance?

https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_042835_1800
NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona
#Mars #science #NASA

Sooner or later we're gonna have to start skipping the bit where people pretend the people with a track record of bad intentions actually have good intentions

An orange boxy character drawn in pencil, biro, marker, pastel and ink

Times are tough so I've put a load more of my children up for sale. Mixed media original drawings in pencil, biro, marker, pastel and ink on heavy craft paper. www.ebay.co.uk/usr/happytoast

And here is the story of the scandal of the Bristol Housing Department for those interested:

How long until they block me?

The letter is so lovely. What a fantastic project and a wonderful woman…

One of the things to remember when seeing things like this, is that the media political establishment can only conceive of problems that are soluble by the solutions they approve of. If something is intractable within the bounds of Business As Usual, they will simply pretend that's not true.

um so who’s bringing sanctions against the u.s.? why isn’t the unsc calling an emergency meeting? why aren’t democrats doing a full court press for impeachment? this shit makes putin look moderate by comparison.

Codes of Conduct are hard: "go arn'n'git" edition.

And the Earthquakes broke the underground pipes and cistern systems, and no one was left who knew how to access and fix the system. And Petra became a harsh, unlivable place. The city and its wonderous buildings became abandoned.

Anyways, this thread is a cautionary tale about AI dependence.

Morning.

Codes of Conduct are hard: *supply trains are important* edition.