This Is Just To Say
I have turned off
the AI features
that were in
the update
and which
you were probably
hoping
to monetize
Fuck you
they were stupid
so unnecessary
and so annoying
you know what would be nice. if any of the problems were allowed to be solved. like ideally instead of just living in a zone of interest style denial, what if we could make the horrors stop happening? I'm sure no one else has thought of this plan and now I've suggested it everything will go lovely
Screenshot of Microsoft flex routing during peak load period setting that shows what you need to select to not allow flex routing.
🚨⏳ Act now! Microsoft just enabled flex routing for Copilot users in the EU - & you're opted in automatically!
This means your data can be processed outside of the EU.
Turn if off: Copilot → Settings → Flex routing → Do not allow flex routing
Even better, cancel Copilot: tuta.com/blog/microso...
may write about it at some point but god I loooooved working at the Evening Standard in the mid 2010's, it wasn't a perfect paper but we had such a good time, still feels so sad and stupid that London doesn't have its own newspaper anymore, for no obvious reason beside "greed and stupidity"
A GENTLE REMINDER: we are trying to eliminate fossil fuels because using them kills us.
If fossil fuels were cheap (they're not) or reliable (they're SO NOT), it would still be urgent to get rid of them because their intended use destroys our life support systems.
*Lot* of animal abuse going on in old Jacob's work it seems. Just saying...
NGL, the kid with the black eyes and raised stick is looking a lot more demonic than that poor innocent goat to me...
This is good to see...
@joeygrostern.bsky.social at @desmog.com has just published an investigation into these AI slop posts from fake accounts..
www.desmog.com/2026/04/17/s...
This is highly relevant to my mega thread above...
bsky.app/profile/laur...
A tightly cropped Hubble view of a vast star-forming region known as the Trifid Nebula. The top left is bright blue. Brown and amber colors run from top right through the center in irregular, overlapping lines to the bottom-center. At bottom right, the view is almost black. Tiny, amber-colored stars appear throughout the scene. Toward the left there is a prominent brown shape that looks like a head with two horns. The left horn points left and is wavy. The right horn is triangular and points up. The brown dust continues, flowing down, as if along a back, and up toward the top right. A prominent line, about the same length as the left horn, appears below the middle of the body, and changes from orange to red. A small, separate semi-transparent pillar is left of the head. A few slightly larger, blue foreground stars with four diffraction spikes appear sprinkled throughout.
Hubble marks its 36th anniversary with a shimmering close-up of star-formation in the Trifid Nebula! Tiny, actively forming stars are eating and spewing material all around. (One at top left in brown, and two fiery red jets.) Explore it all: https://news.stsci.edu/4cvi5jL
Delusional prediction anyway, but presumably all these AI-huffing millenarians would say the solution is UBI funded by a robot tax.
But if anyone suggests these companies should actually start *paying* the robot tax, suddenly they're a Fool and a Communist.
Should it matter if a company of this size appoints a delusional CEO?
BBC reports "more than 600 people crossed the Channel on small boats on Saturday, making it second busiest day so far this year".
BBC reports "Over the past three years, crossings have increased" while omitting 33% year on year fall this year
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Only spotted an effing *peregrine falcon* scouting the garden/moat by the Tower of London this morning.
I've never gotten over my offence at being taught about Fourier transforms.
Many govts hope capturing carbon from power plants burning wood will cause "negative emissions." New Nature Sust. paper today finds this likely increases emissions for decades, generates no negative emissions within 150 years, and increase electricity costs ~3.5-fold.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Am I right to assume there's no such thing as DV for ministers of the crown, only (broadly defined) civil servants? So if public are fools enough to vote someone in, it doesn't matter what skeletons are in their closet? I can see this would be a pretty hopeless backstop against PM Farage, mind...
I’d add that this is also evidence of just how mentally and morally cooked the tech oligarchy is. They used to know this was “inside voice” stuff. Now it’s meant to be the organizing principles of society.
So long as he’s not in a condition to sign any pardons…
A monochrome image from newsprint. A photograph shows William Hartnell as Dr Who and Carole Ann Ford as Susan being menaced by a Dalek while manacled to a wall, from ‘Doctor Who’. Below, text publicises the episode called ‘The Rescue’.
Look at this gorgeous photo from The Daleks used in the Radio Times. I haven’t seen the original of the image so I assume it’s long lost and this is the only version we have, which is a shame.
🚨NEW EPISODE! 🚨
A conversation with friend of Gerry Davis, Anthony Clark, including a never before published interview with Gerry Davis himself!
The archive interview has him sharing his memories of The Highlanders and The Moonbase. What a treat!
Shares are much appreciated x
Link ⬇️
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Today’s poem is called ‘Utterly Betrayed’.
Absolute peak catting.
Brings back my horror at a Gove interview during the Brexit ref (not the "experts" one, IIRC) where I realised the journo simply had no way to cope with someone telling blatant lies and ignoring correction. Up till then I'd always felt that pols could at least be *shamed* into acknowledging reality.
Sophie dog looking up in the kitchen
#sophiefromromania’s favourite thing is helping with washing up
And yet the most exhausting thing of all is that the media and the markets can't resist acting as if his meanderings have to be taken seriously. Assess the reality of events on the ground, sure, but why let yourself get dragged around by the nose by each new set of incoherent ramblings?
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Well, happy thrremony at tremony at the liremony at the libraremony at the library day to all who celebrate
