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

David Holmes, making soundtracks for films that don't exist

Some people are just unlucky

Pickled onion Space Raiders are the bomb, but Transforma snack are gluten free and I'm coeliac. They are definitely mid though in the pantheon of crisps, but I'll take 'can eat' over quality control

not all heroes wear.. never mind.
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My 1-day event for ~100, coffee, lunch + wine, speakers costs, badges etc a bit under £6000. It helps if your chosen venue doesn't have only overpriced catering options that you are obliged to use

It's very dependent on your venue which will be most of your costs. If you can get an organisation, eg a university, to provide discounted or free space, that's going to help. Also depends on how many - finding a free room for 25 easier than a free room for 250

Give peas a chance – even AI peas: the Stephen Collins cartoon AI can transform all areas of our lives – even boiling a bag of frozen veg

I'm calling the top
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

You join us live from Danny Dyer’s birthday drinks.

Priest hole!

You need to ask for Clocks!

Lovely. Reminds me of what they say in Belfast, 'If you can see the hills, it's going to rain; if you can't see the hills, it's raining'.
In this case, both!

At this rate MAGA will only be able to afford to rent the libs.

I'm genuinely surprised they record fractions of a dollar that small

London but with croissants

Wow, that's impressive close-formation flying

Rebecca Shaw quote about losers from The Guardian

David Lynch smirking in an interview -Believe it or not, Eraserhead is my most spiritual film. -Elaborate on that. -No.

Maybe that applies pretty universally, actually

(PDF) How the Internet came to be PDF | On Jan 1, 1993, V Cerf published How the Internet came to be | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate

What strikes me from Peter's account and others like Cerf's from 1993 is the importance of not so much the technical aspects as that of like-minded people who believed what was possible striving to overcome all the usual blocks of bureaucracy and funding and time
www.researchgate.net/publication/...

How Britain got its first internet connection – by the late pioneer who made it happen Peter Kirstein had to overcome various hurdles to connect the UK to the internet, including intransigent governments, dismissive industry and the taxman.

So glad to have published this years after Peter wrote it for me, and 5 years to the day since he died. Gracious and full of interesting tales the couple of times we met, he invited me to his Marconi awarding where I met Vint Cerf, Bob Kahn and other luminaries
theconversation.com/articles-45404

I don't know, most of the commenters calling it deranged drivel. Sometimes it is good to let them hoist themselves by their own petard.

‘It makes you feel like a kid again’: snowed in at Britain’s highest pub Drinks flow and friends are made as people hunker down overnight at the Tan Hill Inn in North Yorkshire

Sounds fantastic
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Holiday Hours (Obscure 60s Soul) YouTube video by Almost Vinyl

Heard this today played to the unquestioning occupants of a bus in France. Obscure and hilarious soul record and shoutout to all retail workers at this difficult time of year
youtu.be/OjAHk5kQRyk?...

WE'RE ABOUT TO FIND OUT

Soon it will be parents sorting out their children's computer problems at Christmas

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