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"You can't hear an image"

The image

I was *obsessed* with the Raston Warrior Robot as a kid, the way Keith Hodiak brought it to life on screen was just so impressive. What a performer.

Like the Chinese/Italian noodle/pasta debate, but FOR EVERYTHING

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Let's face it, OpenAI won't even be here in 2030 so they can pretty much forecast any old shite

You probably already know this, but you can run your own Teletext server on a Pi and hook up your Teletext cheese wedge to it for an as-close-to-authentic experience as you can get on a Beeb today :-)

Egypt, Egypt, Egypt, BIEBER, Egypt, Egypt...

I couldn't resist this recent eBay item. On first glance it's a Teletext Adapter 'cheese wedge'. However, it has two ribbon cables coming out of it which is odd. Open it up and you'll find a 6502 2nd processor board sat on top of the teletext PCB. Two in one - a user DIY job! Never seen this before.

Yeah. See also: Holmes, Elizabeth.

Altman being a dick seems to be painfully obvious to anyone on the outside looking in; it's consistently baffling how many people get drawn into thinking he's some kind of wonder-genius.

"Amid regulatory and energy price concerns," in the sense that those concerns are at the very periphery, with the great big elephant in the centre being "profit, lack thereof".

Am intrigued to know what Fallout 76 tastes like...

Saying that, I do have *some* sympathy for their complete lack of comprehension surrounding how you could possibly do >10k steps in a day, bearing in mind it's basically impossible to walk anywhere in the US.

"Doing exercise hurts when you aren't used to doing exercise"

Yes. Yes it does.

While it would in no way change the direction of travel they're taking, if we could force regulation to make them declare this information, it might sway a few hearts and minds to stop using this cancerous stuff.

There is a very clear reason why every GenAI provider provides exactly zero information about the real energy and climate costs of their products

A French coder estimates that using Claude Code will account for 1 tonne of CO2 over a year - 10% of the average French individual carbon footprint.

We have never encountered emissions-intensive software like this, ever before (with the sole exception of Bitcoin)

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Homer Simpson preparing to eat something he shouldn't

"Packing Peanut Macchiato"

Starbucks PR email promoting something horrifying called "protein cold foam"

Daily dose of dystopia there from Starbucks. What next, Soylent Matcha Latte?

Yeah, when Zuckerberg was promising to flood Facebook with AI profiles, I remember thinking the logical conclusion was going to be an ad platform where the only 'people' looking at the ads would be bots, thus making Facebook precisely no dollars.

The monumental AI mess is a direct byproduct of Jack Welch's ethos. We now have two entire generations of corporate leadership who view employees as an expense and customers as an inconvenience. Of course they'd be seduced by the "magic supercomputer" that makes both superfluous.

Saw a new one on a Facebook author group earlier - not just an AI written book with an AI generated cover, but also an AI photograph of the entirely fictitious "author" holding the "book". At which point I'm left wondering what, exactly, is the point?

Yeah, same. I enjoy following you, but please... no slop.

My other half gets annoyed by said sixteenth century castle looking too old - because, of course, it is *now* very old, but it wouldn't have *looked* so old at the time!

I'm a lapsed Anglican but even I have spotted these howlers from time to time 😄

A Psion Series 7 computer

(update is that of course I *did* manage to fix the S7, and it's awesome! :-))

subway ad that says "your idea could be live by the time you reach your stop"

as a culture we have really given "ideas" way too much credit. ideas are a dime a dozen. they happen all the time. the magic is way more in the doing, and the doing's diminished stature is linked to lack of respect for labor and, more recently, skill and expertise.