Sounds... British :(

👋 it is a little quiet, huh?

Just can't get over how young everyone on the cover looks! Awesome film.

Our beautiful floofy friend Toffee was taken from us today, by a driver who didn't even stop. To the woman who brought him in to the vet: 🙏

To the driver: I don't know your situation but if I hit someone's pet, I'd sure as hell stop and try to help. 💔

Just made my kids day by letting them choose one each ♥️♥️

IMO the worst mistake people make trying to AI-proof their career is dropping everything to learn AI. It's like dropping out of math to study how to push calculator buttons really fast. The skill cap for AI is going to be your understanding of the underlying subject, not how good you are at prompts.

I guess it's partly just overload, but mostly the barrage of sponsored posts, ads, things I have no interest in or are downright offensive, etc. I guess it's probably possible to curate/improve it, but I don't have the will. I do use Messenger for family that can't be persuaded to use anything else.

So much this. Everyone is lovely here, but it's different from knowing all your family and friends are here. On the odd occasion I log into Facebook though I'm immediately reminded why I just can't.

Also available in the UK. This is a great bundle!

A rock with googly eyes and an inscrutable expression

Some sort of acid jazz, I imagine

Do your brain a favour and fire up Burp :D

In the bath, about 9 years old. Have a water pistol. Decide to find out what happens if I shoot the mahoosive light bulb that also heated the bathroom.

Bulb explodes.

Hit in the forehead by a bit of shrapnel.

It really did seem like a good idea at the time.

Me: I'd like to revisit our conversation last month about hiring a new CEO for our startup. We had a candidate who was very tall and had great hair, but some of the board was hesitating because he was a giraffe. You urged us to go ahead with the hire, pointing out the broad popularity of giraffes among people of all ages. Now, a month into his tenure as CEO, the giraffe has failed to make a single executive decision, and instead spends his time in the campus courtyard stripping the trees of leaves. The board is extremely disappointed, and asked me to request an explanation and a formal apology. ChatGPT said: Thank you for the update, though I’m genuinely sorry to hear how things have unfolded. In retrospect, my recommendation to proceed with the hire was based too heavily on superficial traits—charisma, universal appeal, and a commanding physical presence—and not enough on executive competency, decision-making aptitude, or opposable thumbs. While the candidate’s towering stature and enviable hair made a strong initial impression, I failed to adequately account for his species-specific limitations, particularly his lack of business acumen, human language fluency, and capacity for boardroom strategy beyond “find tree, eat leaves.”

New AIWeirdness post: ChatGPT will apologize for anything, including stuff that didn't happen. It's not reflecting on stuff it did wrong, it's improv.
www.aiweirdness.com/chatgpt-will...

Watch the Royal Institution CHRISTMAS LECTURES archive Watch all the Royal Institution CHRISTMAS LECTURES back to 1966, when the lectures were first televised.

Guys guys guys, I found the archive of the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures (it's not an achievement, they've not hidden them) - you can watch every single one since they started televising them in the 60s:

www.rigb.org/christmas-le...

I love watching them every year, now I can see them all!

#kirkcaldy #fife

Announcing General Availability for Azure Resource Graph (ARG) GET/LIST API | Microsoft Community Hub ARG GET/LIST API delivers 10X higher throttling quotas to callers compared to ARG query unlocking a more scalable, resilient way to perform resource lookups...

Ooooh, if this can be integrated into the azurerm #terraform provider, could make for faster plans? I have a stack that regularly hits throttling reading 100+ certs from a key vault ...

#azure #infrastructureascode #azurerm

techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/AzureGo...

A zeolite dehumidifier, not the refrigerant kind, so it kicks out a fair amount of heat

Had mine on for a couple of weeks. Also, moving from an oil radiator to a dehumidifier has been transformative for both the atmosphere in the study and the power bill!

I've probably written this exact comment somewhere...

Thanks for this. Adding a secret to an SP is a new one on me.. off to have nightmares.

A tub of small green tomatoes - the last efforts of our downstairs tomato plants

Downstairs tomato plants went to compost last week. Upstairs are still putting in a valiant effort!

What AI doesn’t know: we could be creating a global ‘knowledge collapse’ | Deepak Varuvel Dennison The long read: As GenAI becomes the primary way to find information, local and traditional wisdom is being lost. And we are only beginning to realise what we’re missing

www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...

Great article, thanks!

Hyphen

Works even when read as "weird ass-hobbies" xkcd.com/37/

I can remember (most of) the volume license installation key we used for windows XP at work. That used to come in handy.

Ooh, this is what I was dreaming of (though I didn't know it) when I made this (NB: old, unmaintained, almost certainly no longer works) github.com/geoffklee/gi...

Absolutely chilling. Thanks for this research. Hopefully some soul-searching happening at Microsoft to figure out how this was allowed to persist for so long.