I’m appalled, appalled, I say, not to be included on this blocklist of “AI” sceptics! I must up my game.
Down with the over-hyped word-shufflers! Boo to resource-hungry datacentres! A pox on people who anthropomorphise jumped-up versions of Eliza.
I do cling to the hope that most if not all of them are just feeling the effects of all that caffeinated bilge they neck, and not chatting with spicy autocomplete. Neither are good for them long-term though.
As I age, I used to worry that my bladder would hold out during the longer invigilations. Now I worry about the increasing number of students who have to rush to the loo during exams.
My musings about the possibility of ‘phone jammers in the ablutions are of course totally unrelated.
Also, feels important to mention these days that this indie film was made by humans.
Palantir are about six months away from ordering their employees to leave audio logs scattered around their offices
I found a Reform campaign leaflet had been put through my letterbox only after I'd moved my bowels this morning.
Sometimes timing just doesn't work out.
What do we call it? The Re-reformation? The Formation? The Deformation?
"Really important thread 🧵 HT: @catinthehat.bsky.social
There were so many BIG wins in the Covid Inquiry M3 report.
So many of the things CATA & other core participants fought for were completely vindicated:
🚨aerosol transmission
🚨ventilation
🚨AGPs dead in the water
…BUT some big omissions too…"
I don’t do ‘bus, but I do use ‘phone, Hallowe’en and ‘plane.
Even on occassion, sha’n’t.
Next Artemis launch I fear NASA will not just cut to spectators at interesting moments, but they'll be full-on with the "kiss-cam" like some sort of sports thing.
I’ve said it before and I’ll no doubt say it again. Universities are roughly 1000 years old. They predate most operating models including capitalism and have lasted for a reason. Installing insecure, helpless managers who ape business methods results in bad businesses, not good universities.
Always reassuring to know it’s not just me!
I dunno, the attrition rate in my classes has been significant. Only a few veterans will make it through to the final trumpet this afternoon.
If I fall, think only this of me: there is some corner of a computer lab that is forever exhausted and cynical.
if we’re talking young wizard books I must recommend Diane Duane’s young wizards books, which I adored as a child
also, while they are not technically about wizards, Dealing with Dragons/Searching for Dragons by Patricia Wrede are also phenomenal fantasy reads for kids
"the good news is that we have found a relatively cheap and easy way to prevent the cast from going through puberty. the bad news is that not everybody in this room is going to like it".
Was “Division” one of the Mitford sisters too?
I'm disappointed about Holyrood's decision on assisted dying, but I get it - if there's any doubt at all about the safeguarding measures, that's the decision that had to be made.
I rememer a very disappointing primary school trip to a fire station : there were no poles for them to slide down.
They made them take down the videos because they would cause "reputational damage" to people like this young man, Nathan Cavanuagh, so definitely don't post this all over the internet with the name Nathan Cavanaugh attached, or this guy might suffer reputational damage. This guy, Nathan Cavanaugh.
Also, be sure not to spread this video of Justin Fox, the other DOGE bro who revealed that he's a malicious moron who caused incredible destruction.
Do not hurt Justin Fox's reputation just by linking Justin Fox's name to the sworn testimony Justin Fox gave about what Justin Fox did.
Just a thought: if *11* of y’all bought a Whole Store Ebook package from me, I could buy a new waffle iron. THIS one. WITH NINE INTERCHANGEABLE PLATES! 😃 frifri.be/fr/produit/le-gaufrier-e...
How they hate half the episodes and how they wish they didn’t exist.
As documented in the Sherlock Holmes story The Adventure of the Norwood Tilly.
At least the boob hypnosis was in his own time. It wasn’t like he bought astrology software on MP’s expenses, that’d be ludicrous (*cough* Tory MP David Tredinnick *cough*).
It was invented separately but simultaneously by Isaac Armstrong and Gottfried Wilhelm Beiderbecke.
Don’t let him make up the acronym!
Sexy Hotties In Extremely Little Dresses
You know he really wants an Amazonian Guard like Gadaffi had.
Ned Ludd had the right idea.
Good old Hercules Gandalf-Thynne, who fought the dreaded Bloodnok in the mines of Moria(rty).
