Steph Smith: Sometimes in the process of writing a good enough prompt for ChatGPT, I end up solving my own problem, without even needing to submit it.
AI folks have now discovered “thinking”
Exactly one year ago today:
One thing I’m thinking about this evening is the extent to which the enormous bravery and sacrifice of the Ukraine people in facing down Russian threats - first electorally & subsequently militarily - blunted the appeal of pound-shop autocrats with a line to the Kremlin and revealed their corruption
The petro-state oligarchs thought they hit the jackpot with Trump getting re-elected as President, but they forgot the central rule of Trump: he destroys everything he touches. He's managing to do more to destroy the fossil fuel economy than anyone
In Korea, when the president declared martial law after midnight and erected barricades in Seoul, congressional reps from all parties ran into the streets, yanked ak47s from the army at the barricades, broke down the locked door to Congress, repealed the martial law order, and arrested the president
A detailed digital illustration of a Casio F-91W digital watch on a dark background, showing the time 09:25:38 on Saturday the 4th. The watch features the classic black resin case and band with blue accent lines and the iconic WR (water resist) badge.
This is absolutely beautiful and very well done.
> Nothing you own is finished. Everything exists in a state of permanent incompletion, permanently needing.
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This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.
In return for information about the thieves, Crimestoppers are offering a large bounty.
Accepting this would, in essence, double Iranian govt revenues
Add that to a more hardline regime taking over, abandoning freedom of navigation as a principle, empowering China *and* proving the Strait of a huge deterrant...
... total Iranian victory. Arguably the greatest geopolitical error ever.
You’ll note they still don’t give a fuck beyond what it means for their election chances.
I don't understand why the Democrats' platform isn't: We're going to impeach Trump and everyone who's done business with him is going to jail.
I'm baffled by people who go to a bricks-and-mortar supermarket every week, but buy things like books online. Why would you not want to spend time in a nice little bookshop, but you're happy to go to an aircraft hanger on the arse-end of town full of baked beans?
Fern Brady wearing a camera helmet on Taskmaster and opening the task, which has a red wax seal, and reading the contents. She has a purple set of coveralls on as well, which is just fun.
"Open the Strait of Hormuz. You may not receive the help of any other sovereign nation. Fastest wins."
These people are creepy, childish and just weird as shit and we should say it all the time.
Yeah damn imagine if a not very bright person with a shady personal life was running a major world power.
It would be nice if just one person in the Trump Administration had a reasonable grasp on the concept of ‘consequences’.
“Giants was” is absolutely disgusting, whichever country you’re from.
There is always a tweet.
So many moral panics about violent videogames, not enough about how the Sims has cursed a generation of interior designers:
I’ve found it, I’ve found the worst take
I deleted my post from before…
I thought it was fake
So I went to WH Smith and here it is
An unbelievable attempt to sanitise this man and normalise what’s he’s done.
Don’t forget what Ukrainians are going through.
There are 1400 mentions of DOGE founder Elon Musk in the Epstein files.
Three books on display. Burns Encyclopedia, Baby, and the Best of Robert Burns
Disco Inferno 🔥🔥🔥
#BurnsNight
The BBC coverage is absolutely terrible.
It leads on "sharply contested narratives"
It has a dramatic skew to the US government
It has posted the video but has failed to report on what it shows: it shows the US govt account is untrue
Man, I bet the NRA is going to be furious when they hear that jack-booted thugs from the federal government executed a law-abiding citizen for exercising his Second Amendment right to carry a handgun.
Any second now, I'm sure.
He was a white guy, if that helps?
Hello? NRA?
Can't hold a World Cup in a country where the dictator's secret police are executing peaceful protesters in the streets.
Two headlines by Allister Heath in The Telegraph: "Trump is the last chance to save the decaying West from terminal decline" and "Trump’s imperial delirium could trigger a catastrophe".
We can all get things wrong, but if I had been this consistently and catastrophically wrong about such important issues I don't think I could carry on publishing my opinions every week.
I'd want to go away and think about how I'd so badly misunderstood the things I write about.
What the fuck is going on? 7 “Democrats” vote to fund the Gestapo?