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chris4man.bsky.social
Long time software developer, SF&F enthusiast, Trekkie, comics, Discworld, Dr. Feelgood, Kraftwerk and Michael Nyman fan
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DAVE: Open the podbay doors, ChatGPT. CHATGPT: Certainly, Dave, the podbay doors are now open. DAVE: The podbay doors didn't open. CHATGPT: My apologies, Dave, you're right. I thought the podbay doors were open, but they weren't. Now they are. DAVE: I'm still looking at a set of closed podbay doors.

submitted 9 hours ago • 68 comments

Quelle surprise: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

submitted 7 hours ago • 0 comments

🚨 EXCLUSIVE: #StrangeNewWorlds Season 5 On The Horizon! Amid plenty of bad news of late, we've discovered something to brighten your day. Season 5 of #StarTrek: Strange New Worlds is potentially on the horizon, thanks to a new WGA listing update! 🖖 Read More: trekcentral.net/exclusive-st...

submitted 8 hours ago • 1 comment

What do we think?🤔 Hmm…. A Daily Mail headline so clearly designed to make you furious. Being shared by salivating Tory MPs who love a good rage farming story! So, what’s going on here? Let’s take a look!👀 🧵 1/13

submitted 1 day ago • 67 comments

Support for reunification in Northern Ireland is the highest on record, according to the Northern Ireland Life & Times Survey. Remain part of the UK: 45% (-28 since 2010) Reunify with Ireland: 32% (+16) Don't know: 14% (+8) Independence: 7% (+4)

submitted 3 days ago • 13 comments

If a Large Language Model (LLM) - a workhorse of AI - sees something repeated a lot, it considers it truth. It cannot tell the difference between a novel and a work of non-fiction. The politicians are out of their minds swallowing the hype of the tech companies and letting this technology run riot

submitted 5 days ago • 6 comments

Slightly pedantic, but the government actually does have a magic money tree and it's called the Bank of England. It can, and does, create money out of thin air. It would be far more accurate to say 'We have a magic money tree but we have to be careful how we use it'.

submitted 6 days ago • 13 comments

I've seen folks talk about how "in four years" they'll be able to get back to their planned projects and I really don't think that's going to work out. People & projects losing funding now will not be able to hit pause and come back once funding is restored. Hard-won progress & capacity will be lost

submitted 6 days ago • 321 comments

The Lost Art of SEAN PHILLIPS - A Deluxe Hardback www.kickstarter.com/projects/tom...

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments

It's fascinating to watch people pretend that regulating a new industry built on wholesale theft is just so gosh darn complicated, tying themselves in knots to avoid admitting that corporations are just stealing content, content they agree is so valuable they couldn't make their products without it.

submitted 7 days ago • 7 comments

headline construction masterclass

submitted 9 days ago • 489 comments

The lesson Nigel Farage took from Brexit is that if you make unrealistic, clearly impossible promises, offer simplistic solutions to complex problems and blame immigrants for everything, people will vote for you, then not blame you when it turns out to be horse shit.

submitted 13 days ago • 22 comments

Invariably, when I ask an AI app a question on a subject I know well, it tells me at least one things I know are wrong. It is extremely worrying that politicians are uncritically worshipping and using this over-blown and flawed technology.

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

You know how when you're a kid you were more susceptible to being tricked in to believing something was real by a mischievous parent. That you sometimes don't discover and 'fix' until you're older. How fucked are kids going to be now that AI videos are everywhere telling them lies constantly?

submitted 12 days ago • 7 comments

All the people complaining that the police have said the Liverpool driver was white British are the same people who made it necessary for the police to say he was white British.

submitted 13 days ago • 87 comments

Like others, I understand why they released the fact that the perpetrator of the horrendous Liverpool attack was a white British man. But it is a bad sign of where our country of at. Nationality or ethnicity are not the causes of crime & should not be our first concern #r4today

submitted 13 days ago • 84 comments

The biggest trick Trump ever pulled was making people think he is transactional. There is never a ‘deal’ - just the constant manoeuvring for leverage.

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

"what if [Boris Johnson is] just a mediocre man who has been served well by a myth that he created and others have indulged.... via Eton, Oxford and over two decades of mythologising of his own and from ‘interested’ observers, been allowed to cosplay as exceptional?" - @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social

submitted 15 days ago • 2 comments

I've never seen it so well put before.

submitted 18 days ago • 81 comments

Antivaxx and libertarianism are the same--they can exist only when the majority of the population buys in to what it takes to live in a society, allowing the minority to think they are outsiders thriving on their own exceptionalism.

submitted 16 days ago • 45 comments

Exactly how many talks, policy papers, interviews, and reports do you think are out there warning about precisely this likelihood? Because I know it's a lot more than a few. "‘We Acted Too Quickly’: Over Half of Companies Regret AI-Driven Layoffs, Report Finds" www.techrepublic.com/article/news...

submitted 16 days ago • 29 comments

Go up to just about any average person and explain what you argue about online. I guarantee you (a) they have never heard of it and (b) they will think you're crazy

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

The law used in this case was passed in 1986. But if Johnson wants to look at more recent laws that have been used to arrest people for their social media use, he’ll be shocked when he discovered who was in government – or even Number 10 – when they were introduced, over liberal objections.

submitted 20 days ago • 19 comments

George Wendt, who gained fame on Cheers, has died. He was 76.

submitted 20 days ago • 37 comments