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But will he reign in his own overbuild of data centres for AI compute? Nah, not while there are still suckers to buy it. Microsoft might not believe in the gold rush anymore, but they're still happy to get rich selling shovels.

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I'm trying to think of what the UK equivalent of this appointment would be. Toby Young? Jeremy Clarkson?

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I'm comforted by the thought that no matter how out of date my tech skills get and no matter how severe my decline in cognitive ability, there's always the possibility I'll be able write that software that comes bundled with printers. Those guys must huff paint thinner during lunch breaks.

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That Amazon advert where the skater boi is getting all pissy because can't skate on the sand at the beach. Luckily his mum is the brains of the family: "See Darren? This skim-board is like a skate board... for the sea." Darren smiles and asks for it to be explained to him a few more times.

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“More than a quarter of the contracts listed by DOGE were actually already paid, the Journal found, saving no money. For instance, DOGE listed $168,000 in savings for terminating a contract with HHS for an Anthony Fauci museum exhibit. It had already been fully paid.” Beyond parody.

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Satisfying afternoon at Carrow Road. The away Stoke fans were in a truculent mood though. Lots of red-faced grown-ass men losing their rags and complaining to the stewards that, I dunno, the home fan's chants were mean? Genuinely baffling behaviour.

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Sigh. The Dems still enquiring about the Queensberry Rules when they're actually in a knife fight. Expend zero effort musing why Musk and Trump are behaving so irrationally and calling you names. You're in their sights and they're coming for you. Defend yourself true.

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Of the Chiefs of Staff, vice chiefs of staff, and judge advocates general of the three branches, Trump fired all the women and Black people.

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Reaping is never quite as much fun as the sowing is it?

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WYOMING: “Thank you, Madam chairman.” “I prefer ‘Mister’ chairman.” “Well you all voted preferred pronouns cannot be compelled speech.”

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Far-right polemicists like Douglas Murray help elevate populist arseholes like Trump to positions of power. His saying a good thing once - because the leopards he supported are threatening a group he likes - should not result in reasonable journos forming an orderly queue to guzzle his ballsack.

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replacing our next town hall toolkit with a video of this guy 🫡😭

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I enjoyed this summary article by Martin Fowler on patterns when building GenAI products. If you're trying to build these products in a grown up way, what do you need to do minimise the shortcomings of LLMs? (a lot). martinfowler.com/articles/gen... This bit on RAG templates made me lol though:

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Ah yes. Trump and his famous eye for detail and commitment to professional rigour. Seriously, how, after all he's said and done, do these people look at Trump and still think "He seems a reliable business man type"? The bankruptcies, the fraud, the scams, the felonies. Come on!

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Genuinely couldn't believe this figure until I saw the Financial Times confirm it using Meta's own financial reporting data For THIS $100 billion is genuinely the kind of money you could "do the impossible" with. Crack nuclear fusion. HIV vaccine. Universal flu vaccine And they spent it on this

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I am writing this from my hospital bed after receiving third degree cringe burns.

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Do these troglodytes get any sense of how bleak this is? Cheerleading for a system of government where your only recourse against poverty is to beg the king for mercy?

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The next Bond movie will be titled "Time to Die Mister Bond, Handcrafted Artisanal Film Movie for Men – Perfecf Christmas Gift and Funny Realistic Spy Gag, Harmless Entertainment Prank for Kids and Adults, Realistic Vanilla Scent 7.9 Ounce Motion Picture (Pack of 1)"

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Journalists should report the truth the way this judge laid it out.

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I'm always saying the problem with boeing is they don't take enough shortcuts

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Barber visit = "Attending meeting with beard." It amazes me that very serious tech companies are willing to torch their reputations by baking this AI slop into their prestige products.

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Apple's AI, which I did not ask for, has summarised my husband's text about going to the barber, then getting a cup of coffee before going to run training session as follows.

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This is my current understanding of the Constitutional order in the United States It is, needless to say, very bad

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For connoisseurs of crypto scams this is a rare vintage: Coffeezilla gets an interview with one of the founders of the £LIBRA memecoin scam that has implicated the Argentine president. This dude did not lawyer up and incriminates himself wildly. It's a hoot.

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JD Vance is so nauseatingly unlikeable that he’s literally dragging down the AfD’s approval rating

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Every so often a veteran developer will get the fear when they remember a piece of ancient code they developed right at the beginning of their career that might still be running. I wrote some code for a system in a nuclear power plant. I think it read serial numbers on waste drums 😬

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