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It’s the month before 9/11 and life is still simple. You’re with your friends, all dressed up in Corelli costumes, waiting in a long line for opening night of Captain Corelli’s Mandolin. Later you’ll hit Denny’s for a late night Grand Slam, then play Captain Corelli’s Mandolin 3 on PS2 till morning

the walls are closing in, elon. two hundred pending court cases, elon

Somebody Should Do Something About All The Problems

Would you like to see something funny www.ft.com/content/6b52...

Fuck off.

but if i'm not allowed to feed artists into my artist killing machine it's going to be basically impossible for the machine to keep killing artists. is that what you want?? and before you answer keep in mind this is a very expensive machine

congrats again to Canada for avoiding conservative government by voting in a government that... proudly announces austerity on day 1

he’s gonna do it

when your German grandmother gets her bathroom refurbished

i am never more embarrassed to be british than when the government announces it will save our economy by investing in whatever pump-and-dump tech swindle is currently ongoing

not a single person in power has actually articulated in concrete terms how going all in on AI is going to fix the economy, and there are no extant examples of it doing so bsky.app/profile/poli...

I note that five years ago, the public were being angrily told by every outlet that that this - talking about taking action on Israel’s decades-long repression of a subject population that has no rights - was automatically deranged behaviour, terrifyingly extreme and despicable racist harassment.

There are whole movies that don’t have the twists and turns of this paragraph.

“Didn’t these AI chuds think about use permission???” I think they did. I think they were like:

"She was also Gaza’s youngest influencer, offering practical survival tips for daily life under bombardment, such as advice on how to cook with improvised methods when there was no gas. 'I try to bring a bit of joy to the other children so that they can forget the war. '”

crabs in a bucket | patreon.com/lubchansky

muy divertido

really cool that international relations has essentially been reduced to a protracted game of Elder Abuse Ping-Pong

electricians are here today and the guy was talking to my cutout for a few seconds then goes "WOAH!" and realizes im in another room. gonna throw up.

Wholesale NHS adoption of this technology can only be days away

Why doesnt andor address this

Something about Alex Jones type conspiracism has me thinking about how we probably made an error in teaching people that critical thinking means Asking Questions. We should have told them to be skeptical of skepticism too, i.e. ask "/why/ would this be a lie?" sometimes

As well he should

Can't think of a single time the MGM lion advanced the plot of the movie in any way. Just needless jump scare

It's going to suddenly become very urgent in some sections of the press that she's removed as leader now.

And will there be any mea culpas from all the New Statesman dickheads who sneered "why do you want rich people to get benefits they don't need?" now their golden boy has speedrun finding out this thing everyone else knew decades ago? Will there shit. We'll get exactly the same thing again.

having been pushing a stroller around for two months, my most strongly held belief is now that you should be allowed to go Street Fighter Bonus Stage on any car blocking your path

I cannot tell you how filled with optimism I was on election night 2017: it felt like anything was possible, like we were on the cusp of finally, meaningfully improving life for the people of this country, making people’s lives easier rather than worse and more difficult. But.

legit lmao

I’m the guy who invents new bathroom faucet designs for every hotel. You might know me from Knob That Goes The Other Way and Joystick That’s Hard To Turn Off. Lately I’ve been lacking inspiration, even thinking about hanging it up. I’ve had a good run, but — wait, never mind: Ball You Turn Diagonal

In recent weeks, video game publishers Take-Two and EA both warned investors about potential "reputational" risks to the use of gen-AI in games. It's a problem that all game companies will soon need to confront: Players hate genAI. This week's column: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

It's clear to me now we live in a Liz Lemon fever dream

If you like what Elon Musk has done for cars, trucks and rockets (make them catch on fire and explode with astonishing regularity), you're going to love what he does with nuclear reactors.

my wife, French: “I found the English word I hate most. [struggling] ’Thaw’… ‘thaw’. Just look at the shape your face makes when you say it. It’s disgusting.”

3:36am… going back for more tariffs

It’s quite a commentary on the British national psyche that “strictest head teacher” is something that gets you a media platform and allows you to just screech whatever nonsense you like to a national audience.