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Wow. This is so dangerous. I know the thing is just a plausible phrase generator, but the fact it seems to have been programmed to flatter turns it in effect into a lying seduction machine. Horrified that so many people are rotting their own brains with this this uncanny valley parasocial interface

submitted 1 day ago • 17 comments

Britain has no idea - in terms of its self-image, not economists obviously - what economy it actually has One of my favourite facts to point out is: at over £8bn annually, the videogames industry is more than twice as valuable to the UK economy as fishing and steel combined.

submitted 7 days ago • 75 comments

Hey it's another one of those inevitable things turning out to not be.

submitted 15 days ago • 22 comments

GB News : "Brexit is a good thing?" Brexit Fisherman : "It's been a disaster" "But exports?" "Red tape is 100 fold, our main market is the EU" "But EU fisherman?" "They didn't come here" "But charge more?" "They can buy in the EU" "How would you vote?" "I'd vote for Remain in a heart beat"

submitted 112 days ago • 81 comments

One of the biggest demographics that is still on X is twitch streamers so this, along with basic improvements in video encoding, would help change that a lot.

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

This doesn't seem overly surprising. I am seeing people saying it's positively helped with straightforward code or learning how to use software, but it feels most Ai users are having to do serious work checking any AI output, or even getting it to produce what they need in the first place.

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hey can you come back later, i'm defragging my tulip fields

submitted 39 days ago • 28 comments

Those lentil-weaving hippies at the London Stock Exchange Group reckon the global green economy is worth $7.9tr, is the fourth largest sector in the world, and has grown faster than every industry barring technology over the past decade. www.businessgreen.com/news/4413438...

submitted 24 days ago • 2 comments

For everyone who was like “Google search is getting worse,” we were absolutely right.

submitted 25 days ago • 320 comments

The Greens now have nearly 200 more councillors than Reform. This is not something you'd be likely to guess from all the copiously salivating media coverage of Farage & his crew of billionaire-backed far-right chancers.

submitted 34 days ago • 34 comments

The Green Party don’t get as much media coverage as Reform because the continuation of civilised human life on the planet isn’t as interesting as cunts.

submitted 34 days ago • 51 comments

I should check the results of the UK local election-- nope, don't want to deal with that.

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

"Your health records will be on the block chain." "Everyone will live in the Metaverse." "All art will be NFTs." "Generative AI will replace the need for humans." We need to reckon with the reality that the tech industry no longer creates things that anyone wants.

submitted 38 days ago • 75 comments

This is the kind of practical action we need as the culture war escalates. Wild that a small music venue is prepared to do this while massive, wealthy institutions like my employer - a university - are not. But this is where people can put pressure as employees, customers, and service users.

submitted 41 days ago • 5 comments

Counterpoint: yes they should

submitted 43 days ago • 1 comment

Happy birthday to Sean Bean who, despite dying multiple times, turns 66 today. To celebrate here’s a compilation of him as Sharpe saying ‘bastard’. Enjoy. youtu.be/tE8d-uGmIWk?...

submitted 49 days ago • 13 comments

I think one thing chatGPT's invention has revealed is how many people - including some very important people in society - find just basic reading and writing to be laborious and cumbersome to perform, and how oddly closely that type of strained literacy correlates with having other shitty opinions.

submitted 52 days ago • 42 comments

So much of this could have been avoided if we had only retained the norm that leaders who lied to the public had to face consequences

submitted 58 days ago • 7 comments

old enough to remember jennifer hepler being harrassed out of the games industry for once even suggesting this www.eurogamer.net/death-strand...

submitted 52 days ago • 3 comments

1. LLM-generated code tries to run code from online software packages. Which is normal but 2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but 3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So 4. Now the LLM code points to malware.

submitted 54 days ago • 116 comments

From arcade cabinet to table top this recreation of Atari Battle zone looks amazing

submitted 54 days ago • 25 comments

The problem with most machine-based random number generators is that they’re not TRULY random, so if you need genuine randomness it is sometimes necessary to link your code to an external random process like a physical noise source or the current rate of US tariffs on a given country.

submitted 57 days ago • 391 comments

Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

submitted 57 days ago • 884 comments

The British automotive industry contributes £22bn to the UK economy. The creative industries contribute £124bn. Fucksake. Stop AI copyright theft.

submitted 58 days ago • 35 comments

A message to our followers.

submitted 65 days ago • 121 comments

Kinda weird how Led By Donkeys just completely stopped holding the government accountable on July 4 last year, right?

submitted 77 days ago • 1 comment

How do people read the news and still remain functional?

submitted 70 days ago • 0 comments

This is one of the few things DOGE is looking to blow up I have very direct personal experience with and HOO BOY if they mess with NIST American manufacturing isn’t going to recover in my lifetime.

submitted 72 days ago • 10 comments

In a career of being nominated for things we know we can't win, I don't think I've ever been more sure of not winning something than the IGF for Excellence in Design last night. Somehow, it was also the first time I've been wrong. Properly stunned, hugely grateful, deeply confused.

submitted 77 days ago • 90 comments

There's legitimately blood in the water at this point. Keep attending Tesla protests. Post about it. Solidify the brand's association with Nazi incels.

submitted 88 days ago • 112 comments

It would be helpful if more people understood renewable energy is actually an extremely disruptive technology and the reason monied interests are trying to make folks hate it is that they are the ones which will be disrupted.

submitted 92 days ago • 601 comments

me and @smolcano.bsky.social in Tactical Breach Wizards #cosplay at katsu, photos by @felixwongphoto.bsky.social at his pop-up photobooth that everybody should visit, edited by smolcano. By popular^H^H^H^H^H^H several peoples' demand, I am tagging @pentadact.com, thanks for a cool game. 🧙🏻‍♂️

submitted 103 days ago • 4 comments

I see people saying this sort of thing often, and quite frankly it makes me sad. The truth is, more people are making good adventure games now than were ever made during the “golden age” of the 90s. For example: 🧵

submitted 110 days ago • 145 comments

Imagine if the Labour Party’s message on work was ‘you shouldn’t have to work so hard to make ends meet’

submitted 110 days ago • 6 comments

I don't know what to think of conspiracy theories regarding foreign agencies influencing American elections, but if one of them had then inflicting this level of chaos onto one of the largest intelligence agencies in the world would be exactly the kind of outcome they'd be looking for.

submitted 115 days ago • 0 comments

I heard it was #SuperbOwl Sunday.

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submitted 150 days ago • 46 comments

A thoughtful and valuable thread (it's a long 'un because y'know, thoughtful and valuable)

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Beside myself that the American plagiarism company is accusing the Chinese of... plagiariasm. Apparently stealing data to train AI is only theft when OTHER people do it techcrunch.com/2025/01/28/d...

submitted 127 days ago • 0 comments

If Nvidia's share price keeps dropping they might have to pivot to selling affordable GPUs to people who want to play video games.

submitted 129 days ago • 16 comments