Ah yes
05.03.2026 10:20
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Ah yes
Good old Futurama!
How can we get people to watch ads in their sleep?
We currently waste a third of our lives not consuming ads. That’s 8 hours of lost opportunities EVERY DAY. But what if people could watch ads *in their dreams*? And maybe buy the products they’d seen *without even waking up*?
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As part of measures to protect the nation’s most valuable resource – its money – minister Karen Hoyland, 42, announced the construction of a £4Bn Thunderdome, where children with autism will earn their educational support by “duking it out to the death”.
(I now realise that could be taken one of two ways. You can decide which one I meant.)
You too will be this old and broken one day. With a bit of luck.
More superb reporting in London Centric on the Aziz family, this time evicting hundreds of tenants from residential properties, which comes on top of dodgy tax evading gift shops, trying to close the Prince Charles Cinema etc – absolutely depressing that politicians can't do anything about this lot.
Heartening to see members of the Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes family still managing to get work in these straitened times.
Every word of this by @hayleythough.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/hayleywe...
You get my eternal respect and admiration!
What the fuck does “failed to load blob” mean?
If children were more politically active they would be quite pissed to be told that their screen time is “the most urgent public health issue” while the largest measles outbreak since the vaccine sweeps their schools because of conspiracies that the adults in their life believed from social media.
Classic ginnel
“If time were like a passage of music, you could keep going back to it till you got it right…”
Yes! An utterly amazing piece of work that I’ve been going back to every few years since I was a teenager (and think about a lot more often than that). One of my absolute favourite books. If you haven’t read it READ IT.
“Models”. That’s me done for then.
Sleep is for the weak, Richard
Something compelled me to make this
Age verification?
i remember when you could make a werewolf, a frankenstein, a pirate or a draclia (not pictured) out of a lolly stick
Thats enough with the moustaches now, lads
Our great @bylinetimes.bsky.social diarist Peter Oborne spotted the problem with McSweeney back in August 2024. Here's 18 months of his coverage of Keir Starmer's Departing Chief of Staff
open.substack.com/pub/bylinesu...
This - and the story that leads up to it - explains an awful lot about the world today open.substack.com/pub/londonce...
Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work.
“It's not going to be pleasant. I value my neck a lot more than three thousand bucks, chief. I'll find him for three - but I'll catch him, and kill him, for ten.”
This is one reason I keep trying to remind people of the power that we have. That we have *always* had. Not because I’m in denial, but because I know history. I’m no sophisticated intellectual, but I do know we’re going to win even though the bad shit is really terrible right now.
Finally, a politician prepared to fight against the huge roll in public life being handed over to Palantir by our corrupt govts.
Why is Palantir being given NHS contracts? They are reportedly involved with rounding up migrants in the US and targeting mainly civilians in Gaza.
The Sailor Moon meme of Tuxedo Mask, a mysterious caped gentleman, saying "My job here is done." Sailor Moon replies "But you didn't do anything." Tuxedo Mask exits without replying. Curiously enough this scene never actually occurs in the show, it's derived from a different scene to mirror the very similar gag featuring Leonard Nimoy and Barney Gumble from the Monorail episode of the Simpsons. Isn't human communication amazing?
The British press bringing down Mandelson:
What yf the real darknesse wher democracye doth die ys the billionaires we met along the way?
I thought things couldn’t get much worse but then somebody recommended I watch “Last Comic Laughing”
Life hack: if you start getting up half an hour earlier every morning and going to bed half an hour earlier every night, within less than a month you’ll actually have travelled three days back in time
Abstract Al assistance produces significant productivity gains across professional domains, particularly for novice workers. Yet how this assistance affects the development of skills required to effectively supervise AI remains unclear. Novice workers who rely heavily on AI to complete unfamiliar tasks may compromise their own skill acquisition in the process. We conduct randomized experiments to study how developers gained mastery of a new asynchronous programming library with and without the assistance of Al. We find that AI use impairs conceptual understanding, code reading, and debugging abilities, without delivering significant efficiency gains on average. Participants who fully delegated coding tasks showed some productivity improvements, but at the cost of learning the library. We identify six distinct AI interaction patterns, three of which involve cognitive engagement and preserve learning outcomes even when participants receive AI assistance. Our findings suggest that Al-enhanced productivity is not a shortcut to competence and AI assistance should be carefully adopted into workflows to preserve skill formation - particularly in safety-critical domains.
‘Novice workers who rely heavily on AI to complete unfamiliar tasks may compromise their own skill acquisition… We find that AI use impairs conceptual understanding, code reading, and debugging abilities, without delivering significant efficiency gains on average.’
arxiv.org/pdf/2601.20245