Pete Birkinshaw

I'm self-employed and if I posted something like "If you're confident my teddy bear isn't conscious please explain the nature of human consciousness" on social media I'd be forced to fire myself

That's because the designers and programmers are incredibly ignorant of things outside their very narrow field of expertise, and astonishingly overconfident and naive about what they do know.

I like the windows, and the interior wood, but I'm not convinced by the flat roofs in Britain idea

I like this style of building but wonder if I'd always feel as if I was living in a university department

I think it's important to give full credit to the original idiom here.

"The US has its arse lined with noodles"

Maybe the tiny upticks are McSweeney's genius at full power

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*checks Wikipedia* It is a pun on Ludo. But as Ludo is latin, is that pronounced correctly? And which Latin?

I always assumed Cluedo was a pun on older boardgame Ludo, hence the dough

Google pledges roughly three hours of its annual profit to fight climate change Google and others are committing $100 million to combat climate change.

The perfect headline doesn’t exi…

"simulacra of faith" is a good phrase

There's only one party of the centre

I've been worrying about dodgy ex-Labour people joining the Greens and David Prescott is just the sort of new member I was worrying about. I know normal membership applications can't be vetted, but...

My least favourite too. It's moody and atmospheric but not cheerful at all.

Yes but that's most of them so far TBH. The Groke has actually been happy in this one, maybe

I'm currently listening to the Moomin book in which Moominpappa has a Freudian midlife crisis about getting his lighthouse to light up, Moonintroll falls in love with a horse, and Little My knowingly commits settler-colonial genocide on behalf of the liberal bourgeoisie

I'm not ridiculing Christians here, partly because I'm being very specific, and partly because none of those people are even remotely followers of Jesus

Is it like chaining extension cables when there's only one socket? Because in the versions of Christianity I'm familiar with God always has ample sockets.

Why do weird American Christians, particularly people in Trump's government, all touch each other when praying, as if one of them is a Van de Graaff generator? Is it some sort of evangelical qi channelling?

A GitHub Issue Title Compromised 4,000 Developer Machines A prompt injection in a GitHub issue triggered a chain reaction that ended with 4,000 developers getting OpenClaw installed without consent. The attack composes well-understood vulnerabilities into so...

I am convinced we are on the verge of the first "AI agent worm". This looks like the closest hint of it, though it isn't it quite itself: an attack on a PR agent that got it to set up to install openclaw with full access on 4k machines grith.ai/blog/clineje...

Vice-chancellor calls for review into student loans for those without A-levels Adam Tickell, of University of Birmingham, says money is loaned to people who ‘are not really capable of graduating’

Urgh. This has made it to the Guardian. As I said the other day, it sounds dire for lifelong learning and for non-traditional students. A very real risk of homogenising the student body, here. Along with assumptions about the form of universities.

www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Sheep are disappearing from the UK's hills - and its dinner plates Have we have passed

Good. We need wildlife and trees and flood protection and clean water instead.

Anyone who programs is a programmer or coder. It’s like being a writer or cooking or painting. Engineers now are certified professionals following regulations.

“Software engineer” is a phrase like “clay pigeon” or “clothes horse”

Dive into Wool Creature Lab's World of Vibrant Felted Nudibranchs How artist Arina Bovenich's job at a remote biology research station transformed into a unique craft practice.

Wow, amazing #sciart via @thisiscolossal.com

The little anus logo means that it's just slop

Is this slop? Are you actually explaining the death of children caused by idiots using slop by using more slop?

I keep seeing posts about ai models like "actually they're good at this thing now!"

but once you understand that ai tools are being built by fascists in service of attacks on humanity, whether or not they can generate useable code or do basic searches kind of stops being the main question

1. Carpenter. WW2: fixed planes, then fought in Pacific (Burma?), eventually stationed in Nagasaki. Then had small furniture business, then corner shop

2. Factory worker/shouty communist. WW2: Royal Engineer, shouty, Europe then worked making soap in factory, became production line manager (shouty)

(They have no child)