Jonathan Crossfield

A Reductress post features a photo of Kristi Noem with the headline, “Kristi Noem Put Down for Being Too Hard to Train”

Screaming

In other words: the beatings will continue until everyone does what he says. That’s how to achieve peace.

When he says he’s the president of peace and that he won’t start any wars, what he really means is he will take control of other countries either economically or via forced regime change through “military strikes” until every other leader is a lickspittle to the U.S.

Yes I know we’re all disappointed in Albanese right now (and for a while tbh). But Albo’s gotta Albo, right?

I’m more disappointed in Penny Wong, who seemed to be the calmest head in the entire party that ppl kept fantasising about her quitting the Senate to join the House and become leader.

Punk as fuck.

Completely opposite for me. I can still remember the horror on seeing that Visitation cover in the bookshop for the first time. The covers were almost always great, so going with a simple publicity shot of the Doctor that had no connection to the story seemed so lazy.

Lorry sheds its load of offal leading to M6 delays

An Orc, saying ‘Looks like meat’s back on the menu, boys.’

You're trapped in the last TV show you watched, where are you?

(Literally the episode I just watched. And boy, wouldn't it be nice?)

America first. Today’s Age cartoon

Staffer: Sir, good news. One of the F-15 pilots ejected safely and is on the ground. Calm and cool under pressure. Badass aura. A video taken by a thankful Kuwaiti civilian is going viral.

Hegseth: Fuck yeah. What's his name?

Staffer: Okay, so, here's the part you won't like...

Probably the best example of the U.S. responding defensively would be after Pearl Harbor, and even then Roosevelt went to Congress the very next day to ask for a formal declaration of war against Japan.

Man I love sci fi

Archduke Franz Ferdinand has entered the chat

Hopefully Zendaya booked a better dress designer than MJ did in the comics.

(Cover by John Romita Sr but I’m guessing the guilty party would have been Paul Ryan on interior pencils.)

This wasn’t me, but I’m absolutely doing this from now on.

THIS.

AWOOGA AWOOGA
This is not a drill!
AWOOGA AWOOGA

in 1983, 90% of U.S. media was spread across 50 companies. in 2012, it's these six Comcast, Newscorp, Disney, Viacom, Time Warner, CBS

in 2012, it was six. now it's four.

It’s scary how much stuff is still hiding in attics and private collections like this.

a man in a blue and red helmet is talking to another man in a gold armor ALT: a man in a blue and red helmet is talking to another man in a gold armor

Watched the old Stallone Judge Dredd (1995) movie last night ‘cause it had been a long time.

It’s … not great, is it!? Probably why I’ve not watched it for so long!

Might have to watch Dredd (2013) this weekend to wash the stink out.

Didn’t they get the rights to use Christopher Lee’s likeness? 😂

(Otherwise, I love this.)

Alan Moore would like a word.

imo we could just legislate against this and there is no reason not to

Lois Lane says: JUST THINK, OUT OF THE SIX MILLION PEOPLE IN METROPOLIS, YOU AND I ALONE UNDER THE COUNTLESS STARS... Superman replies: WRONG - - THERE ARE 1549 STARS, TWO PLANETS, AND ONE ASTEROID VISIBLE TONIGHT!

Bluesky.

thinking about how Savannah Guthrie had to cancel her trip to work the Olympics because of her mom’s kidnapping but the guy who heads up the investigative body handling the case was posting pictures of himself in the US hockey locker room today lol

Decline in remote jobs risks shutting disabled people out of work, study finds Research project warns fall in homeworking roles could undermine efforts to reduce unemployment

We invented the Internet to work remotely. Then developed all the tools we might need. Then had a world historical event prove that remote work was effective and necessary.

Correction: 2 episodes. One on racist attacks against Indian migrants and one tackling the issues faced by black police officers.

IIRC the writers said in an interview that they shied away from overt racism, particularly in series 1, because they already had the brutality, misogyny, corruption and so much else. It’s why everyone accepts Nelson the barman without a problem.

They deal with racism in a big way in a series 2 ep.

1/3 The comparison sounds clever, but it collapses under scrutiny. First, a human is not "trained" solely to become smart. A person's caloric intake supports a whole organism: immune system, emotional development, social bonds, creativity, physical labor, reproduction, caregiving, civic participation. The energy isn't consumed just to produce reasoning ability. It sustains a living system that does vastly more than cognitive output. Second, the time horizon is misleading. A human brain develops once and then runs for decades on about 20 watts, roughly the power draw of a dim lightbulb. By contrast, training large Al models requires concentrated bursts of industrial-scale electricity over short periods, often in data centers powered by fossil fuels. The fact that it happens quickly does not make the energy footprint trivial. It concentrates resource use in ways that have measurable environmental impact.

2/3 Third, humans generate their own training data through embodied experience. Al models depend on massive scraped datasets, server infrastructure, cooling systems, and repeated retraining cycles. Humans do not need to be retrained from scratch every time a new cohort is born; civilization compounds knowledge socially. Al models are frequently retrained, fine-tuned, and scaled up, each cycle consuming additional energy. Fourth, the comparison treats intelligence as if it were a single output metric. Humans can generalize across domains with limited data, adapt in real time, and operate in the physical world without a warehouse of GPUs. Al models require enormous data redundancy to approximate patterns that humans often infer from sparse experience.

3/3 Finally, there is an ethical dimension. Human development is not an industrial optimization problem. Framing childhood and education as an "energy cost" comparable to server training subtly reduces people to production units. That framing matters. If the goal is to assess environmental cost, the relevant comparison is not "20 years of food vs one training run." It is lifecycle analysis: data center construction, energy source mix, hardware manufacturing, cooling water use, retraining frequency, and downstream deployment at scale. On that basis, the question becomes empirical, not rhetorical. So the analogy is catchy, but it oversimplifies both biology and infrastructure in ways that obscure more than they illuminate.

ChatGPT's response to this jagoff. Even it thinks its dad is a dumbass.

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