Depeche Median

The troubles

I'm actually a bit worried about this. I already see developers retreating from social spaces like Stack Overflow and other forums into endless conversations with Claude. Not only are they getting dumber (see studies) but they are no longer contributing to the commons.

Cheshire Women’s Institute branch to close in solidarity with trans women A Cheshire Women’s Institute branch has announced it will close at the end of March after members voted overwhelmingly to suspend the group in protest at the national organisation’s exclusion of trans...

So sad, and so unnecessary. We offered a legal indemnity, against all legal risks, to the leadership of Women's Institute, and Girlguiding, so they could continue to include all women.

Both declined.

It's not even free mate, I paid £1.20 for a copy of The i today

A dark grey MoErgo Glove80 with white keycaps. It's a split, ortholinear keyboard with concave keywells and thumb clusters 

with great sadness i had to retire my trusty Ergodox Infinity, but: new keeb! expect typos as i learn how to type again

(MoErgo Glove80)

NBC News poll Voters hold negative views of Al. In fact, the only topics less popular in the survey were the Democratic Party and Iran.

Truly a perfect news alert

Just deleted a pedantic reply that added nothing to the conversation. Where's my fucking medal?

I've said before that Rachel Reeves must have fucking brilliant at the philosophy sections, because she doesn't appear to have emerged with any understanding of politics or economics

We have had the production version of our Gameboy / Gameboy Colour / Gameboy Advance Cartridge adaptor for the Multisystem2. This will allow you to use physical Gameboy cartridges on the MiSTer Multisystem2.

Something they can copy/paste into their marketing. Logo, something about your business.

They lost my loyalty a long time ago. I’m currently availing myself of a bit of their venture capital while cheerleading their implosion.

marketing. tbf, even "fucking up" oversells it. If the output tokens match a known truth, this was because it was statistically likely, not because the bot is capable of knowing what truth is. It will generate output tokens that match known untruths using exactly the same process.

I don't even blame them. The marketing and hype are hard to resist, which is why it would have been handy if my company had tried to resist it instead of doing their damnedest to reinforce it.

I would say mid-fifties from her photo. Same for the guy telling his bot to "speak to the underlying cognitive tier"

people in work ChatGPT Teams are sharing their "instructions" to their bots, and one of them uses "do not hallucinate" and I want to fucking scream.

Britpopple - Heardle for Britpop fans Guess the Britpop song from the intro in as few tries as possible.

Britpopple #1342

🔊🟩⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️

#Britpopple #Heardle @Britpopple

www.britpopple.uk

The straits of Hormuz are closed and the mideast is on fire and crude oil is surging but the dow is up 200 right now because our entire fucking economy is not based on numbers or reality but a fucking vibe felt by a bunch of coked up douchebags on Wall Street

Bluesky has a CEO, a CIO, a COO, and a CTO. What do they do all day?

You do not have to like Corbyn or think he's competent or whatever.

But you DO need to acknowledge that the British Establishment moved Heaven and Earth to destroy him because he views racialised people as human and opposed slaughtering them.

My brain: "Weird thing for a 90s/00s pro cycling team to be posting about"

Glasgow Central Fire Sparks Travel Chaos Across the UK A major fire beside Glasgow Central has shut Scotland’s busiest station, triggering nationwide disruption and raising urgent questions over UK rail resilience.

Awful news about Glasgow Central, I'm still hoping the station itself escaped serious damage.
But while we're here, can anyone spot the problem with the news photo below, from thetraveler.org/glasgow-cent...?
We've really got to STOP using AI to fake things.

Shoulda got bog roll

all the ladies at TJ Maxx when they hear what's on sale sound like:

I'm as bad at Slay the Spire II as I was at Slay The Spire, and I have no idea why. Don't make me watch Youtube videos.

holy shit

Camper Van Beethoven - Pictures Of Matchstick Men YouTube video by CamperVanBeethovVEVO

#EmojiSounds
#MusicChallenge
Day 9: 🎻

Camper Van Beethoven - Pictures of Matchstick Men

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Australia, Births and Baptisms, 1792-1981

Morning re-quote for this. Seriously one of the best things I have seen on the internet.

NHS Trust Spent Millions on Controversial ‘Spy Camera’ Tech Despite Damning Internal Report Exclusive: An NHS trust spent over £2.4m on Oxevision, a technology that films vulnerable patients in their bedrooms 24/7, even after its own internal evaluation report highlighted significant issues ...

Sorry about the Novara like but this was the most up to date article I could find. This is just another case of psych patients having less rights than rapists and murderers in prison
novaramedia.com/2026/01/15/n...