Google subscription increasing due to “additional value that we've delivered within our products”
Overestimating how much I rate unclosable banners nagging me to upgrade for data security my organisation isn’t eligible for
Or the Gemini I have to turn off before it puts me in breach of client NDAs
The current processing time for a citizenship application in Sweden is 47 months. The government wants to apply new citizenship requirements to people who applied for citizenship years ago but are still waiting.
There is grassroots mobilization against this:
www.fairtransitionsweden.com
Mary Poppins was never shot down by a drone because of this one weird trick
Remembering this line today: "The scandal is not one of ignorance but indifference... As long as enrollment numbers hold and tuition checks clear, they turn a blind eye to the learning crisis while faculty are left to manage the educational carnage in their classrooms"
(This was actually from Wednesday, I missed the alert, though I did have the kitchen window open for hours that day like some kind of maniac)
The fact that the weather feels springlike was a straight up breaking news alert for Stockholm in the national broadcaster’s news app
Last year when I was checking into a hotel, the desk person was wearing Meta glasses. I kindly asked them to take them off. They were annoyed. I said, “I do not consent to you looking at my credit card and ID with Meta glasses on.” My instincts were correct: www.bbc.com/news/article...
crypto is just words.
thank you for coming to my Ted talk.
the data center push isn’t just about AI - even if that bubble bursts they want to take computation away from you and put it in the cloud on a subscription - just like they did with media, music, email, all your data etc youtu.be/cUrJVdF2me0?...
Reminded me to look up the old Danish sketch about Monk needing Book Helpdesk youtu.be/pQHX-SjgQvQ
Remember in Star Trek The Next Generation when Picard was turned into a Borg? It must have been super traumatic because it took him forever to get over it and he was only a Borg for like a day and a half
Over optimization, like a panopticon, creates vulnerabilities.
Jesus. Another boarded up unit. This is all so fucking wasteful. Running everything for the benefit of speculation rather than commerce is so destabilising. All the pointless destruction of stuff that made things feel normal, even the dull shit. The knock-ons always unforeseen, chaotic.
Dog under a desk
Typical, installed a footwarmer in the home office in the same week that temperatures jumped up to not-freezing
I have thoughts about this as a chart, but I remain baffled how anyone thinks that AI will bring about an end to scarcity. Like, *this* is the thing that will prompt the oligarchs to ensure that everyone has what they need? *This* will be the thing that breaks greed's grip? Sure. OK.
Head of a dog
Upgraded the home office (it’s only a loaner though)
“What Would It Take”
https://pythonbynight.com/blog/what-does-it-take
> Technologists and industrialist are the least equipped to know (or care) what is good for our world. Their ethics are warped. Their egos are gluttonous. And their ambitions are delusional hallucinations.
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Seven words that will drive your lover wild
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Germans started writing 40,000 years ago! You know what that means? Any day now they might be getting to the verb
AIs can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations
Leading AIs from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google opted to use nuclear weapons in simulated war games in 95 per cent of cases
www.newscientist.com/article/2516...
🚨 Russian spy agencies have allegedly acquired summer houses, holiday cabins, warehouses, abandoned schools, city flats, and even entire islands with the intention of using them as launchpads for co-ordinated surveillance, sabotage and covert attacks.
Gift link ⬇️
www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/ee7f8d7...
i promise you, you will not guess what this is responding to
god i love the Internet
Is Ai spending and borrowing by the hyperscalers about to blow up the system? And what does the weakening US dollar portend for future financial instability? Tomorrow’s discussion points...
"It's not theft, a human could also memorize thousands of books and recite them for profit, luddite."
Testing Bluesky’s new Bandcamp widget with absolutely no ulterior motives whatsoever.
delesosimi.bandcamp.com/album/the-co...
“Oh I’ve had well over one hundred cheddars”
Internet comment: “Oh l've had well over 100 different cheddars, there are 7 different ones in my fridge at this very moment, it's the best cheese in the world.”
Insane flexes you see over on Reddit
Don’t talk to me about cheddar, I’ve forgotten more cheddar than you’ll ever taste
Still love this
@womenwritersnet.bsky.social
If you liked this experiment, I published a full piece today in the same vein: a text that gets 100 years older with every section, from a modern blog post to a medieval chronicle.
It's a single story spanning 1000 years of English. See how far you get.
www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-ba...
