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Frequently glossobuccalic. Knows just enough to be a danger to himself and others in a surprising number of areas. I'm not overweight, I'm underheight. "AI" is marketing hype, machine learning is the technology, copyright theft is the business model.
“Lousy food … crummy service … dinky cabins … and that’s only the tip of the iceberg!”
“Lousy food … crummy service … dinky cabins … and that’s only the tip of the iceberg!”
The Norwegian Consumer Council has produced a report (in English) on enshittification. Here's the video that goes with it (link to the report in the description).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Up...
I laughed myself silly writing this years ago. It contains a paragraph translated directly from Yoruba to English with ridiculous results. But there is a deeper message here. Languages also express the inexpressible. Translation often needs a human mind and soul.
folukeafrica.com/lost-in-tran...
Downfall 2
Breaking news!! literally. There are smart pants that can measure how much you fart!!! researchers realised we have no sense of whether someone is farting excessively cos we don't know what normal fart range is so they made pants that can measure this.... #Fart 🧪🧵
🚨A historic breakthrough today for the fight against #SLAPPs as for the first time ever, the High Court has formally branded legal action as a #SLAPP, throwing out a “spectacularly inflated” £8m libel claim against @danneidle.bsky.social who reported on a barrister’s role in a tax avoidance scheme
I finally lost my shit about so-called AIs, LLMs, enshittification & everything fucking evil that @officialgrammarly.bsky.social is doing. I'm fucking furious, and not just about what 1 company has done. An open letter to Grammarly & the rest of the LLM hype machine www.moryan.com/an-open-lett...
BREAKING: Grammarly is pulling down its explosively controversial feature that impersonates writers without their consent
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In more than half of US states, Republican and Democratic lawmakers have introduced legislation that would boost adoption of small plug-in solar panels that sit on apartment balconies and plug directly into household outlets. Canary Media buff.ly/5B79fOA #ShareGoodNewsToo
Image of an early public demonstration of the telephone, captioned "new phone, who dis?"
It's the 150th anniversary of the first telephone call, and who can forget Alexander Graham Bell's first, immortal words?
Ailurotokinesimancy. Lovely idea.
bookstores are getting increasingly conservative in their actual book buying numbers, so 1000% preorder that book you're excited about please. Every single copy helps.
In other non-dreadful news.
"What I found was that there's a huge need out there for women gardeners to work with older people who just can't manage their gardens anymore."
The company ... connects women across England and aims to support them entering the industry.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Surely the point of art is to be a discontent industry
I hope he also acted for a Count Alucard buying property in this country.
The Torygraph becomes the Graf von Tory.
www.theguardian.com/media/2026/m...
🧪China to Power Up World's First Accelerator-Driven Nuclear Reactor in 2027
ground.news/article/chin...
Did you know—in 1820s & 1830s U.S., “natural philosophy” (including mechanics, machines, heat) was “the most widely offered scientific subject in girls’ schools—more commonly taught than astronomy, chemistry, botany, mineralogy, or natural history.” 🧪 #histsci
physicstoday.aip.org/features/phy...
There’s an Indian journalist in Israel right now reporting in Hindi about how bomb shelters in Israel will allow even the pets of Jews in but will not open its doors to the Indian workers our shithole government sent in droves to make up for genocided Palestinian labor. Apartheid regime.
Chile has rebuilt access to welfare around a municipal “one-stop shop”. Gestión Social Local has reached 10 million poor and vulnerable people across 339 municipalities, trained 10,000+ municipal workers, & processed more than 13 million benefit requests since 2019 buff.ly/GI3jGpI #ShareGoodNewsToo
Chinese scientists build ‘ultra-stable’ polymer solar cell with 19.1% efficiency #energysky -- via pv magazine global:
thegist.ie I said CJEU judgments were succinct. But one of the ways they manage this is to be very information dense. To expand on that paragraph a little- where a person has a right covered by the Charter of Fundamental Rights or any other provision of EU law and access to those legal entitlements is being blocked by a failure to correctly record their gender (in line with the definition at paragraph 32 above as being defined by "lived gender identity, and not to the identity assigned to them at birth") then whatever national law that is causing that impediment is to just be set aside. It is a dead letter. Every_court, every. state body, every individual official has to behave as it it didn't exist. That's the consequence of incompatibility with EU law.
On discourse about trans people’s right to access to accurate ID, I’d like to remind that the EU’s top court, using data protection’s most fundamental principles, has declared that someone’s “lived gender identity” is what must be recorded to describe them.
www.thegist.ie/the-gist-tra...
So, is Milk of Magnesia going to become appellation d'origine contrôlée?
And where is Magnesia anyway?
A picture of PEW poll on global attitude survey, saying the % who rate the morality and ethics of people in their country as good vs bad, where the US has the worst rankings and Canada the best
Americans: we live in a fallen state—embroiled by sin, cheating, lying, and evil. You cannot trust anyone, not even those who claim to know you best
Canadians: I love my neighbors and my friends!
China has added or rejuvenated over a million hectares of wetlands since 2012 through 3,800 restoration projects, backed by new national and provincial wetland laws. This includes 903 national wetland parks, large-scale monitoring systems, & 92 km² of new mangroves buff.ly/dlYj3D6
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They all do this. And it feels like a reflection on the humans behind them, whose inflated careers are built on never admitting they don’t know the answer. The ‘smartest people in the room’ if ‘smart’ just means glib and facile, turning out lies with complete conviction.
Scientists in California have created a new way to see inside the body by combining ultrasound with a light-based technique called photoacoustic imaging. The result produces fast 3D images that show both the shape of soft tissues and how blood is flowing.
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The Sock Eater has visited again and was quite hungry this time. I now have three odd socks.
European bison arrive in Spain’s Iberian Highlands. Nine European bison have been released in El Recuenco, Guadalajara, launching a scientific study into how Europe’s largest land mammal can restore Mediterranean woodlands and reduce wildfire risk through grazing. buff.ly/CWTIpmt #ShareGoodNewsToo
The skeumorphism this time sounds like a reversion to Chaos and Old Night.