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@sensiblehuman96 I love how Corbyn is in the Epstein files, but only because it's just all the billionaire nonces going 'under no circumstances can we let Corbyn be PM'

I am glad I am still someone who believes in the goodness of people enough to be surprised that there were a cabal of elites who preferred dangerous paedophiles to socialism (also, first day in office he'd have gone "hang on what's all this?" and those involved may have faced, ya know, justice.

Comics retailing legend Greg Ketter standing up to ICE in Minneapolis. Yes, that's tear gas. He's 70 years old.

Potentially nasty vuln in Notepad++ - Update ASAP notepad-plus-plus.org/news/v889-re...

Bondi 💔

Exactly this. Anyone who thinks AI is about to put humans out of work has clearly never met a truly bored human - we cannot stand that shit, we find things to do and we'll be surprised by our own capabilities compared to machines for decades to come

Wow! That is hardcore childminding 🤯 Good luck!!

Tom Stoppard

from, 'The Coast of Utopia'

My most generous position here is that he likely knows of the problems in the organization but is hoping that he can improve things - better him than another and all that - but yeah I struggle to separate the good from the bad here... just hoping for some major change

So sad to hear this but it is worth celebrating the amount of joy Jim has brought to the world. RIP and thanks for all the experiences ❤️

Sorry to hear about the passing of Jim Hamilton, co-founder of Forbidden Planet. I didn't know Jim, but I do know he was largely responsible for the excellent mix of mainstream and indie titles that were in the shop when I wandered in one day in 1989 and my love for comics was reignited. RIP.

The vetting files: How the BBC kept out ‘subversives’ For decades the BBC denied job applicants were vetted by MI5 - but vetting continued at the corporation until the 1990s.

Anyone wondering if this trend of the BBC to be hijacked by the money people to help maintain a certain political-economic hegemony might be interested to read what they've been doing since the organisation ever existed: www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories...

Over these past decades, software has coached us into thinking like a computer. Not necessarily on purpose, but because the software wasn't designed to be usable by thinking like a human.

This side effect was a net positive for libertarians, who leapt from anti-human software to an anti-human world

A model wearing a formless, oversized coat that makes it's wearer look like a homeless child in a grown-ups hand-me-down,

Fashion designers: if you think the world needs yet another formless, oversized coat that makes it's wearer look like a homeless child in a grown-ups hand-me-down, you are wrong. Stop it. I'd give my right arm for a properly fitting coat but you seem to have stopped making them 😩

Not a Rust dev but there's a few glaring red flags such as disabling invalid cast checking and switching between constants and mutable variables, seems like trying to break things for the sake of it?

Amazon's layoffs are driven by something even stupider than AI Andy Jassy wants you to think that velocity can make up for lack of strategy. But "build, measure, learn" only works if you're willing to learn.

The wet fart noise you hear is the AI bubble deflating. CEOs are pivoting from "AI will make us more productive, somehow" to "culture will make us more productive, somehow"

The bottleneck has ALWAYS been bad strategy at the top. But instead, Amazon is trying to solve it by hollowing out the middle.

Using all the willpower I possess to mould the microplastics inside my brain into a Warhammer figurine.

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

Anthropic and others le you host their models in your own cloud boundary where they do not have access to your data whatsoever. The fact that OpenAI refuses to engage in this model tells you all you need to know about their respect for sovereignty. Trusting your data to OpenAI is definitely a choice

UK facing ‘most contested and complex’ threat in decades, warns GCHQ director Britain’s security agencies are grappling with the most “contested and complex” threat environment in decades, one of the country’s most senior spies warned.

Britain’s security agencies are grappling with the most “contested and complex” threat environment in decades, one of the country’s most senior spies warned on Wednesday.

Those attacks are coming “from all sorts of dimensions,” Anne Keast-Butler said, including “states cooperating with each other.”

My friend told me that her 14 year old son started doing laundry on Sundays for some of his elderly neighbors. He doesn't charge for the labor. And now he is the most popular person in the building and has non stop pies, cookies, and cake. The 14 year old should be our model of modern masculinity.

Wonder Woman smiling dressed in her battle armor. Inspired by Darwyn Cooke's version of Wonder Woman in NEW FRONTIER.

Happy Day of Wonder! In case you didn't know, October 21st is celebrated as Wonder Woman's first appearance in All Star Comics #8 in 1941. (This is inspired by Darwyn Cooke's WW from New Frontier)

#wonderwoman #dayofwonder #allstarcomics8 #dcnewfrontier #clipstudiopaint #dccomics #patreon

If you see this, quote with a vampire that isn't Dracula.

No one does horror like Kelley Jones and his transformation of Batman into a truly demonic monster over the course of 3 long-form comics is one for the ages

I run all of my DNS queries through a local LLM because it’s more deterministic

Good morning Poppy!! Let's do this 🐶

This is Iliamna. She made a new best friend, who happens to be a balloon. Really thought they would have more time together. 12/10 (TT: andreal.corbin)

AI cyberrisk might be a bit overhyped — for now at least Experts say key factors currently limit the risk of catastrophic harm from AI-enabled cyberattacks — as far as we know

Are the worries about AI suddenly posing massive risks to cybersecurity overegged? A little bit, as my debut for @transformernews.ai suggests www.transformernews.ai/p/ai-catastr...

I like AWS outages - they're usually like "Yes, shit, everything is down, we'll get you back up and running in a couple of hours" Not like Microsoft outages that are all "Our legal comms team says everything is fine, oh maybe a few things aren't at their best right now..." for freaking days on end 😩

The No Kings rally implies the existence of a Yes Queens rally

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It's enshittification dressed up as a solution to enshittification