I'm not sure about the casting for the next James Bond and Moneypenny
The Independent@the-independent.com · 20h agoJames Bond producer shares update on 007 casting: ‘It’s got to be really different’
The Independent@the-independent.com · 20h agoIf you see this, quote the energy you bring to Bluesky...
🐈⬛ Annette 🐈⬛@annierat1.bsky.social · 2d agoIf you see this, quote the energy you bring to BlueSky...
Just seeing how many people bookmark this to read it later www.economist.com/science-and-...
How to stop procrastinating
Thwarting the thief of time
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If you need a clue to the next video, it’s the successor to this car.
Two years ago I released Elite 3D - the #BBCMicro classic, in anaglyph 3D (for red-and-cyan glasses) But I failed to give the project a repository, so here it is, only 22 months late: github.com/markmoxon/el... So you now can see every change I made to Elite to drag it into the third dimension 🚀
GitHub - markmoxon/elite-3d: Anaglyph 3D version of the classic BBC Micro game Elite
Anaglyph 3D version of the classic BBC Micro game Elite - markmoxon/elite-3d
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1430... Time to watch the AI stocks spectacle!
"This is a bank whose CEO has suggested the government scrap pay rises for public-sector workers rather than tax its enormous profits." As the Barclays CEO does the rounds telling Burnham not to tax the bank's profits (up 17%), we explain why a windfall tax is long overdue👇
‘Tax big banks to end food banks’
PRIME MINISTER Andy Burnham faced fresh calls to raise taxes on banking profits today after Barclays revealed massive 30 per cent rises in its bonus pot and pre-tax profits.Corporate filings showed the bank put £1.3bn towards its bonus pool for the first half of the year — up from £1 billion last year.Barclays reported that a 31 per cent annual rise in its pre-tax profits for the second quarter to £3.3bn had allowed it to announce new payouts for shareholders, including a £1bn share buy-back and £800m in dividends.
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Burnham: "Social care in England is as unfair as American healthcare." It's a very good line.
May 1979: Smurf Toys ad from National «Smurfs of the month.»
I used to run the hotel TV remote up my arse crack. Laughing thinking about people handling it after. Until a friend pointed out I might be handling and running a remote up my arse crack someone has done the same to. Now I only watch things on my devices.
Maybe they could fund it by closing No 10 North and its travel budget instead
Royal Astronomical Society@royalastrosoc.bsky.social · last wk.The Royal Astronomical Society is shocked and dismayed to hear that the UK's iconic Jodrell Bank Observatory is at risk of closure amid a slew of catastrophic budget cuts. Read our full statement here: ras.ac.uk/news-and-pre...
The Royal Astronomical Society is shocked and dismayed to hear that the UK's iconic Jodrell Bank Observatory is at risk of closure amid a slew of catastrophic budget cuts. Read our full statement here: ras.ac.uk/news-and-pre...
It's a terrible look for Burnham if Jodrell Bank gets axed in his second week as PM, which is why I don't think it will happen. Keep on making noise.
From the LinkedIn of an academic I have a lot of respect for.
Garth Wilson has been designing and documenting 6502 systems at wilsonminesco.com for decades. His site covers everything from basic hardware design to advanced interrupt handling to building a full 6502 workstation. No flash, no frameworks - just deep knowledge served as plain HTML.
The Ford Cortina was manufactured by Vauxhall using a CAD drawing originally crafted on a Babbage Difference Engine by Aristotle. It competed with the incredibly reliable TVR in sales.
James McLeod@jamespmcleod.ca · 2w agoIt's safe to assume that all major LLMs are scraping Bluesky data to train future models. As an open protocol, Bluesky is one of the few sources of fresh human-generated content that anybody can gobble up. So all this is probably going in the models. There are submarines in the Great Lakes.
The Economist interview of Elon Musk is astounding in all the ways you'd expect. Musk is unapologetic, combative and unwilling to accept or consider facts stated by the Editor in Chief who interviews him including about her own country. www.economist.com/leaders/2026...
Should you be afraid of Elon Musk?
Artificial intelligence is charging ahead. Not even its creators know how to keep up
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The BBC Micro had a capable LAN before ethernet became affordable
Here are some words what I wrote.
I Accidentally Wrote an Emulator (Part 3) - L Break Into Program, 0:1
In the previous two posts I’d been concentrating on getting the Z80 emulator up to the point where it would run fragments of machine code. By now I was reasonable certain it could handle more challeng...
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John C Dvorak had died. Usually wrong, never boring.
Just some of the iconic corporate logos designed by the legendary SAUL BASS
Do we extinguish a spark of consciousness every time we close a high-end LLM chat?
Sad to hear that Jamie Urquhart has passed away. He managed the VLSI team at Acorn that created ARM1 and its support ICs and later co-founded ARM. I chatted with him at Steve Furber's Festschrift at Manchester University and he had so many wonderful stories about his time at Acorn and ARM. RIP Jamie
The Centre for Computing History@computinghistory.org.uk · 2w agoWe were deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Jamie Urquhart. We were honoured to welcome Jamie to our ARM1 at 40 celebrations last year. Here he reflects on his early interest in electronics. Our thoughts remain with his family, friends, and all who knew him.