Downplay a book or movie: The Mancunian Candidate

praying mantis@gentlem.bsky.social · 2d ago

Downplay a book or movie: Pride and Mild Distaste

Superheroes are dead now, so Hollywood has no choice but to stage incredibly elaborate adaptations of unfilmable science fiction classics. The masses need The Book of the New Sun!

Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness

@thinkingbayonet.bsky.social · 3w ago

Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness

The single greatest memo of all time.

The Aviation Show@theaviation.show · 2mo ago

Right about now (BDST) W/C L.E. Healy, the AAEAF armaments officer, received a call from the Air Ministry reminding him that the 1000 lb bomb had not been cleared for use on the Hawker Typhoon. Healy replied with one of the finest memos of WW2. RCAF Typhoons had dropped 48 of them that morning.

I want to buy a thing and own it. Not rent it. I don't want to pay a monthly fee to access it. I don't want it to be stored in the cloud. I have to pay a monthly fee for an app to tell me how many subscriptions I'm paying for. It's insanity. We pay memberships for things that have ads. Why?

Never in the field of human endeavour has so much been fucked up for so many by so few.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: In the interest of national security, Scotland and Ireland must immediately seize the Trump-owned golf courses on their land.

Someone should quietly explain to him that, if he makes any further movement on Greenland, all his UK golf courses will be vital to UK national security, immediately repossessed, and either rewilded or converted to wind / solar farms...

80% of Europe’s spending on cloud services and software - around €265bn per year - flows to US companies. Digitally, Europe is less a sovereign power and more a US colony. www.cigref.fr/la-dependanc...

La dépendance technologique aux softwares & cloud services américains : une estimation des conséquences économiques en Europe - Cigref

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Banning X would have loads of upsides and really not many downsides for the government. The argument for shutting it down (distribution of CSAM) is incontrovertible, the people who are its most avid users hate the government anyway, and it would address threats to social cohesion and public order.

Time and again, people look back on horrors and wish they had taken action and done things differently. Trump and Putin have brought us to that critical turning point. We either remove them or suffer the consequences for generations.

Tell you wot, Sagan had it on the money...

Days after his third dementia screening in six months the president of the United States, who is an open pedophile, abducts a foreign head of state

Arrest Bondi for not releasing all of the Epstein files. Arrest her Today.

The world is actually FULL of technologies that were created and then went away because they sucked and no one wanted them. it happens all the fucking time. The idea that as soon as they're here we all just have to learn to live with it and find a use for it is just stupid tech industry propaganda.

You Might Be Cool, But You're Not Finn mac Cumhaill@goblinmcghie.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Remember when they said this about NFTs... and the blockchain... and VR... and 3D... How many times do we have to see tech no-one but tech bros want consigned to the ash heap of history before we realise that yes, actually, we *can* close Pandoras box.

FT defends London, one of the greatest cities in the world www.ft.com/content/dd79...

The FT notes that delusional claims about London from Trump, Musk and others are having a reputational impact. The paper points out the capital's murder rate is a third of that in Berlin, a quarter of New York's, and 5% of that in Washington DC

In my opinion the president shouldn't constantly be like "Holy shit did you guys see this?" and repeating a thing he kinda heard on TV. I don't think that should be mostly what the president does.

Tiffany⸆⸉@tiffanyclay.dev · 8mo ago

He issued a correction, proving why he needs to stfu and let the cops do their jobs. It’s a a goddamned ongoing tragedy, not a reality TV show, primed for him to drop the big reveal.

Europeans are waking up this morning to find the new US National Security Strategy (quietly) released. And what it has to say on Europe could not be clearer. On the „stark prospect of civilizations erasure“ for example. 👇

Greed.

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.

Elon: so at a party and you want to be very popular, go uhhhh, so that is to say, your web browser, and so you type into Bing “naughty jokes for happy men”, and then ahaha you can, really quite epic, read results of what that is displayed Rogan: that’s what’s so amazing about jokes is, you say them

Starting to look like Trump might be a bit of wrong un. Time will tell.

it does not necessarily mean this though, because the dominant way people end up on Wikipedia is through Google, and Google has loaded the top of all of its search results with AI-mediated info taken from Wikipedia. This does not mean consumers prefer it this way, the choice has been made for them

Jeremy Lewi@jeremy.lewi.us · 10mo ago

AI is separating the production and consumption of information. If direct access to Wikipedia is dropping that suggests information consumers find AI mediated consumption more useful. This will impact the production of information; including the economic model

When did everyone decide that things in frying pans need a weight on them? Deeply weird.

it really was stunning how quickly so many managers and other people with power snapped over from "cautiously exploring AI" to "you must use AI to walk, shit, and breathe or you're fired"

LoBue@lobue.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Over the course of a week, my boss went from "we need to be aware of AI but careful about using it" to "you need to incorporate AI into everything you do"...

There are an awful lot of seriously weird takes on Bad Things Happening in the UK on here at the moment. Please do take time to ask a Brit before sharing! I volunteer myself as tribute here.