Accurate wisdom OH in Starbucks: "Unfortunately it's just a very bad time to be a person"

"Thinking some more with medium effort" is what I'd like Slack to say when I'm typing

By convention, MPs do not address the House wearing a hat. So if Count Binface wins an election, must he remove his lid? Or cause a constitutional crisis? Does Erskin May cover this?

Really enjoyed Disclosure Day in spite of some poor opsec and a very ham-fisted handling of theological questions

Easily the best FAQ I have read: "But LLMs aren’t fully reliable ... Claude is especially fond of speaking French." aider.chat/docs/faq.htm...

FAQ | aider

Frequently asked questions about aider.

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Over in the Other Place the Pope is receiving advice on his SEO

2026 and the only way I know to extract an image from a Google doc is to save it as HTML

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Surprised to discover that the Telegraph believes Ed Miliband to have the power of Cnut the Great. England never changes, I guess.

There's a knee-jerk assumption around that Wikipedia and ArXiv banning AI slop puts those orgs in the #NeverAI camp, but encouraging human authorship now will prevent future model collapse, so I see these moves far more in the #AIForever camp

There is a queue in #birmingham city centre that goes for MILES and the nice man in this brunch place tells me it's people waiting to purchase a watch?!

In the 2007 film The Brave One a vigilante has The Dixie Chicks on an iPod, which must have felt very current back then

The use of the word "after" to subtly imply a casual link really annoys me."He resigned after...". Well yes, but I had lunch after the fall of the Roman Empire, but somehow the two things are not related.

I think this is the first ever election where not only have we been canvassed but people came round to check that everyone had voted

"A forgery implies that there is a genuine medal. As the genuine philology medal does not exist, his medal cannot be a forgery" www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

French professor accused of ‘gigantic hoax’ after inventing Nobel-style prize | France | The Guardian

Authorities investigate Florent Montaclair over award given to himself and others including Noam Chomsky

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"You have the manners of a goat and you smell like a dung heap" #Highlander

"You have the manners of a goat and you smell like a dung heap" #Highlander

I was not prepared for how much of middle age would be spent re-watching things I slept through

I think the chap next to me in this Starbucks is breaking up with someone. Or he possibly should be, based solely on his side of the row.

The thing that struck me about the latest "AI deleted my prod" story wasn't the deleting in prod, or the use of "guardrails" that, once again, turn out to be a bit of prompting but this: "the volume ID was shared across environments."

No amount of predictive text could generate, or indeed prepare you, for this story

Discovered a take away near a former home called "Pricy Kitchen" which seems a bit too honest

Rare sighting of a sub that outclasses the headline by a country mile

I have an email address which is structured first name.lastname@domain.invalid so it seems particularly impressive to get SPAM which starts "Hello Scott". Data cleaning remains challenging, I guess

Re-watching The Devil's Advocate again and "We're hiring you out at $400 a day" feels a bit different in this economy. But yes, "Free will, it's a bitch"

"Oh no! I love their nuggets" - great quote from One Battle After Another

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

There premise of the film Mercy is "what if AI courts" but ISTM that allowing a defendant to investigate their own case is at least as prejudicial if not moreso

Train delayed due to "waiting for a part of the train to be attached" because it's always nice to try out a new announcement

Start of the new Capture season feels like an advert for Celebrity Hunted