microsoft wants to use your linkedin data to train LLMs

turn it off here: www.linkedin.com/mypreference...

Just the creepiest dude there is, straight up

Harpo didn’t “woof”often, as it was a sign of dissatisfaction, & he was a very happy cat.

Generally it was because he was more wound up than usual & I was more shut down than usual, so he felt like my expression of enthusiasm was insufficient. He totally knew when I was faking it to make him happy.

This video is ten years old today. Don’t tell my kids I’ve posted this, they used to think I was cool but they are now at the age where they would die of cringe.

Fawlty Towers - "The Builders" - tonight at 8 on BBC One in tribute to Prunella Scales.

A map of the UK showing that all UK detective programmes in the north are grim, bleak and miserable, whilst those in the south are cosy, chummy and very upper-middle class.

You've just made me realise what the true north-south divide is.

Two Notes Genome v1.12 is out and it's a collaboration with Dirty Boy Effects and is amazing

Guillermo del Toro quote "...think about wealth for me for example. A wealthy man that has enough..."

"not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite somebody to beer..."

"...you're rich. If you have, whatever-"

"- yachts and planes and islands and you STILL need more? You're not rich."

Guillermo del Toro on wealth: "a wealthy man is a man who has enough, not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite someone for a beer? You're rich. If you have a yacht, planes, islands, and you still need more? You're not rich."

The light over the Atlantic coast of Ireland is like nowhere else on Earth 🌎

My kind of pub!

The BEF sleeper cell has been reactivated 💪

How about thinking it’s not a competition?

The Great Philosophers - Series 1: 13. The American Pragmatists Bryan Magee and Sidney Morgenbesser discuss the work of the American pragmatists CS Peirce, John Dewey and William James.

My word but the BBC used to make some really good programmes. Here on the BBC iPlayer you can get Bryan Magee's 1987 'The Great Philosophers' series, where you can (as I currently am doing) watch Sydney Morgenbesser talking about Peirce, James and Dewey.

www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...

WELL HOW ABOUT THAT

"A millionaire levy in Massachusetts has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing significant high-profile departures from the state."

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Q: Are you interested in a Putin-Trump tunnel to connect Russia and Alaska?

TRUMP: I just heard about it. A tunnel from Russia to Alaska. That's an interesting one. We'll have to think about it. This came up yesterday. What do you think about that, Mr President?

ZELENSKYY: I'm not happy about this

🇺🇸 Trump: A tunnel from Russia to Alaska. What do you think about that?

🇺🇦 Zelensky: I am not happy with that.

🇺🇸 Trump: I don't think he liked it.

50ies single family home with shingled slim roof photovoltaics.

power plant

Trump is the most boring man in the world

So who will be the new ‘Duke of York’?

Ronnie Wood on Desert Island Discs has to be a belter

The floating record shop is open in Jericho, Oxford
Saturday, Sunday and Monday
11am to 5pm.
Pop down for a rummage
#vinylforsale
#canaltraders

Idiots

Tories pledge to scrap landmark climate legislation Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch says her party would axe legally binding targets to cut emissions.

Jane Goodall dies, the Pope condemns climate deniers, and Kemi Badenoch decides today is a good day to say she’d scrap the Climate Change Act.

Economically bonkers, morally bankrupt, out of step with public opinion

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

🚨 The Government wants to crash the economy.

On the very same day the Prime Minister finally distanced himself from Reform UK’s policies, his own Home Secretary announced proposals that would create a two-tier society.

Be careful what you ask for

To be clear, I am not minimizing the multiple escalations signaled by these men’s remarks; I am observing that they all emanate directly from toxic masculinity.

Hegseth: "We unleash overwhelming and punishing violence on the enemy. We also don't fight with stupid rules of engagement. We untie the hands of our warfighters to intimidate, demoralize, hunt, and kill the enemies of our country. No more politically correct and overbearing rules of engagement."

Pete Hegseth is a basically a meat cybertruck

Bye bye FIFA World Cup, bye bye Olympics

YouTube video by CatSynth TV Cameron Jones: Synclavier and beyond, a life in music

The live premiere of our interview with Cameron Jones (co-inventor of the #Synclavier synthesizer) will start in about an hour. Please join us live, or come back and watch whenever you like 😻🎹📺 youtu.be/MfTFRT7XnUg