Alistair

Reading “Failure is not an Option” and, around the very cool details regarding Mission Control, there are small hints of how office work was done in the late ‘60s and ‘70s. Really brings home how much we’ve removed the “human factor” in offices in the name of efficiency

I need the most “Labour’s strategy and its obvious consequences” poll finding you have, and make it snappy!

Less than space though Palmer. Checkmate

My despair in 2020 that the only way to make money was to make up a new kind of money is only exceeded by my despair today that a thousand new kinds of fraud have filled the gaps. And you can gamble on the fraud.

1) What the actual fuck how did this just get normalised in the space of three years…. Oh yeah everyone just hanging out on Twitter like boiling frogs

2) not broadcast, as they aren’t quite ready to push Ofcom on this. This is the “good stuff” for unregulated YouTube.

I find it very strange how a legal decision which relates solely to gender recognition certificates – something under 18s definitively cannot have – is being used to justify changes to longstanding policies on including trans kids.

Absolutely terrifying - not really sure what I'll do if we *do* end up with a Reform government as I doubt the NHS survives it

But we’ll price the UK out because we don’t value security more than protecting our industries?

actually, a lot of it is the fact these guys are full steam ahead to fuck not just the internet but the economy and the environment, and if it works we get... what? unemployed? what's the best case scenario here?

my “AI is over” anecdote is that my wife was hired over the summer to write scripts for a big tech company explaining how to use their AI tools and after many rounds of revisions, the latest notes said “we’re finding a lot of AI fatigue among our users” and to remove all references to AI

The rhetoric is just weird but so many people seem to believe that London is a stabby, phone theft nightmare with roaming gangs looking to mug you (just see that awful Ricky Gervais poster). I don’t get it at all, the disconnect from reality is so severe

Second that on Bad Moon! Also the point on GW. Warhammer 40K and The Old World (I can’t really speak of AoS) somehow still *feel* British despite being global brands and I do love that about it

Got back into painting 40K in August(?) this year to discover I’m still as slow as ever but I never really disconnected totally from it. I think the things that make the hobby special is that there’s still physical *things* at its core and that it actively encourages people to spend time together

What I would really like to see from any of the so-called radicals in UK politics is to move from their comfort zones and actually home in on real unaddressed issues like the overwhelming government bias towards the largest companies - which could make a real difference.

This is the most alarming story I’ve read today. Giving up the fight before it’s started

Seems like the real challenges the UK faces are too complex so instead everyone is going to choose to focus on complete inanities and who can be scapegoated next. Which is only going faster on the road to decline.

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The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste

Execs are embracing AI more than their employees are, new research suggests Research from HR software company Dayforce suggests that executives are leaning into AI far more than their employees.

A study by Dayforce shows 87% of executives use AI for work, compared to 57% of managers and just 27% of employees.

I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?

I think it does all come down to the UK rail network desperately needing more capacity and the only attempt to achieve that for quite a long time being abandoned

Weirdly - Iron Man 3 works surprisingly well as a Christmas movie

it's important for children to learn about deep time, the inevitability of loss, and the end of all things.

(Come at me Emperor-stans)

If you loved the HORUS HERESY, then you'll love its action-packed sequel, WARHAMMER 40,000! The Ultramarines are back, even Guilliman, but what about all your favorite friends: Sanguinius, Malcador, the Emperor? Well, they've been dead for ten thousand years. Sorry.

The number of talking heads who have marketed themselves as science educators who have been taken in by the “AI” hype is incredibly irritating

One of the main reasons we need HS2 is to get passenger traffic off the existing lines so that freight can use them. That would remove lorries from the roads, make them safer, and reduce emissions.

(Oh and I barely use “AI” which is probably evident from my other posts, it hits the uncanny valley so hard it causes me to recoil and the output is so very regularly incorrect in areas I’m expert in its very difficult to believe that it’s output is any better in other areas)

As such I tend to have short YouTube documentaries or Twitch streams on in the background while I’m painting miniatures or playing video games myself. Something that worries me is that I don’t know how to go back to just focusing on one thing anymore (2/2)

Wonder how much of that is “AI” and how much of that is just that today so much stuff is “content”. I’m significantly out of my student years and haven’t really “watched” anything since, probably, One Day when that came out. I do read a lot I guess but TV has become background noise (1/2)

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