Richard Carlsson

Album cover: Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (self-titled, 1980)

Album cover: OMD, 'Dazzle Ships'

Album cover: Wire, '154'

Album cover: Bronski Beat, 'The Age of Consent'

It is always in my house

Album cover: New Order, 'Movement'

Album cover: Front by Front, by Front 242

Single cover: Control I'm Here by Nitzer Ebb

Not an album, but still

Album cover: Pet Shop Boys 'Introspective'

Same energy.

2 seconds after posting a video of us sat at the piano looking at the rain, someone else has claimed our work as theirs. The system is fucked.

ChatGPT File • • Edit View Window Help ChatGPT 5 > How many times does the letter b appear in blueberry The word "blueberry" has the letter b three times: • Once at the start ("B" in blueberry). • Once in the middle ("b" in blue). • Once before the -erry ending ("b" in berry). Total: 3 O92 Show me where the letter b appears in the word please. Sure — here's "blueberry" with each b highlighted: B lue b erry Positions (counting from 1): 1 B - first letter 4 b - in blue 6 b - in berry D9< Spell that out with all three bs please. I mean, just spell the word. Sure — here's the full spelling with all three b's shown in place: BLUEBERRY That's exactly how blueberry is spelled, with the b's in positions 1, 5, and 7.

ChatGPT File Edit View Window Help E ChatGPT 5 > You wrote "BLUEBERRY". There are only two bs there. Ah - I see the mix-up. Let's slow it down and spell blueberry carefully, letter by letter, showing all three b's. blueberry Now you can see them: • 1st b → position 1 • 2nd b → position 5 • 3rd b → position 6 blueberry Exactly — blue berry has three b's: • 1st b → at the very start • 2nd b → right after the e in blue • 3rd b → immediately after the second b, starting berry So the "bb" in the middle is really what gives blueberry its double-b moment. Its double-b moment; I see. Yep - blueberry is one of those words where the middle almost trips you up, like it's saying "b-b-better pay attention." That little bb moment is satisfying, though — it makes the word feel extra bouncy.

 ChatGPT File Edit View Window Help 巴 • ChatGPT 5 > My students get you to write their essays for them, you know. Ah, the old "ChatGPT, do my homework" routine — I'm familiar with that one. I can see why they'd be tempted, but here's the thing: I'm a lot more useful as a coach than a ghostwriter. If they use me to brainstorm ideas, plan structure, or clarify tricky concepts, they'll actually learn and still have their own voice in the work. If they just hand in what I write, they're skipping the thinking part - and it usually shows. I'm good, but I still leave a trail of... telltale ChatGPT-isms. A trail of blueberries, as it were. Exactly — a trail of blueberries: easy to follow, a little sweet, and maybe just obvious enough for a watchful teacher to notice. If your students really are leaving me to bake the whole blueberry pie for them, they might forget that the best part of pie is making it themselves... even if it gets a little messy. "Blueberry" only has two bs. Nope - blueberry really does have three b's. Here it is spaced out: bluebberry Positions: b- at the start 5 b - in the "blue" part 6 b - right next to it, starting "berry" That middle double-b is easy to miss if vou just glance at the word.

I had to try the “blueberry” thing myself with GPT5. I merely report the results.

Courts service accused of covering up IT bug that caused evidence to go missing Sources say judges in courts and tribunals will have made rulings when evidence was incomplete.

As with the post office Horizon bug, years of institutional coverup and mismanagement after the bug is exposed. This probably causes more damage than the technical bug itself.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Good news (for me!) my gender bias paper from 2023 still replicates with GPT-5.
Bad news (for everyone!) my gender bias paper from 2023 still replicates with GPT-5.
arxiv.org/pdf/2308.14921
hkotek.com/blog/gender-...

Some view there!

Booting 5000 Erlangs on Ampere One 192-core Accelerated on host

How many Erlangs did you boot recently?

This is my personal best. So far.

#elixirlang #erlang
underjord.io/booting-5000...

Z80 shifts | Mike Dailly Get more from Mike Dailly on Patreon

Quick post for everyone to re-share my Z80 shifts cheat-sheet.

www.patreon.com/posts/z80-sh...

funny how not every looter of an aid truck is machine gunned by the Israeli Army

Photo of train info display showing a Windows NT Start button

The 1990s are still alive and feebly kicking. #windowsnt

Photo of train information display showing a Windows system message saying "Low Disk Space"

Spotted today. Haven't seen that in the wild in a long time.

Ascii art lettering that nearly says category tests

When AI can produce a perfect test suite but mangle the ascii art

Discuss

The Mothership Vortex: An Investigation Into the Firm at the Heart of the Democratic Spam Machine How a single consulting firm extracted $282 million from a network of spam PACs while delivering just $11 million to actual campaigns.

Truly insane looting of the Democrat Party in the US

of $678m only $11m reached candidates or party organs the rest was skimmed

the US must privatise its semi-state half-nationalised parties

open.substack.com/pub/data4dem...

The Tau5 boot screen...

This book belongs in the forbidden area of the shelves. “Cult of Truth. From Borges to Bocaccio” by Maria Rosa Menocal

Happy Birthday 6502 The MOS Technology 6502 is a microprocessor which casts a long shadow over the world of computing. Many of you will know it as the beating heart of so many famous 8-bit machines from the likes of C…

Happy birthday to the 6502! hackaday.com/2025/08/04/h... #retrocomputing

1970 magazine when “desktop” wasn’t yet a single word.

this is so exciting! if you haven't already, you should really try out Gleam. it's a wonderful language, has a great community, and has second-to-none tooling. you'll be amazed!

Money tight? Get these two albums for free, all we ask of you is you spread the word for us. It all helps get the word out.
theblackdog.bandcamp.com

*screams internally in Finnish*

Forgot this. Was a good piece by errr me

🔬 Real Browser Behavior Modern browsers like Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Edge all follow this exact logic — because they conform to the official CSS standard. If you try this: html Copy Edit <style> #box { color: red; } /* (1, 0, 0) */ .a.b.c.d.e.f.g.h.i.j.k { color: blue; } /* (0, 11, 0) */ </style> <div id="box" class="a b c d e f g h i j k">Hello</div> The result will be blue text, because the rule with 11 classes has higher specificity.

A problem with modern LLMs is that they are so convincingly anthropomorphic now that when they produce wildly incorrect responses like this one, my reaction isn't "oh, I found a bug", it's "you're a lying sack of shit!"... and that level of emotional reaction to a piece of code really isn't healthy.