André Bruwer

This is bad, and part of what makes it so bad is that this is clearly pulling from *genre* understandings of reality, which the statistical linguistic machine seemingly cannot distinguish from other text included in the training data. Truly an ideology machine where every episode of CSI is true.

I find myself getting deeper and deeper into WW2 pc wargame. Something I've never been able to do before. (Unity of Command 2 if you are interested). I find the suppression mechanics very satisfying for some reason.

Secretly great Star Trek.

Too bad Paramount is now owned by fascist scum.

So I described a situations as 'Dickian' to a normie today, and she was offended.

She also didn't believe me when I said I meant an author called Dick. So I had to reference Blade Runner (she'd seen the Ryan Gosling one, but didn't know PKD).

I forget I live in a Sci Fi bubble sometimes.

Some of you have never been bullied by a cat and it shows

Cartoon titled "know the work rules". The first panel, labeled "appropriate" depicts Garfield the cat in a business suit leaning around the edge of a cubicle and pointing to a woman at her desk while saying, "coffee lasagna Mondays am I right?" to which the woman responds, hands clasped together, "awww you're so funny" The second panel, labeled "inappropriate", depicts a far side cow leaning around the edge of the same cubicle and speaking with a word bubble which contains only the shapes of the 4 cow tools. The woman fearfully picks up the Phone and says, "hello , complaint department??!"

know the funny papers rules

Hi hello just QRPing some info abt this coming in from the other site. This news is fake, it was a hallucination.

Harare Review of Books, Issue 1, 2026 First hello of this already long 2026

Harare Review of Books, Issue 1, 2026 open.substack.com/pub/shonatig...

Thank you! Also confirmed to be a dinosaur atm. Nothing is safe from those teeth.

Why ‪@why.bsky.team‬ Until December of last year I was using LLMs as fancy autocomplete for coding. It was nice for scaffolding out boilerplate, or giving me a gut check on some things, or banging out some boring routine stuff. In the past two months Claude has written about 99% of my code. Things are changing. Fast

in case you ever wondered why bsky breaks all the fuckin time and is increasingly a pile of jank

bsky.app/profile/why....

Pup of indeterminate breed. With a mostly black coat, with some white and tan patches lying on the floor with her ears flopping all ove the place.

Very important puppy update.

1996: I want to read about what a Floating Point Unit is and get a CPU with one so I can play QUAKE

2026: I don't want to even know what an NPU is nor hear about how it's required to run Windows 12, let alone ever run Windows 12

polymarket should be beyond illegal. all involved in its creation and upkeep deserve agony for the rest of their days

These guys knows all the coming and goings in the neighbourhood for sure. 😂

Yes to all of this!

Windows 12 release date in 2026 possible, with AI features that may force CPU upgrades Windows 12 could be another costly upgrade for supporters of Microsoft operating systems. A new report reveals that the AI-dominated OS will require AMD and Intel CPUs with a dedicated NPU. Possibly s...

If this is even a slightly true, MS is accelerating the mass adoption of Linux.

www.notebookcheck.net/Windows-12-r...

I getting very frustrated how businesses aren't really trying to resist this more. I mean somewhere something has to break costing them a lot.

Two photos of US Ambassador to South Africa, Brent Bozell, at the Apartheid Museum. The post reads: Today, visiting the Apartheid Museum was a profound reminder of the courage and sacrifice that shaped South Africa’s democracy. What a powerful moment to listen, learn. As the United States celebrates 250 years of independence, I am reminded that liberty and justice are shared ideals and values that bind the people of our two nations.

Lol, is Ambassador Bozell rebranding, or is he just polishing his credentials?

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I have to say this is pretty neat. Would not mind to part of something similar.

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Dang that is incredible. Reminded me of all the times I had dreams with trains in them. I really appreciate how you remember the transitions between each setting. This was a fascinating conversation, thanks so much!

Omg YES!

Had to leave it behind in Fort Beaufort unfortunately. So have to make time to construct a new one.

Eish, even I do that sometimes 😅

Every time someone describes a father being around his children without the kids' mum as "babysitting" instead of "parenting" a Shetland pony gets punched in the snout. Really hard. So, nu, stop that.

Table constructed of pallets. It's full of pots filled with various flowering and succulent plants. Some gardening equipment featured as well.

I miss my growing/seedling table so much!

At 9.3 kilometres (5.8 miles) my cycle trip to work this morning was longer than most UK car trips. It took me 26 minutes.

(It would have been 23 minutes if I hadn't spent so long waiting at a crossing because people driving within the city are given priority over people who aren't driving)

This makes so much sense. One can only hope that another oil crisis will drive demand for renewables. And ironically strengthening China's global position too in the process.

You can read my book EVERYTHING IS PERMITTED to learn more about this, but Shira’s point is even sharper than she knows: the origin of the term is as fictional and and troubled as its current usage, meaning that from top to bottom it’s a phrase that produces chaotic outcomes.