Cartoon of a man holding up a placard that reads "Campaign for better kerming"

Dismay at government pause to Midland Mainline electrification Councils say full electrification is essential as the government diverts funding elsewhere.

🤦‍♀️ Midland mainline electrification has been paused indefinitely.
🤦‍♀️ The northern legs of Hs2 have been slashed.
🤦‍♀️ Northern Powerhouse Rail is still a pipe dream.

🛤 We need new rail not new roads and the govt should get with the programme.

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"Parking is such sweet sorrow"

The BBC are accidentally running the subtitles to Mrs Marple over the Mercury Prize, and it’s rather wonderful. A few of lines could plausibly have been written by Jarvis.

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION SAFETY BOARD ***************** Investigation of: LOSS OF THE SUBMARINE TITAN IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN ON JUNE 18, 2023 * * * * * * Accident No.: *********** * * * * * * Interview of: Co-designer/Pilot Deepsea Challenger DCA23FM036 via Microsoft Teams Friday, July 26, 2024

INTERVIEW OF 10 BY LCDR 11 Q. So how did you get yourself started into submersible 12 operations? 13 A. Well, I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic. When I 14 set down the path to make that film, the first thing that I did 15 was arrange to be introduced to the head of the submersible 16 program at the P.P. Shirshov Institute in Moscow, a guy named 17| Professor I. I did that through a mutual friend 18 of ours, a guy named , who is one of the preeminent underwater cinematographers in the world. And had been on a 20 submersible expedition out to Titanic the previous year with the 21 Russians. And that was organized by a Canadian company that was 22 doing an IMAX film which was released under the title Titanica.

Learned that an anonymous outside expert on submersibles did an interview with the OceanGate Titan investigation, and they released a transcript, with all the names redacted. The first line of his first answer? "I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic."

I still remember 868.9983 from my PhD years.

A shot from the studio rehearsal of Doctor Who: The Daleks' Master Plan episode 'Volcano', showing several actors ont he TARDIS set, with various video cameras around the scene.

The death of multi-camera TV: a thread. I know most of you will know the technical parts of this (and may have read it in the other place) but bear with me. 1/ 🧵

The building in the last photo is Avenue House. It's been on Antiques Roadshow a couple of times this series.

I'm so sorry for your loss

I was just guessing

Mozzle?

Didn't Robert Graves recall there being two brothels behind the lines, one with a red light for the men and one with a blue light for the officers?

The University of Glasgow groundspeople are going to be quite annoyed when they come in to work tomorrow...

I attended a big local authority conference on Midland Main Line electrification on my first ever day at work in 1986. I retired this year before it has been delivered.

Remind me what makes Britain Great?

Glad to see you got home!

Over 50% of Reform voters and nearly 50% of Tory voters (and a good 10-15% of other voters) are people you cannot trust to honour a contract. This is what our politicians are pandering to: liars and cheats.

Artists Against Generative Al 15 AGAINST Andrew Unferdorfer • 14h • G A Redditor caught this. Looks like a possible instance where a translation bot fabricated pro-Al misinformation and that got picked up and amplified as real news. The misinformation states that ChatGPT was used by the creators of KPop Demon Hunters to help them write the song "Soda Pop". Problem is, when somebody went back to the original source in Korean, IT DIDN'T SAY ANYTHING ABOUT USING AI OR CHATGPT! The article was translated with Al, and it looks like the Al itself made up this complete lie, and the truly terrifying thing is how nobody questioned it until this one person went digging for the truth. We launched the OpenAl Korea office yesterday! Fav moment from the launch celebration was hearing singer/songwriter Vince share that ChatGPT helped him write "Soda Pop" from KPop Demon Hunters! It apparently gave him ideas to make it sound "more bubbly" OpenAl 코리아 Tweet's now deleted, but here's a bit further down the web of this: The original article this was sourced from, from Korea JoongAng Daily, says this: "Prior to the unofficial event, producer Vince also spoke with Business Director Oliver Jay at OpenAl's official launch event. Vince stated, "We sometimes use ChatGPT to generate inspiration when producing K-pop," and also mentioned that Al technology is already being utilized in K-pop." The thing is, that's only in the English translation. The Korean article it's translated from doesn't mention KPop Demon Hunters using Al at all. So, how did it get there? Well, the English article, as confirmed by a note at the bottom, was translated using generative Al. So, since different language versions of the article contradict themselves, there's a nonzero chance that this entire debacle is an Al hallucination ITSELF, spawned from an Al translation

Interesting regarding AI and Kpop Demon Hunters 1/2

I'm glad to hear you're home but I'm so sorry about your arm.

Malamente

"If anyone here knows of any reason why these two may not be..."

Arthur Greenwood?

I don't know who that would be.

I would assume someone who was leader of the opposition during the Second World War.

There but for the grace...

Did the programmer just sit there for days trying to come up with every country? (France! How could I forget France?)

making tax digital is such bullshit. i shouldn't have to pay a company money to be allowed to pay the government my taxes.

Oh definitely. There weren't enough works by women in the A level syllabus. I don't know what's it's like now. Another issue was that I felt we spent too long on each book; even the ones I liked, I was sick of by the time the exams rolled by.

I must reread her - I was rather put off by doing P&P in A level English and its apparent ubiquity for several years after.