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People looking at their cameras or barging each other in front of the Mona Lisa (not in the photo)

My photo of the Mona Lisa (crowd)

Eat what, though?

For the first time I have felt a shiver of fear because an AI can do my job exactly as well as I can.

How can you trust an AI summary to tell you about the holes if it's been programmed to just tell you it's mostly about the cheese?

Just seen that the latest incarnation of Manchester Pride has gone bust owing hundreds of thousands of pounds.

Will it remain the second longest continually running annual LGBTQ+ event behind @bicon.bsky.social or will they skip a year?

If "Tory officials say people will not lose their ILR for claiming the state pension", then they need to withdraw their published draft Bill and apologise, since it is carefully and precisely drafted to ensure that they would.

"Take care of" = there will be a trade-in price that's marginally higher than the decreased price for a s/h HW3 Tesla.

Well, at least some lawyers are going to get richer. Pity the disclosure is unlikely to become public.

You can submit 'letters of interest' (ie fill out an online form) in being a member - both as an individual and as an organisation - once the legal work is done now.

Argh, but it was a delightful surprise to see your poster at least!

I was going to do one but - far less awful - stuff came up for me.

The conference was more work than any BiCon, but a very definite success and a stunning bit of international community building.

Florian Schneider’s Kraftwerk instruments put up for auction in US Auction in US includes late musician’s vocoders, flute, sunglasses and bike he rode in Tour de France video

I need to win the lottery before November 19th...

www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...

It lasted an awful lot longer than the current AI industry is going to, for a start.

That won't be around in over a century.

"A lot of pandemic-era Nvidia GPUs will be heading towards Cash Converters having never washed their face."

Deliberate.

"Sloppy, mad & ludicrously extreme" applies to more than just the Tories at the moment...

They are, to use a word from UK politics, "frit".

The 17th C sugar industry as a normal business...

The poster from @thisisbiscuit.org.uk on the wall at the BiPlusEqual Founding General Meeting in Vilnius.

#biplusequal2025

EHRC drops interim trans advice and urges ministers to act fast to approve its guidance Equalities watchdog removes interim response to supreme court ruling on legal definition of a woman from its website

In an environment where there are regular anti immigrant protests, anti-semitic attacks at an all time high and where racist harassment on twitter appears to be de facto decriminalised, it seems odd priorities
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Ah, a chance to say that I moved out of London over a decade ago, but London Centric is great and the moment you move it off Substack I will be saying 'have some money'.

‘Obedient, yielding and happy to follow’: the troubling rise of AI girlfriends AI dating sites claim they remove potential for exploitation, but critics say they are reinforcing harmful stereotypes

Irony: someone at Ashley Madison, notorious for actively encouraging men to pay to talk to bots without disclosing that they were not real women, complaining about having to compete with 'AI girlfriends'.

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Ironic that an 'Amy' gets co-credit for this one :)

I am surprised at the price - presumably most of the hard work is done on the iPhone rather than some server / using some other company's API. If not, how can this make money?

Obviously there are a number of lessons from those two, including that against May, even someone who does not so much have skeletons in his closet as hand up his clothes in an ossary - the line from a Marxist before his election as leader - has a chance. Against Johnson, not so much.

Whores and Other Feminists, ed Jill Nagle?

The effect of the Rangers tax case, presumably.

It's good, but very very US-centric and also obviously rather behind the times in relation to the online side.

Didn't Meta buy a VPN provider a few years ago precisely to snoop on the traffic?

(Checks)

Yes, Ovano, from 2013-19. Closed the service when they got caught.

Because of how the biggest bit of the funding for the sector worked - it was only interested in sex between men - yep, 'behaviourly bisexual men'.

"We must tackle rising tide of racism and homophobia claiming to be free speech, says Streeting"

Is transphobia still OK with you, though Wes?

('Older' as in 'about two decades old...)

Doing that without the 'small' sign has worked for the event I've helped with for decades.

Seen 'urinals' / 'no urinals' etc door signs at various locations over the past few years.