No-one will see a cyclops

To clarify, you need to read the panels R->L for plot order, there isn't necessarily a way to do them L->R that works for everything - flip the page reverses everything, rearrange the panels - only works if they are standard boxes on a page format - it's simply easier to just print it Japanese form

It isn't just the text, though, if you flip the art, left is right and vice versa - that won't work for everything

In the UK, the peak was early '70s, iirc

How will usenet survive?

@rufustsuperfly.bsky.social That Verhoeven stuff was good, but Black Book is his greatest film

They're all over Europe - apparently Guinness will provide a startup package deal if you want to open one.

Fascinating. Microsoft emailed me to say it was raising the price of Microsoft 365, but when i went to cancel it offered me me the old price — without all the AI bullshit.

It’s forcing AI on everyone and making them pay more for it, then only telling them they don’t have to if they try to cancel.

They're the best things to swear at!

It was pretty popular with beer fans long before the film, though.

In the late '80s the graffiti there read "dykes afloat", so it was a reference to that, I think. I can't remember if there was a third iteration.

It's literally Adam Smith territory

An email from Briana Wu, dated May 3, 2014 (about 3 months before the start of GamerGate) 11:39 ... Drinking the Mountain Dew B Brianna Wu May 3, 2014 to zoe v •.• Hey Zoe, You I hope this will stay between us. But, I did want to share something with you. The first time I really heard about you, and Depression Quest, a mutual gamede friend of ours in Boston was complaining about Depression Quest. They had counseled you to take the money from big pharma. They were talking all kinds of shit about how shortsighted it was of you to not do this - but you'd stood your ground and said no. They thought you were a total fool. I didn't know about your reality show, but I did read about the aftermath. And what really impressed me about the situation was you did the exact same thing. A situation was anathema for you, and you said no. You were willing to burn your bridges with an entire production company over the situation. You and I are similar people in that we really care about women in games and calling out the sexism in the industry. But, the truth is - I'm a pragmatist. And, if I were being embarrassingly honest with you, I probably would have taken the money from big pharma. And, I would have drank the Mountain Dew on camera. But, here you are today, and you're doing just fine.

11:39 •.• You and I are similar people in that we really care about women in games and calling out the sexism in the industry. But, the truth is - I'm a pragmatist. And, if I were being embarrassingly honest with you, l probably would have taken the money from big pharma. And, I would have drank the Mountain Dew on camera. But, here you are today, and you're doing just fine. You stood your ground, you made your choices and you still won. There's been a situation at GSK that's been really bad for us and bad for the company. And, I can't go into it just like you can't go into the reality show stuff - but I can tell you, I drank the Mountain Dew on camera for far too long. I have dealt with a really awful, humiliating situation for far too long. It finally ended this week. I don't know you that well, but - I have been thinking about your integrity a lot lately, and how going forward I need to be less of a pragmatist and more of a Zoe Quinn in leading my company. I want to let you know - that's something I really intend to follow through on. I hope that doesn't seem emo, but it is true. And, I think when other women in the industry inspire us, l think we should let them know it. All the best, Bri VIEW ENTIRE MESSAGE + Reply → Forward

Yknow what? I’ve been sitting on this for a decade because I’m not into punching laterally but I AM FINE with punching far right lunatics.

Just a handful of short weeks before GamerGate started, Briana Wu, who I spoke to 0 times before this, sends me this *wild* ass email. 🧵

in late 1995, a girl sitting next to me was wearing what i now realize was a new outfit she bought because of clueless & the 50 year old teacher was like “in a skirt that short i can smell you.” she was plainly shaken & apologized & he said “i’m not complaining” & then he continued teaching history.

Sorry, there's no care react here

We were still using shillings till about 1990 (5p), but I am old enough to have been asked for ten bob (meaning 50p)

Hey, they were decent post-punk at the start - they only became smooth crooners from around the third album

TLDR version; "one long-running tech pyramid scam is about to be unexpectedly run over by another, even longer-running, tech pyramid scam."

With any luck they'll collide with the LLM bubble and turn it into a three-car pileup and fuel tank conflagration: oh dear, how sad, never mind.

Pedants: actually, AI doesn't use that much water compared to farming

Wise people: literally a single drop of water spent on the Plagiarism Machine That Lies is one drop too many

The speed of writing code has never, and will never be the bottleneck.

The bottleneck, the limiting factor, is always in the thinking about the code and how it works, understanding it.

People who use chatgpt to write code are literally removing the only part of programming that is actually useful.

Fare evasion has been falling on London's transport network for years.

A reminder that one of the times evasion actually did rise in recent years was when the last Conservative mayor spent hundreds of millions of pounds building a fleet of new buses with entirely open backs

This is one of the best mainstream pieces of A.I. criticism I've ever read, and it is somehow on CNN. @amorrow.bsky.social is far ahead

Rouge?

The sign says "Do not feed birds or squirrels" and the graffitied response on it says "suck my dick from da back"

Resistance takes on many forms

More like Keanu from the picture

Americans confused by the Canadian election need to learn the two types of democracies:

1) a Parliamentary system
2) a Funkadelicary system

In a Parliament, Dr. Funkenstein summons the Mothership to defeat Sir Noze

In a Funkadelic, freeing your mind allows your maggot brain to create one nation

Cerne Abbas Giant age revealed by scientists Scientists believe Dorset's mysterious Cerne Abbas Giant was created in the late Saxon period.

www.bbc.com/news/uk-engl...

The Hunt for a Killer (TV Mini Series 2020) ⭐ 7.4 | Crime, Drama, Mystery 45m

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Going Out With A Bang In 1.5C Here We Come I criticized people like Eric Schmidt who said that: the artificial intelligence boom was too powerful, and had too...

this is a marvellous piece by David S. H. Rosenthal on climate change, the AI bubble, Nvidia's new 60kW GPU racks, and all those data centres

(quotes me extensively so you know it's good)

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