Chris Weston

So now she's A. Hole.

Newspaper announcement of the engagement of Amy Whyde and Alexander Hole.

Whyde-Hole

An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’ Patrick Gelsinger, executive chairman of Gloo, has made it his mission to advance Christian principles in Silicon Valley

At a fundamental level, we have to accept much of silicon valley has gone insane.

If you give through @crowdfunderuk you can set the automatic ‘tip’ of 20% of what you give to zero by clicking ‘enter custom amount’ and putting in £0. This is a private profitable company which takes 1.9%+20p+VAT of what you give from the charity and 2.4%+20p+VAT from others

Well he CANT be mayor now

Benn's five questions can be neatly applied to AI...

What do you control?
Who built you and why?
Whose interests do you serve?
Who can check what you're doing?
How do we switch you off?

Today's *real* headline that @theonion.com wouldn't have even tried.

In Japan Speech US President Threatens To Deploy Active Duty Troops To US Cities

Doctor When, more like

And in a post-operation review. "So, gentlemen. This assassination took far longer than anticipated?"

"Yes sir. It was a shame how he carried on"

I often think that this is sung from the point of view of the assassins. Not actually dead, eh? That's a shame.

Our ages are very similar 😁 and I do think it could be number of spinning plates, or spoon-related for sure

Front tooth right under nose 😂

When I first glanced at that I thought it was the gorilla

Even the ugly sods in the real pictures have two front teeth that align properly with their noses. AI teeth often don't. As per this picture ;)

Teeth are always the giveaway. Some tools do them well, but you have to spend more time and money on it than this lot want to.

Mr. Mackay from Porridge in HMP Slade.

The Captain and Sprocket the dog in Fragile Rock.

Story time.
This is about the actor Fulton Mackay, who Brits will know best as the stern Scottish prison warden, Mr. Mackay from Porridge - and rest-of-worlders, I guess, as the Captain (the lighthouse keeper) on Fragile Rock.

Python was awarded a funding grant, funding grant asked Python foundation to remove all diversity and inclusion initiatives they have.

Python foundation said no and rejected the grant.

If you use Python, send a few dollars to the charity to keep it going. I’m pushing a dono on behalf of ScamGuard.

The official home of the Python Programming Language

TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...
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1980:
NHS spending as a % of GDP: 5.1%
Defence spending as a % of GDP: 5%

2024:
NHS spending as a % of GDP: 10.9%
Defence spending as a % of GDP: 2.2%

This is such a common applause line, but it’s also total bullshit.

Hmm, but had he stayed here would be having to talk about whether their proposed legislation would decimate our society. Tough choices.

Remember that this is the party that considers Steve Baker, John Redwood and Rees-Mogg to be the brains of the operation. "Mastermind" is a relatively low bar. Your average spaniel would probably get called "cerebral" on their scale.

My cat, luxuriating in the sunbeams. Lazy moggy.

Whilst I laze about and enjoy my day off, the cat is having a bit of a groom in the autumn sunbeams. And why not?

A lot of people on social media like to point out that when people die the tributes are often accompanied by photos of them when they were young and beautiful (as opposed to old and beautiful). So let me just say that I’m posting this because it’s one of my favourite portraits full stop by one of the greatest ever British portrait photographers. And fuck off.

#RIP Prunella Scales. Photo by John Deakin, 1964.

Why is the President of the United States of America, their Commander in Chief, saluting foreign soldiers? Have I gone mad?

But you are participating in the system, hmmm? Actively manning the pumps of capitalism whilst grinding down your comrades with your bourgeois desire for "gum", every masticatory movement meaning more misery! Etc etc

Yep, not a solution to a problem but good reflection time

I think I am genuinely driven slightly more mad every time I see an obviously and badly dubbed advert on TV. Put some effort in folks.

I took some days off work to decompress a bit. Been a bit manic recently, not helped by my inability to concentrate on things for any length of time these days. I used to be a coder, I could sit and focus for hours on solving a problem. These days, not a chance. #gettingold

Similarly, I sometimes notice that there are more "mixed-race" (stupid term but I can't think of an alternative) couples on TV and advertisements than I believe is representative. And then yesterday I went to a place where I met two such (young) couples. Sometimes we are just old and out of touch...

Silly gutter.