musician Gary Numan, born March 8, 1958, aged 68
actor Gary Oldman, born March 21, 1958, aged 67
Happy Gary Retrograde everyone!
The next two weeks are the only two weeks out of the year when Gary Numan is older than Gary Oldman
Some people are apparently claiming that Silicon Valley Tech Bros have consciousness, like normal humans.
As someone who studies these issues carefully, I can assure you that this is an utterly preposterous claim. Yes, they can mimic humans, but they are fundamentally incapable of original thought.
Oh, it *is* WINE, just an alternative way of packaging and using it, as I understand it.
08.03.2026 21:16 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I don't know what happened to the preview, but it goes to the right destination page for me.
news.cornell.edu/stories/2026...
Eggs-ACT-ley.
08.03.2026 18:12 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Yes, I've tried it. TBH I don't get the point.
ISTM the theory is that by keeping each Win app isolated, they don't interfere.
In practice, the way to get recalcitrant apps to work is to install real Windows dependencies, from ODBC to C/C++ runtimes etc. & you _want_ to share that stuff.
Workers who love ‘synergizing paradigms’ might be bad at their jobs
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<- new research from Cornell, supplying evidence to what many have surely known for decades
She Came Out of the Bathroom Naked, Employee Says
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Bank details, sex and naked people who seem unaware they are being recorded. Behind Meta’s new smart glasses lies a hidden workforce, uneasy about peering into the most intimate parts of other people’s lives.
This #InternationalWomensDay, spare a nod of acknowledgement for the first country in the world to give women the vote in national elections: the Isle of Man, in 1881, a full 145 years ago.
tynwald.org.im/history/Wome...
FUBAR
Curated slop for dystopian audiences, to enjoy with your morning coffee. Updated daily.
PageMaker and Aldus founder, pioneer Paul Brainerd 1947-2026
blog.adafruit.com/2026/03/04/p...
<- a personal hero of mine. Aldus had more taste in design than Adobe ever could aspire to.
Re pubs, yes, me too. :-)
My very limited experience of octogenarians and hi tech is that a few of them take to it like ducks to water...
[ERROR 406i: AI_SLOP_DETECTED]
The Rejection of Artificially Generated Slop (RAGS)
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YOU JUST REVEIVED
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This post is dedicated to the nameless Vodafone employee watching over me and my family and blessing us with an abundance of free minutes.
It's really weird watching friends of mine, some younger than me, turn into Old People.
But you are of course completely correct in all respects.
Last year I asked a mate in Brno for a pub recommendation near my hotel in Manchester.
"What kind?" he asked, reasonably.
"Am old man's pub."
Georges Perec
This wild & crazy guy was born 90 years ago today
07.03.2026 10:44 — 👍 27 🔁 4 💬 4 📌 0Wounded man staggers into bedroom. Woman stuffs body into one cupboard. A different body falls out of another cupboard. Dog runs through room followed by a squealing maid. Dog has severed hand in mouth. Dog refuses to give it back.
07.03.2026 09:59 — 👍 25 🔁 6 💬 7 📌 1
The L in "LLM" Stands for Lying
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LLMs do something very specific: they allow individuals to make forgeries of their own potential output, or that of someone else, faster than they could make it themselves.
<- Steve "Acko" Wittens is good at explaining. This does it well.
This also involves the closure of Inveralmond Brewery. Another sad loss @rogerprotz.bsky.social wp.me/p15p2Q-ghr
07.03.2026 01:43 — 👍 16 🔁 7 💬 3 📌 0Oh, hey, @doctorow.pluralistic.net is now on Bluesky!
06.03.2026 20:40 — 👍 450 🔁 46 💬 25 📌 3
US state laws push age checks into the operating system
www.theregister.com/2026/03/06/o...
Bad legislation, but an especially big headache for FOSS
<- by me on @theregister.com
Global Warming has Accelerated Significantly
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
«
… after 2015, global temperature rose significantly faster than in any 11
previous 10-year period since 1945.
The years 2023 and 2024 have been Earth’s hottest on record.
»
PICKING UP A ZILLION PIECES OF LITTER
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I have a condition that I refer to as "Environmental OCD"… But instead of getting upset about litter & complaining that someone ought to do something, I realize that I am "someone", and I am proud to be among those who are doing something…
Random insta reel: you have 99 problems? Learn French. Voilà, now you have 4, 20, 19 problems.
Ich musste lachen 😛
25.02.2026 22:54 — 👍 15 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
It's not a law. It's a report.
I mean, maybe it should be, but how to phrase it would be distinctly tricky.
GateMate Personal Computer
A personal computer inspired by the IBM PC, built on the Olimex GateMate A1-EVB FPGA board. Text-mode interface, RISC-V CPU, custom BIOS, and a DOS-like operating system.
gitlab.com/gatemate/pc
(And the project is working on a mainframe, too!)
Michael Pollan has a new book about consciousness out, as well
www.npr.org/2026/02/19/n...
Yes, I am that Liam, and I noticed that too and alerted the editors. (Once it's in, I can't change it.)
06.03.2026 12:38 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Norway's Consumer Council takes aim at enshittification
www.theregister.com/2026/03/06/f...
Its aim is wide, covering everything from social networks to GenAI
<- by me on @theregister.com
