James Ogden

Most of the London-crime chat is just code for racism. They don't really mean that an area is dangerous. They mean that it contains black people/Muslims and want to insinuate that this entails danger.

The headline was bad enough, but the first paragraph stopped me cold.

Friends don’t let friends use us-east-1

Every time an American dunks on British food, we take another of your signature dishes and pie it.

Reddit post on r/technology about young people and AI: "I recently heard about a teacher who instead of trying to circumvent students using AI, which is impossible, she made assignments by going "ask ChatGPT to write a report on this subject, and then research how and why it's wrong". Not only did the students discover that ChatGPT is extremely wrong a lot of the time, it also lead them to realise that they should not use it as a primary source".

This is one of the best ideas I've heard in ages.

holy shit lmao

I am FoI'ing the BBC on some issues to do with Israel-Gaza. DG Tim Davie told MPs on Mar 4: “Part of what I have tried to do for the BBC is to be a guardian of true impartiality through thick and thin, and that requires being completely transparent.“ But the BBC has so far withheld this information

Doesn’t seem *that* destroyed!

If your site’s advertising interferes with Reader Mode, know that you are going to spend eternity being forced to wind floss back into the plastic container.

I found this a very hard listen but it was interesting and informative

Can we teach the Americans the term "Henry VIII powers" because I feel it would land harder over there

So the reason Norfolk Island copped a dramatically higher tariff than the rest of Australia is two shipments of Timbaland boots from the Bahamas and some aquarium supplies from the UK that had their point of origin mislabeled or misrecorded.

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

I was surprised, but apparently it’s to avoid energising downed wires or isolated parts of the network. Modern installations probably isolate themselves automatically but better safe than electrocuted

Love that game

What are some traits of good C programmers?

I'll start: they categorically refuse to write C

Forecast mostly gloomy, but that’s a good thing [FREE TO READ] Forewarned isn’t always forearmed. Is there a better way to consider the future?

In which I introduce "The Forecasting Paradox"
on.ft.com/3BGgLMM (1st 300 clicks free to read - enjoy!)

Every time a corporation or a billionaire complains about red tape and regulation, remember that we had to write laws because they behaved so unethically, and we had to enforce those laws because they insisted on breaking them.

#AusPol

No one living in a cramped flat share has room for 'things', so they make terrible Xmas presents. Give them cash or an experience, like tickets to a gig. Or buy them a 3 bed house in the suburbs. That'd be a lovely Xmas present.

Nicky says “what’s he doing in Melbourne!” If you’re coming further north, come and say hello!

Essentially they asset stripped our children to protect the boomers.

Cards Against Humanity Pays You to Give a Shit Didn't vote in 2020? Cards Against Humanity will pay you to apologize.

I just looked at the website. It's what happens when you combine people who are good at basic web design, some very smart lawyers, and some extremely committed trolls. It is jaw-dropping. Scroll all the way through. www.apologize.lol

The Tories have just chosen five more years of lunacy and chaos You can almost hear the champagne popping in Downing Street

Today is as important a moment for the Conservatives as the election. It’s the point when they decided to forsake any chance of a short march back into power and instead committed to a long, lonely journey through the wilderness inews.co.uk/opinion/the-...

It’s incredible really how Musk threw away a truly enviable public image. Five years ago if you had heard of him at all you probably thought of him as super rich but also successful, probably clever, innovative, maybe interesting. Now you know much more about him and think he’s a stupid dickhead.

In the future, we won't need programmers; just people who can describe to a computer precisely what they want it to do.

I’m given to understand this particular move is no longer permitted. Wouldn’t be the first time a regulation was changed due to an asshole maneuver I pulled.

WHY HAS BRIAN BLESSED NOT PLAYED RIDCULLY YET