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I'm sorry. As a technology writer, I'm supposed to be telling you that this bet will some day pay off, because one day we will have shoveled so many words into the word-guessing program that it wakes up and learns how to actually do the jobs it is failing spectacularly at today. This is a proposition akin to the idea that if we keep breeding horses to run faster and faster, one of them will give birth to a locomotive. Humans possess intelligence, and machines do not. The difference between a human and a word-guessing program isn't how many words the human knows. I'm sorry. I know that when we talk about "digital sovereignty," we're obliged to talk about how we can build more data-centres that we can fill up with money-losing chips from American silicon monopolists in the hopes of destroying as many jobs as possible while blowing through our clean energy goals and enshittifying as much of our potable water as possible.

Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...

I hope Labour won't use it as a template and suggest similar things, but with a smiling face painted on it.

The only economy Reform care about is removing restrictions for crypto & AI businesses, hedge funds, investment banking and big us tech and pharma businesses. Those are the people who are bankrolling Reform. They're not interested in care workers, teachers or train drivers.

The balcony doors of a flat in the block I live in have been open 24/7 for about six weeks or so. Nobody answers the door and the light never seems to be on. I'm worried someone might have died there.

This is going to be a great season! I'm really happy that the players who are often picked on made such a big difference today. #TOTARS

He managed to win a few important duels and balls, but outside the box.

A Kebap Shop, operated by Mangal. A German chain of Kebap shops, co-owned by Podolski.

In case you were wondering what Lukas Podolski is up to these days...

A cable car. The person who took the image was very happy the motion blur effect turned out exactly the way he wanted, so he felt the urge to share it with you.

A tent in the back, it says Food Hall & Bar on it. The Silhouettes of two people, light reflections.

Red light reflection on wet concrete.

Walking around the O2 last night, thinking of the time when Peter Mandelson invented a sport.

A man operating a food truck, two other men wearing questionable clothes, portaloos, a metal fence.

Cologne, Germany.

#photography

Well, I wouldn't be too surprised if money was the reason for this 'lapse of judgement'.

Quite striking that Khan still does public events with Aziz after all your reporting. He either doesn't care or Aziz is a reliable source of campaign funding.

Hackers Expose Age-Verification Software Powering Surveillance Web Three hacktivists tried to find a workaround to Discord’s age-verification software. Instead, they found its frontend exposed to the open internet.

Reminds me of:

www.therage.co/persona-age-...

Happened to me once. Pair 01 was bought in a shop and, as it turned out, made in Italy. Pair 02 (same model, theoretically same size) was bought online, but felt like a skinny fit model (Made in Bangladesh).

It reminds me of radio/podcast ads. The stronger the speaker's accent, the more likely it is to be advertising something toxic, such as gambling.

An interesting language game. I could go back to 1100, but was only able to understand about 70% of it at the time.

At 1100 (even before, but less obvious) it feels a lot like a strange mix between traces of English and Dutch.

Some block lists are really weird. Especially the ones who put you on a blocklist because you follow some account they don't like. It is possible to follow accounts/people you don't necessarily agree with.

Or a microwave, so I can finally microwave fish on a train.

Newly refurbished seats inside a train carriage.

Two sockets with USB-A sockets.

It seems like @serailway.bsky.social refurbished some of their Class 376 Electrostar trains. Now we have sockets on the train 🤘

Oohh, Expressions looks nice. Need to see if I can find it somewhere.

However, there's a chance that he might have owned a farm.

It's almost as if the man on the right is hiding the Trumpbot remote control behind his back.

Oh my god. We're doomed. Doomed.

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/02...

Shopping cart theory - Wikipedia

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Well, what would you do when you see all the names of your friends and sponsors in those files?

Evangelical Christians should be barred from public office. It's safer.

From my own focus group research (i.e. listening to people at the gym), I would say that legalising steroids would be winning many votes among men in their 20s.

Protein-YouTuber tailoring.

They need Europe to take in millions of refugees.

Whole Foods AI stores were entirely Indians watching on video feeds and ringing you up. Waymos have live human support partially driving them. And the AI that has “Hollywood shaking in its boots” is…stock footage. With face replacement.

Yeah. We are sooooooo cooked, AI bros. Call me when it works.