NotHarlock

inb4 "new study finds skill generation improves when AI is supplied with a skill-generation skill that tells it to 'breathe deeply' before generating a skill"

then naughty laughter because this is the most unpythonic thing I've seen for a while

that said - IPython's console also has the same "exit()" requirement

YouTube video by The Wall Street Journal Sean Spicer on Crowd Size for Trump Inaugural

and the people who believe him (or believed him years ago) would always rationalise the fucked up / false things he'd say (again entailing that the 'real meaning' is just in their heads, therefore unowned and unaccountable)

linked video is a pretty illustrative example that's not an anecdote

Casio product designers before AI: some of the best calculators & watches on the planet for the price

Casio product designers after AI: whatever this shit is

yet another argument for Anglish?

Facial recognition consultation: have your say - Liberty

British Transport Police have launched their trial of live facial recognition despite the ongoing public consultation.

Police use of facial recognition is expanding. We need urgent safeguards put in place now more than ever.

🚨 Today is our last chance to have our say. Don't miss your chance 👇

Meta’s internal memo said the political tumult in the United States was good timing for the feature’s release. “We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns,” according to the document from Meta’s Reality Labs, which works on hardware including smart glasses.

this is comically evil. brazenly anti-social. just absolute black-pilled nihilism. we will not have a republic, we will not be free, until we regulate these companies to the point where — at a bare minimum — they're too afraid to put stuff like this down on paper.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

My stove is always switched off when I don't use it 🧑‍🚒

For me it's just my microwave that can't sync. I have one clock that gets its time signal over longwave radio and another in an electricity meter that gets it from the electric company's mesh network. There are a few passive time signal methods that don't rely on the internet

I imagine they thought "wow, I could control the media, or I could just *be* the media"

I think making the mere prospect of a strike or a type of 'work to rule' appear realistic would be enough, just the thought of it reduces the monetary value of the club for the owner (but arguably the owner's comments do that in and of itself because they have been an international icon for decades)

(I say that as someone who's only visited Wales and Scotland, and live in the East Midlands after growing up mainly in London)

I'd be in favour - but if it's an equal union there shouldn't be a reason why certain capital functions shouldn't be outside of England.

My fantasy is a rotating capital

maybe something like "when I put this house on the market, 'heat pump' is a really expensive word to say"

sent it to myself and I'm kinda digging it, huge success

a white cat wearing a bow tie is standing on a pink background . Alt: a white cartoon cat wearing a bow tie, on a pink background. Animated in a way that's meant to imply it's happy or celebrating

You're welcome! :)

it's a massive fever dream and I'm asleep in 2005

unlucky, he already renamed the concept of "hard cap" to "constitutionalists say what?"

you're fucked, time to ask Reddit (and then be banned by the mods)

I'm going to assume you *aren't* suggesting this with the thought that the UK by comparison doesn't do the same kinds of things, because it does

<insert cost of healthcare joke>

The young ones are always too brave

Hey, your website has a tiny bug
In the top menu if you try to go to "Shop" and then "washi tape", it takes me to a 404 page:
www.georginadoodles.com/collections/...
But I just guessed and removed the "s" at the end of the URL, then it works. So the link in the menu just needs amending :)

"As an AI language model, I think the sun shines out your ass."

Undertale dialogue box saying "Every day. We stray further from God."

Yes, the UK market has better competition for this specific thing.

I come from a country that "leapfrogged" ADSL and went straight to 4G and 5G, even family visiting found a UK SIM pretty cheap for data despite our higher cost of living

Great idea if we want to confuse tourists and a good chunk of the residents & commuters too

jinxed it

Some sort of march around a single symbol the vast majority of people can identify with is needed (for India it was salt, for the first American colonies it was tea, I kind of wished that Teslas would be the thing for the current states)