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The rather spoiler-ific cover for the Report of the Marine Board of Investigation Into the Implosion of the Submersible TITAN (CG1788361) in the North Atlantic Ocean Near the Wreck Site of the RMS TITANIC Resulting in the Loss of Five Lives on June 18, 2023. Not much point in reading it now.

Ok, let's depress ourselves still further, shall we?

🎶 Chat gippity do dah
Chat gippity day
My oh my were you wrong again Hallucinations are headed my way… 🎶

It was a fully intentional scam from the beginning. Musk told wild lies about what this would accomplish solely to suppress additional funding for and construction of public transportation in Vegas.

3 panels. modification of the Faramir denethor scene from lord of the rings. Top half 2 panels. The oblivion remasted cover and faramir saying "Father, Look: I have brought you Oblivion Remastered." Denethor responds: "Boromir would have brought me morrowind remastered"

A Chrome browser error page displays the familiar “Aw, Snap!” message, indicating that something went wrong while loading a webpage. A pixelated frowning file icon with Xs for eyes appears at the top left. Below, the error code reads “Out of Memory,” suggesting the browser ran out of system resources. The page includes a “Reload” button in blue on the bottom right

behold the "HTML bomb"

It's a counterattack for AI companies that persistently scrape and rescrape your web site, even when you tell them not to

when a scraper grabs it, it becomes a 10-gig HTML page and 💣 goes the scraper

Item #6 in my latest "Linkfest" newsletter: buttondown.com/clivethompso...

Also signing on to most of the bills defunding science and welfare programs because optics

Today I learned that ffmpeg will put you in the fuckin ground if you try and talk shit

Like holy shit

Goes well with Disney using the footage from the Beirut explosion

Crikey article headline Never mind company tax — reform proposal reveals Australia’s real inflation cause A big rise in large corporations raking in profits by abusing their market power is impacting inflation, as shown by modelling buried in the Productivity Commission’s tax reform proposal.

Back in 2023, quite a few self-aggrandising economist types, desperate to get attention from the AFR, plus the RBA & Treasury tried to tell @australiainstitute.org.au that our work showing rising excess profits were causing inflation was wrong.

Last week, the Productivity Commission ...

"are you a god?"

This explains why my brain is bees at the moment.

> Also $10bn+ of that Azure revenue is OpenAI compute served

90% of the rest is e5 licenses and AzureAD

Annoying that they're only testing exhaust particulate as well.

My grandmother used to drink coffee right before bed. We (neurodivergent folx) were always here!

If the us wont deliver there won’t be any uk subs either as most major systems are from the same supply chain as the us subs

Obviously never used anything other than a car. It’s an entirely cager point of view that others aren’t already aware of (and tbh mildly paranoid about) car drivers.

I'm not surprised by overall well-being outcomes but specifically the better sleep outcomes are always interesting to me

Work really messes with people's sleep and a break from it really improves it which seems obvious but it's just interesting how strong and replicated that one is

Tbh I’d probably stay lazy and go for iec kettle plugs with the locking fixture. Almost got more iec cables than au plugs due to misspent time at lans

Yeah they look really cool and a lot smaller than the common clipsal style connector down here.

What plugs are those?

Obviously that means it is time to acquire more fancy inks to ensure the stockpiles integrity

Giant ute on a city street

I have my doubts that a vehicle this big is necessary to navigate a city centre.

Instead of lore wikis, games should have an internal version of Twitter where all the NPCs are yelling absolutely rancid discourse at each other and you have to reverse engineer the game world's macro-politics from overly online folks' bad-faith arguments on side issues

DAN BOXBERTSON @qntm Our 100,000-core machine learning cluster has spent 2.5 million CPU years looking for innovative solutions to highway congestion ... Al: trains NO NOT LIKE THAT DAN BOXBERTSON @qntm [going through the source data sets with a machete, again] WHO TAUGHT YOU THAT WORD? DAN BOXBERTSON @qntm . 4h It's... just inventing trains from scratch, spontaneously, every time we turn it on??

“Trains are the crab form of transport”

and forgetting the washing.

Two screenshots from Google searching Brennan Lee Mulligan. On both a Google easter egg overlays Brennan's photo and says "Good luck with your next venture. We support you every step of the way". It also has little American Girl Doll shoes overlaid on his face.

do yourself a favor and google brennan lee mulligan right now

SCU used to serve a really important role. of letting charles darwin actually look down at another uni :P

G Suite labels their shitty, obtrusive AI "tools" as "alpha". There was a time when companies would have been ashamed to put faulty, unfinished products in front of customers - let alone forcing those products on them, but I guess that time as passed.

And the 15 minute offsets we have