Ben Cooper

Something worth noting: Rockstar is leaning HEAVILY on the excuse that the unionising employees were "leaking private company information"

They want people to assume this means game info or assets.

But I will bet you CASH MONEY this translates to:

'they were comparing salaries and work contracts"

Imagining a situation room somewhere under Buckingham palace where they're sliding little figures of nobility and clergy around the country, trying not to let the paedophilia become too concentrated in one area

If this happened at a steel plant there would be talk of government bail out to secure jobs

Looking out over the city of Edinburgh, hidden in fog. Four hills are visible, which look like islands in a sea of clouds.

Looking out over the city of Edinburgh, hidden in fog. Four hills are visible, which look like islands in a sea of clouds.

Incredible thermal inversion over Edinburgh from the pentlands this morning. Taken from Carnethy hill looking north-east, you can see Turnhouse, Castlelaw, Allermuir and Caerketton hills. What you can't see is any of the city of Edinburgh!

@threadinburgh.scot @secretedinburgh.bsky.social

since we're talking about The Other Place, one now pointless gripe I still have is that actually it could have remained a fair bit more pleasant and usable and useful if more people just used the non-algorithmic timeline and I'll never understand why they didn't just do it

Just because an LLM can produce a report with various figures & charts doesn't mean it is good at statistics.

Because good statistics is not about producing code.

It's about deep knowledge of study design & conduct. In my opinion, 95% of all data science problems come from poor questions & design.

The Case Against Generative AI Soundtrack: Queens of the Stone Age - First It Giveth Before we go any further: This is, for the third time this year, the longest newsletter I've ever written, weighing in somewhere around 18,500 wo...

Newsletter: This is The Case Against Generative AI, a comprehensive analysis of a financial collapse built on myths I’ll dispel, the markets’ unhealthy obsession with NVIDIA's growth, and the fact that there is not enough money in the world to fund OpenAI.
www.wheresyoured.at/the-case-aga...

Seven tests for the government’s Warm Homes plan Accelerating the switch from gas to electricity, make electricity cheaper, and balancing electrification with insulation are key policies that could reduce bills and carbon emissions for households

New blog: we *think* the UK government's crucial Warm Homes Plan will launch next month. So what does it need to do to be a success?

I've set out 7 tests for the Warm Homes Plan here - from making electricity cheaper to making local delivery work.

www.nesta.org.uk/blog/seven-t...

The Old Wellington Inn in Manchester, being jacked up on stilts to the new street level during redevelopment. It definitely looks like it's about to waddle out of the picture.

Despite easily being the most British fighting vehicle ever developed, the mock-Tudor AT-AT programme was sadly cancelled due to budgetary concerns

I don't think it is callous of me to observe that it is weird to see the PM of the UK, the leader of the Opposition of the UK, and the ex UK PM all putting out solemn and devastated tweets about the death of a podcaster who is only a big name if you're constantly on Twitter

"but we can't support trans rights, it's unpopular!"

just a reminder that US approval for marriage between black and white people at the start of the civil rights movement was 4%, reaching a whopping 20% by the end of the movement

it's 95% now

you don't wait for popularity for a rights movement

this is called "doing a streeting" which is to position yourself firmly on the wrong side of an issue for no reason and to no one's benefit

Ooof, chilly start to the day...

Extremely fried image of John and Paul of the Beatles being interviewed. Reporter: "Are Space Marines the coolest faction in 40k?" John: "Space Marines aren't even the coolest faction in the Imperium"

One for you @daniel-williams.co.uk

Oh cool, Windows 11 has tabbed file browsing. That feature that's been in most Linux distributions for 15+ years! Well, better late than never!

Tbh, especially considering its scale, the monolith is one of the simplest necron kits to assemble, I loved it.

This dude and Illuminor Szeras, however, were torture...

Frustrates me how it barely acknowledges the 30 minutes free drop off point. Sure, you have to walk ~5 minutes to the terminal, but it's still closer than the laybys on the road...

@hughrbrechin.bsky.social One from the Dark Days. The Before Times.

Was it a Samsung TV? And if so, how was the process? Considering making the switch from Plex.

one in a billion means statistically it should happen roughly once per lunar cycle in the UK, about 13 times in a calendar year

Found in the Highlands and presented without comment

still possible that Mr Blobby bursts through the window and out onto the balcony overlooking St Peter's Square

the fundamental disconnect between the manosphere and reality is that they are incapable of understanding that this is - according to every woman I’ve ever met - the sexiest thing a man has ever done

I have a simple solution to this. Grade students entirely by means of three hour hand-written exams in a big hall with no computers. If they all fail because they never learned to write without AI, sucks to be them

happy beltane and international workers day my celts and comrades

My standard rule is that before anyone is allowed to talk shit about a university's economic role, they have to tell me how many people they think it employs.

They're normally wrong by a factor of ten.

This should also be the first question to any MP offering thoughts on the topic.

Two people riding bikes in Amsterdam. One says “if anyone proposed this in my town I’d kill them”

Cartoon with caption by my buddy @jackhauen.bsky.social

As the rightwing media machine ramps up the lie that the Spanish Blackout was caused by attempts to mitigate climate-change, it seems that, in fact, it was CAUSED BY CLIMATE CHANGE, in ways we can, presumably, look forward to more of in future.

Glad to see that the EHCR has issued clear guidelines on going into a pub toilet cubicle with a fox and a chicken and a bag of grain.