This thread is exactly how I feel about genAI. Completely turned off by it on all artistic, intellectual and moral levels. I have no interest in anything it can say or generate. It is anti-human.
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This thread is exactly how I feel about genAI. Completely turned off by it on all artistic, intellectual and moral levels. I have no interest in anything it can say or generate. It is anti-human.
I love their work, although it does unsettle me, a little. But them, the same goes for the Futurists.
Paragraph 36.
In Primary 2, I was made to stand in the corner, facing the wall, feet in the waste paper basket, "because I was rubbish".
The doctrine of unlimited parliamentary sovereignty wasn't designed for an age in which a single party, elected on a minority of the vote, could exert total control over the Commons, wield all the powers of the Royal Prerogative & override the Lords, while legislating at pace on any possible subject
More accurate, but barely any less horrifying. (I've spent far too many summer evenings removing ticks from stupid dogs, and myself, to be sanguin (ick) about them.)
The very phrase "clouds of ticks" (surely taken from some schlocky horror novella) made be shudder to my boot soles.
"I'm looking for something that says gullible but also tasteless" "step right this way sir"
I have this fantasy of biking to the butcher, possibly while listening to Thelonious Monk, picking up a fresh rotisserie chicken, putting it in the bike basket and bringing it home for dinner..
Ouch, that stings.
Bravo!
I'll take a wild guess, and say that they don't even understand their "own" AI generated code.
bwa, and I cannot stress this enough, ha-ha
Yes. The current devolved Welsh, Irish & Scottish parliaments are entirely the creatures of Westminster statute, with no inherent authority. Thus entirely subject to the whims of Westminster. A deep constitutional change to embed them would be required to make them any sort of federal states.
Wow, this: “the purpose of Holocaust education should not be to recognise the good in bad people, but to recognise the bad inside good people.”
I want a QR code on a tee shirt that uploads hostile malware to any AI powered glasses that look at it.
And the riot squad, they're restless They need somewhere to go As Lady and I look out tonight From Desolation Row
the people in the hotels are neither illegal nor migrants. I feel like a pedant making this point over and over again but professional communicators ought to get it right
I think it would come down to "who will the Guard obey?" in a crunch - and would use of out-of-state Guards make for the possibility of a stand-off? We're some way beyond the normal "obeying the black letter and the courts", so really, it's all in the wind.
decades spent absorbing and repeating lectures about the childishness of idealism and the clear eyed maturity of voting for the lesser of two evils has been processed into the belief that a candidate who isn't at least a little bit evil or who has any ideals at all is inherently unserious. not great
He'll do it anyway? And what then?
In between calling "the President of Europe".
Fracking, per se, is not devolved (Scotland Act 1998 Sched 5, D2 "Oil and gas"). But it can still be prevented, even for licence holders, by planning exploiting devolved law.
"... and if they know what's good for them, know what I mean?"
They're like gremlins - don't get them wet. "Give me a glass of water, let me drop it on the magnets, that’s the end of the magnets" - DJ Trump, Jan 3rd, 2024, in Mason City, Iowa.
He knows *so* much about magnets. Lots of people are saying so. Remember this? "Give me a glass of water, let me drop it on the magnets, that’s the end of the magnets" -- DJ Trump, Jan 3rd, 2024, in Mason City, Iowa.
One who's suffering a concussion.
Yes, it has. He noticed a few square inches that weren't gilded.
Yes! I was delighted to be presented with it recently, up in Oban.
Every Labour politician who passes through the Home Office seems to end up radicalised (Roy Jenkins being a notable exception). The HO is the root of the problem.
It's always in my head, as I use it as the "new message" tone on my phone.
RMJM was Robert Matthew Johnson-Marshall, the principals being Robert Matthew & Stirrat Johnson-Marshall.
From this angle, you can truly appreciate how one tiny bollard can stop the enormous and truly gross Cyber Truck. What a magnificent sight! #WorldBollardAssociation
Reading “The Psychology of Money”
I think over the period, I used 3 solicitors firms, changing mainly for reasons of location.
I wonder what's stopping him gilding the Resolute desk.
I'm just an ordinary punter, but I've had to buy or sell seven properties in the last eight years. And there are two or three more in the offing.
I braved the city yesterday, traversing from from Haymarket to Waverley, via Castle Terrace (St Marks), Grassmarket, and Chambers St (Jazz Bar). And I managed not to get murderous, despite severe provocation. But really, the Cooncil needs to do something about the pavement widths on South bridge.
We have an excellent set of shared "core paths" in the town, for both pedestrians and cyclists. The local yobbos have taken to tearing up and down them on electric motorbikes. No one, yet, has been injured, but there have a been a lot of scared people.
And yet...
They didn't have qualms about throwing the living overboard, either, if expedient.
How long before he gilds the Resolute desk?
She doesn’t need a hero, she is the hero we need. 🤩
What if someone predicted that in ten years time Sam Altman will be working on an emu farm in West Drayton and calling himself Olaf? Because there are fewer problems with that prediction.
Because, to them, right wing isn't "political" - it's just "common sense".
dividing up generations like "generation above ground nuclear tests", "generation lead poisoning", "generation microplastics" "generation covid" and finally "generation slop"
Ah, the happy days of Roman Law with Ernie Metzger.
Have you heard of Scotland?
Tolerably so. But it's not perfect.
Not all of the UK is a "common law nation".
Well, we seem to do fine without in Scotland, and, yes, I do think the way it's done in the USA does undermine fairness. (likewise the politicization of their district attorneys & judiciary).
That could be "tinkered" with to achieve their ends. Politicised DPP, and jury vetting, for example.
And, thereafter, the nice well-paid office jobs. And so the train rolls on.
I'm right there with you!
Spent half my law degree in there. (And the other half in Tennents.)
William De Morgan was the Arts & Crafts movement’s most brilliant and prolific ceramic artist. This biscuit (cookie) set is inspired by some of his many tile designs. 🍪
The righteous choice. Every time, every where.
For a slightly earlier period, "The Soul of a New Machine" (by Tracy Kidder) is excellent.
For a Student Who Used AI to Write a Paper
Edinburgh might be okay, one day, when they finally stop rebuilding it.
To the individual solicitor - the complaint is against a named partner, David McKie.
"Libel".
Haven't played that it in years, after the family refused to play with me, as I always won.
It's pretty basic - is shows you the connected pins/lines. So you can tell its data capabilities, but not charging speed capabilities (other than "it charges").
This is what I use.
*E&W. Scotland is still different; despite Carloway, we still cannot draw adverse inference from silence. ("Don't transpose legal regimes.")
I bought a cat Tarot deck yesterday, and it’s hilarious and cute
Just because it talks, doesn't mean it understands, and that distinction is, apparently, very difficult for people who also don't understand.
He doesn't care about anyone else.
A tombstone in Bridgnorth, Shropshire, photographed by Andy Darby. Note the border inscription.
All my friends should be made to live walking distance from me. I don't care if this massively upends their lives
There are lots of things that we can say is perfect being the enemy of good! There are things we can wiggle on! Allowing trans people to be cast out of society IS NOT ONE OF THOSE THINGS!!!
Now I want a one-person Gollum stage play, where the actor alternates between long monologues on the nature of desire and sense of self, and tearing whole trout apart with their teeth.
the 5 worst types of “news” story: • a rich person said a thing • i asked chatgpt • [just shameless bigotry] • maybe the fascists have a point • young people are doing something and i don’t like it
The frequent verbal hostility of pedestrians to bells being rung behind them is perhaps the reason.
Well, you didn't think they'd be programmed for pedestrian benefit, did you? It's all about minimising inconvenience for the driver.
To bunch up pedestrians, in order to increase the numbers crossing during each green man period, and thus minimise the stoppage of motor vehicle traffic.
Smart cities know that, as hot as they already are, they’re just going to keep getting hotter. Greening the city not only cools it down, it cleans the air, quiets the noise, improves mental health & happiness, saves public money, & more. Strand Aldwych, London. 2021 vs. 2025. Via @modacitylife.com
A Wee Free nun? That'd be a thing to see.
As someone with a PhD in genetics I am here to tell you why it is inappropriate to associate value judgements with "genes", a scientific term that is actually surprisingly poorly defined. In this essay
A happy little mud goblin!
PFP with her parents. When her trainer fell ill, they went together on a recon of the Alpine stages in the family camping car, her father driving behind her to hand up bottles, mother preparing meals, via L'Equipe. "Three days in shabby campsites" said her mother, "and she was as happy as can be".
The Nazi bar story, and “do not comply in advance”, combined in two sentences by Erich ‘Emil and the Detectives’ Kästner
"That specific graph" is from the article in the FT (as referenced in the original post.) www.ft.com/content/9623...
Different colours have different internal resitance & thus voltage drop.
Oh, I remember; I've still got my very early Ericsson Bluetooth HBH-10 headset (which connected to my T39, so we're talking ~25 years ago). I don't think it made me look any more knobbish than usual.
It's clearly a super hero origin story. And, given the last few years, I'm prepared to give it a chance.
Fear stalks the Orkneys. Fear of stoats, which threaten the unique Orkney vole. Everywhere there are signs reminding you to see stoat, say stoat, sorted.
I have worked places where that was policy. One even mandated that changing the OGM on the internal phones when leaving your desk. Nobody did, obviously.
I want to see Samuel L Jackson do ads for motherfuckin Low Traffic Neighbourhoods Truly affordable housing Cargo bikes and ebikes Heat pumps Passivhaus Biobased construction materials
Big day for the matriarchy! 🥳 Huge congrats to the awesome Prof. Doughtery, lead on the Jupiter-bound ESA JUICE mission & STFC Exec Chair. If anyone's confused on the astro royal hierarchy: Michele and I are the astro equivalents of 🇬🇧Westminster and 🏴Holyrood 🤗 ℹ️: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... 👩🔬🔭🧪
Interesting snippet from a letter from @markboost.com in today’s FT
Tokyo’s rail/public transport system. Y’know, for perspective. Great cities run on transit. HT @scootfoundation.bsky.social
Utterly adorable!
It's also impossible to overstate how the present public policy paradigm privileges economics over other social science disciplines, even when econ fails spectacularly. I say this *as an economist.* economics is a way of valuing--and undervaluing--the world, and prizes itself first.
Sadly, we don't have gophers over here; but we do have moles. May they do their great work on Trump's fairways & greens!