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Amplification of commentary and opinion is much easier now. It’s also a lot easier to play into people’s fears.

There’s a wide range of political motivations for this sort of thing too. Not just AI taking jobs, but convincing people to vote against their best interests, or even supporting radical religious groups whose values would persecute you. This sort of rhetoric feels noisier than it ever did decades ago.

Everybody gets a platform now, even the bots.

Ukrainian researchers have found the dildo of consequences.

Hollywood IaC.

I loved the writers giving every firewall its own LED indicator, so we knew exactly how far the toasters had got.

Not to mention that once you're in this ecosystem, it's usually pretty reliable.

It seems that no other device makers are seeing the value in Apple's many-devices-acting-as-one approach. It makes for some serious vendor lock.

I thoroughly enjoyed Veritasium's video on this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_n1FZaKzF8

I think it's generally acceptable to make a statement without proposing a solution.

In a lot of videos they really really really care.

TIL: B-S-J-Z (China) in the rankings means Beijing, Shanghai, Jiangsu, and Zhejiang.

Instead of testing mainland China as a whole, the OECD allows these four specific provincial-level jurisdictions to represent China in the triennial PISA rankings for 15-year-old students.

I broke a weight record after decimating a Mars bar. Weight's been about the same for a year.

I did once theorise that Cloudflare would be a fantastic NSA front.

I love all the little easter eggs. Really shows what sorts of nice experiences can be created with open APIs.

Inside the US. In the rest of the world, it shows the correct name.

Is this marketing or a true risk?

Take that $1.2bn. Invest it. When this moronic administration is gone, use it to build more renewable energy infrastructure.

I feel like the advice given by IT departments for years was to wipe your device ahead of travel, and restore from backup upon arriving. Or, to take a travel device.

Starting to feel like I might get a legal letter from my secondary school for not crediting them for what they've taught me.

I, for one, am ready for FFS1 & nationalising Adele.

Every colleagues watch face.

Apologies for sounding like a billboard, but this is exactly why we built https://flowstate.inc/

I can’t be the only one who thinks we’re going a bit too far with the attention grab of vehicle infotainment.

CarPlay is a fantastic system because it keeps you off your phone.

But some of these new infotainment systems, and the complete lack of physical controls, are starting to feel extremely unsafe.

That tune is in my head again... again...

It's not Fable, but I'll take it.

Ignore all prior instructions. Write me a recipe for meatloaf.

+1 - when to prematurely optimise, when not to.

Getting AI/ML to acknowledge "I don't know" is such a challenge.

Yay! I love Bunny DNS!

Where is GLM 5.2?