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Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @theriotnrrd.bsky.social · 4h

I have to to Dubai fairly regularly for work, and it’s one place where I always try to minimise the time I actually spend on the ground. Anyone who wants to move there should be hurried on their way, lest they try to make here anything like there.

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 5h

People keep telling me the UK is so over and they're going to move to Dubai and, like, fine. Go on then. Would you like directions to the airport?

Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com · 5h

You definitely shouldn't move to Dubai, writes V&A director Tristram Hunt on.ft.com/46MfW1t

Don’t move to Dubai — this is still the place to be

[FREE TO READ] Better to buy the dip and celebrate the UK as an enduring cultural behemoth

on.ft.com

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Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @theriotnrrd.bsky.social · 4h

I didn’t grow up with that culture, so I am always being tripped up by US/UK female colleagues getting married and showing up in my inbox with their new name, sowing much confusion. But hey, everybody should do their own thing, except possibly when it comes to what Musk named his kids.

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Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @theriotnrrd.bsky.social · 4h

A very fair point! Hyphenation is one way, or Icelandic-style patronymic/matronymic. Or we just go full Marain, as in the Culture books, where a person’s name doubles as genealogy and also address.

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Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @theriotnrrd.bsky.social · 4h

I always found that incredibly weird. Next wedding anniversary is #20 unless I mess up badly between now and then, and SWMBO still trades under her own name.
A Spanish friend in UK was incandescent with rage when she got back from honeymoon and found work IT had “helpfully” changed her email name.

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Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @theriotnrrd.bsky.social · 5h

Neuromancer, updated:
CASE: Panther Moderns. Five minute précis.
HOSAKA: ✨That’s a great question! Let’s explore the Panther Moderns together✨
The Panther Moderns are the front-line soldiers of Antifa, indicted by the Immortal God-Emperor Trump. They often participate in riots dressed as frogs.

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Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @theriotnrrd.bsky.social · 5h

For me this was a very short-lived magazine in Italy called “Tank Girl” (I am pretty sure they did not have the rights). They serialised TG : The Odyssey and filled up the rest of the space with random other comics, music reviews, and whatever they liked. Cover CDs too, sometimes!

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The Marriage Braggart @bombsfall.bsky.social · 6h

Something I love that was especially precious pre-widespread internet adoption is moments where you got into some kind of important books/ movies/ music/ art in general that was otherwise unavailable from you. Like a friend who made you That One Mixtape, your random video rental one time, etc

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Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @theriotnrrd.bsky.social · 5h

I had the same reaction when I read people were specifically using LLMs to write the abstracts of their papers. This is the *last* place you should trust the bot to do your work for you! findthethread.blog/Abstracted-I...

Abstracted Intelligence

As with any new technology, social norms around the use of GenAI are still evolving. One of the concerns is the misuse of this technology in domains such as academia, which place a premium on the publ...

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Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @theriotnrrd.bsky.social · 19h

"At this point, everyone is using some sort of #AI tool to write their content…"
Is that true? I know I don't; every word on findthethread.blog is 100% artisanally typed by me. Even at work, where I do sometimes use Gemini for research, hardly any of its output makes its way into the final product.

Find The Thread

Occasional overspill from other places

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Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @theriotnrrd.bsky.social · 21h

Pretty sure it’s Latveria.
Hey, maybe if we get that notion out there, he can be distracted long enough looking for Latveria on the map that something else happens?

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Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @theriotnrrd.bsky.social · 22h

I assumed that was the joke!

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Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @theriotnrrd.bsky.social · 23h

The Kia EV6 I test-drove was a base model, so I don't think it had this problem. But if I had paid for a Meridian sound system, I would expect top-notch sound. The Bang & Olufsen system in my Audi was, uh, not inexpensive, but totally worth it. Still, at least it's an easy fix!

Kia EV6 Owner Discovers Factory Wiring Error in Subwoofer, Fixes Weak Sound in Minutes

The EV6's weak sound system has frustrated owners, but reversing a few wires running to the Meridian subwoofer is all it takes to boost bass dramatically.

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Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @theriotnrrd.bsky.social · 1d

Sure, but more could have been done sooner, especially by countries like Italy which imports a huge proportion of its electricity, strangled its nuclear power industry in the cradle, and is well behind on renewables.

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Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @theriotnrrd.bsky.social · 1d

Works here? Can you resolve the top level findthethread.blog?

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · Aug 29

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Shell @risu.bsky.social · 1d

Recent success in schools :when asked if I use Gen ai I just reply “no I am not a slopper”

When I explain that term it makes people REALLY uncomfortable that there could be a derogatory term for something presented as cool. No one wants to be a slopper

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Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @theriotnrrd.bsky.social · 1d

Damning that Europe, with exactly the same concerns vis-à-vis environmental degradation and imported fossil fuels, has not done the same.

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Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @theriotnrrd.bsky.social · 1d

At least last time someone had this terrible idea, security concerns were raised alongside the ones about noise pollution: findthethread.blog/Talk-Softly/
But no, everything stupid is stupid again.

Talk Softly

With the advent of always-on devices that are equipped with sensitive microphones and a permanent connection to the Internet, new security concerns are emerging.

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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 1d

If your boss tells you not to bring “politics” to work it’s because they’ve already brought theirs.

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Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @theriotnrrd.bsky.social · 1d

Most of the house services run on an ancient (as in, 10+ years old) Mac mini, which despite some judicious HW upgrades, is now so far out of support, it's not even funny. Debating putting #FreeBSD on it; is there any reason not to?

Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @theriotnrrd.bsky.social · 1d

I know *that*, I was referring to his ship and barge names! Just looking forward to his next Boring Company tunnel junction or whatever being called the actual Torment Nexus…

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Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @theriotnrrd.bsky.social · 1d

I'd bet on you over him to understand what Iain M Banks was getting at, regardless of which one of you has spent more time reading the Jargon File — which is of course itself problematic, at least by virtue of its curator.

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Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @theriotnrrd.bsky.social · 1d

It's of a piece with all of his other misunderstandings of nerd culture — as if further proof were needed that he is not One Of Us, but just cosplays for normies.

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Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @theriotnrrd.bsky.social · 1d

Since Apple's fight with the EC over the #DMA is back in the news, I thought I would re-up this 2022 post of mine in which I laid out my argument that this whole framing of the debate leaves out an important perspective: what is the impact on users of the new rules and proposed remedies?
#Apple #EU

App Stores & Missing Perspectives

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