Keith Henry
@k17.dev
Dad, CTO @evolution.tech, autistic, avid reader, gamer, politics nerd, MBA.
Mainly working in C#, TS, SQL, PWAs and occasionally AI.
Opinions are personal, expect sarcasm.
https://k17.dev/
Mainly working in C#, TS, SQL, PWAs and occasionally AI.
Opinions are personal, expect sarcasm.
https://k17.dev/
The Ferengi were straight up a satire on capitalism. They weren't subtle.
We already live in an abundance world: we make enough food to feed everyone. We choose to make it so some people are starving poor while others are insanely rich. If we get replicators we would fuck that up.
We already live in an abundance world: we make enough food to feed everyone. We choose to make it so some people are starving poor while others are insanely rich. If we get replicators we would fuck that up.
November 16, 2025 at 3:00 PM
The Ferengi were straight up a satire on capitalism. They weren't subtle.
We already live in an abundance world: we make enough food to feed everyone. We choose to make it so some people are starving poor while others are insanely rich. If we get replicators we would fuck that up.
We already live in an abundance world: we make enough food to feed everyone. We choose to make it so some people are starving poor while others are insanely rich. If we get replicators we would fuck that up.
Yes, that is the specific episode, but I doubt it inspired them. AI chuds don't watch or read sci-fi. They know Star Wars and space fantasy shit, but they keep trotting out their "new ideas" like there isn't 60+ years of much more sophisticated writing about it.
November 15, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Yes, that is the specific episode, but I doubt it inspired them. AI chuds don't watch or read sci-fi. They know Star Wars and space fantasy shit, but they keep trotting out their "new ideas" like there isn't 60+ years of much more sophisticated writing about it.
My dead grandma would be telling me how great Thatcher was, and that p****s were ruining the country (except her neighbours who had helped her after a fall and were lovely, they could stay).
So yeah, this checks.
So yeah, this checks.
November 15, 2025 at 6:05 PM
My dead grandma would be telling me how great Thatcher was, and that p****s were ruining the country (except her neighbours who had helped her after a fall and were lovely, they could stay).
So yeah, this checks.
So yeah, this checks.
I agree, but in our timeline they'd all belong to Musk/Bezos/Zuck/Thiel/whoever and that same arsehole is going to lobby hard to ensure that the food producers whose jobs they took don't get any welfare or support.
November 15, 2025 at 2:44 PM
I agree, but in our timeline they'd all belong to Musk/Bezos/Zuck/Thiel/whoever and that same arsehole is going to lobby hard to ensure that the food producers whose jobs they took don't get any welfare or support.
What's the alternative timeline where Michelle Yeoh is emperor? That's the one we live on.
November 15, 2025 at 12:05 PM
What's the alternative timeline where Michelle Yeoh is emperor? That's the one we live on.
They're the same thing - Star Trek is a future where cheap food replication lead to a communist utopia. In our society we'd use that same tech to put all the farmers out of work and then a billionaire will charge you to use the replicator he owns the patent on.
November 15, 2025 at 12:05 PM
They're the same thing - Star Trek is a future where cheap food replication lead to a communist utopia. In our society we'd use that same tech to put all the farmers out of work and then a billionaire will charge you to use the replicator he owns the patent on.
Which bit from Star Trek, an abundance-tech communist utopia that had learned to stop doing colonialism, came true (in decades)?
November 15, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Which bit from Star Trek, an abundance-tech communist utopia that had learned to stop doing colonialism, came true (in decades)?
Oh, I love it when an episode of Black Mirror comes true. Cool cool cool 😳
(Only it won't work and 'grandma' will occasionally hallucinate mad internet bullshit about your family)
(Only it won't work and 'grandma' will occasionally hallucinate mad internet bullshit about your family)
November 15, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Oh, I love it when an episode of Black Mirror comes true. Cool cool cool 😳
(Only it won't work and 'grandma' will occasionally hallucinate mad internet bullshit about your family)
(Only it won't work and 'grandma' will occasionally hallucinate mad internet bullshit about your family)
Yes!
But a lot of corner cases to work out, like ZWJ on one platform that aren't supported on another, so a single emoji can become several.
Like 👨🏻👩🏿👦🏽 might be 1, 3, 6 or 11 emojis depending on the platform support.
But a lot of corner cases to work out, like ZWJ on one platform that aren't supported on another, so a single emoji can become several.
Like 👨🏻👩🏿👦🏽 might be 1, 3, 6 or 11 emojis depending on the platform support.
November 14, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Yes!
But a lot of corner cases to work out, like ZWJ on one platform that aren't supported on another, so a single emoji can become several.
Like 👨🏻👩🏿👦🏽 might be 1, 3, 6 or 11 emojis depending on the platform support.
But a lot of corner cases to work out, like ZWJ on one platform that aren't supported on another, so a single emoji can become several.
Like 👨🏻👩🏿👦🏽 might be 1, 3, 6 or 11 emojis depending on the platform support.
Oh noes! Not the police! Where will they find thuggish homophobic wife-beating dudes with a fat chip on their shoulder and a need to exert petty authority to replace them in New York?
November 14, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Oh noes! Not the police! Where will they find thuggish homophobic wife-beating dudes with a fat chip on their shoulder and a need to exert petty authority to replace them in New York?
Car factories are already almost all robots, full of highly effective and reliable old tech. Why would they swap that for expensive humanoid bots with unpredictable AI?
This is a stunt.
This is a stunt.
November 14, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Car factories are already almost all robots, full of highly effective and reliable old tech. Why would they swap that for expensive humanoid bots with unpredictable AI?
This is a stunt.
This is a stunt.
It doesn't help that the mid-point between Reform bigotry and traditional Labour solidarity is gibberish. An "island of strangers" but where everyone has the same rights only we need to take those rights away.
November 14, 2025 at 12:59 PM
It doesn't help that the mid-point between Reform bigotry and traditional Labour solidarity is gibberish. An "island of strangers" but where everyone has the same rights only we need to take those rights away.
They're desperate to hold that median, but don't have any principles. There's no point arguing those principles with them, they're not in politics because they believe in something, they're in it because they want power.
November 14, 2025 at 12:59 PM
They're desperate to hold that median, but don't have any principles. There's no point arguing those principles with them, they're not in politics because they believe in something, they're in it because they want power.
I think the Labour leadership (all of them) only care about appealing to the median voter, they have no principles of their own and want to be at the peak of that normal distribution.
Only, it isn't normal, it's bimodal or worse and there are no voters at all at the median.
Only, it isn't normal, it's bimodal or worse and there are no voters at all at the median.
November 14, 2025 at 12:59 PM
I think the Labour leadership (all of them) only care about appealing to the median voter, they have no principles of their own and want to be at the peak of that normal distribution.
Only, it isn't normal, it's bimodal or worse and there are no voters at all at the median.
Only, it isn't normal, it's bimodal or worse and there are no voters at all at the median.
I dunno. Blair is a war criminal, a very large number of people are dead because he lied to parliament about weapons he knew they didn't have.
That takes some beating.
That takes some beating.
November 14, 2025 at 11:27 AM
I dunno. Blair is a war criminal, a very large number of people are dead because he lied to parliament about weapons he knew they didn't have.
That takes some beating.
That takes some beating.
Is that bsky.app/profile/prob...?
bsky.app
November 14, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Is that bsky.app/profile/prob...?
I agree with the headline, but Andrew Neil is a sell-out fuckwit the the journalistic integrity of a spoon, I don't think he's a good case to pivot the article around.
A fit-for-purpose Ofcom would have kicked him off all media back when he started gibbering about climate change being a hoax.
A fit-for-purpose Ofcom would have kicked him off all media back when he started gibbering about climate change being a hoax.
November 13, 2025 at 1:39 PM
I agree with the headline, but Andrew Neil is a sell-out fuckwit the the journalistic integrity of a spoon, I don't think he's a good case to pivot the article around.
A fit-for-purpose Ofcom would have kicked him off all media back when he started gibbering about climate change being a hoax.
A fit-for-purpose Ofcom would have kicked him off all media back when he started gibbering about climate change being a hoax.
The solution is regulation. A body with teeth that can bite down when GBNews takes the piss, anti-trust laws blocking anyone from owning multiple outlets, subsidies for local news and strict laws banning foreign ownership (including ex-pats in tax havens).
November 13, 2025 at 8:54 AM
The solution is regulation. A body with teeth that can bite down when GBNews takes the piss, anti-trust laws blocking anyone from owning multiple outlets, subsidies for local news and strict laws banning foreign ownership (including ex-pats in tax havens).
I'm not arguing for that either, I'm saying state media is not the solution. State media cannot help but propagandise the state that pays it, and it can't avoid giving legitimacy every time its bias slips (and when it does it will always be establishment/right).
November 13, 2025 at 8:54 AM
I'm not arguing for that either, I'm saying state media is not the solution. State media cannot help but propagandise the state that pays it, and it can't avoid giving legitimacy every time its bias slips (and when it does it will always be establishment/right).
Thatcher made Thatcher. She was awful, but also wilful, determined, strong and always acted in her beliefs.
Farage isn't a side-effect, he's inevitable. True objectivity is impossible, and any state media that fails is going to make another. There is no version of the BBC that won't fail again.
Farage isn't a side-effect, he's inevitable. True objectivity is impossible, and any state media that fails is going to make another. There is no version of the BBC that won't fail again.
November 12, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Thatcher made Thatcher. She was awful, but also wilful, determined, strong and always acted in her beliefs.
Farage isn't a side-effect, he's inevitable. True objectivity is impossible, and any state media that fails is going to make another. There is no version of the BBC that won't fail again.
Farage isn't a side-effect, he's inevitable. True objectivity is impossible, and any state media that fails is going to make another. There is no version of the BBC that won't fail again.
Oh, and we've never owned it. "Unique way we're funded" is exceptionalist bollocks. They've always backed the royals, their coverage of Israel is a disgrace, they've platformed the right exclusively. BBC belongs to the establishment, always has.
November 12, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Oh, and we've never owned it. "Unique way we're funded" is exceptionalist bollocks. They've always backed the royals, their coverage of Israel is a disgrace, they've platformed the right exclusively. BBC belongs to the establishment, always has.
All great, but it MADE Farage. Anything that platforms fascism, and especially anything that makes that fascism seem normal and mainstream, cannot be allowed to continue.
State owned media should not be allowed to produce 'news', and when it tries to that propaganda should be seen for what it is.
State owned media should not be allowed to produce 'news', and when it tries to that propaganda should be seen for what it is.
November 12, 2025 at 9:09 PM
All great, but it MADE Farage. Anything that platforms fascism, and especially anything that makes that fascism seem normal and mainstream, cannot be allowed to continue.
State owned media should not be allowed to produce 'news', and when it tries to that propaganda should be seen for what it is.
State owned media should not be allowed to produce 'news', and when it tries to that propaganda should be seen for what it is.