Xiol
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Every time I watch ALIEN I am transfixed thinking to myself "there's no way they've left themselves enough room to get the third horizontal line in that E without it looking like a squashed-in mess!" but no, every single time there it is, and it's beautiful. Most tense part of the movie tbh.
September 20, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Every time I watch ALIEN I am transfixed thinking to myself "there's no way they've left themselves enough room to get the third horizontal line in that E without it looking like a squashed-in mess!" but no, every single time there it is, and it's beautiful. Most tense part of the movie tbh.
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This sounds like a bit but I’m being serious: kids using chat gpt for their homework are denying themselves the invaluable experience of learning how to bullshit their way through a problem. You drink some caffeine the night before and figure it the fuck out. That’s a skill. You need it in life.
June 18, 2025 at 7:30 AM
This sounds like a bit but I’m being serious: kids using chat gpt for their homework are denying themselves the invaluable experience of learning how to bullshit their way through a problem. You drink some caffeine the night before and figure it the fuck out. That’s a skill. You need it in life.
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The underlying problem: “Digital natives” are increasingly being raised in an online system which just lies to them, constantly, for money. And they can’t even feel it. It’s the water.
One of the issues with undergrad students is that - despite all the “digital natives” hype - their online literacy is often quite poor. In two academic offences panels this week a student was totally perplexed when asked why an AI made up quote was in their essay: “it was the 1st result on Google.”
June 7, 2025 at 12:44 PM
The underlying problem: “Digital natives” are increasingly being raised in an online system which just lies to them, constantly, for money. And they can’t even feel it. It’s the water.
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You love to see it.
Populist radical right having a very fractious evening on both sides of the Atlantic.
June 5, 2025 at 7:42 PM
You love to see it.
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Spent too much time on this
May 17, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Spent too much time on this
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apparently Elon's gotten so mad about Grok not answering questions about Afrikaners the way he wants, xAI's now somehow managed to put it into some kind of hyper-Afriforum mode where it thinks every question is about farm murders or the song "Kill the Boer"
May 14, 2025 at 4:32 PM
apparently Elon's gotten so mad about Grok not answering questions about Afrikaners the way he wants, xAI's now somehow managed to put it into some kind of hyper-Afriforum mode where it thinks every question is about farm murders or the song "Kill the Boer"
Whoever has redesigned @theguardian.com home page needs to be sacked.
May 7, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Whoever has redesigned @theguardian.com home page needs to be sacked.
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Aka arguably the largest intentionally facilitated product downgrade in the history of capitalism
www.theverge.com/news/655930/...
www.theverge.com/news/655930/...
Google’s AI Overviews now reach more than 1.5 billion people every month
That’s a lot of overviews.
www.theverge.com
April 25, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Aka arguably the largest intentionally facilitated product downgrade in the history of capitalism
www.theverge.com/news/655930/...
www.theverge.com/news/655930/...
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there are people out there who really, truly can't wait to just "hop on a quick call". like, genuinely for the love of the game. and they have to be stopped.
April 18, 2025 at 3:41 PM
there are people out there who really, truly can't wait to just "hop on a quick call". like, genuinely for the love of the game. and they have to be stopped.
See also: Scrum.
If you run a team/business unit/company and you want results then stop fucking micromanaging. The more time you spend pestering me the less time I have to actually do the tasks you're pestering about.
April 9, 2025 at 6:26 PM
See also: Scrum.
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my hope is that AI can empower the Dumbest, Least talented slobs i know to replace everything i ever loved with One Million Years of Content
April 8, 2025 at 3:07 AM
my hope is that AI can empower the Dumbest, Least talented slobs i know to replace everything i ever loved with One Million Years of Content
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Yes, we mustn't bespoil the beauty of the A40 as it majesically sweeps passed Eynsham.
God I hate these people.
God I hate these people.
Plans for an 8-bay EV charging station on the A40 at Eynsham have been turned down by local planners. West Oxfordshire District Council said “the proposal will be of an urban nature which will appear incongruous and result in a marked change in the character and appearance of the site”.
March 31, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Yes, we mustn't bespoil the beauty of the A40 as it majesically sweeps passed Eynsham.
God I hate these people.
God I hate these people.
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Limmy's message to millennials
March 29, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Limmy's message to millennials
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hi, i’m the inventor of bacon packaging and i fucking hate you so much, eat shit
July 22, 2024 at 11:28 AM
hi, i’m the inventor of bacon packaging and i fucking hate you so much, eat shit
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its amazing how chatgpt knows everything about subjects I know nothing about, but is wrong like 40% of the time in things im an expert on. not going to think about this any further
March 8, 2025 at 12:13 AM
its amazing how chatgpt knows everything about subjects I know nothing about, but is wrong like 40% of the time in things im an expert on. not going to think about this any further
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📢ANALYSIS: UK emissions fell 3.6% in 2024 to lowest since 1872
🏭Coal lowest since 1666, when Great Fire ravaged London
🚗EVs pushed oil down despite more traffic, saving £1.7bn
🌇Gas down on "cleanest ever" power
📈📉Since 1990, CO2 -54% / GDP +84%
www.carbonbrief.org/...
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🏭Coal lowest since 1666, when Great Fire ravaged London
🚗EVs pushed oil down despite more traffic, saving £1.7bn
🌇Gas down on "cleanest ever" power
📈📉Since 1990, CO2 -54% / GDP +84%
www.carbonbrief.org/...
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March 12, 2025 at 12:25 PM
📢ANALYSIS: UK emissions fell 3.6% in 2024 to lowest since 1872
🏭Coal lowest since 1666, when Great Fire ravaged London
🚗EVs pushed oil down despite more traffic, saving £1.7bn
🌇Gas down on "cleanest ever" power
📈📉Since 1990, CO2 -54% / GDP +84%
www.carbonbrief.org/...
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🏭Coal lowest since 1666, when Great Fire ravaged London
🚗EVs pushed oil down despite more traffic, saving £1.7bn
🌇Gas down on "cleanest ever" power
📈📉Since 1990, CO2 -54% / GDP +84%
www.carbonbrief.org/...
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President Trump the HBO Max series Scavengers Reign was cancelled due to wokeness. Please do a pitch for Scavengers Reign season 2 in front of the White House
March 11, 2025 at 11:12 PM
President Trump the HBO Max series Scavengers Reign was cancelled due to wokeness. Please do a pitch for Scavengers Reign season 2 in front of the White House
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I will never stop thinking about this Gabe Newell quote
February 20, 2025 at 5:19 PM
I will never stop thinking about this Gabe Newell quote
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Crockery and dishwasher designers need to call a ceasefire and figure out how to start working with each other constructively. This can't go on.
February 13, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Crockery and dishwasher designers need to call a ceasefire and figure out how to start working with each other constructively. This can't go on.