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Just saw that Paul Lynch's Prophet Song won the #Booker#BookerPrize. Well deserved. It's a captivating and unsettling book that feels uncannily timely."They are calling it an insurgency on the...
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I asked Bing a question, and it looks like Dalmatian carpaccio is on the menu this festive season!
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It gets worse! "what is the tastiest part of" suggests "… the human body", which confidently gives the answer "Brain", and links to a clearly LLM-generated website titled "How To Cook A Human" that...
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Week 151: Still not smarthttps://po-ru.com/2023/11/29/week-151-still-not-smart#weeknotes
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Microsoft recommends eating human brainshttps://po-ru.com/2023/11/29/microsoft-recommends-eating-human-brains#LLM#AI
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BBC News calling Kissinger a "top diplomat" makes me wonder how they'd describe Satan. "A former angel and leader who enjoyed sharing mountain views but faced controversy for some of his actions".
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So far this year, I have heard three separate ads that started with "'Twas the night before …", two on podcasts and one at the cinema. Advertising really is a dismal, uninspired, and uninspiring...
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It makes me chuckle every time I hear an American pronounce "pianist" with the stress on the a (/piˈænɪst/ rather than /ˈpi.ənɪst/). I'm sure it's the symptom of a morbid fear of being misheard to say...
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Thinking about this more, I wonder whether it's an innovation required to get around mindless automatic content filters on YouTube and TikTok.
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People are still using nonsense like "WUXGA" and "UWQHD+" to describe screen resolutions. "Yes, please take a 1990s CRT resolution convention and bolt on letters until no one has any clue what it means...
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Week 152: No such thing as a free drinkhttps://po-ru.com/2023/12/05/week-152-no-such-thing-as-a-free-drink#weeknotes
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What the hell is this Windows-style nonsense from Ubuntu?Next time, I'll be installing Debian, and running time-consuming updates on my own schedule.
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I just saw a synopsis of a film, and thought, I'm sure I've seen that. But I can't have, as it's new.In fact, I had read the book it's based on, but aphantasia means that the memory of a story read is...
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UKPolThe "One Nation moderate Tories" are presented as a brake on extreme policies, but Sunak could promise a deterrent tzompantli of small boat crosser skulls on the White Cliffs of Dover and they'd...
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In exciting local news, over the space of no more than a couple of days, the new bridge across Canada Water has appeared! I'm looking forward to saving several seconds off the journey from the station...
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Week 153: Hibernation modehttps://po-ru.com/2023/12/13/week-153-hibernation-mode#weeknotes
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Week 154: Oh no it isn’t!https://po-ru.com/2023/12/20/week-154-oh-no-it-isnt#weeknotes
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The #solstice isn't until tomorrow, 22 December, in Europe. Some of you are celebrating prematurely.
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On one hand, Royal Mail is going to make a lot of money this Christmas by having arbitrarily invalidated existing stamps, and getting paid £3.50+ to deliver each letter.On the other, they're going to...
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Spending the afternoon working out a mandolin arrangement of Hurt (by NIN but made more famous by Johnny Cash). I always bring the Christmas cheer.
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