This worldcoin? Yeah, it’s looking real good right now…

Reuters reporting his death now. Suspect not yet apprehended.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/conservative-influencer-charlie-kirk-shot-dead-utah-university-event-2025-09-10/

Given the footage, it would be a miracle if he survived - that's a severe amount of blood loss within seconds.

Nick Clegg is not “legendary” in the slightest.

That sounds so horribly ‘both sides’ - appeasing both parties.

Iran have already stated “Nope, no diplomacy whilst you’re bombing us.”.

So what now Keir?

Bold emphasis is mine

But idea of offering** feral populations **financial incentives for voluntary sterilization is completely taboo.

Wow, just wow.

When a population gets feral, a little snip snip keeps things in control. Could offer incentives (Air Jordans, etc.).

Sure... some new sneaks for never being able to procreate? Sounds legit (heavy /s obviously)

I have a suspicion where this is being aimed at:

It's not politically correct to say, but low-IQ, low-impulse control populations lack higher reasoning and moral faculties - they require strict corporal punishment and threat of violence to function properly within a society.

It's the people RFK is targeting - people with Autism, ADHD, other neurodivergent conditions, the physically and mentally disabled. Cull the ones who are already "diseased" and leave the healthier ones to live one and procreate. At least that's my suspicion here - basically they're pushing the discourse towards an acceptance of some form of eugenics. It's terrifying.

The point in the last quote - 'to function properly within a society' is really a veiled form of saying - 'you will work until you die in whatever way we see fit'.

There's a similar push in the UK to get disabled people into any job, seemingly regardless of suitability, workplace accommodations (despite there being legal requirements to make such things) - and the way this is being done is to effectively penalise them financially by sanctioning the disability allowances, refusing PIP (Personal Independence Payment) and forcing those with lifelong conditions to undergo a full review every year. This pretty much can starve out someone into finding a way to live that means the Government pays less and the quality of life the person has is drastically reduced owing to the various stressors inflicted on them. The whole thing is a shitshow and is being argued about a lot at the moment in our Government parties.

Can disabled people work? For sure, and many do. Can all disabled people work? No, but the Government is going to make damn sure that you at least try, and if you fail, then find another job cause we ain't supporting you now we know you can work regardless of how effective you are... From a Govt statement:

We’re determined to fix the broken benefits system as part of our Plan for Change by reforming the welfare system and delivering proper support to help people get into work and get on at work, so we can get Britain working and deliver our ambition of an 80% employment rate.

In other words, to "function properly within a society".

Don't forget to write to your MP - being polite but angry helps. Explain the issues, shortcomings and why you feel this should be repealed and a better user-friendly and privacy respecting alternative needs to be found BEFORE implementing stupid asinine knee-jerk legislation like this.

My poor MP is getting it in the jugular because they boasted about working in data security and I'm exploiting the hell out of that statement so they can't easily weasel their way out of it.

Easy to do when you can’t afford their products.

We’re aimed at achieving a new level of employee empowerment, enhancing both our team’s performance and the customer experience.

To use an ancient acronym:

ROFLMAO

I’m surprised the Social Media moguls can’t see this becoming the norm. Good luck to them I guess.

How often you’re having sex

Can they… help with improving this? Asking for a friend.

Good luck to Musk then. Was listening to a cybersec podcast on my morning dog walk and one of the stories was about the amount of security flaws that can be created with AI coding machines. Unless you're aware of the language, exploits, weaknesses etc. etc.

What a dumbass. Every time he opens his smarmy gob these days he makes himself seem dumber every time.

"Vaughan was surprised to find it was often the technical staff..."

Tell me you're completely out of touch with your company and what it does without telling me you're completely out of touch with your company and what it does. FFS how is this guy the CEO? Oh, he's one of the founders? Brilliant.

Vaughan says he didn’t want to force anyone. “You can’t compel people to change, especially if they don’t believe.”

But he did. Change or be fired, basically.

“You multiply people…give people the ability to multiply themselves and do things at a pace,” he said, touting the company’s ability to build new customer-ready products in as little as four days, an unthinkable timeline in the old regime.

Ooh I bet some nefarious hacker types will be salivating at the incredibly rushed code base that is probably a spaghetti mess and as insecure as fuck.

Vaughan disclosed that the company, which he said is in the nine-figure revenue range, finished 2024 at “near 75% Ebitda”—all while completing a major acquisition, Khoros.

I had to look up EBITDA - some interesting points to consider when you look at this metric he used:

A negative EBITDA indicates that a business has fundamental problems with profitability. A positive EBITDA, on the other hand, does not necessarily mean that the business generates cash. This is because the cash generation of a business depends on capital expenditures (needed to replace assets that have broken down), taxes, interest and movements in working capital as well as on EBITDA.
While being a useful metric, one should not rely on EBITDA alone when assessing the performance of a company. The biggest criticism of using EBITDA as a measure to assess company performance is that it ignores the need for capital expenditures in its assessment.

Hmmm... I'm no accountant (I leave that to my actual accountant), but surely if they were being profitable it would sound better to say something like "We've remained profitable throughout and our earnings per quarter are on par if not greater than before."?

Aren’t we all?

When AI assistants eulogise their work in this fashion, it is no wonder that students find it hard to eschew their support, even when, deep down, they must know that this amounts to cheating. AI will never tell you that your work is subpar, your thinking shoddy, your analysis naive. Instead, it will suggest “a polish”, a deeper edit, a sense check for grammar and accuracy. It will offer more ways to get involved and help – as with social media platforms, it wants users hooked and jonesing for their next fix. Like The Terminator, it won’t stop until you’ve killed it, or shut your laptop.

No wonder people are hooked onto this - it’s a saccharine dopamine machine eroding our critical thinking and cognitive processing. It’s designed to be that way.

Speaking of dependence on AI:

Rohan found his summer internship in the finance department of a multinational conglomerate with the help of Chat, but, with one more year of university to go, he thinks it may be time to reduce his reliance on AI. “I’ve always known in my head that it was probably better for me to do the work on my own,” he says. “I’m just a bit worried that using ChatGPT will make my brain kind of atrophy because I’m not using it to its fullest extent.”

Of course, it’s not all about cheating or using the easiest possible methods to submit essays or papers -

For many, talking to a computer is easier than laying one’s soul bare in front of another human, however qualified they may be, and a recent study showed that people actually preferred the therapy offered by ChatGPT to that provided by human counsellors. In March, there were 16.7m posts on TikTok about using ChatGPT as a therapist.

Reminds me of the OMM 0000 from the excellent THX-1138 - “My time is yours.” And not in a good way. I’d rather talk to a professional human being, and have found it somewhat beneficial in the past. They had a knowledge of local support groups or events that I doubt would have been offered by AI.

Finally, it seems that Google’s Gemini adverts may not be far off the mark for seeing how little common sense and logic processing people have these days:

As I read through the thousands of prompts, there are essay plan requests, and domestic crises solved: “How to unblock bathroom sink after I have vomited in it and then filled it up with water?”, “Preventive Tips for Next Time – Avoid using sinks for vomiting when possible. A toilet is easier to clean and less prone to clogging.” Relationship advice is sought, “Write me a text message about ending a casual relationship”, alongside tech queries, “Why is there such an emphasis on not eating near your laptop to maintain laptop health?”. And, then, there are the nonsense prompts: “Can you get drunk if you put alcohol in a humidifier and turn it on?” “Yes, using a humidifier to vaporise alcohol can result in intoxication, but it is extremely dangerous.” I wonder if we’re asking more questions simply because there are more places to ask them. Or, perhaps, as grownups, we feel that we can’t ask other people certain things without our questions being judged. Would anyone ever really need to ask another person to give them “ a list of all kitchen appliances”? I hope that in a server room somewhere ChatGPT had a good chuckle at that one, though its answer shows no hint of pity or condescension.

Gah. Puke in a sink? Get some rubber gloves and push the gunk out or extract it and throw it in the toilet to flush it. This is not rocket science.

Ding! Any gains in productivity will mean more work for less people.

Anyone who can’t see this coming - I have several bridges for sale.

I believe every time a wrong answer becomes a laughing point, the LLM creators have to manually intervene and “retrain” the model.

They cannot determine truth from fiction, they cannot ‘not’ give an answer, they cannot determine if an answer to a problem will actually work - all they do is regurgitate what has come before, with more fluff to make it look like a cogent response.

Check out personalsit.es too - a wonderful collection of small, independent websites curated under the banner of personal websites. A lot of tech people there, but some other little nuggets too.

There’s also the indieweb webring which is a great old-school way to discover more sites on the indie web.

You could actually turn Clippy off as well. Copilot doesn’t really go away, and you can’t trust Microshaft to re-enable via updates. Out of the two I’d much prefer the maligned Clippy.

If this were really true, why is there the existence of link rot and a large volume of online lost media?

I think the proper way to say this is that “if you post it on the internet, you should consider it being there forever”.

For example - a personal one. I did a short ambient music podcast series highlighting artists who release music via Creative Commons (a new thing at the time). It was only 5 episodes, and I have the first one archived. The other four are now completely lost to time, despite being put out on the internet back then. It’s not there forever.

In terms of social media, it’s harder to not be forever, but even that’s down to the same issues - has someone else archived it, screenshotted, especially in the case of a site ceasing to function? Internet Archive doesn’t preserve everything either. Plenty of archived pages missing images or files that enable true functionality to view everything as it was.

Everything Everywhere All At Once. I found it utterly boring, yet everyone seemd to love it, especially my fellow ADHD crowd. I never even bothered finishing the film which is bloody rare for me.

Yet I like mind-bending films like Primer, and chaotic films like Crank, and heck, I even like Battleship as a guilty pleasure that I can turn my brain off to... But this film? Bleh.