I propose that we rename The #Singularity to The #Hilarity

We're rapidly approaching the point where we can't tell if we're hallucinating or the AI is...

AI will disrupt filmmaking. But not like Netflix disrupted Blockbuster. More like spam disrupted email. A flood, not a revolution. Volume without vision. Output without ordeal.

Where do bad rainbows go?

They go to prism.
It's a light sentence, but it gives them time to reflect.

Finally got Big Saw up and running. Fitted new tyres and ran some wire to its place.

Very happy! It cuts straight with no fiddling, has the feel of a machine that will just do whatever it’s asked to do.

I was lucky to find it locally and well priced

#woodworking

More on magic:

I'm tired of people who pretend that technology is magic.

Technology is magic, but not in the way you think. It is magic when: it is explainable, teachable, usable.

Technology that excludes people, technology that elevates self-professed magicians so they can gatekeep, technology that is sold to others as magic for the sake of selling magic tricks is the world we live in today.

Technology brings me joy, and it saddens me that the technology business today steals it.

Just posted on Six Colors: Sam and Jony and skepticism

https://sixcolors.com/post/2025/05/sam-and-jony-and-skepticism/

As Virgil wrote, beware of geeks bearing grifts. #AI

I've signed this petition, " Apply for the UK to rejoin the EU fully - do not just 'reset' the relationship ".

Will the Government see it and go, "Oh, OK, we'll do that, then"?

No.

But it's all part of shifting the Overton Window. We need to gently but firmly keep pressure on to say "We made a mistake, let's just fix it".

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/726413

@codepo8 why is that?

I always thought these were the best photos of the St Helens eruption that occurred 45 years ago today. Can you imagine being there and seeing that!!!

(Photos by John Christiansen from Mt. Adams when Mt. St. Helens erupted on May 18, 1980.)

#Volcano #Geology #StHelens #Eruption #Mountain #Photography

Printers must be drowning in schadenfreude now that AI has made everyone think that computers are the biggest idiots in the office

My mother in law is on Desert Island Discs in a moment

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002ccjz

I'm going to consider Mercator projection Russian propoganda from now on

Or maybe Canadian. But probably Russia

Meta have been asking some users to confirm their identity with a 'video selfie', & for supposed account recovery. Soon, more users will be asked with threat of blocking or deleting their account as Meta prepares to launch their facial recog glasses (soon on shelves).

But it's not just about feeding their new product. Meta are harvesting biometric data on a vast scale, perhaps globally, & in full cohort with a dangerous regime.

Leaving Meta is an important act of resistance, now more than ever

A very fun toy:

Go to a UK location. A delightful spidermap of the nine closest branches of Greggs is generated. Move around and the visualisation smoothly adjusts too.

https://alasdairrae.github.io/steakbakespider/

This is a timesink.

"island of strangers"…

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/12/uk-risks-becoming-island-of-strangers-without-more-immigration-curbs-starmer-says

I hope this follows you around like "rivers of blood" followed Powell, so when they eventually bury you all that they will remember is what a sad little bigoted man you were.

Elizabeth Holmes’ partner reportedly fundraising for new blood-testing startup https://tcrn.ch/4d7mpFG

BASED.

Ken Turner, 98, fought fascism in WWII. And now he’s back to fight fascism again

Tank vs. Tesla

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