According to today’s Guardian, we’re both wrong and it’s Gremloids

In an interview, Harvey said it was Buckethead in SpaceBalls, the film, that was the issue

Yes. We need to do those things as well, and this travesty doesn’t remove the need for all of us to decarbonise

I mean, very obviously not everybody sees this, otherwise we wouldn’t have streets full of deadly vehicles would we?

This will be like the proof of age face scans. Yes, the VIDEO is deleted, but the unique biometric code describing your face sure as hell won’t be deleted. Focusing on deleting the video has got to be a deliberate distraction

Good to remember that the client for Teams isn’t you - it’s your IT department

Yes, but… Why would a politician bother to act when it appears to them that the public are all cool with the situation?

This is Newton’s third law

How very dare you? Gen X is long off Facebook - it’s our parents on there, being radicalised by Russian bots

Not OP, but I’m really enjoying it because it’s light and stable, and the set of MX tools it comes with are great. Their backup tool is so good that as my old laptop started to die I was easily able to transfer my entire setup to a totally different computer and pick up exactly where I’d left off

You can’t do it overnight, no. But you can rapidly agree that it needs to be done

Remember: whenever you watch a bee land on a flower, you’re watching flowers having sex

The cost of employing staff isn’t related to the cost of what people eat - it’s a function of how long the restaurant is open and how busy it is. It doesn’t make sense that I pay more for the staff if I order a £40 bottle of wine versus a £20 bottle. If you’re going to make customers pay separately like this,it should be a cover charge per head

I recently bought a (different brand of) smart telescope and these things are great. Obviously the light-gathering capacity is much lower than traditional astrophotography setups, but the ease of use is incredible. Kudos to the engineers who make these things.

Yes, and also marginalia-search.com

I have to say that, apart from occasional popups suggesting premium subscription, I’ve not seen the experience change much - yet. The app has had cosmetic changes, but these haven’t been negative. It’s possible there is note coming down the line, but right now I’m still using it fine

Perhaps. However, we have to acknowledge that there’s a price to be paid for this - particularly an environmental price - and it’s not the householder who pays that price. If where we lived didn’t have consequences for other people then it wouldn’t be an issue. But when these decisions lock in urban sprawl, car dependency and excess emissions, they become everybody’s business

I love Dinosaur Comics. For anyone just discovering this, there are SO MANY for you to catch up on

I’d rather not - we’re then into copyright issues

It’s only a very short letter, but it’s good. They argue that AGI claims are based on shifting the definition of AGI to something easier to meet, that advocates rely on hitting artificial (gameable) benchmarks rather than dealing with novelty, and that providing answers to questions doesn’t mean they’re doing cognition as we’d normally understand it, especially as LLMs don’t express doubt (they don’t say this, but I’ll add: this is because they can’t do metacognition: they can’t think about their own thought processes, as we can)