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Rick Lane @ricklane.bsky.social · 7h

I just found this and immediately signed it. petition.parliament.uk/signatures/1...

Petition: Stop HMRC implementing making tax digital and enforcing quarterly submissions

HMRC is pushing ahead with Making Tax Digital: a scheme that requires all business to maintain digital accounts. Currently many small businesses use paper accounting records or spreadsheets. Small bus...

petition.parliament.uk

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Rick Lane @ricklane.bsky.social · 7h

For everyone (rightly) worrying about the government's awful Making Tax Digital plans, there is a UK parliament petition asking them to scrap it nearing 17,000 signatures. Highly recommend signing if you're self employed. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...

Petition: Stop HMRC implementing making tax digital and enforcing quarterly submissions

HMRC is pushing ahead with Making Tax Digital: a scheme that requires all business to maintain digital accounts. Currently many small businesses use paper accounting records or spreadsheets. Small bus...

petition.parliament.uk

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Rick Lane @ricklane.bsky.social · 11h

"Sir, you neglected to spot that this chart about pizza sales you submitted spells it "pilzar" in three different places. You have failed the Barkels Test and must wear this dunce cap in public for the next three weeks."

Rick Lane @ricklane.bsky.social · 11h

Forget the Turing Test. We need the Barkels Test.

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Rick Lane @ricklane.bsky.social · 11h

Just realised that generative AI does indeed have a function and it is to test whether you have critical reading skills more advanced than a dog.

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Rick Lane @ricklane.bsky.social · 11h

The unreleased sequel to Ice Ice Baby

Part of a horrible, bad, awful, terrible abominable, evil, not very good AI generated image depicting water conservation that reads "Rain Rain Barkels".

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Rick Lane @ricklane.bsky.social · 3d

We need another boxout.

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 3d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

rm -rf ~/

hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 3d

"The chancellor approved it"

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Alex Kain @tdcpresents.bsky.social · 4d

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Rick Lane @ricklane.bsky.social · 4d

Tbc i am following all correct procedure etc. Just at the point with it where accidentally lobotomising myself seems an acceptable risk.

Rick Lane @ricklane.bsky.social · 4d

Oh I'm aware not to go digging and am using eardrops etc. Just getting fed up of feeling like a listing ship.

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Rick Lane @ricklane.bsky.social · 4d

Had a blocked ear for a week and at this point I'm considering drilling the fucker out.

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Rick Lane @ricklane.bsky.social · 5d

"It can design novel forms of life." How do you print that unquestioningly?

Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 5d

These are all flagrant lies, unsourced yet printed in a newspaper that allegedly fact checks things. The rest of it is meandering panic-bait that treats jail breaking LLMs. They don’t even describe the virus! They just said someone made one. Bullshit!

One answer is to look at the data. After the launch of GPT-5 in August, some thought that A.I. had hit a plateau. Expert analysis suggests this isn’t true. GPT-5 can do things no other A.I. can do. It can hack into a web server. It can design novel forms of life. It can even build its own A.I. (albeit a much simpler one) from scratch.

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Ryan North? But - he died... 30 years ago this very night!! @ryannorth.ca · 5d

In video games, you will often find a fully roasted chicken abandoned on the ground, and eating it extremely quickly makes you feel better. What's less known is that this is also true in real life

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Dan Marshall @danthat.bsky.social · 6d

WAIT WHAT'S THIS?

💿There is a demo live for EARTH MUST DIE!

🕹️This gives you (most of) the tutorial section for the game! Have fun, and if you haven't wishlisted the full game yet DO THAT NOW PLEASE it really really helps us out.

Enjoy!

store.steampowered.com/app/4057540/...

Earth Must Die Demo on Steam

These moronic Terranoids think they can just roll in here and take over my beautiful Tyrythian kingdom? The kingdom that I built from the ground up with my bare hands, and only sort of inherited from ...

store.steampowered.com

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Robert Jones @robertnjones.bsky.social · 6d

The latest @pcgamer.com magazine is out now, with world exclusive access to the explosive new all-out warfare FPS Battlefield 6. Plus, Dispatch, Hell Let Loose: Vietnam, Dinolords, Borderlands 4, Gunman Chronicles, Baldur's Gate 2, gaming laptops rated, and much more, too. 💥 tinyurl.com/3ejk738f

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Jeremy Peel @jeremypeel.bsky.social · 7d

If you're disgusted by all media outlets redirecting their coverage efforts toward Prime Day, please ask the human race to stop clicking on keyboard deals and start clicking on journalism instead. I promise you everyone wants to be doing the latter.

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