Unfitforpurpose
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The last man on Earth sat in a room. There was a knock at the door. #COYS User guide. https://bsky.app/profile/unfitforpurpose.net/post/3kz4ok5tcrs2a
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There’s new people on Bluesky? That means it’s a good time to share our COYSky community starter packs!

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There is an actual life-changing conflict between WFH being cheaper and more efficient, an entire layer of middle managers who need to have meetings to feel alive, and the commercial real estate cabal that runs all cities. It’s going to get so fucking weird.
remote work is like birth control or UBI atp where there’s overwhelming research consensus they improve quality of life for people they apply to, yet access is impeded or blocked by the ruling class because the thought of marginalized ppl having rich full lives makes steam come out their ears
2. Rolling Stone is owned by a large media conglomerate, which is ending remote work across its brands.

My home is Portland, Oregon, ~1,000 miles from the nearest office, so this marks the end of the line for me at RS.
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This is the future of Windows. Microsoft wants to rewrite Windows to turn computers into AI PCs that you talk to. It's now bringing AI features to all Windows 11 PCs today, in a bid to convince you to talk to your PC and let AI control it. Full details 👇 www.theverge.com/news/799768/...
Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it
Copilot Voice and Vision are now rolling out.
www.theverge.com
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Join me on my journey from "how am I a games guy who's intimidated to edit his own BIOS" to "I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore"
Seeing the numbers laid out like this really hit me: since I’m surrounded by very techy people, I figured my foot-dragging on upgrading was just me being an 18th century Shaker trapped in the body of a 21st century games journalist. But plenty of people besides me are still happily ("happily") using Windows 10–especially, as 404 points out, schools and other institutions that are now over a barrel if they own machines that aren’t compatible with Windows 11–making this forced change utterly arbitrary and needlessly severe. 404 and others have pointed out the immense amount of e-waste this all stands to create; putting this on schools and government institutions at a time when both are under attack seems like it stands to do nothing but further degrade essential services. And that’s to say nothing of all the individuals who might find themselves feeling squeezed to buy a new computer at a time when money is tighter than ever. 

There’s no reason for any of this to be happening the way it is beyond forced obsolescence and for Microsoft to flaunt its useless AI products and pump its bottom line. New OSes happen, but this whole rollout doesn’t need to be going the way it’s going. I’ll admit to finding something grimly comforting in seeing what I thought was just my own inadequacy at computers despite working with them as having at least some systemic roots I can rail at instead of feeling bad about myself. There’s even something inspiring, if not a bit exhausting, in learning there are always new things I can get motivated to fight back against. I'm full of piss and vinegar! I'm alive!
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also you know, knowledge has been free since the public library was invented! you are not primarily paying for knowledge at a university. I'm not being idealistic here; you are primarily paying for the *certification* of being a university graduate, with learning thrown in on the side.
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let me note that one of the actual tests here is going to be 'what do people pushing these ideas want for their own children' and I will bet you a lot of money that the answer is 'the elite university model of Harvard et al' not 'learning through AI slop'
Wow. Just wow.

"Students pay premium prices for information that AI now delivers instantly and for free. A business student can ask ChatGPT to explain supply chain optimization or generate market analysis in seconds. The traditional lecture-and-test model faces its Blockbuster moment."
When Knowledge is Free, What are Professors For?
Higher Education Must Stop Competing with AI on Information and Start Teaching What Machines Can’t Do
www.forbes.com
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Marie McGowan, 89, has died 3 years after a brutal assault during which she was put headfirst into a rubbish bin. Her attacker, Alex Bailey, believed she was "a man dressed as a woman."

This is the world the transphobes are creating "to protect women."

RIP Marie. share.google/PFaI5YTh9tBw...
Woman, 80s, dies three years after Dublin attack
A woman in her 80s who was attacked in south Dublin just over three years ago has passed away.
share.google
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If this great thread has crossed your timeline as it has mine, then you might enjoy this clip from SOE agent Harry Rée's interview with the Imperial War Museum. He describes his fistfight with a German of the Sicherheitsdienst, or SS Security Service.

Full interview: www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...
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Also it is not the 80s any more! A huge part of bringing up teens now is teaching them that this stuff they cannot avoid online is *not* the world and they can and must regulate their information intake and yes building a “safe space” can be part of that
Not once have I seen an explanation for why teenagers must hear things that upset them in virtue of the unspecified speech-acts being upsetting, nor have I ever seen an explanation for why teenagers will be forbidden to express displeasure with upsetting things.
William Hague: Why I’ll banish ‘safe spaces’ at Oxford
The new chancellor tells Cheltenham Literature Festival that there will be no ‘cancel culture’ and students should expect to hear things that upset them
October 14 2025, The Times
The new chancellor of Oxford University has said there will be no safe spaces for students and warned would-be undergraduates that they will “hear things that will upset and offend them”.
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Tottenham Hotspur unveils new Men’s football leadership structure
Johan, Fabio, and Snowy pictured having a pint
Kiwifarms style doxxing for the purposes of targeted harassment from the sounds of it. Fully endorsed by the shithead in chief.
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Long story short, an actual Nazi doxxing ring. Enough people reported them that they went away for like 12 hours and then Elon personally brought them back. The site is dead. If you’re still on there, go lock your account right now
what even happened on the other site this time
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i'm not going to chide or scold anyone for only now leaving twitter. your private, unspoken acknowledgment that i'm your intellectual and moral superior is all i need
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For avoidance of doubt, if an English judge writes this about your case you are well and truly FUCKED
Consequently, while this has been a highly unusual case in so many respects, and has led me to write a judgment which is considerably longer than I would normally write
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Holy shit he's not lying.

This judgement is WILD. And it's not even the full ruling yet!
	The allegations against Darren Honeywill that he had thrown "a cup of tea over the Second Claimant when she went to the caravan site to visit Robert Verdier." That was a serious allegation which was entirely undermined by the playing of the video of the incident. The video showed that Ms Saunders and Mr Verdier were on the grass of the "chalet land" and that Mr Darren Honeywell was moving towards them and very angry (he had just heard that Ms Saunders had used her car in an incident with Jill Beresford- Ambridge where she had assaulted Ms Beresford-Ambridge who was still on sticks recovering from a hip operation), had taken the cup of tea out of the hand of Mr Verdier and thrown the tea on the ground and put the cup down. Having seen the video footage, Ms Saunders changed her account so that "… when she said thrown, she meant over her hand not when thrown on the ground". When it was pointed out that was simply not what the video showed, her counsel relayed "My client having seen the video she says she cannot recall … might have splashed on her foot." This was an attempt to malign Mr Darren Honeywill.
Unless you're interested in egomaniac wannabe cult leaders there's not a lot worth listening to. He's gotten a lot more attention recently because he's the original AI doomer but he's always been a crank.
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AI video generators. Note that Sora 2 seems to be about as bad as Google Veo.

You get impressive demo clips out of these things by generating a *zillion* clips and only putting up your few successes. "I meant to do that." And never share your prompt, else others might try too and go "wtf."
THE PART THAT REALLY STUCK WITH ME WAS WHEN HE POINTED OUT THAT THE PEOPLE POSTING CLIPS AND GOING "WOW SO AMAZING" NEVER SHARE THEIR PROMPTS, BECAUSE THAT WOULD REVEAL THAT THE USELESS MACHINE FUCKED UP VERY BASIC DIRECTIONS.
IT CAN ONLY CREATE CLIPS THAT LOOK IMPRESSIVE IN COMPLETE ISOLATION.
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Just bumped into the work of Philip Dadd, who died young in WWI. It's remarkably modern looking: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_...
Philip Dadd - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
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Since it's extremely difficult to make chat agents secure against prompt injection, this would also be a use case for cryptocurrency, to the extent that you really really **really** don't want this thing having your bank details
Imagine the incentive structure at play to get your hands on data that can tie users with their real names and payment details to typing in horny shit. that is going to get breached at some point and exploited either as a public leak or blackmail.