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The BBC are accidentally running the subtitles to Mrs Marple over the Mercury Prize, and it’s rather wonderful. A few of lines could plausibly have been written by Jarvis.

What an insane system.

We all know that the Guardian signed a commercial agreement with OpenAI earlier this year, and has been offering uncritical coverage of AI developments since.

Today I realised that Le Monde has done a very similar deal …
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"It doesn't get more tinfoil hat."

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is preparing to investigate *chemtrails,* according to an internal memo @stephaniearmour.bsky.social obtained.

A department spokeswoman notably did not deny it.

kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

Gift link for the Kryptos story:

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/s...

Great piece on Transformer by @jamesrball.com .... "As ever, there will be silver linings and small mercies — but there is little point sugarcoating it. A crash, whenever it may come, is likely to be brutal."

Parisians hate love locks. They are vandalism and damage the city’s heritage. Please don’t ever place love locks anywhere. Thanks!

lmao. They count talking to somebody else over the internet as "talking to the computer."

I don't think you could get anymore. Anymore is more than is. Which is less than some. I dunno how this shit works.

This isn't expressly true, there are tools like Respeecher that we can use to reproduce an actor's voice, but their top-of-the-line service is a service: you have to contract for it, you pay them gobs of money, they need to see a legal release from the actor.

Study Finds Voices Should Sound Normal Through Walkie-Talkies By Now https://theonion.com/study-finds-voices-should-sound-normal-through-walkie-talkies-by-now/

Windows 10 goes out of support today. My fave useless fact about w10 is that the iconic blue desktop background is a *photograph* - not CGI.

Tiny 'making of' vid here - youtu.be/_2RacX9DgWM...

🚨 😾 VICTORIAN EMERGENCY CAT TRICYCLE 😾 🚨

Pop a card in the London post in 1896, & a chauffeur driven tricycle would collect your pet for care & cure, providing a smooth springed ride to the Hampstead infirmary

More Cycling World Illustrated gems digitised at mrc-describe.epexio.com/records/CTC/...

kids teacher just sent this home as part of an assignment he's doing and i want to smash every computer at the school

Regulations are written in blood:
"Before 1994, manufacturers had to prove herbal products were safe before selling them. That changed after Congress passed the Dietary Supplement Health & Education Act. The law sharply limited the FDA’s authority, leaving supplements far less regulated than drugs."

Three years ago today, @neildegrassetyson.com asserted on “Real Time with Bill Maher” that unlike atomic bombs, “… modern nukes [thermonuclear bombs] don’t have the radiation problem … not in the way we used to have to worry about with fallout and all the rest of that.”

This is completely wrong.

Microsoft ends support for Windows 10 today, October 14th 2025. Windows 11 doesn't work on 3 of my PCs due to CPU incompatibilities. However, I shall keep running Win10 on them now as they are used for lots of retro related stuff. I know I can 'force' an upgrade, but they may break in the future.

Talk about burying the lede BBC.

He was trying to drive through the Channel Tunnel in a silver Bentley he didn’t own, with £15k in cash in a bag, and hadn’t bought a ticket.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

"we should not assume that technological revolutions are productivity revolutions. The rate of productivity growth has been in sharp decline since 2003, and today sits where it stood before the widespread adoption of the personal computer"

www.techpolicy.press/generative-a...

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites

The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war