Chris Boyd
@paperghost.bsky.social
Award winning security researcher | 7 time Microsoft MVP | Google Hall of Fame | Music and video | UK Immigration (family reunion)
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steam is apparently allowing "this game had AI in it that it didn't disclose" as a valid return statement, so if you or anyone you know actually paid $70 for slop, get that money back
Insulting to the players, insulting to the IP, insulting to the medium, the developers. And the craft itself. Fuck you executives who pushed this garbage.
frvr.com/blog/call-of...
frvr.com/blog/call-of...
Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 is littered with AI art slop, because your $70 means nothing anymore
Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 is littered with AI generated artwork which makes the $70 feel like a complete rip-off.
frvr.com
November 15, 2025 at 9:10 AM
steam is apparently allowing "this game had AI in it that it didn't disclose" as a valid return statement, so if you or anyone you know actually paid $70 for slop, get that money back
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Callous cruelty. I’ve taught kids who were so young when they fled that they don’t even remember their home country. They are as Scottish as their friends. Returning should be the choice of the families.
"The moment your home country is safe to return to, you will be removed"
"The moment UKRAINE is safe to return to, EVERY Ukranian refugee will be removed"
- Impossible (obvs). Would it be right?
"The moment SYRIA is safe to return to, EVERY Syrian refugee will be removed"
- Obvs, impossible.
"The moment UKRAINE is safe to return to, EVERY Ukranian refugee will be removed"
- Impossible (obvs). Would it be right?
"The moment SYRIA is safe to return to, EVERY Syrian refugee will be removed"
- Obvs, impossible.
November 15, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Callous cruelty. I’ve taught kids who were so young when they fled that they don’t even remember their home country. They are as Scottish as their friends. Returning should be the choice of the families.
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To explain briefly: at the moment people successful in their asylum claims get permission to stay in the UK for 5 years, then have to apply for permanent residency. At that point a review of their status is done, but it’s rare not to succeed at that point unless they‘ve committed an offence 1/
To reiterate, this is about making life immeasurably more miserable and stressful for some of the most vulnerable people, in the almost certainly vain hope of winning over the votes of racists.
Anything more shabby and shameful is difficult to envisage.
Anything more shabby and shameful is difficult to envisage.
Asylum in UK to be made temporary under Home Secretary’s plans
Shabana Mahmood will lay out reforms modelled on the Danish system on Monday.
www.independent.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 9:36 AM
To explain briefly: at the moment people successful in their asylum claims get permission to stay in the UK for 5 years, then have to apply for permanent residency. At that point a review of their status is done, but it’s rare not to succeed at that point unless they‘ve committed an offence 1/
imagine trying to defend labour and ending up at the tory's hostile environment skype family defence
Firstly they'll be grateful that they've been given sanctuary in a safe & secure country. Secondly, no one is saying they can't make friends and have relationships. Partners could potentially travel back with them & it's easy these days to keep in touch with people from the other side of the world.
November 15, 2025 at 9:32 AM
imagine trying to defend labour and ending up at the tory's hostile environment skype family defence
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your dead AI mother loves you so much ❤️
November 15, 2025 at 12:50 AM
your dead AI mother loves you so much ❤️
reading the new labour immigration plans and rubbing my temples so hard my fingers meet in the middle
November 15, 2025 at 8:51 AM
reading the new labour immigration plans and rubbing my temples so hard my fingers meet in the middle
I've given many talks on this kind of idea / tech, and it's genuinely dismal every single time. also the creators don't even realise the "put your hand on the tummy, you loved that" moment is the kind of creepy repetition you'd get in a horror film before the jumpscare ending kicks in
November 14, 2025 at 7:13 PM
I've given many talks on this kind of idea / tech, and it's genuinely dismal every single time. also the creators don't even realise the "put your hand on the tummy, you loved that" moment is the kind of creepy repetition you'd get in a horror film before the jumpscare ending kicks in
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Abolish the fucking Home Office
£5 of "secure document return" of jovi's naturalisation certificate, which originally came with lots of "do not fold" warnings, gets you a flimsy envelope and a mangled naturalisation certificate back from the home office. the options are pay £400 for a replacement or phone up and yell a lot, so
November 14, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Abolish the fucking Home Office
somehow the doom slayer has become a slightly uptempo good ole' country boy
I made a joke in my main Discord server about DOOM E1M1 being in a major key and @abigbagofkeys.sickonedude.com actually made it. Jesus fucking Christ listen to this hahahaha
November 14, 2025 at 4:20 PM
somehow the doom slayer has become a slightly uptempo good ole' country boy
(me, opening up dropbox to upload some video files and seeing a popup going on about "reclaim, our new AI calendar"):
you're a FILE HOST. i use you to host FILES. why do you need to tell me about your goddamn ai CALENDAR
you're a FILE HOST. i use you to host FILES. why do you need to tell me about your goddamn ai CALENDAR
November 14, 2025 at 4:10 PM
(me, opening up dropbox to upload some video files and seeing a popup going on about "reclaim, our new AI calendar"):
you're a FILE HOST. i use you to host FILES. why do you need to tell me about your goddamn ai CALENDAR
you're a FILE HOST. i use you to host FILES. why do you need to tell me about your goddamn ai CALENDAR
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getting a text in the middle of the night and it's just my loathsome vizier saying "Your enemies lie in wait, my lord!!" what am I supposed to do with that. its four in the morning
November 14, 2025 at 4:06 AM
getting a text in the middle of the night and it's just my loathsome vizier saying "Your enemies lie in wait, my lord!!" what am I supposed to do with that. its four in the morning
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![[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.]
JANET:
Ugh...
LIZ:
What's up?
JANET:
I am so bored of cooking peas!
LIZ:
Have you tried...
AI peas?
JANET:
AI peas?
LIZ:
They're peas with AI!
[Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI].
LIZ:
Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas
JANET:
What
LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines]
Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas?
[Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it]
LIZ:
Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine
[Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas]
LIZ:
With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas!
JANET:
What
LIZ:
Shut up
LIZ:
Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow
From opening the bag of peas
to boiling the peas
to eating the peas
To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means.
JANET:
Is it really necessary to-
LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]:
THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET
[Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan:
AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas.
[Ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreiayqa37f7kik7l7s7fbtfp2sir5ckb662ry2lylinyjrfa2rkvvka@jpeg)
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me watching this trailer
November 13, 2025 at 6:46 PM
me watching this trailer
probably bad for society in ways i can't quite express, at a time when there's so many people out there ranting about 5G, mole men, and god knows what else, that the biggest and most unhinged conspiracy theories end up panning out somehow, and in the stupidest ways imaginable
November 13, 2025 at 5:51 PM
probably bad for society in ways i can't quite express, at a time when there's so many people out there ranting about 5G, mole men, and god knows what else, that the biggest and most unhinged conspiracy theories end up panning out somehow, and in the stupidest ways imaginable
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ITS ALIVE!
We just announced INSECTA VINDICTA at @gamesground.bsky.social and here is the trailer:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3o4O...
We just announced INSECTA VINDICTA at @gamesground.bsky.social and here is the trailer:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3o4O...
Insectica Vindicta - Announcement Trailer
YouTube video by NOTHING MATTERS
www.youtube.com
November 13, 2025 at 5:31 PM
ITS ALIVE!
We just announced INSECTA VINDICTA at @gamesground.bsky.social and here is the trailer:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3o4O...
We just announced INSECTA VINDICTA at @gamesground.bsky.social and here is the trailer:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3o4O...
just seen an ad for "emporio armani" using born slippy for the background music, and i don't think i've ever had to process a bigger disconnect between sound and image
November 13, 2025 at 5:29 PM
just seen an ad for "emporio armani" using born slippy for the background music, and i don't think i've ever had to process a bigger disconnect between sound and image
i'll never mock story told by dropped notes in video games again, except for that one quill-penned parchment in elder scrolls i found in a dungeon which says "wait, do you hear that? there's something banging at the doo—"
Rich pedophile guys leave so many emails so that immersive sim protagonists can read them and find out about their global pedophile ring
November 13, 2025 at 4:25 PM
i'll never mock story told by dropped notes in video games again, except for that one quill-penned parchment in elder scrolls i found in a dungeon which says "wait, do you hear that? there's something banging at the doo—"
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As I have long since given up on good things happening, I will settle for very, very funny things.
Just imagine the Krakatoa of enraged, flailing bullshit we would get, if it looked like Ed was going to thrash Streeting in a leadership election.
November 13, 2025 at 2:25 PM
As I have long since given up on good things happening, I will settle for very, very funny things.
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I truly believe that Wes Streeting has the ideas, the charisma, and the likeability to be an even more historically hated Prime Minister than Keir Starmer
November 13, 2025 at 1:45 PM
I truly believe that Wes Streeting has the ideas, the charisma, and the likeability to be an even more historically hated Prime Minister than Keir Starmer
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SATAN: So what makes you want to work here? Isn’t it a bit of a sideways move for you?
ME: Well, sideways and down, haha
SATAN: Haha
ME: But I’ve been working in the sector for a while, and I feel this is where the action is
SATAN: Your most recent role was…
ME: Cinema website designer
SATAN: Sweet
ME: Well, sideways and down, haha
SATAN: Haha
ME: But I’ve been working in the sector for a while, and I feel this is where the action is
SATAN: Your most recent role was…
ME: Cinema website designer
SATAN: Sweet
November 13, 2025 at 2:43 PM
SATAN: So what makes you want to work here? Isn’t it a bit of a sideways move for you?
ME: Well, sideways and down, haha
SATAN: Haha
ME: But I’ve been working in the sector for a while, and I feel this is where the action is
SATAN: Your most recent role was…
ME: Cinema website designer
SATAN: Sweet
ME: Well, sideways and down, haha
SATAN: Haha
ME: But I’ve been working in the sector for a while, and I feel this is where the action is
SATAN: Your most recent role was…
ME: Cinema website designer
SATAN: Sweet
phoned up and the person on the other end made an audible groan so we're off to a good start. suspect i'll now be on hold for about six hours. i can do this all day, and night, and all the bits in-between
£5 of "secure document return" of jovi's naturalisation certificate, which originally came with lots of "do not fold" warnings, gets you a flimsy envelope and a mangled naturalisation certificate back from the home office. the options are pay £400 for a replacement or phone up and yell a lot, so
November 13, 2025 at 12:51 PM
phoned up and the person on the other end made an audible groan so we're off to a good start. suspect i'll now be on hold for about six hours. i can do this all day, and night, and all the bits in-between
hot little hands by the turtles is both a vague parody of the rolling stones, and one of the worst songs you'll ever hear
Like, if you actually listen to the lyrics of some of the biggest hits of the sixties, they're about grown men hitting on "little girls", over & over again...
And sometimes threatening to kill them...
And sometimes threatening to kill them...
You see people say this type of thing sometimes and tbh i think its symptomatic of the fact that if you grew up in the 90s-00s, adults going out with 16 year olds was way way more socially accepted
November 13, 2025 at 11:25 AM
hot little hands by the turtles is both a vague parody of the rolling stones, and one of the worst songs you'll ever hear