All your data are belong to us
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- Reposted by All your data are belong to usGenerative AI has helped me to understand why, in Star Wars, the droids seem to have personalities but are generally bad at whatever they're supposed to be programmed to do, and everyone is tired of their shit and constantly tells them to shut up
- Reposted by All your data are belong to usNo, we are not going to live on other planets. Bullshit artists like Musk might as well be the leaders of death cults. arstechnica.com/culture/2025...
- “Transphobus amplifius!” Beautiful, @joshgondelman.bsky.social , perfect
- Today’s That’s Marvelous newsletter is about free time and, more than I’d intended, about J.K. Rowling. Read it here: joshgondelman.substack.com/p/130-jk-row...
- What is the world coming to if we can't trust Tony Blair any more?
- I’m glad to see this article but it’s after 24 hours of unchallenged corporate guff dominating the news cycle. Tony Blair is a tech lobbyist who is literally writing naive, venal & dangerous policy for Starmer’s government. Call it out. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
- Reposted by All your data are belong to usThis sums the whole situation up quite nicely.
- Reposted by All your data are belong to usthe characters from buffy the vampire slayer in famous works of art: thread
- Reposted by All your data are belong to uscanada's logos and graphic design in the 1970s is what made me a graphic designer. it was just banger after banger
- I'm only here for the fruity discussions
- Reposted by All your data are belong to usIT'S MAY!!!!
- Reposted by All your data are belong to usAs Labour Government 2025 prepares to curtail the right to trial by jury, a reminder of what Labour Opposition 2020 said when the Conservatives made the same threat. www.thetimes.com/uk/law/artic...
- Reposted by All your data are belong to usLibra: Your therapist diagnoses your narcissism and you accept his compliment.
- Reposted by All your data are belong to usGemini: Learning to trust again is an important first step on your road to being hurt again.
- Reposted by All your data are belong to us1. Because this issue is critical, but has received remarkably little coverage, here's a thread pulling out the key themes from my article yesterday, on the Planning and Infrastructure Bill, which puts decades of environmental protections to the torch. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
- A-Team theme plays in head whilst assembling the french press
- Reposted by All your data are belong to us“i will kill you with a hammer”
- Everyone in Barnsley is looking forward to seeing this outstanding community erection
- Helloooo @thebugle.bsky.social's! And @podchris.bsky.social. Going old style, while looking at artist impressions of a new youth activity base in Barnsley, I couldn't help but notice the painted outline at the centre of this image had a certain familiarity...
- Me to the local road users whilst driving my rental at least 10kph slower than the speed limit
- Reposted by All your data are belong to usIn the morning, I look at the small screen (phone) then go to work on the medium screen (computer) until it is time to relax and look at the large screen (television) and finally return to bed staring once again at the small screen (phone) and marvel at the cycle, the intricate dance of nature
- What idiot designed arrivals at Heathrow Terminal 5: two exits, so if you're meeting anyone you have to stand in the middle and keep looking left and right
- Reposted by All your data are belong to usLook, I’m made of stardust. This is unacceptable.
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- Reposted by All your data are belong to uswhat is wrong with me and how do I monetize it
- TIL it's not School for Cats
- Released on this day in 1979: Cool For Cats (album) #Squeeze youtu.be/WRW6Qtj7ZZM?...
- Reposted by All your data are belong to usRelated news item from 12 years ago - Le Pen called for any politicians convicted of embezzlement to be banned for life:
- Le Pen called for politicians convicted of embezzlement to be banned for life back in 2013, complaining that ‘we never learn the lesson’ www.publicsenat.fr/actualites/p...
- Reposted by All your data are belong to usI don't know what you have to be huffing to think in 2025 that letting far right authoritarians get away with crimes is "good for democracy"
- Good grief, can we desist with this nonsense. Barring convicted criminals from holding office - especially criminals convicted of abuses of power - is just basic civic sense. The option of not stealing taxpayers' money was right there. www.economist.com/leaders/2025...
- Reposted by All your data are belong to usLucy van Pelt has finally gone too far. But she will be brought to justice
- Reposted by All your data are belong to usOn Monday our instagram account was hacked and then deleted. We received a ransom note to recover it; obviously we couldn't and wouldn't pay, and therefore lost thousands of followers. Meta support was useless. But we're BACK with a new account: @littletollerbooks. Can you follow us there and share?
- Anyone else get The A Team music in their head whilst reconstructing the french press?
- Reposted by All your data are belong to usThe Matrix released 26 years ago today 🤯 In its honour, here it is, but all the Agents are Mr Blobby.
- It's so hard to tell whether someone was made for social media or by social media
- It's tiger loaf Monday
- Reposted by All your data are belong to usshakira, sharkira: thread
- Reposted by All your data are belong to usThis is Frank. He is the perfect example of why golden retrievers don't make good guard dogs. But they make wonderful welcome committees. 13/10 (TT: accordingtobelieve)
- Short but thought provoking article
- “One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss.” “Which means that Copenhagen, a city of 1.2 million people, saves $357 million a year on health costs because something like 80% of its population commutes by bike.” #CityMakingMath Some costs aren’t costs.
- Reposted by All your data are belong to us“One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss.” “Which means that Copenhagen, a city of 1.2 million people, saves $357 million a year on health costs because something like 80% of its population commutes by bike.” #CityMakingMath Some costs aren’t costs.
- Not wanting to panic anyone, but it's too late: AI is now everywhere and in everything!
- The @nytimes.com just discovered parallel computing.
- Nooooooooooo
- Reposted by All your data are belong to usElon Musk's favorite supposed data expert, who he's retweeted at least a dozen times, claims she can only process 60,000 rows of data before her "hard drive overheats"
- Reposted by All your data are belong to usfinally got one of those cars with a tv in the dash but the only show it plays is someone backing over my trash cans
- Reposted by All your data are belong to usall i’m saying is that this isn’t the first time europe’s had to hold out for four years while america works out that nazis are bad
- Reposted by All your data are belong to usThe power of Crufts compels you.
- Although we have a copy on DVD, I've never watched this movie
- Reposted by All your data are belong to us😂😅
- A little late? Some nice-looking but poorly-arranged classics for #WorldBookDay
- Some nice-looking books I own, for #WorldBookDay. Please reply with some nice-looking books you own.
- Reposted by All your data are belong to uswhat a terrible time to have the ability to think critically
- I'm sure the rise of AI has slowed progress down, but I'm still expecting Teams to be rebranded as Windows 13
- Reposted by All your data are belong to usquote of the day www.ft.com/content/4221...
- Best batman until Will Arnett took on the role
- Holy Silver Screen! The Dynamic Duo battle their biggest villains in a feature length film! 🦇 BATMAN (1966) 3:35pm starring #AdamWest #BurtWard #CesarRomero #FrankGorshin #LeeMeriwether family fun #TPTVsubtitles Have your shark repellent spray ready!
- Who is letting off fireworks at 8:50pm on the 28th February???!?
- Farewell Skype arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025... Microsoft is moving all users to its Swiss army spork, Teams
- Reposted by All your data are belong to usRichard Donner told this great moustache-related story about working with GENE HACKMAN on Superman.
- TV show idea: We get a bunch of drama queens and put them in a situation where there aren't any shops or internet
- Reposted by All your data are belong to usA thing about loss. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
- Reposted by All your data are belong to us#MMLifers Happy birthday to Plastic Bertrand, 71 today.
- Reposted by All your data are belong to usSo one of the things that I think is lost on AI proponents is what I call the card catalog effect, a thing I shouldn’t call it because a lot of people probably have no experience with a card catalog.
- Fun project to charge your phone whilst cycling www.instructables.com/Bike-Powered...
- Reposted by All your data are belong to usI bring my kids to a romantic restaurant on Valentine's day as a birth control reminder to the other couples.
- Reposted by All your data are belong to usWe could just be reading great books, watching good movies, and eating fruit. Instead we have to survive/fight miserable power hoarders. What a waste of limited time.
- Reposted by All your data are belong to usChristopher Walken but when there's music Christopher Waltzen
- Just got it: the animals are curious; not their poses
- For so many years I thought Marky Moon was a person
- Released on this day in 1977: Marquee Moon (album) #Television youtu.be/PyQBLQgVblY?...
- Saw swans whilst walking which randomly reminded me of the Queen Mamagotchi game from #viz archive.robertianhawdon.me.uk/sites/www.st...
- My favourite current Microsoft Teams feature is when trying to switch on the camera, it switches speakers, flashes up a message telling me the camera is not working, then switches the speakers back
- Reposted by All your data are belong to usski instructor said the yeti turds I found are moose droppings. am I supposed to be comforted by the fact the yeti is riding a goddamn moose
- Reposted by All your data are belong to usAfter spending more than an hour on the phone with Microsoft Support, I have learned: 1. It is impossible to disable Copilot in OneNote, Excel, PowerPoint, or Windows itself. 2. It will not become possible to do so for another month AT THE EARLIEST. (1/?)
- Reposted by All your data are belong to usBig tech is now formally in league with the far-right. The resistance to it will be personal and political iandunt.substack.com/p/how-to-res...
- Hey! @ptexpat.bsky.social is on Bluesky!
- To the music of Rawhide: Scrollin' Scrollin' Scrollin'
- Reposted by All your data are belong to usFed up with Meta? Avoiding Instagram or Facebook isn’t enough to stop Meta from harvesting and profiting from your private information. Here’s how to limit Meta’s ability to monetize your personal data.
- Celebrity 'Birthday Triplets'
- Reposted by All your data are belong to usMisinformation isn't random - it's strategic. 🧵 In the first cross-national comparative study, we examine 32M tweets from politicians. We find that misinformation is not a general condition: it is driven by populist radical right parties. with @julianachueri.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/1940...
- Bibi the #ShihTzu demonstrating that she needs a larger cushion
- Be ready to welcome another influx of new users
- Reposted by All your data are belong to us“Hello. Do you have a copy of ‘Liz Truss Crashed the Economy’ by J R Hartley? You do? Splendid! My name? Oh yes, it’s…”
- Loving this disclaimer in the Google Gemini ad: check responses for accuracy
- Hey @netflix.com, why do non-English language films seem to always have one translation for dubbing and a different one for subtitles?
- Reposted by All your data are belong to usHome Alone alternate theory that the “burglars” are time travelers sent back in time to prevent the sadistic Kevin McCallister from becoming the world's most prolific serial killer.
- Reposted by All your data are belong to usIf you’re a creator or work in the creative industries or otherwise have a heart, then please add your voice to this UK Gov consultation on AI and Copyright. I said ‘freelance’ for company and ‘unsure’ for super-granular legal stuff but made my voice heard. You can too. www.gov.uk/government/c...
- Reposted by All your data are belong to usThe on-hold music for Waitrose’s customer helpline is just a swan reading share prices to some brioche.
- Reposted by All your data are belong to usaha!
- Reposted by All your data are belong to usThis is an incredible interview.
- Heather Hardy, until recently one of the most popular women's boxers in America, speaks about her life with brain damage, and the price she paid. Well worth reading imo. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/an-intervi...
- TLDR: yes and no
- EU Member States' conclusions on EU enlargement - both in general and for each of the applicant countries - data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document...
