2026-10-27T01:13:41Z https://nostr.now The Sleight Doctor 🃏🍉 https://nostr.now/npub1wqneq3swlnl9ufyjyjvhzu9ywzm2qg4lrzadmyph2ttqc50zcyqsqeqeed https://s3.eu-central-2.wasabisys.com/mastodonworld/accounts/avatars/113/380/274/110/663/829/original/9fb45c5d958394e3.jpg https://s3.eu-central-2.wasabisys.com/mastodonworld/accounts/avatars/113/380/274/110/663/829/original/9fb45c5d958394e3.jpg https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs9v3xn0l7lmfadw5uteq8s3djgxtyz5gd3d425ltzck7hhawgmvuczypcz0yzxpm70uh3yjgjfjuts53ctdgpzhuvt4hvsxafdvrz3utqszf5lu7a In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsff2lt5atkcvc8jhxztnvpxu80yf5swknj35dlx7v8r5mx7krkr6qndw4nk'>nevent1q…w4nk</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Isn&#39;t it just? Even more beautiful if you can find a way of shoehorning it into a casual conversation! 2026-10-29T04:40:41Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsvtm6cq2t7zwsjt3ss5epspgms8q8y0f9ne3z6yryy9kd3w6eeenczypcz0yzxpm70uh3yjgjfjuts53ctdgpzhuvt4hvsxafdvrz3utqszu547vt In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqswq7w636xk5u930f6rrhzfuarc74864lkhkgzfwy58l97ukpj57kgm4lype'>nevent1q…lype</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I&#39;ve been chided on here for openly wishing this bubble would burst sooner rather than later. The person telling me off assumed I just wanted to see the tech broligarchy finally get its comeuppance. They thought (not unreasonably!) that this showed indifference to the suffering a global financial crash would cause.<br/><br/>Far from it. The longer this circus goes on, the more catastrophic will be the inevitable collapse. 🤬 2026-10-28T03:44:03Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsz4xuhw28tau94xp325spjpam5ty0juwj6kk8kwutt9chj9fj9wuszypcz0yzxpm70uh3yjgjfjuts53ctdgpzhuvt4hvsxafdvrz3utqsz75ylnf In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsrdrc28lzv4nmq6ncnehg59x4juv5g9gp0zdgx2t6vslutu29w9cgggpx99'>nevent1q…px99</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>In reality, refusing to serve fascists doesn&#39;t harm your business, it just means Nazis avoid the establishment. Also well done to the bar staff for refusing to explain themselves when they have no legal obligation to do so. These miscreants have a nasty habit of creatively editing any attempts at discussion and monetising them on social media.<br/><br/>Never engage with the fash! 🤐 2026-10-25T21:22:54Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsrwg80w5srdvwzv9pljp6ddyda7n3x96mqtguvs88gqx90race6nqzypcz0yzxpm70uh3yjgjfjuts53ctdgpzhuvt4hvsxafdvrz3utqszppahfm In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsrv3g8ajc6s5zly3krm5lclyg9n27zz83yvhtpahymfkkeklal75gyv7f74'>nevent1q…7f74</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Life is far too short to waste time ironing. Neither of us in this house even own an iron or ironing board.<br/><br/>We just hang our clothes up after the dry cycle while they&#39;re still warm, and the creases fall out all by themselves. Magic! 2026-10-25T13:20:50Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqswdqzrn4ztltdemw0hx42dpft0azgh989c3ctcuzfzvdnzgkchlugzypcz0yzxpm70uh3yjgjfjuts53ctdgpzhuvt4hvsxafdvrz3utqszn5zh6r In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsvp2kgcgr5czlwqvjxgdgtwht0lh0set034gzfyus32r2d3zycd4q3rnd96'>nevent1q…nd96</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Penn and Teller doing it with transparent cups remains among the most brilliant pieces of &#34;magical&#34; performance art of all time.<br/><br/>They&#39;re not trying to hide a single move, only making sure your attention is always in the wrong place.<br/><br/>It&#39;s a thing of beauty. 2026-10-24T01:53:36Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsx75yqcwygr65yevye70pv2mtq0yqfq2z7j9qhh6gnlq3pwl23hsszypcz0yzxpm70uh3yjgjfjuts53ctdgpzhuvt4hvsxafdvrz3utqszjesdy5 I taught a friend the secret of catching a specific playing card from a dribble of a shuffled deck onto the table and she was both disappointed and impressed.<br/><br/>Because in principle it&#39;s disappointingly obvious...but in practice? Almost exactly as difficult as it looks. 😂<br/><br/>A lot of pure sleight-of-hand is like that: the initial disappointment is overwhelmed by appreciation of the raw skill it takes even if you do know the secret.<br/><br/>That, for me personally, is where the &#34;magic&#34; is. 🤷🏻‍♂️ 2026-10-23T21:30:55Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsf3n9muag2l2vlhz342hcfvxprwjn6kqtp6knyrt8f6sp5q7rqexczypcz0yzxpm70uh3yjgjfjuts53ctdgpzhuvt4hvsxafdvrz3utqszaa6g35 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqswm0tl4u0u7x2j6g5ccu8wkhv5e4f499ll29lxk8v4jlw4qq5t0gqmjj58d'>nevent1q…j58d</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Did you see the Reply Guy lecturing Eugen Rochko (!) for having opinions about vibe coding, despite not having used chatbots himself? Basically everyone made the same point: you don&#39;t have to have &#34;experienced&#34; using the tech to assess the quality of its outputs.<br/><br/>Indeed, the elevation of subjectivity in this context looks very much like a form of &#34;AI&#34; psychosis. Of course Eugen is more than qualified to tell if the code is &#34;spaghetti&#34; (as he put it). 🤷🏻‍♂️ 2026-10-19T17:40:59Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsvk6ask0czx5yl5sy3xj7plj45g3k3zd2h8axtz3wp6wf2d4rzlyczypcz0yzxpm70uh3yjgjfjuts53ctdgpzhuvt4hvsxafdvrz3utqszksnd2z In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsyvj8rdh9nzzxyvrvqmk8rnnymm3rcnuhqd3v436vrpxhs9dkylvqxgmupa'>nevent1q…mupa</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>There&#39;s loads of lively talk here, you just have to be following enough folks who are active! <br/><br/>I&#39;d recommend [@benroyce](<a href="https://mastodon.social/@benroyce">https://mastodon.social/@benroyce</a> ) whose hilariously spicy rants about the complacency of American voters often deserve to be printed off and flyposted everywhere.<br/><br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1ucvqyws2udkt4kks7x50ghhrnfd0lyz7pfzzv0w9e5005sj77nmqwk5a8g" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>AI6YR Ben</span> (<span class="italic">npub1ucv…5a8g</span>)</a></span> for obscure real-time OSINT that often beats news orgs to the story.<br/><br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1c6z5ztjge4tu2d9re0cq73q368q7cm7fcwjcgs8j38qamxtr5tlssuq3gp" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Bena Lugosi</span> (<span class="italic">npub1c6z…q3gp</span>)</a></span> whose almost Shakespearian soliloquies about random shit that&#39;s happening to him will have you in stitches.<br/><br/>And that&#39;s just blokes called Ben! 👀 2026-10-16T15:41:21Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsggrmx3z94gssy00u9spduees4878eslu7ezh352gyrlkewde70lszypcz0yzxpm70uh3yjgjfjuts53ctdgpzhuvt4hvsxafdvrz3utqszth82me OH ALRIGHT! So I probably am neurodivergent in some way or other. But aren&#39;t we all? It&#39;s the plasticity of the whole concept that bothers me. It&#39;s not exactly a precise, medically-defined term with hard parameters...<br/><br/>Narrator&#39;s voice: *and so he dug his own grave deeper and deeper...* 2026-10-14T23:10:39Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsf3v0m4k4pc3udel2lmx3vfyzyrynlms7uhx94dpyka4sej0uud6qzypcz0yzxpm70uh3yjgjfjuts53ctdgpzhuvt4hvsxafdvrz3utqszf98etw In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqspr583kg7re2pu9q3catgj7v4msj4fcxt3f8c60jj2qc52u39ceyserg3ue'>nevent1q…g3ue</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Right - and as I probably don&#39;t have to explain to you (given that you have a PGP key in your bio!), these sorts of control systems are often sitting ducks even if the default admin password isn&#39;t publicly available to those who know how to do an advanced search.<br/><br/>Many of them will readily succumb to an automated brute force attack using one of the several password-cracking tools packaged with Kali, BlackArch etc.<br/><br/>&#39;Cos they&#39;re not indexed by regular search engines, so the security is lax. 🫣 2026-10-14T15:43:49Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs8dxah580szfzxyk3ccgs7vrmmmcerge64s723yq864snff430atgzypcz0yzxpm70uh3yjgjfjuts53ctdgpzhuvt4hvsxafdvrz3utqsztr3yms In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs9qxcju0cxrkjvgk5x0lr70syz7lwmmwz3k0q3xxsmlqk5f3ntv2s7gguw9'>nevent1q…guw9</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I mean, probably not. But then again, look up the Lake Risevatnet Dam attack that happened in Norway, 2025. This was only possible because the web-based control panel used by engineers was connected to the public internet, rather than an isolated network.<br/><br/>Which is, as we&#39;re discussing, completely insane.<br/><br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1lz5p6hxzlhhhfyhugr43gkpdga9l7dsggglpyqfpythe8vlhzyfqsjfhq6" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Hopeless Noosphere Situation Warrior :catte: :asexual_flag:</span> (<span class="italic">npub1lz5…fhq6</span>)</a></span> 2026-10-14T15:16:31Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs93jdadx2rmdwekzvkj8qg7wehqjdwzn7fzgtgz7r9ra2ck45gerqzypcz0yzxpm70uh3yjgjfjuts53ctdgpzhuvt4hvsxafdvrz3utqsz7xd3pc In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsqvs54ac87mrnzfxxr9caynwl8mz8e0g6d74q4pj63mnsf02xaxqc2fmx7t'>nevent1q…mx7t</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>It&#39;s scary. I&#39;ve temporarily seized control of a CCTV camera in the states, just to demonstrate to colleagues how easy it is. I could spin, tilt, and zoom - full control from an office in England. All I did was find a vulnerable internet-facing device using Shodan...and looked up the default admin password. A child could do it.<br/><br/>What if I hadn&#39;t just been making a point? What if it had been a camera in someone&#39;s bedroom? Or a control system that was part of, say, a power plant? 🤯 2026-10-14T13:35:59Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqspuluhpy4sv54khgcusr7fyxkyd3a2ar8p05yt42hnh4wha29xdvgzypcz0yzxpm70uh3yjgjfjuts53ctdgpzhuvt4hvsxafdvrz3utqszazz94n In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsruxq6647td575uazlu6uwwl4p8st9zzlcv9lrpvgp2wr7ralgyecnutym0'>nevent1q…tym0</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>It&#39;s just kinetic for me, I can&#39;t imagine any different. It&#39;s like these &#34;racing&#34; bike riders who think they can beat me to the city centre. Oh is that lycra riding high enough up your arse crack? Then let&#39;s go.<br/><br/>I didn&#39;t go for the fancy bike, I learned how to cycle. And deal with the obstacles while you&#39;re stuck in traffic, fool.<br/><br/>Same with everything else. The hard way is the best way. 🤷🏻‍♂️ 2026-10-09T01:47:13Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsy70elncp43z70fkum3m24l56zqcy27pttvhnwsgqf2r8vzle5ayqzypcz0yzxpm70uh3yjgjfjuts53ctdgpzhuvt4hvsxafdvrz3utqszne38f0 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsqatuyk36tsvmhjp0z3k250tecsh2xm6ewljwnyjaafclsy2u8akc6ye3yh'>nevent1q…e3yh</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>So like, James Bond massively over-revving the engine until he lets go of the clutch and burns the rubber off those tyres, leaving a trail of smoke?<br/><br/>That sort of thing? 2026-10-09T01:21:03Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs99sex2yutj4vl4ehf42jgwztud07jfq06vy8hazymp2zh8288wtgzypcz0yzxpm70uh3yjgjfjuts53ctdgpzhuvt4hvsxafdvrz3utqszvnpa5f In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsvkf0dgdkh4ttds9wkauh82ez57fr95yxhuz0sp03uphq2zxf00tg02a7uj'>nevent1q…a7uj</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>There are so many things you can do with a car, that you can 👉🏼only👈🏼 do with a car if you have an intuitive understanding of the gearbox.<br/><br/>Now I&#39;m just wondering how many European movie car chase scenes USians watched and thought were crazily implausible, when in fact, no this is just what being good at driving looks like in Europe. 😂 2026-10-09T00:48:35Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs0ckm5r0t36gzjlwpgyy0sarlr4m43sfzfat335zt95g7kayw372gzypcz0yzxpm70uh3yjgjfjuts53ctdgpzhuvt4hvsxafdvrz3utqszn4627z Holy shit, you don&#39;t have manual gears on cars in America, do you? That&#39;s insane. Never mind Waymos, you couldn&#39;t fully control your cars in the first place, could you?<br/><br/>They just go along in straight lines. 🤯 2026-10-09T00:32:53Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsd7deuengna6sqjn34xxrgdykhk0wt6zljage6vqvwng58jwch3hqzypcz0yzxpm70uh3yjgjfjuts53ctdgpzhuvt4hvsxafdvrz3utqszw9k733 The housemate has just argued that fish eggs (roe or caviar) are the feline equivalent of a McDonald&#39;s meal, &#39;cos it&#39;s fast, and they love it, but it&#39;s terrible for them due to the high sodium content.<br/><br/>I haven&#39;t been able to come up with a valid counter-point. 2026-10-08T18:46:15Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs9aeu6n0tzzjx4jzuyl0ukswflzp7qshqpsguu6xvjnewyevkytvczypcz0yzxpm70uh3yjgjfjuts53ctdgpzhuvt4hvsxafdvrz3utqszzn9hes UK Police have just arrested the whole collective outside UAV Tactical Systems (Elbit Systems subsidiary) in Leicester under the Terrorism Act, including supporters who were just there chanting or witnessing and not taking action.<br/><br/>15 Lift The Ban signholders were also arrested for allegedly supporting Palestine Action.<br/><br/>But sure, try and talk to us about the precise definition of &#34;Zionism&#34;, &#39;cos I&#39;m sure you&#39;ll get a receptive response.<br/><br/>We wouldn&#39;t dream of Inigo Montoya-ing your arse.<br/><br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1n5tg8xj7mf6t0z2zfjxa7raryhha07rmunc7t9ftkcjs4te0cd8qruhrcm" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Totts</span> (<span class="italic">npub1n5t…hrcm</span>)</a></span> 2026-10-08T15:28:27Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsrh7y0f786y4stn32a0s6dcklf97zdvq92rf0cwe3cju4w5pcj0fczypcz0yzxpm70uh3yjgjfjuts53ctdgpzhuvt4hvsxafdvrz3utqszcfufrn In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsg87479mhq9ne06mexzp0mlcnac7vn8r3zwkuf3374egh4cug2y6srgzp86'>nevent1q…zp86</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Around 1 in 4 adults have at least one tattoo here in the UK - but that includes remote rural areas where there don&#39;t tend to be any tattoo parlours (it&#39;s only profitable if you have a steady stream of customers). Around here, I would say a slim majority are inked.<br/><br/>I have a few, but am forcing myself not to have more &#39;cos it gets addictive. I have a couple of pals who seem to have new body art every time I meet them, and are running out of sensible places for them. 😬 2026-10-05T22:03:41Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsv3370g4a9mke83n9kepwvk26rksn5pkqx47wl9rjjn92685vqd6qzypcz0yzxpm70uh3yjgjfjuts53ctdgpzhuvt4hvsxafdvrz3utqszqclc55 They got bail &#39;cos there was no terror plot. They just wanted free fuel.<br/><br/>&#34;The five British men, aged between 23 and 25...were arrested outside RAF Fairford...<br/><br/>Two separate military sources told Wiltshire 999s that they were thieves syphoning fuel, with barrels to store the stolen liquids...in three vans.<br/><br/>Both said that it was unlikely to be confirmed officially...one describing the situation as “embarrassing”. The vans were reportedly found close to a diesel supply.&#34; <br/><br/><a href="https://www.wiltshire999s.co.uk/raf-fairford-thieves-syphoning-fuel/">https://www.wiltshire999s.co.uk/raf-fairford-thieves-syphoning-fuel/</a> 2026-09-29T18:26:07Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs0mncs7sggfsezxys7zpqf8xnvthupy8jy47h6xx5l9ha8lergj9czypcz0yzxpm70uh3yjgjfjuts53ctdgpzhuvt4hvsxafdvrz3utqszx3saey I&#39;m a BDS rep for the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC), so thought I&#39;d share this important doc with the fediverse. It&#39;s a database of businesses involved in activities detailed in paragraph 96 of the report of the independent international fact-finding mission to investigate the impact of Israeli settlements on the civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights of Palestinians in the occupied territories, including East Jerusalem.<br/><br/>#BoycottDivestSanction #BDS<br/><br/><a href="https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/documents/hrbodies/hrcouncil/sessions-regular/session63/advance-versions/a-hrc-63-20-aev.pdf">https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/documents/hrbodies/hrcouncil/sessions-regular/session63/advance-versions/a-hrc-63-20-aev.pdf</a> 2026-09-26T23:23:17Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsg6655t6rhn97q6ys4zjy4cg5uf2z6r768jlm5sp447edmjun9psgzypcz0yzxpm70uh3yjgjfjuts53ctdgpzhuvt4hvsxafdvrz3utqsz05emkp In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqstc7cjc8umz8v6qv6hayy4cvl2km9ehelxxhrt8xt5sf9plru4eeqjr6c4p'>nevent1q…6c4p</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>It&#39;s looking like Oracle may be this bubble&#39;s Lehman Brothers; it&#39;s so ridiculously overextended right now! They&#39;ll likely be bailed out, but that may not be enough to stop the contagion.<br/><br/>Fingers crossed. 🤞🏼 2026-09-26T20:43:08Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsz2ern2d8zjvhkcs937kdzmthez5gf6kf5tqn3lcvrsn4a4fzfmlgzypcz0yzxpm70uh3yjgjfjuts53ctdgpzhuvt4hvsxafdvrz3utqsz3wpec0 Where to begin?<br/><br/>&#34;The nutty professor dubbed the “father” of effective altruism (EA), the theory beloved by AI doomers who want the power to police the technology, expressed support for bestiality and said the life of a newborn baby is worth less than a chimp’s or a hog’s.<br/><br/>Peter Singer is [a]...bioethicist who argues that killing disabled infants is not morally wrong, that sex with animals is preferable to raising them for food and that even necrophilia can be moral.&#34;<br/><br/><a href="https://nypost.com/2026/09/25/us-news/father-of-ai-doomer-ideology-effective-altruism-backed-bestiality-said-newborn-baby-worth-less-than-a-hog/">https://nypost.com/2026/09/25/us-news/father-of-ai-doomer-ideology-effective-altruism-backed-bestiality-said-newborn-baby-worth-less-than-a-hog/</a> 2026-09-26T08:35:54Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs873lgw2345plzwqzps623q4rh2mw39q9mqmsdwa5z6fdnk49u5pszypcz0yzxpm70uh3yjgjfjuts53ctdgpzhuvt4hvsxafdvrz3utqszc36sqe In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsp3yf4gf69dwf60pkvrks37mglsqrntkr0jhv4v3qhcny30d96wyc9hdqgp'>nevent1q…dqgp</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>More to the point, how do they afford x3 the amount of socks they need in this economy?! 2026-09-25T10:18:32Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsrmq5l5vn0496xnedr37rx4mdjvq44haqvaa82hr3mmxmhqlhua3czypcz0yzxpm70uh3yjgjfjuts53ctdgpzhuvt4hvsxafdvrz3utqszkn3q45 In the conjuring arts, there are elusive sleight-of-hand moves known within the fraternity as &#34;knacky&#34;, so called because grasping the mechanics isn&#39;t enough to explain how to perform them: that part is almost real magic, a &#34;feel&#34; no-one can teach. Jazz in motion.<br/><br/>It occurs to me something similar happens with writing: no digital software will ever replicate the creative flair and inspiration behind the most beguiling prose. As Joan Didion once put it, &#34;style is an instrument I play by ear.&#34; 2026-09-24T08:56:21Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs2384ysl5l6uq74n3zh8rq2rrgcyv37fkw8uvq8c2390qd5y30kvgzypcz0yzxpm70uh3yjgjfjuts53ctdgpzhuvt4hvsxafdvrz3utqszvkz6xl For context, Nigel Farage appeared on Russia Today - the Kremlin&#39;s state broadcaster - at least 17 times between December 2010 and March 2014 alone. He&#39;s also pushed Russian propaganda talking points about the war in Ukraine.<br/><br/>&#34;Nigel Farage has become the only senior political figure to condemn the government’s plans to set up a new unit to tackle Russian misinformation.<br/><br/>The Reform UK leader claimed it was “targeted directly” at his party and would stifle free speech.&#34;<br/><br/><a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/nigel-farage-russia-misinformation-unit_uk_6ab3e906e4b043d6b56a6107">https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/nigel-farage-russia-misinformation-unit_uk_6ab3e906e4b043d6b56a6107</a> 2026-09-23T17:41:32Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqszqaa244wd9glnwc5ka22jpcnmcqkqkka0z2aptwrcas05cnpk3yczypcz0yzxpm70uh3yjgjfjuts53ctdgpzhuvt4hvsxafdvrz3utqszafs0pp In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsfud0zf9upcsj4nlvzy5aujfc7kepy4d49gv62lvg7jhuzk2epw7sq4pye6'>nevent1q…pye6</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>A good homemade chilli jam is perfect with cheese (the good, European cheeses anyway), in my humble opinion. A neighbour of our used to make the best red jalapeno jam and would sometimes give us a jar for free in exchange for our rare homegrown potatoes.<br/><br/>It had more of a kick than is to everyone&#39;s taste, but we loved it! 2026-09-23T12:14:19Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqszcwc269v6qv678kzcu6tsrcv4umaq8052ph56dw8eehfsqhndfjczypcz0yzxpm70uh3yjgjfjuts53ctdgpzhuvt4hvsxafdvrz3utqsz6v0q0g In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs0eugkptjjujvmls3kw4k3lc03mkmdflj6dc4npdhrascnq2zdpecxqvcvf'>nevent1q…vcvf</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Good rules which you&#39;ve obviously applied judiciously. I&#39;ve seen more than a few lively internet communities go dormant because of needlessly heavy-handed moderation becoming a buzz killer! More than sensible rules, a little wisdom is also important...and there&#39;s not really a rule for that. 🤷🏻‍♂️ 2026-09-19T17:31:59Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsqz30zjwsescx9mf4r9rcpy3r2642gxg56petsg4df204xy8ff3zszypcz0yzxpm70uh3yjgjfjuts53ctdgpzhuvt4hvsxafdvrz3utqszjrsqh2 Apropos of nothing...<br/><br/>In September 1964, The Beatles were told their upcoming concert at the Gator Bowl in Jacksonville, Florida, would be racially segregated. Far from bowing to pressure from promoters, John Lennon famously declared the band would &#34;sooner lose our appearance money&#34; than play to segregated audiences.<br/><br/>The promoters were forced to back down, and integrated the stadium for the concert. Brain Epstein later added an anti-segregation clause to all of the band&#39;s US concert contracts. 2026-09-17T08:58:32Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqstkng8f70ccrew45twtnyuhd8m7rg33wyf90yp5ndq29nvc0ux6ygzypcz0yzxpm70uh3yjgjfjuts53ctdgpzhuvt4hvsxafdvrz3utqszj2enqe Chatbots are reliant on hundreds of human workers in the Global South being paid a pittance to constantly vet their outputs to maintain current model performance, and the &#34;AI&#34; companies are resorting to digitising and shredding millions of old books to prevent looming model collapse, &#39;cos hoovering up the internet doesn&#39;t work anymore now it&#39;s mostly slop.<br/><br/>You&#39;re out of your goddamn mind if you think this tech is getting any better, let alone achieving super-intelligence. It&#39;s a colossal scam. 2026-09-15T02:46:07Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs8e7k9r0wu6xqyq55350yqq0h79trngepy0zfepkll38ketca737szypcz0yzxpm70uh3yjgjfjuts53ctdgpzhuvt4hvsxafdvrz3utqszuvl4ym In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsd22xxn50z8l9eccje4h2dsghs7y3xve37tpzcjm0e0hwm49tzyrgjnjykw'>nevent1q…jykw</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>The single biggest source of misleading info on the internet is currently Google&#39;s &#34;AI&#34; summaries, which contain errors about 9% of the time - and because of all the breathless industry hype, many folks treat what it says as gospel, and incorporate its outputs into their work without fact-checking them. The result is that these errors proliferate across the internet.<br/><br/>These models really are universal acid, degrading the quality of everything they touch. 2026-09-13T08:55:07Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsylgdnmzar2zuuzk7s8ktvurp2pamyqf9l0z5nmjrxjv7lprvdqnczypcz0yzxpm70uh3yjgjfjuts53ctdgpzhuvt4hvsxafdvrz3utqszn9kuar Dear Americans. A legit British English word which entered English from French in the 15th century, is &#34;trumpery&#34;.<br/><br/>Meaning something that looks flashy or attractive but is actually cheap, fake or without value. Applied to speech it&#39;s almost synonymous with the USian &#34;trash talk&#34;.<br/><br/>Also, long before Donnie came along, in British slang to trump meant to fart.<br/><br/>I would love for y&#39;all to co-opt these words because there is plausible deniability: they&#39;re already in the dictionaries!<br/><br/>You&#39;re welcome. 2026-09-09T01:34:14Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqspajs96rvjwu5j8xjfk03dqweru79tejxzt7l07ruguy0cfny6gpgzypcz0yzxpm70uh3yjgjfjuts53ctdgpzhuvt4hvsxafdvrz3utqszp69l2z In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs9qeflh2kv9utw02cnh3g7f53kf95r4mausv0mjvq89grz25nxtnclw262x'>nevent1q…262x</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>#WordWeavers 8: Which character would be the worst person to get trapped in an elevator with?<br/><br/>Undoubtedly my MC! You&#39;d enjoy him trying to lighten the mood with wisecracks for a while, but in a confined space the stench of alcohol and metabolic byproducts from heavy drinking - acetaldehyde, acetic acid - would soon become overwhelming.<br/><br/>Being perceptive, he&#39;d pick up on your discomfort and over-compensate by trying to be more likeable and talking too much. It&#39;d be excruciating. 2026-09-08T22:51:45Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqspa3ww9cz7d3zf3a7dnugcswvjs22pzc9mez7ntz3vd87hl4ljmfczypcz0yzxpm70uh3yjgjfjuts53ctdgpzhuvt4hvsxafdvrz3utqszwy8awx Netanyahu had 10 days to brief Israel&#39;s security chiefs on an explicit report of an impending Hamas attack, but for some reason didn&#39;t even bother doing that.<br/><br/>&#34;In September &#39;23, UAE President bin Zayed called Netanyahu to deliver a harsh warning. Netanyahu did nothing. An extensive investigation, conducted for a new book, reveals the PM&#39;s failures surrounding Oct. 7.&#34;<br/><br/><a href="https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/israel-security/2026-09-08/ty-article-magazine/.highlight/netanyahu-got-an-explicit-warning-before-oct-7-he-didnt-brief-security-chiefs/000001a0-7a3b-d7d5-a9fc-7eff3d0f0000">https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/israel-security/2026-09-08/ty-article-magazine/.highlight/netanyahu-got-an-explicit-warning-before-oct-7-he-didnt-brief-security-chiefs/000001a0-7a3b-d7d5-a9fc-7eff3d0f0000</a> 2026-09-08T13:20:36Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsyss8328zyze4pdul9nhd5xw364vwnrfpdqe8szvjh9wku6g0fueqzypcz0yzxpm70uh3yjgjfjuts53ctdgpzhuvt4hvsxafdvrz3utqsz5za3ql In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsvjz7lu0c7k4zpu64ejf08cfsq4zgdlsadjneczeyl9t5u04wdq4suwj4fq'>nevent1q…j4fq</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>#ScribesAndMakers Sep 6 - Have you ever listened to an audiobook where the reader had a good voice, but not the &#39;right&#39; voice?<br/><br/>I&#39;ve never listened to an audiobook, full stop. 2026-09-07T03:48:41Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs9y4u4m6nsvn89xnd3qlmprwcafm5tqpa5ma8xgderjw32a6nj26qzypcz0yzxpm70uh3yjgjfjuts53ctdgpzhuvt4hvsxafdvrz3utqszkdcax3 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsg3xrgtm8ju3lgdntqrw0e6x9uwxy84mlykxd490smek9gdxgxfjg9dm6pj'>nevent1q…m6pj</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>It hasn&#39;t been lost on us that when there&#39;s a police line between us and the fash, they almost always face towards us, while the thugs agitating behind them are subjected to comparatively little scrutiny and not regarded as much of a threat, even when they&#39;re literally hurling death threats, which should be an arrestable offence.<br/><br/>Two-tier policing, innit bruv. 2026-09-06T17:56:14Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsy7e40pdfykey98495hx58u0rxj3rqf8lm4r9wxr4n2y50vyl5h5czypcz0yzxpm70uh3yjgjfjuts53ctdgpzhuvt4hvsxafdvrz3utqszjep2zs &#34;What&#39;s your favourite sound?&#34;, someone once asked me.<br/><br/>&#34;A penny dropping,&#34; was my reply. 2026-09-03T22:59:12Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsxjzclsjn09q4dq7mq9jd57uxmcrljdejxp6l5vw54zkllfsj8xaqzypcz0yzxpm70uh3yjgjfjuts53ctdgpzhuvt4hvsxafdvrz3utqszevdql6 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsv9vw0qzxwghamkzvrjt0awf3a6vtd9a6pzhhgs9ndnrfmcp44k3ge6mx7u'>nevent1q…mx7u</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Unfortunately, when dealing with those who undemocratically impose their opinions on society using violence - as Trump is doing right now in the USA - it can sometimes reach the point where only more and greater violence can undo the damage.<br/><br/>Fascism has never been defeated peacefully. Not once, anywhere, ever. 2026-09-02T13:07:14Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsdn5rls8tg5ndvjxkfcml725xdpg0jqu3cehm4xck6s2ltjy93c4gzypcz0yzxpm70uh3yjgjfjuts53ctdgpzhuvt4hvsxafdvrz3utqszrs9wkf In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqstg0gxmhl09vrenncms744lptznyuj4mnwkgpjww9a9s00zgg5macgdv7cv'>nevent1q…v7cv</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I stand corrected. He was sacked from Cambridge and is now at Ghent.<br/><br/>I&#39;ll update my comment to avoid confusion. 🙏🏼 2026-08-31T06:06:03Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsyaa3s0279urq8nhz27urql50lqh736txlly9qn7j3ruhy5vavflszypcz0yzxpm70uh3yjgjfjuts53ctdgpzhuvt4hvsxafdvrz3utqszdp97eu In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsxa6genultt9xdmthgemc0vre0c3g4hzscenufs66sxeqx3lt4wuczfxtcz'>nevent1q…xtcz</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I was also disturbed to learn that Nathan Cofnas, the man who spearheaded the racist campaign against Jason Arday - and is demonstrably embedded in a well-financed transnational far-right network looking to revive old-fashioned eugenics - has only received 3-month suspension.<br/><br/>How does his dangerous and palpably pseudoscientific claptrap have any place at Cambridge, or indeed any other reputable educational establishment? A man is dead because of his lies.<br/><br/><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/aug/30/nathan-cofnas-jason-arday-accuser-teaching-ban-research">https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/aug/30/nathan-cofnas-jason-arday-accuser-teaching-ban-research</a> 2026-08-31T06:01:04Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsx6d6nm7psvp2rwjt06p6vz8tmp5eg2fa7rn8fk2rzd72u6l7jpsqzypcz0yzxpm70uh3yjgjfjuts53ctdgpzhuvt4hvsxafdvrz3utqsz3te979 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs28w97tvyjqh4h3w8gjyd0dcx98grhmwkj3pj0ge264dtn8d04h8gv96dxs'>nevent1q…6dxs</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Okay, you win the bread puns game.<br/><br/>You&#39;ve nothing left to prove. 👏🏼 2026-08-30T01:37:48Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqspcc7djty9rwspafycglqm3gxqvxlgk4xh82jwpjuk7lvl5uvpd8szypcz0yzxpm70uh3yjgjfjuts53ctdgpzhuvt4hvsxafdvrz3utqszqj0jmn In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqswnc6ctdzgcsytyxx3huek6y82f4wflat6lsamz0txc7hyt9lthegj8m2ad'>nevent1q…m2ad</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Seriously, we should stop flooding people&#39;s feeds with bread puns.<br/><br/>They might rise against us. 2026-08-29T23:39:09Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsxmy3nmaatjrwjy6rw2qkslr28t34f954u0t5ada65393zmvyvxmczypcz0yzxpm70uh3yjgjfjuts53ctdgpzhuvt4hvsxafdvrz3utqszscxxsy In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqswxv9ddxg5j9ll5ytm9pu722a4qxlqzktx76fznrwavfwet29zs6gulqh0r'>nevent1q…qh0r</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Somebody stop me, I&#39;m on a roll here. 2026-08-29T23:33:47Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsft2h34mqsntvtfceyd5qfffcspsueu3w3fdrvew0l9wz48t4yahszypcz0yzxpm70uh3yjgjfjuts53ctdgpzhuvt4hvsxafdvrz3utqszlxydgf In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsytfrfldlqc9xfnck8gdlnhkthduxfzxy3x3kj3n7a44g0wp58eecu65dx5'>nevent1q…5dx5</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I&#39;m sure your own bread puns aren&#39;t as crumby as you think. 2026-08-29T23:30:38Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs2lnxjwmdkkkggfavnmejkpg3n5thw3jxejlc5dvtw6rcl30ff48qzypcz0yzxpm70uh3yjgjfjuts53ctdgpzhuvt4hvsxafdvrz3utqszv60rhl In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsz5h8hkkcz55fjupwgftpkwgal36e6qjrf3uj7z68ezfkw5jpl0wqkm5pnj'>nevent1q…5pnj</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Match made in heaven! They should send each other flours. 2026-08-29T23:19:00Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsveqcg60rzmghwkumfws6s4n9rqq6vxh79nt8xnapew5s9j75jfpqzypcz0yzxpm70uh3yjgjfjuts53ctdgpzhuvt4hvsxafdvrz3utqszw69x2w I&#39;ve just read that Dolly Parton, in addition to the 3000-odd songs she wrote that we know about, also has a whole unreleased back catalogue of material she intended to be released posthumously to keep her estate funded, so her philanthropic work could continue after her death.<br/><br/>It&#39;s often said that James Brown was the hardest working man in the music industry. Well, I think Dolly must have been the hardest working woman.<br/><br/>Everyone reading this will be dead when Dolly stops releasing new music! 2026-08-28T21:55:42Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsde8afwg5ewzwrgvngpstpx2eda2hw5294vzuamafp3808gck8w8szypcz0yzxpm70uh3yjgjfjuts53ctdgpzhuvt4hvsxafdvrz3utqszu3psg8 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsyqhvgzl3lgh6ugxuym3nyjevc90dye95prp0t9xdp43lwlwu9wgcwy7fl3'>nevent1q…7fl3</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>What would be the appropriate term for the perverse pleasure he evidently gleans from hurting people? I think you&#39;re right - not even &#34;pleasure&#34; quite captures it. Trump has never known pleasure as we understand it.<br/><br/>It&#39;s difficult to even imagine what the inner life of a predatory psychopath might be like. 2026-08-28T17:07:48Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqswgcdt23ukcu7v5p77sye6mq5a7rfrmlh0g4tq38wpkss5fe63x6szypcz0yzxpm70uh3yjgjfjuts53ctdgpzhuvt4hvsxafdvrz3utqszh6svch In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsvuz3p7kccs4gcc2zgmwtrfjx07xkwfn0l9nh7nlq9cxcu05qlnxq4g793n'>nevent1q…793n</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Perhaps &#34;sadistic glee&#34; would have been a more accurate term. 2026-08-28T16:14:31Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqstqq6lza3smnsrw9zxlj75hwma5xq5fc8yf6n6gtfk9hs2ncl0yzqzypcz0yzxpm70uh3yjgjfjuts53ctdgpzhuvt4hvsxafdvrz3utqszau5w33 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsr9wd9kjf7djkjt328stkeazx7g6a20yu23g77jh9vjkr9ym23qpc8z7ahx'>nevent1q…7ahx</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Exactly. By his own warped definition, he really is &#34;winning&#34; because no-one can stop him, he gets richer by the day, and he&#39;s having jolly good fun using all his unchecked power to rename historical buildings after himself, bully other countries and bomb brown people. 2026-08-28T16:07:33Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs8ce3dw0y3tm7ycpnwgnfw5q5lk6m65dvttnf45ay29v54jnud4pqzypcz0yzxpm70uh3yjgjfjuts53ctdgpzhuvt4hvsxafdvrz3utqszlxg6kg Free-roaming cats having territorial disputes that begin as staring contests but escalate into screaming contests when no resolution is reached, will never cease to freak me out. It sounds like the real competition is which feline can best mimic the sound of a human child being slowly tortured to death.<br/><br/>I half-suspect this really is what&#39;s going on, given that domesticated cats are known to mimic our kids to get attention. 😱 2026-08-25T05:31:29Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsr39hszst2yz3khjwhahse7cmjn8vnftwyxsywle6he5ystszu2hgzypcz0yzxpm70uh3yjgjfjuts53ctdgpzhuvt4hvsxafdvrz3utqsz4l8plq I wish more magicians were politically engaged, because pranking Flock cameras with alarming illusions that waste police resources to investigate and generate viral media headlines - thus revealing the growing extent of state and corporate surveillance - sounds like good trouble, to me. 2026-08-23T00:05:14Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs84gxcs6aess2eku4xcstya3a9gkq2d5vu982p530v9etcs7cr8zczypcz0yzxpm70uh3yjgjfjuts53ctdgpzhuvt4hvsxafdvrz3utqszr8g9qw There are a number of petitions calling for a public inquiry into the tragic death of former Cambridge professor, Jason Arday, and the role of the press in effectively hounding him to death. It&#39;s worth adding your name to them all, of course, but the Good Law Project&#39;s one may carry a little more clout.<br/><br/><a href="https://goodlaw.social/625453">https://goodlaw.social/625453</a> 2026-08-18T22:16:35Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs0rjv8u47wthe3a4n6gv3m4n47c8jmyanv7r5fgc00vdwfgqaypdqzypcz0yzxpm70uh3yjgjfjuts53ctdgpzhuvt4hvsxafdvrz3utqszzp3zx0 The vicious media furore around former professor Jason Arday, the first Black professor at Cambridge, erupted after another academic, the self-defined &#34;race realist&#34; Nathan Cofnas, was sacked from his Cambridge role in 2024. He told the press he found some instances of plagiarism in Arday&#39;s work.<br/><br/>Cofnas&#39;s job had been terminated amid a backlash to his view that under a &#34;true&#34; meritocracy, Black people would &#34;disappear from almost all high-profile positions outside of sports and entertainment&#34;. 2026-08-17T21:58:07Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqspavuy53fh83mk526url3jy2gqrv7nuuk9urx23kad7z6mh85998gzypcz0yzxpm70uh3yjgjfjuts53ctdgpzhuvt4hvsxafdvrz3utqszjaft8k I used to dislike the dawn chorus. Which may sound contrarian, but I&#39;m just not a morning person - as in, don&#39;t even talk to me until I&#39;m caffeinated! - and also have insomnia, so can&#39;t really appreciate the beauty of birdsong until full daytime equilibrium has been achieved.<br/><br/>But the almost total lack of the dawn chorus during this heatwave has been eerie. Was it Joni Mitchell who said, &#34;you don&#39;t know what you&#39;ve got till it&#39;s gone?&#34;.<br/><br/>Come back, birds, all is forgiven. Sing your hearts out. 🙏🏼 2026-08-13T21:50:23Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsvuzsh8heq52dnwrzhp3yz7dz43d54adg2yqc7uch6m0h9hkk9jwczypcz0yzxpm70uh3yjgjfjuts53ctdgpzhuvt4hvsxafdvrz3utqsztmqarv <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1qzh785cquut6af26mtsr6lem3pnrus6lk5ldh2jv5psvnrtehxhqm0xg7e" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Final Round Player 😷🇪🇺🍸</span> (<span class="italic">npub1qzh…xg7e</span>)</a></span> That 48% figure refers to foreign-born lead tenants across the whole of London, not central London specifically.<br/><br/>Plus being born outside the UK does not make someone a &#34;foreigner&#34;. Roughly 68% of those foreign-born tenants hold a British passport.<br/><br/>Edit: &#34;Welfare dependent&#34; is also misleading, as a significant majority of these tenants are in work, yet still can&#39;t afford to live without assistance such as the housing element of Universal Credit. This isn&#39;t their fault. 2026-08-09T08:06:21Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsttmge7fsqehq9zh5qc8u7mnvpye4648j30hcg58gytwqpeye37tczypcz0yzxpm70uh3yjgjfjuts53ctdgpzhuvt4hvsxafdvrz3utqszmm26g2 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsgu2q5axm65ql253tk53lqeym8fdxf2jplpej7meedsl9a8zgevzsk9cchf'>nevent1q…cchf</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Aren&#39;t they still polling disturbingly well despite all the controversy? Unfortunately the sort of people drawn to Reform&#39;s right-wing sado-populism don&#39;t seem much concerned about corruption. They just want negative net migration.<br/><br/>Similar to how MAGA loyalists in the US don&#39;t care how corrupt Trump and his administration are, so long as ICE keep terrorising anyone who isn&#39;t white. 2026-08-09T07:07:02Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsx8gnyyeumc34qvtl426wm4vn0sw8rcqfzld6vszv43w7hlwuufagzypcz0yzxpm70uh3yjgjfjuts53ctdgpzhuvt4hvsxafdvrz3utqszd63dg6 Because I walk everywhere and know this city like the back of my hand, it probably wasn&#39;t the best idea to ask me for directions like this: &#34;Oh thank fuck mate, it&#39;s all p*kis around here, I&#39;m just trying to get to the city centre, is this the right way?&#34;.<br/><br/>It was the right way. He just had to keep walking.<br/><br/>Instead he received convincing directions to go in the opposite direction and get completely lost. I didn&#39;t spend all these years as an anti-racist campaigner to miss such an opportunity. 🤭 2026-08-07T21:49:05Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqstm6csx0jrrhg4yzn5y8vfegnmtuz9ykga5vuudh3zntw5eh26nfqzypcz0yzxpm70uh3yjgjfjuts53ctdgpzhuvt4hvsxafdvrz3utqsz05vqg4 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs9zzavnpgdtkh6769v9qm6lm6egz970ddxrclx3jk6sw57pp9tflql5eyz4'>nevent1q…eyz4</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I&#39;ve literally fallen asleep through corporate meetings - not online ones, real in-person ones - because of this sort of vacuous bullshit.<br/><br/>This is part of why I&#39;m currently unemployed. But also why I&#39;m a 5-dimensional badass and no-one can take that away from me. 🤷🏻‍♂️ 2026-08-05T17:10:09Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsvlhgwvdu9zx8x5z64pxn78wcpv6ejvqde0rqc2fzgd0hgrxh5a9gzypcz0yzxpm70uh3yjgjfjuts53ctdgpzhuvt4hvsxafdvrz3utqszqldd65 I keep seeing the term &#34;cursive&#34;. I ain&#39;t dead yet but thought that was just what was formerly known as &#34;handwriting&#34;?<br/><br/>Is everyone else writing one letter at a time like we&#39;d only just invented it yesterday? Believe me when I tell you kids, we could transcribe your spoken words faster than you could speak &#39;em.<br/><br/>And our grandparents? Oh some could do 👉🏼shorthand👈🏼, which is a whole other story. Imagine an LLM but you didn&#39;t need to use all the water and burn a forest.<br/><br/>*old man shouts at clouds* 2026-08-05T04:09:06Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqst7pfvz970yev4l2lwkyqwmvcuz5cqwdnj588ppgtk2s2m4g2enjszypcz0yzxpm70uh3yjgjfjuts53ctdgpzhuvt4hvsxafdvrz3utqsz0yw7r3 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsdgn6pcvnenkrqqr989pnm8tj3n9xr82g89jtyfqucl2f7j6rmetstgwz9m'>nevent1q…wz9m</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>All it will take is one big player to fold like Lehman Brothers did in 2008, and the whole house of cards will come crashing down. It&#39;ll be carnage. At least in 2006/2007, it wasn&#39;t 👉🏼irrational👈🏼 to not see the crisis coming. Only a few dozen noted macroeconomists predicted it.<br/><br/>But this time there&#39;s such a vast misallocation of capital, even Goldman Sachs is talking openly about expenditures being unlikely to generate matching long-term returns.<br/><br/>Analysts everywhere are expecting this one. 2026-08-03T22:34:23Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqstyv9sn8ufun5e6nc6lvnzfsqz733s2yx3z4hx3nhscn35jvz0pfgzypcz0yzxpm70uh3yjgjfjuts53ctdgpzhuvt4hvsxafdvrz3utqsz323d0d Fun fact - and this won&#39;t be any surprise to the roughly 1 in 12 of you who are colour blind - but tigers are green! That&#39;s why their camouflage works.<br/><br/>But trichromatic, primate vision perceives them as orange. This fact is several layers of delicious, if you think about it enough. 2026-08-01T02:55:34Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsp9xeymzdhtk354xxjwu8es0nswxqdlu2uhyum25qsca3ma9kfxyqzypcz0yzxpm70uh3yjgjfjuts53ctdgpzhuvt4hvsxafdvrz3utqszuax7e5 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsyrds7kpffjpu05ufq0medmyxglrrrdqwm90gpv7j9xgz3wtq0m7qs6h5a9'>nevent1q…h5a9</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>This &#34;logic&#34; is disturbingly widespread. Here in the UK, we as anti-racist campaigners get called &#34;paedos&#34; all the time at counter-actions against far-right gatherings, and it&#39;s the same reasoning: migrants are child abusers, so those who fight for their rights must also support child abuse.<br/><br/>Their latest is chant (to the tune of She&#39;ll Be Coming &#39;Round the Mountain) is, 🎶&#34;you should never trust a lefty with your kids.&#34;🎶<br/><br/>Absurd, given many of their own criminal histories! 2026-07-31T09:39:42Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqswqzgzzws88d3lgdlyufeseva3j7cyu2eleu9h32dmuqndej8aelczypcz0yzxpm70uh3yjgjfjuts53ctdgpzhuvt4hvsxafdvrz3utqsz0kavcj He&#39;s a ghoul.<br/><br/>&#34;We don’t think Musk intends claims like these to be debated on an empirical level...Musk is communicating in subterranean tropes that his far-right global audience will instantly find intelligible: he’s advancing the generalized sentiment that due to DOGE cuts, nobody died for whom we need to feel any passing responsibility. Nobody died who’s worthy of our concern.<br/><br/>...Musk’s rhetoric has grown ominously more oriented around the idea of global race war.&#34;<br/><br/><a href="https://newrepublic.com/article/213533/elon-musk-economist-interview-doge-cuts-killed-zero-children">https://newrepublic.com/article/213533/elon-musk-economist-interview-doge-cuts-killed-zero-children</a> 2026-07-27T14:11:44Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs8ghr95kyq3n4qugynsmkjaa7wuz6ph638pvpgpcckr2mxqd36asczypcz0yzxpm70uh3yjgjfjuts53ctdgpzhuvt4hvsxafdvrz3utqszptqgcp In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs294mufta93kvyjw353cuq9258tz0p3w79vl0x8yxexxnfxcch8rgvdxszv'>nevent1q…xszv</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Also the soil is toxic, so building an entire biome capable of sustaining human life would be so close to impossible that we may as well just call it impossible, and spend the money on fixing our existing planet.<br/><br/>It&#39;s also hella cold out there. Even at the equator, where it can reach 20°C, it can still be -60°C at night! Where the fuck is all the energy going to come from to stop everything from freezing to death? Musk is a confidence trickster. 2026-07-24T21:22:54Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsdpzkrrst3zac7purxjv4ymz9hhms84pv8xe0ur5zhetgpygj8hzczypcz0yzxpm70uh3yjgjfjuts53ctdgpzhuvt4hvsxafdvrz3utqszzju70y In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsfw77066r236xxrkvt456pe09lke3drxydu44u3t7v6ryxw4dc9fqgnslc4'>nevent1q…slc4</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I don&#39;t have a degree in physics or anything, but... 🤔 2026-07-23T21:04:49Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs2x72r953a52qlcv83k2xdsmfsxy3kn9wq8py5xxrwxy0lqmymk7szypcz0yzxpm70uh3yjgjfjuts53ctdgpzhuvt4hvsxafdvrz3utqsz6dmke7 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsq6wy8me86gd5uhv36235u3z2c8n4zew2knv67mezxw0g2t7lkdssa8vuhq'>nevent1q…vuhq</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Possibly <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1dgcla3rthltveuxzp7pvnu6rzug2076hhu9dwq8axzmg8r7jvcmq82cla4" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Prof. Sam Lawler</span> (<span class="italic">npub1dgc…cla4</span>)</a></span> , who if you aren&#39;t following already, you should be! Not only will you learn a lot about the pollution of space with useless tech that doesn&#39;t improve on terrestrial systems (but does push us ever closer to Kessler Syndrome while interfering with astronomical research), but there&#39;s goats.<br/><br/>I&#39;ll be honest, it was the goats that first piqued my interest. Furthermore, I do not believe this makes me a bad person and am not sorry! 🤭 2026-07-23T19:05:06Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs8vudem0dekxqdk37420na32uccm5dmpyct0602gs5tl76upgeezszypcz0yzxpm70uh3yjgjfjuts53ctdgpzhuvt4hvsxafdvrz3utqszm798uq In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsqs4temjxfyl2q8rr0c37y8nrgxh5v6ynhrtzn5cua90wv49yhgjcg7nlwt'>nevent1q…nlwt</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>It&#39;s such an obviously ridiculous idea, it beggars belief that it&#39;s even being seriously discussed by supposedly smart people. 2026-07-23T18:55:58Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsvpxw3e59l5eh4pxlne0uumykdua804d97ff4dlpyhn4jlgvakytczypcz0yzxpm70uh3yjgjfjuts53ctdgpzhuvt4hvsxafdvrz3utqsztqm5jj Iran spent decades building its &#34;Mosaic&#34; defence system: a matrix of parallel, overlapping organisations rather than a single, traditional chain of command. This decentralised system was designed specifically to thwart an American &#34;shock and awe&#34; attack.<br/><br/>I&#39;m not supporting the Iranian regime when I say that the US cannot degrade this system faster than Iran can rebuild. This is Vietnam on steroids: defeat is inevitable, and the longer the Trump regime postpones it the more humiliating it&#39;ll be. 2026-07-22T22:36:14Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsx4adt6tse0pv84u3gp04ztp3c8wwevtk8kun46tgmg47rxhuqkqqzypcz0yzxpm70uh3yjgjfjuts53ctdgpzhuvt4hvsxafdvrz3utqszvp2ynm In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs0xnzrtsu8hrssya99y073zj767mk9jr66tx38504eupwh0j8nyaqpcasq2'>nevent1q…asq2</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Exactly right. I spoke to members of the so-called Revolutionary Communist Group (RCG) in Nottingham, and they told me the Together march against the far right - which brought half a million people to London this year - was a waste of time because we platformed some 👉🏼former👈🏼 Labour politicians. So, people who either defected or were suspended from a party the RCG doesn&#39;t like because of the current leadership.<br/><br/>These idiots will never achieve anything. 🤷🏻‍♂️ 2026-07-22T16:40:29Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs0x8wfqxswg8jx23866kzwnmjrwh5hgmvgcv74jxx232h3td8drrqzypcz0yzxpm70uh3yjgjfjuts53ctdgpzhuvt4hvsxafdvrz3utqszdj754m In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsvcgm9en8nwdj7ecl9jz3tqce2cpjqpq39eyyfws6r7j6kcjdj9hcm3x5z5'>nevent1q…x5z5</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I saw that one earlier. Deliciously articulated, eh?<br/><br/>I&#39;ll definitely be shoehorning &#34;cistapo&#34; into every relevant discussion from now on! 🤭 2026-07-21T14:24:49Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsdt6wkdp7c2cjvu8te5w6x8nd4xgp0unt3t2axh7pjnh8d0lre34gzypcz0yzxpm70uh3yjgjfjuts53ctdgpzhuvt4hvsxafdvrz3utqsztek8ac In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqszpks9lu6u8uhpzwxcmycp5snyql3zqa3emhq9waspttsczj7394g4sx4dw'>nevent1q…x4dw</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Customers pay Mullvad. Mullvad pays the Nazi. The Nazi uses that money to fund a Nazi party. What&#39;s &#34;personal&#34; about that? In my world, you can still lose your job for bringing your employer into disrepute, even on your own time. People get fired for this exact type of shit all the time.<br/><br/>So Mullvad leaves customers with no choice but to cancel subscriptions, demand refunds and talk loudly on social media about how the company is knowingly funneling profits to fascists. 🤷🏻‍♂️ 2026-07-21T12:16:12Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs25fclltcfh2gau2kwdf2pcjrl9l3avvjaalxtmcqt5n276prd7rqzypcz0yzxpm70uh3yjgjfjuts53ctdgpzhuvt4hvsxafdvrz3utqsz8xputc In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqswlvqy8e4vdrle5f65vjn8a8ugq5l4svgt3k0tarrudz8hwmt333qdcgx27'>nevent1q…gx27</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Unfortunately, a standard, legal 5mW laser pointer will only temporarily overexpose a Flock camera.<br/><br/>To do any permanent damage, you would most likely need a high-powered laser (over 500mW?) and they&#39;re not easy to procure. 2026-07-20T13:18:32Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsrmerm3f2f42kaywlrj27qgrty2c2d3m8d7kue4yy4z35qt3hskuqzypcz0yzxpm70uh3yjgjfjuts53ctdgpzhuvt4hvsxafdvrz3utqsz56gthp It still blows my mind that most American car drivers cannot use a manual gear system. Wtaf? There&#39;s an analogy here...<br/><br/>The car is never going to be as responsive as the human driver with full, instantaneous control over the gears. Similarly, &#34;AI&#34; is just another way to make customers helpless and dependent.<br/><br/>That&#39;s it&#39;s purpose: to make you stupider. 2026-07-14T22:14:20Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs8achm4cxgz8u93ddqex2vnn632mscqpsc3gwku4zyx2v8dneccxczypcz0yzxpm70uh3yjgjfjuts53ctdgpzhuvt4hvsxafdvrz3utqszysfl6y In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsfmcax6ye059uu4zf60u2aeam4qklrzxy0e5gtttj7g09zs5w0hlqhpc0qd'>nevent1q…c0qd</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>It&#39;s always been the UK that has the biggest and most technologically advanced government surveillance behemoth. That&#39;s the whole nature of the &#34;special relationship&#34; under UKUSA.<br/><br/>If we fall to fascism, everyone is fucked. 2026-07-14T20:08:28Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs2ndwmfts0vhp0nxjjdpkf6hs28re23d8ae30pxnsl6y0n43wp74szypcz0yzxpm70uh3yjgjfjuts53ctdgpzhuvt4hvsxafdvrz3utqszfj0v3n In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs2fljylpqht2fqt2qrcv50wjfcsnhxww66ap7c0valrm996wczrpsh6ckvw'>nevent1q…ckvw</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Even the CCTV has CCTV over here! The CCTV with CCTV probably has CCTV. That&#39;s why many prominent campaigners have simply given up on the idea we can retain any degree of anonymity. The last time I turned up to an event covering my face (Sheffield) we were stopped four times by police before we even reached the assembly point. They clearly already knew who we were.<br/><br/>I lowered my keffiyeh and my friends removed their own face coverings. 🤷🏻‍♂️ 2026-07-14T18:38:38Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsqam6rjva3u6paguqhj9wd30kx9qsugx0dudspvtkdr36u9lmn30qzypcz0yzxpm70uh3yjgjfjuts53ctdgpzhuvt4hvsxafdvrz3utqszxtvrxz In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsz5agcpg05t6909mkf8k46u8uc8temjyxmw9n93rat3p3e2jfhtksatjdlf'>nevent1q…jdlf</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I thought you were just being today&#39;s Most Annoying Person on the Fedi, there, until I realised you were making a point about accessibility. 😆 2026-07-02T13:23:00Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsff2y7er0zha0vnzc5f7raz3qtwkl0d8afqlqvghlg2wqjfwaea9szypcz0yzxpm70uh3yjgjfjuts53ctdgpzhuvt4hvsxafdvrz3utqszsss0yg In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsfwadpe5kq7z6ujrqx8kzg70emagjkawcpkvw4vh5qsan0ku4ljrgunr682'>nevent1q…r682</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Except some of us actually want more cheese on everything. 2026-06-25T11:16:48Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsxdp8zk3yfqq5xh4vrf2w0q7h0vsm2qp3us2w0a3nfpz9h8df90yqzypcz0yzxpm70uh3yjgjfjuts53ctdgpzhuvt4hvsxafdvrz3utqszsymrca A new report from the UN’s Independent International Commission of Inquiry has concluded: “Based on the evidence, and consistent with its previous reports, the Commission finds on reasonable grounds that the Israeli authorities and the Israeli security forces have continued to commit the crime of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in the Gaza Strip and war crimes in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem.” <br/><br/><a href="https://www.thenational.scot/news/26222066.israel-committing-genocide-palestinian-children-un-inquiry-says/">https://www.thenational.scot/news/26222066.israel-committing-genocide-palestinian-children-un-inquiry-says/</a> 2026-06-24T10:07:25Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsyuz3km8uqh9vhhlxt6n27usuy06mu7mdz3c8wr70wec5599kgq6czypcz0yzxpm70uh3yjgjfjuts53ctdgpzhuvt4hvsxafdvrz3utqszmz60hm In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqspvasgy6h8cftewshknzle39g9temarps54j9yz7wcwta6u8vlzqqskztaj'>nevent1q…ztaj</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I heard that if you stop monitoring it, then it won&#39;t exist anymore. 2026-06-19T09:39:39Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsf0ml2rpjqpp6zcdegst8gd8k44u7t3u6qzyg2gzevzlg0wxm07pqzypcz0yzxpm70uh3yjgjfjuts53ctdgpzhuvt4hvsxafdvrz3utqsz8gmjua In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsvrvgjayxpkdwrntezlsvwzxs042qzhgaj9g68kx4m0epjh4ckx5qpm3rss'>nevent1q…3rss</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Spot on. But American exceptionalism is such a powerful drug, many &#34;liberals&#34; think dictatorship is something that only happens to other countries. &#34;It could never happen here!&#34; they say to themselves smugly. &#34;We just need to vote harder and soon this nightmare will soon be over!&#34;.<br/><br/>Motherfuckers, if Jan 6th had gone according to plan, those pipe bombs would have gone off and Nancy Pelosi, Mike Pence and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez would have been murdered on livestream. Wake up! 2026-06-17T16:19:42Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsyqruhrkqpepxsjz90nqcl3sdcc6nldl9w8rs7lh7dceppju6575czypcz0yzxpm70uh3yjgjfjuts53ctdgpzhuvt4hvsxafdvrz3utqszvdj8ct In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsxcfecac2w7fhr255j2zdcavj545zwyghhxj8l8hng5nfffnc0jmqx8fd2q'>nevent1q…fd2q</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>The kid deserved it.<br/><br/>&#34;He was pursuing the Charlie Kirk grift technique: set up a ‘change my mind stall’, film arguments with passers-by, then edit it to make them look like idiots. Collect the money.<br/><br/>...He ended up on his not insubstantial arse and left rather more quickly than he arrived.<br/><br/>...Interestingly, the people who stepped in to spare him further embarrassment were a group of black men and women. That probably won’t get a mention on his fascist mates’ socials.&#34;<br/><br/><a href="https://searchlightmagazine.com/2026/06/far-right-auditor-young-bob-went-to-manchester-looking-for-trouble-and-found-it/">https://searchlightmagazine.com/2026/06/far-right-auditor-young-bob-went-to-manchester-looking-for-trouble-and-found-it/</a> 2026-06-16T01:31:14Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsxcfecac2w7fhr255j2zdcavj545zwyghhxj8l8hng5nfffnc0jmqzypcz0yzxpm70uh3yjgjfjuts53ctdgpzhuvt4hvsxafdvrz3utqszhytjj8 Not gonna share the vids without proper context, but suffice it to say that the far-right &#34;auditor&#34; known as Young Bob of Turning Point UK - same fella who unwittingly provided evidence for the prosecution for attacks on police in Southampton (the daft prat filmed it all and dumped it online unedited) - has had the crap kicked out of him twice this weekend.<br/><br/>One of the attacks was by some teenage girls he&#39;d been harassing with his camera. This kid really doesn&#39;t make life easy for himself, eh? 🙄 2026-06-15T21:24:30Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsx6d6lrsvvdjeralyp5mrte2kwt59ky0pxrz43n8n83sf4qgc7qtczypcz0yzxpm70uh3yjgjfjuts53ctdgpzhuvt4hvsxafdvrz3utqszayt79z In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs0dydhphdda9d2q2wcnhqu8xg08m83pweyt79f72vvcle2dccu5ys45mjqd'>nevent1q…mjqd</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Their second favourite borrower is the one who isn&#39;t wealthy - indeed is struggling somewhat - but is good enough at budgeting to always prioritise repayments. Those are the borrowers who can be callously milked for interest as they languish perpetually in expensive overdrafts, and regularly need to use credit cards for necessities whenever they&#39;re hit with unexpected costs.<br/><br/>Increasingly, that describes your typical bank customer. 2026-06-15T15:11:47Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsdjjn5390lunhwk30p2kst6dfyh6scjx4qmg4st97rgt4y63m4d4gzypcz0yzxpm70uh3yjgjfjuts53ctdgpzhuvt4hvsxafdvrz3utqszpv0ncf I see the propaganda campaign is already on to blame US cost-push inflation on federal debt and spending policies, rather than constant disastrous tariffs and the strangulation of fuel supplies due to the reckless war on Iran.<br/><br/>This is just laying the groundwork for further excuses to cut public spending just as in 2007 - 2008, 2000 - 2001, and 1973 - 1974 here in the UK (which was also really an oil supply crisis, in that case due to an Arabian rather than Persian embargo).<br/><br/>No-one ever learns. 2026-06-13T00:11:21Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsg47uktpurdvyz5gq2jjdj2p78nps9mg5yvnvu4rpdf05ypj0895czypcz0yzxpm70uh3yjgjfjuts53ctdgpzhuvt4hvsxafdvrz3utqszkjlyu5 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsz2ennqzlyaz9cxw9qg8p0z9pcw99t0raf4kdpt7sea7e9a79njjqfu8rn4'>nevent1q…8rn4</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>This late Gen Xer ditched all corporate platforms in 2019/2020, with the sole exception of WhatsApp, because it&#39;s like pulling teeth trying to convince people that Signal is more secure and offers almost exactly the same functionality.<br/><br/>Social media is designed to be so addictive, many won&#39;t leave even if it&#39;s becoming a marketplace for child pornography (X), or is being leveraged by billionaires to attack democracy (both X and Facebook). They&#39;ll always rationalise their own usage. 2026-06-12T06:25:16Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs9ntlpmme0cdmnpdz79wkdggxn32kc46039v606ty5xwkjce2pspszypcz0yzxpm70uh3yjgjfjuts53ctdgpzhuvt4hvsxafdvrz3utqszydgkvm In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsfadurhdzcaw8ru7nmcr6w7txfs6ammnlunal7hzdphrwjq2lrwtsw6mu00'>nevent1q…mu00</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>While I don&#39;t disagree, this is literally a stark example of the opposite: the State 👉🏼failing👈🏼 to use the existing, selective free speech curtailments in order to increase control of the oppressed. 2026-06-11T21:09:42Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsr0ymz7dyfphdxf2agt00u5gpp4lqqyu48xs7wmdztv3gvpe0xzkgzypcz0yzxpm70uh3yjgjfjuts53ctdgpzhuvt4hvsxafdvrz3utqszxjdzng It&#39;s illegal in the UK to use threatening, abusive or insulting words or behavior that stir up hatred or are intended to cause harassment, alarm or distress based on race, religion or other protected characteristics. Why then are such fascists as Nigel Farage, Tommy Robinson and Danny Tommo allowed to openly stir up race riots? Not much would have happened this week were it not for these public figures weighing in and urging followers to action.<br/><br/>There are 👉🏼existing👈🏼 laws for this type of shit. 2026-06-11T20:39:37Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsq4e67p95vd88jgwrckqzvdx080l2ed0lwpzwtzwk8esq2ym9qfjczypcz0yzxpm70uh3yjgjfjuts53ctdgpzhuvt4hvsxafdvrz3utqszppyhqf In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs2n6tgderge58uds2nucqk0g4xvcynm2j9nnw3tulasf7ayfh6kpclhydst'>nevent1q…ydst</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>You just know the billionaires are following these developments closely, eh? Peter Thiel already consumes the blood of younger men in the delusional belief it&#39;ll help him live longer. 🤮 2026-06-09T12:38:44Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsq5cv4vytvnhw9z2mn4yg63y5vxpfrszlx4uqng99t5jd3s7aucxszypcz0yzxpm70uh3yjgjfjuts53ctdgpzhuvt4hvsxafdvrz3utqszfp3atu So even the regular, old-fashioned autocorrect doesn&#39;t work anymore? I&#39;ve just had to amend two occurances of &#34;loyality&#34; in a previous post. Had I not re-read what I&#39;d written (something I don&#39;t usually bother with due to life constantly happening), I wouldn&#39;t have noticed the misspelling.<br/><br/>Why is autocorrect now autofuckingup? Who asked for autofuckup?<br/><br/>Oh this bubble needs to burst sooner rather than later. Even spreadsheets mess up the numbers. This technology DOESN&#39;T WORK, and it never will. 2026-06-08T02:23:58Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs92ep2xajggu0q777l5acahnhmhd3zu7y982kycx4k609qumcj9zgzypcz0yzxpm70uh3yjgjfjuts53ctdgpzhuvt4hvsxafdvrz3utqszqtxsvy In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsdmsnhrwgwuwt3v44wfxgnkupxgaepdk7456qls0qfx0g3rk93ecgzhdhkd'>nevent1q…dhkd</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>This is also a good one.<br/> <img src="https://s3.eu-central-2.wasabisys.com/mastodonworld/media_attachments/files/116/710/510/267/212/666/original/f628075f3510e4fb.png"> <br/> 2026-06-07T19:38:48Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsdmsnhrwgwuwt3v44wfxgnkupxgaepdk7456qls0qfx0g3rk93ecgzypcz0yzxpm70uh3yjgjfjuts53ctdgpzhuvt4hvsxafdvrz3utqszp50nwg In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqspa4kcp77wptvqv3zflq2zyg238dxfhmkw3sl3xye6vasgfgh9t7g3e3jpp'>nevent1q…3jpp</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Nor me. I have a collection of optical illusions that do fool me though!<br/><br/>Lemme find them... 2026-06-07T19:33:15Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsvrj89yw8fzrmgl5gm8z4xuv6z06u0eplfstk4xgvdz75hf4zvj4qzypcz0yzxpm70uh3yjgjfjuts53ctdgpzhuvt4hvsxafdvrz3utqszrwqhzl In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsw43qhvd4feg4pygu70kww9nahs9f4xyqrv9c59ds8c46q5mynwhgxqu00r'>nevent1q…u00r</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>☝🏼This is also why Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is about as realistic as Musk building a permanent colony on Mars, which even he now admits isn&#39;t going to happen (he&#39;s switched to the moon, which also isn&#39;t going to happen as he can barely get a rocket out of Earth&#39;s atmosphere).<br/><br/>None of these things are ever going to become realities. Both of them are scams to extract from gullible investors with more money than sense.<br/><br/>These tech bros are just very successful confidence tricksters. 2026-06-05T18:50:21Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsw43qhvd4feg4pygu70kww9nahs9f4xyqrv9c59ds8c46q5mynwhgzypcz0yzxpm70uh3yjgjfjuts53ctdgpzhuvt4hvsxafdvrz3utqsz5u2vty I&#39;ve made the comparison several times before but will make it again. A chicken fed only its own eggs - with no external source of nutrition - will quickly die. This is essentially what&#39;s beginning to happen with chatbots, as they have no way of distinguishing between hard-won human expertise and their own generative slop. The digitisation of all human knowledge - the internet - is their dataset, and they&#39;re increasingly eating their own eggs. This is known as &#34;model collapse&#34; and is inevitable. 2026-06-05T18:27:41Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsfgfh35js67jrqa6e7gsksqcgajpszn25qdygswna3253synalhtczypcz0yzxpm70uh3yjgjfjuts53ctdgpzhuvt4hvsxafdvrz3utqszlar2ln I guess no-one reminded them about the whole leopards eating faces thing. Just don&#39;t travel to the USA, for any reason. 🤷🏻‍♂️<br/><br/>&#34;...dozens of fans who filled out the form have said on social media that their application status had changed this week from &#34;approved&#34; to &#34;travel not authorised&#34;.<br/><br/>Some have told BBC Scotland News they could lose out on thousands of pounds in travel costs due to the changes, with Scotland&#39;s first World Cup game kicking off in less than two weeks.&#34;<br/><br/><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwy2yleex87o">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwy2yleex87o</a> 2026-06-04T19:52:45Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsdmsqynx33n3xrwg4urafskjt6nxdvwd9sfsc9lknju49e2f6q3kczypcz0yzxpm70uh3yjgjfjuts53ctdgpzhuvt4hvsxafdvrz3utqsz4fm7wp Depressing how the likes of Tommy Robinson and Nigel Farage are pushing this daft &#34;two-tier policing&#34; myth, and under-educated white men are swallowing it whole. Farage has even claimed the white British now have less rights than ethnic minorities, which is preposterous.<br/><br/>&#34;There are no official figures on anti-white bias in operational policing, but the statistics that do exist show longstanding racial bias against ethnic minorities, and especially against black people.&#34;<br/><br/><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jun/03/police-anti-racism-policies-henry-nowak-explainer">https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jun/03/police-anti-racism-policies-henry-nowak-explainer</a> 2026-06-03T18:52:30Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqszkkfksavtt8q42grpd7qdxwkdjzpkxfsc0g5yxarp88rnhj4prhqzypcz0yzxpm70uh3yjgjfjuts53ctdgpzhuvt4hvsxafdvrz3utqszqquv74 I never argue for anarcho-syndicalism, because arguing is pointless. My position isn&#39;t that a stateless and moneyless society is desirable, only that it&#39;s inevitable. We&#39;re facing total civilizational collapse, so you&#39;d best read your Godwin, Stirner, Proudhon, Bakunin and Kropotkin if you wish to survive. 2026-06-01T14:50:15Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs88ufgq5u26s97xdvedzg5fx5kfudfhk7lapxe4ypt6u3cm9kg0dszypcz0yzxpm70uh3yjgjfjuts53ctdgpzhuvt4hvsxafdvrz3utqszqf0z58 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqstdq0m9lgmd25uepzyndrj2awe866xnxkzv34rfr2jqezphvarcjga2t5tz'>nevent1q…t5tz</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I&#39;m in the camp that sees ML models that have been fine-tuned and tested for reliability in very specific contexts, as having huge potential for the advancement of human knowledge. LLMs do not fall into this category, often failing even at basic arithmetic that most educated humans do reflexively in their heads.<br/><br/>Chatbots are nothing more than statistical confabulators, spewing out plausible-sounding text with no way of fact-checking their own outputs. 2026-05-31T15:37:57Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsrz8hyehmw03thu2kgf0dtn08mmwq79art9pur8ryqxjnd9pm0l2czypcz0yzxpm70uh3yjgjfjuts53ctdgpzhuvt4hvsxafdvrz3utqsz46kxjs In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs8z0tea4csl87ugtjqmg9f7wpd3x7fv5jgf2cgyensgznqk3l9xuctseygg'>nevent1q…eygg</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Machine learning (ML) is a subset of AI that&#39;s been used for decades to do stuff like, predict how proteins will fold, personalise medical treatments, analyse telescope imagery of outer space, forecast extreme weather events and many other uses. <br/><br/>LLMs on the other hand should never be used for anything important without extensive expert vetting of their outputs, which raises the question of why even bother using the LLM when you already have the expertise? 🤷🏻‍♂️ 2026-05-31T14:40:19Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs8w08ls86dy8n0ztv34jc0g4ve5gupm8q8lahanx22yqh3kqj2zxgzypcz0yzxpm70uh3yjgjfjuts53ctdgpzhuvt4hvsxafdvrz3utqszup2s9f In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsrl8dpafznn4sasuusdtkm93em2r382xedr5ryhuxfsfyxrs277ngnwfpxh'>nevent1q…fpxh</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>It&#39;s a seminal book. Great to see it recognised as such! 2026-05-31T12:54:08Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsdxthsqj9sq63dr7flsu86fp6l6w2etr25hflu3xx9g2ym3x2ahrgzypcz0yzxpm70uh3yjgjfjuts53ctdgpzhuvt4hvsxafdvrz3utqszekcsj6 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsqrxqjujxg8vkgtu9fcnfpfjgf9y2739rx4fjhpemcsquamkujdlgns86e2'>nevent1q…86e2</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Whoever they are, they can be contacted at indiewebsocial@gmail.com - which is ironic given that the whole point of the Indie Web is to rebel against Big Tech. 😆 2026-05-28T05:32:24Z