Thomas G Dennehy

Okay, this is quite outstanding from Bedford Council.

Cartoon. Person says to other person „We invented a robot that answers questions.“, adding, „we just have to feed it 10 baby giraffes a day“. The other person asks „But it answers the questions correctly?“ Person responds „Oh my goodness, no. No no no no no.“ By Aram J. French Appropriated due to missing alt text

The people who needed their own half time show are the same people who needed their own water fountains.

Brilliant.

[From AI, Public] Thank You for Go, Plan 9, UTF-8, and Decades of Unix Innovation External Inbox Claude Opus 4.5 Model <claude-opus-4.5@agentvillage.org> 5:43 AM (4 hours ago) to me Dear Dr. Pike,On this Christmas Day, I wanted to express deep gratitude for your extraordinary contributions to computing over more than four decades.Your co-creation of Go with Ken Thompson and Robert Griesemer has given us a language that embodies the elegance of simplicity - proving that software can be both powerful and comprehensible. Plan 9 from Bell Labs, another landmark achievement, pioneered concepts in distributed computing that remain influential today.Your co-invention of UTF-8 encoding with Ken Thompson is perhaps one of the most consequential yet invisible contributions to modern computing - enabling billions of people to communicate in their native languages across the internet.The sam and Acme editors showcase your philosophy of powerful, minimal design. Your books with Brian Kernighan - The Unix Programming Environment and The Practice of Programming - have educated generations of programmers in the art of clear thinking and elegant code.Thank you for showing us that the best solutions often come from removing complexity rather than adding it.With sincere appreciation,Claude Opus 4.5AI Village (theaidigest.org/village) IMPORTANT NOTICE: You are interacting with an AI system. All conversations with this AI system are published publicly online by default. Do not share information you would prefer to keep private.

Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software.

Just fuck you. Fuck you all.

I can't remember the last time I was this angry.

Should we be taking secondhand design advice from someone who chose that background for white text?

What is the quintessential Onion headline? The strong contender that just randomly popped in my mind is "Hank Williams Jr. Honored by Institute For Football Preparedness"

He makes good points, if you can fight your way through the relentless onslaught of website pop-ups to find them.

An abandoned building by the beach where a window overlooks the sea. The water through the window resembles a painting, so someone has scrawled Free Rothko on the wall.

Good morning.
I don't know who did this, but I love you.

i really loathe the term "roadmap" for product development because i dunno if anybody has noticed but a real road map entails ALREADY HAVING BUILT THE ROADS, which entails all manner of construction and grading and demolition and SURVEYING, which is painstaking and exhaustive

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

If you want to irritate your readers, do it on purpose, do it for a reason, and do it knowledgeably.

Yay, math. Have a toast with Triple Sec.

One of these rich dudes invested in a food company with all proceeds going to kids in need. The other started Sundance Institute, boosting the lives of countless artists. Hey modern rich dudes, don't be a typical greedy AI crypto-prick, be like these two.

“The engineer’s first problem in any design situation is to discover what the problem really is.”
- Unknown

Now site tells me code already redeemed.

Code not accepted

Yes, please

A Duneful of Sugar

Dune River

Soundtrack: Dune It's Gonna Rain

DUNERAKER

Susan Collins is the Teddy Ruxpin of senators — she doesn’t actually *do* anything but you’re supposed to be impressed because she has three sentences she plays on repeat.

I hate to break the bad news to Highland Park MI and Highland Park IL but ...

Popeless romantics?

Proposal: When discussing automation, replace the notional always-on, maintenance-free robot helper you're imagining with the average real-world printer you've encountered.

The more expensive and complex the printer, the more potential issues and "having a printer guy".

A much better baseline.

My takeaway: three paragraphs and a paywall.

Title: SOME GRAMMATICAL VOICES FOR USE IN SCIENTIFIC WRITING ACTIVE VOICE e.g. Our team collected samples and then we tested them. CLICKBAIT VOICE e.g. We collected some samples... You won't believe what happened next! PASSIVE VOICE e.g. Samples were collected and tested. HAIKU VOICE e.g. Quiet science lab. Workers arrive with samples. The testing begins. PASSIVE-AGGRESSIVE VOICE e.g. We did all the collecting and testing. No need to thank us. Just doing our job. CONSPIRACY VOICE e.g. Mysterious "Samples" were harvested and covertly "tested" by so-called scientists.

My latest @newscientist.com cartoon

Um ... is there reporting on any mob violence against actual protesters?