Ian Malcolm

Don’t make me consider finally buying a 360, dammit! 😉

Yep. Don’t let the door hit your collective arse on the way out, you over-entitled parasites. 👋

Only Connect Four.

E.M. Forster, How'ards End

Yep. It's like when I watched a doco on flat earthers - the amount of off-the-wall and totally unworkable scifi/fantasy they had to constantly keep inventing just to maintain and justify their belief, rather than just accepting that the earth is indeed a sphere. 🤪

The ship part of this is the same level of delusional as your neighbour also believing that Albanese actually gives two shits about climate change.

Too busy getting his ministers to approve new fossil fuel projects, the lying, gutless Morrison-Lite piece of shit. 🤷‍♂️

Just the worst. Stake 'the prick(s) out and get some kind of giant spiders to lay eggs in 'em, then wait for the little 'uns to hatch and eat their way out.

I wish I believed in the concept of Hell, so that the fucker(s) who ripped your vee-hickle off could spend eternity in the least pleasant part of it.

My witch-trial novel’s ducking stool scene just took quite a turn.

Just such a dog act. Still holding out hope for its return, but from your posts today, chances are sounding slim. Absolute fucking arseholes - lowest of the low.

Oh fuck dude, I'm so sorry... I know you've put a lot of work and extra gear into that vehicle, so hope you can get it back.

Fuckers everywhere. 🤬

Promo poster for Iron Maiden's 'Run For Your Lives' 2026 tour. Image depicts band mascot Eddie reaching to grab the viewer whilst wielding an axe, while in the background there are visual representations of certain songs.

Got pre-sale tickets this morning for the Melbourne show on 13 November.

Up the Irons! 🤘

(And hey, Megadeth as support is a nice bonus.)
#IronMaiden #metal #Melbourne

It was very effective! Pretty hard to see unless standing close and actively searching! 🦎

I don't think so, re: the talking/clicking ones - definitely never heard them here, and know what that sounds like from ones in Fiji, etc.

Cheers! It was a surprise the first time I found a gecko in Melb (in an upstairs walk-in wardrobe in our old unit in Elwood, 20 years back...) but I find them in/under pots here regularly now.

That's great about the book! It certainly kept me turning the pages! 😎

Small gecko in shaded of brown, cream and black against a tree trunk with rough bark. Not sure what species it is; looks a bit like a Marbled Gecko or an Eastern Tree Dtella from the photos I've seen, but not an expert!

Cute #gecko doing its best to blend in on a tree in suburban #Melbourne this afternoon.

For 30+ years I'd never seen a gecko in the wild here, but increasingly noticed them over the last decade.

Turns out there are actually 10 species here in Victoria - nine native and one introduced.
#photography

Yeah, a curiously popular name back in the day, but it slowly fell into disrepute. Can’t imagine why… 😉

When I finally managed to save up enough to get a drive for my C64, Uridium was literally the first game I bought on disk.

Great game, cheers Andrew!

Jakub Dvorský: 20 Years of Amanita Design - Machinarium, Samorost and Phonopolis! YouTube video by Cressup

Couple of people posting about Amanita Design's Phonopolis atm because the demo is out for Steam Next Fest.

I had a chat with Amanita's head Jakub Dvorský a few years back about it - and also twenty years of making beloved games like Machinarium.
youtu.be/K7RAcmLn5N4?...

Phonopolis Welcome to Phonopolis, a new puzzle adventure hand-crafted by Amanita Design, the indie c

Ooh, bookmarked this to watch a bit later - cheers! 😎

I’ve been a fan of Amanita since first playing the original browser version of Samarost, and the mini-game they did for Polyphonic Spree.

(This new one can also be wish-listed on GOG, for anyone who’d rather get it DRM-free on Windows or Mac.)

Oh cool - love Amanita Design’s adventure-puzzly stuff, but had no idea this was on the horizon.

And a quick check shows it’s also going to be on GOG for both Mac and Windows, for those who prefer DRM-free. #MacGaming

www.gog.com/en/game/phon...

For many years I thought the Bauhaus cover was the original. 🤪😂

True, but only if you're watching it with Daphne. If Velma is there instead, it stands for "Jinkies!"

That deserves a 😂 for brilliance, but also needs a 😬 for the spot-on truthiness.

I did earlier. Came away unconvinced of their suitability for anything outside a narrow set of applications.

LLMs are a novelty inflated beyond reason by grifters and the credulous.

They give the appearance of conversation, calculation, etc. but don't do the actual things, so can't be relied upon.

^This.

Not many are aware of this, but H.R. Pufnstuf's full name is Human Resources Pufnstuf.

Two months ago Terence Tao proposed rejecting the term AGI as inaccurate. And in the last month he seems to be edging away from his more grandiose previous statements.

Might be best if we just agree to disagree, and move on. Clearly no-one's changing hearts and minds here. 🤷‍♂️

From an Atlantic article published four days ago:

"When I called Tao earlier this month to get his take on what AI can offer mathematics, he was more tempered. The AI-generated Erdős solutions are impressive, but not overwhelmingly so: The bots have functionally landed some “cheap wins,” Tao said.

All I see is empty hype and folk making excuses for the unreliability of the inherently flawed LLM model - a dead-end in pursuit of mythical "AGI".

Significant results would be shouted from on high by techbros - instead they're pivoting to built-in ads and porn-generation to try and make a buck.

Only because those pushing this tech have a vested interest in constantly muddying the waters, whether by conflating LLMs with completely different technology, or deliberately ascribing emotions and motivations to it that it absolutely doesn't have.

It keeps the gullible FOMO VC money coming in.

Yep. And I read the other day that apparently in the US now 1 in 4 political lobbyists is working on behalf of the GenAI "industry".

Just in case folk wondered why unfit for purpose slop-generation is constantly being pushed, despite it not actually working or making a genuine profit. 🤷‍♂️