Richard Bairwell

I still think about this a lot.

Anybody want to start a service providing AI generated illegal porn in the style of (and therefore attributed to) certain CEOs? Of course, they can "opt out" if they wanted to ..

I wish I couldn't.

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

Not seen: A farmer with a boat and a bag of grain scrumpling up his plans and throwing them away in a tearful fit of defeated pique

Michael claims to be Welsh which is weird because I swear Mr Sheen was Polish.

It’s right there in the name, it’s because they’re knobs.

It's a bit like Tripod's Homepages: try searching Hotbot or Altavista.dec.digital.com for more info or just check Usenet.

Kind of interesting to think we'll never get "My voice is my passport, verify me" style authentication because now that voice recognition technology is good enough, voice *spoofing* technology is also good enough to render it useless.

I might start one: I'm going to have to get a number of exhibits first though. Are you are home tonight by the way and what is the code to your security system?

It’s uncanny

Please let the Pope reply saying "As God's ambassador on Earth, I have no idea who he was talking to and got a response from- but it definitely wasn't God."

Sun headline about £500k compensation for migrants, discussing human rights, and public outcry over payouts.

Did you see this headline?

Did you feel the requisite anger and rage at asylum seekers that The Sun was asking of you?

Did you maybe blame Starmer because.... um... it was probably his fault🤷‍♀️

Would you like to know the reality behind the headline?

Course you would!😜

Let's take a look

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When we talk about Baby Boomers not getting off the stage: In 1997, the US president was born in 1946.

In 2007, the US president was born in 1946.

In 2017, the US president was born in 1946.

And next year in 2027? The US president will have been born in 1946.

Good thread and a reminder that every generation has its own moral panic

Also accepting: Jared Leto

YOUR JOB IS TO PICK THE MOST AWFUL ACTOR POSSIBLE TO PLAY JAMES BOND. GO! Ricky Gervais.

Man you want to participate in something and then someone gives an answer so objectively correct that there’s no point adding onto it

It'll be quite funny that Netflix planned this - they got $2.8b in termination fees and could see two of their rivals collapse (or be sold as junk) in a few years

Phot of a large cloud lit by an orange sunset. Superimposed are the words "Sure, everything is fucked, but at least I have my health, which is also fucked."

Not sure where this is from but I feel it in my bones and brain.

"Oh dear, Nifty's stabbed someone again."

That's quite a birthday treat!

A wife sent her husband this picture and the message said, "Come home early, l've got a surprise for you".... So he raced home, almost crashing the car thinking he was about to get lucky, only to find she adopted a black cat ...

CATURDAY! CATURDAY!

“Lower headcount”? These are people lives, you fucking monsters. Rot in hell with the shitty world you helped facilitate. Can’t wait to hear the thinkpiece titled “I used to sell AI garbage that destroyed people’s livelihoods, then AI took my livelihood. I am sad.” Take me off your list, psycho. Sincerely, Alison Gianotto Founder & Chief Mohawk Officer agianotto@grokability.com Website: https://snipeitapp.com Support: https://support.snipeitapp.com "If we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as 'lines produced' but as 'lines spent.'"– Edsger Dijkstra On Feb 27, 2026, at 12:31, Olivia Murphy <olivia.murphy@falarudi.info> wrote: Alison, Quickly circling back - Ever looked into AI answering your calls at 70%+ less vs staffing? Think lower headcount & more time focusing on profitable activities. Let me know if this is worth looking into. Olivia Murphy

Over here having a very normal one.

(Seriously, fuck these companies though.)

Absolutely the fuck not.

Electric car drivers ‘spied on by government’ through phones Two-year mass surveillance project commissioned by Department for Transport under Tories

“At the DfT’s request, O2 trawled people’s web browsing habits, including those of children, to identify “EV users”. … It then tracked those people’s physical movements around the country and sent “anonymised and aggregated” data to the government.”
www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/25c4107...

So the Greens now have more directly appointed MPs than Reform, so by Chris Mason's political logic, that must make them 'real' opposition to Labour...so I expect to see them represented on every political show the Beeb has to offer henceforth.

If you live in the Gorton and Denton constituency and spoke to a Reform party member on your doorstep or in the streets then I'd like to speak to you for an article. My DMs are open.

The screenshot of the release notes reads: A new version of TeX Live Utility is available! TeX Live Utility 1.55 is now available-you have 1.54. Would you like to download it now? Release Notes: Changes Since 1.54 • Fix bug 137, homepage link in Help Book. • First release in a long time, since I don't use TeX anymore and resent the very idea of paying Apple annually for the privilege of giving away free and open-source software. Also, I'm really lazy. Please accept my apologies for all the annoying issues you've encountered in this mission-critical software. • Updated mirror list, which was three years out of date. • Added missing legacy mirrors, which was even more out of date. • Added an alert on startup when user tries Homebrew's lobotomized MacTex, because those lunatics left timgr but removed its database. Thanks for nothing, guys. Bug 142 and 144. • Use a custom user-agent to work around the Anubis bot trap on texlive.info. Can't wait to see what else breaks because of this, thanks to the profusion of degenerate Artificial Insemination fetishists scraping websites to feed their models. • Lists of countries in Repository/Continent are now sorted. No idea how you people let me get away with that one for the last fifteen years.

There's a "is anyone even reading this" sort of honesty you get in the software update release notes from a project that's been around for a long time.