Exciting new development in the #maydaysaxonvale tale: an extraordinary meeting was held today of Somerset council executive (in Frome), which Mayday Saxonvale described as Decision Day 2.0.
And the long and short of it is: yay! The decision is: sale of the site is approved.
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Well. Happy New Year, everyone, I guess.
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Shocked Pikachu face: OpenAI apparently trained Sora on videogame content, and if you ask it in a way that bypasses the filter, it will happily generate recognisable gameplay footage. https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/11/it-sure-looks-like-openai-trained-sora-on-game-content-and-legal-experts-say-that-could-be-a-problem
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Can't help but think the published images of the UnitedHealthcare killer have just a tiny bit of a "BBC Robin Hoodie (2006)" look to them.
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Weeelll, the weather outside is frightful, and I'm staying home tomorrow because according to the red warning that popped up on the phone earlier, "Extremely strong winds associated with Storm Darragh are expected to cause significant disruption from 3:00am on Saturday. Strong winds can cause flying debris, falling trees & large waves of musical theatre."
It was a bit dark so hard to be sure, but I think I saw a flying monkey perched on a variable speed limit sign near junction 15 of the M5.
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Welp. The Lido Layabouts, aka muggins and co, managed to finish another one of those 'channel distance' Aspire spinal injury charity swimathons. I'm proud of all of us Layabouts, especially given it's been a bugger of a year.
My mother even managed to get half a km of swimming done when recuperating from a very nasty broken leg, which feels above and beyond the call of duty. That's my mum, that is.
https://www.aspirechannelswim.co.uk/teams/the-lido-layabouts-lp7y1z
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Finished the #NomansSky Beachhead Expedition Redux once for each account, so both my gog-NMS and Steam-NMS now have the Normandy. Fortunately it was a short one and far less faffy than the previous one - the one with all the moody ghosts. That one was... not too much fun.
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Not to be too optimistic about this, but I managed to get two books into my To Read pile after submitting that last application. It'll be Justine Jouet's relatively short monograph about a witch at Rochefort-en-Terre next.
I am even wondering about setting up some sort of blog thingy for book reviews, though I fear I might run out of energy first, or get ambushed by Elden Ring.
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Phew. Teaching assessment thingy completed, word count counted and upload uploaded. Now I wait to see whether the university thinks I have successfully evidenced the many dimensions of teaching.
Or more specifically, I drink tea. I mean, I do that all the time anyway. But also, tea.
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Got to be in Bristol a couple of days in a row for a work thing, and it has happened to coincide with a couple of other events; 1) the road to Bristol is b0rked due to roadworks right on the roundabout outside the Globe, which involve temp traffic lights, and 2) rail replacement buses between Bath Spa and Bristol. In Paris they used to say "metro boulot dodo", here it is more like [taxi train bus walk boulot walk boulot bus bus train taxi dodo] repeat to fade.
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From CNN re Musk's arguably illegal million dollar PAC payouts: 'On Sunday, the second day of the sweepstakes, the super PAC reframed its messaging around the giveaway, describing the money as payment for a job. In social media posts, the group said winners would be “selected to earn $1M as a spokesperson for America PAC”'
While you're doing a Stockton Rush, why not go the whole hog, name them "mission specialists" and have them wear branded jumpsuits...?!
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I just wrote "Through reflective ideation within the team, requirements were generated" on a powerpoint slide. That's a very polite euphimism for "By talking to myself" (I am the only person in the team).
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So, it's slug season again. Which leads to today's quandary: is The Inevitable Slug a band name, or is it a pub on the high street that smells faintly of vinegar and very much like deep fried onion?
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Nothing annoys me in quite the same way as an automated message that begins "we are sorry to announce"
No, British railway computer, you are not sorry to announce:you are a computer that has been put into use so that no human being has to put time into explaining why all the trains to Bristol are an hour late.
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Just read a paper on "The AI Scientist" or as the paper would have it, the AI SCIENTIST, and I cannot help but notice that it makes the same error that many researchers do: the paper is not the research, and the ability to generate papers does not make you a scientist.
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When you read the cup at a service station and discover it perfectly resembles your current mental state ;)
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SpaceX's space suits somehow now look dafter to me than they did a few years ago. On reflection, this might be because a lot of the design points were since adopted in the design of the Optimus Tesla demonstrator, so now the suits have begun giving off chunky-version-of-dodgy-robot vibes.
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Yeesh. Trying to use a corporate travel system. They've genuinely trapped the ability to book travel behind a multiple choice test evaluating whether the users have watched a video explaining how an internal administrative system works.
To anyone building any system ever: the user shouldn't need to learn weird trivia about how your system works. Your job is to make a specific problem go away. Their job is to make other problems go away. UX engineering is great and you should do it.
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Met Godrick the Grafted in #EldenRing today. The first thought that came to mind seeing his hideously misshapen limbs was: generated with AI. It's hard to invoke body horror in a world where this sort of thing (extra limbs growing in unexpected places and so on) is increasingly associated with silly demonstrators.
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Well done to Rooney and his solicitor for this outcome. In any case, forcing employees to faff around with self-aggrandising "extremely hardcore" default opt-out clickthrough email circulars sounds like the sort of practice that should result in a swift kick in the wallet area on principle. (I tried to think of some more absurd idea for a "What next" but couldn't think of anything that Musk hasn't already done.) https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/aug/13/musk-ordered-to-pay-x-employee-470000-for-unfair-dismissal
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