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Written by George Baily on 2025-01-25 at 22:31

Rather satisfying summary:

Why everyone in AI is freaking out about #DeepSeek

https://venturebeat.com/ai/why-everyone-in-ai-is-freaking-out-about-deepseek/

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Written by George Baily on 2025-01-25 at 20:13

[#]ukpol

FFS blu labour... you don't need to do this sucking up... it'll be the death of you next election...

UK should learn from Donald Trump’s ‘boosterism’, Rachel Reeves says

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jan/25/uk-rachel-reeves-chancellor-economy-donald-trump

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Written by George Baily on 2025-01-25 at 16:58

oh jeff off microsoft.. how dare you try to push edge with the all-time toxic "the opposite of Yes is maybe later"

[#]DarkPatterns #MicrosoftExperience

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Written by George Baily on 2025-01-25 at 16:02

hah! look what The Week Junior (UK) did with their trump inauguration cover:

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Written by George Baily on 2025-01-24 at 19:56

Interesting product: CryptPad, the end-to-end encrypted and open-source collaboration suite.

https://cryptpad.fr/

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Written by George Baily on 2025-01-24 at 18:04

Niche Valentine's present: strawberries and cream, and peach, liquorice...

https://lakridsbybulow.co.uk/giftboxes/black-box-love-590g

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Written by George Baily on 2025-01-23 at 21:21

wtf... #TIL "By 2008, it was feared that Central Australia's feral camel population had grown to roughly one million animals, and was projected to double every 8 to 10 years." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_feral_camel

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Written by George Baily on 2025-01-23 at 21:11

have to remind myself that's 20 years ago now! https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/ten-years-ago-huygens-probe-lands-surface-of-titan/

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Written by George Baily on 2025-01-23 at 21:09

Great video: Huygens's descent to Titan's surface (launched in 1997, arrived 2005)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svmGxFaGILY

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Written by George Baily on 2025-01-23 at 21:00

The Lego flowers are a stroke of genius in terms of product concept and market timing.

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Written by George Baily on 2025-01-23 at 20:53

Ah yes...

"If the ceasefire holds, it may be only a matter of time before the Labour government resumes all arms sales to Israel."

via declassifieduk.org #Gaza brief

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Written by George Baily on 2025-01-23 at 20:51

Lovely playlist!

• #Bach Cello Suites on the Moog*

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGDOmFmA-x5WUixhn5IBa4po9kyqS_eYi

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Written by George Baily on 2025-01-22 at 19:44

I think the no.1 reason "naming things" is a hard problem in computer science is because computer people don't think "naming things" is a thing they have to care about, let alone realise it's hard and needs thinking / consultation. An example of where just socialising "naming things is hard" even with zero advice, would be an improvement.

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Written by George Baily on 2025-01-22 at 19:40

[#]DystopianHeadlineGenerator

'It's a nightmare': couriers mystified by the algorithms that control their jobs - https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/jan/21/its-a-nightmare-couriers-mystified-by-the-algorithms-that-control-their-jobs

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Written by George Baily on 2025-01-22 at 19:33

[#]DystopianHeadlineGenerator

Trump Just Inherited Sole Authority to Launch Nuclear Weapons on a Whim

https://truthout.org/articles/trump-just-inherited-sole-authority-to-launch-nuclear-weapons-on-a-whim/

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Written by George Baily on 2025-01-22 at 19:27

beautifully incoherent trump answer on #tiktok -

I got to use it. And remember, TikTok is largely about kids. Young kids. If China is gonna get information about young kids, I don't know -- to be honest with you, I think we have bigger problems than that. via https://substack.com/profile/696120-aaron-rupar/note/c-87476246

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Written by George Baily on 2025-01-22 at 19:20

ugh titkok!

via Kaya Yurieff on LinkedIn: "#TikTok has gone full MAGA"

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Written by George Baily on 2025-01-20 at 20:36

MAGA will end ESG in investing and company governance:

Judge O’Connor declared that it is a violation of fiduciary duty for an investment manager to consider ESG factors in making investment decisions: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-01-10/esg-opponents-get-novel-win-in-american-airlines-401-k-suit

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Written by George Baily on 2025-01-20 at 18:55

Ah yes, 2025 could be the year on desktop on the linux

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Written by George Baily on 2025-01-20 at 18:53

more muttering to myself at work: ah yes, the horseshoe-shaped scale where "pure incompetence" meets "nine dimensional professional laziness"

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