Thursday 28th May 2026
Re: Thursday 28th May 2026
Cooler morning, now 25
Closed upstairs Velux's earlier when a giant hornet buzzed in front of my nose ...
luckily he buzzed out and NO I didn't have the time /energy to check if he had the Asian -type's yellow legs !
Closed upstairs Velux's earlier when a giant hornet buzzed in front of my nose ...
luckily he buzzed out and NO I didn't have the time /energy to check if he had the Asian -type's yellow legs !
Re: Thursday 28th May 2026
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"" Jewish acts and actors are now being routinely cancelled from events across the UK. As with the marches and protests going past Synagogues and knocking on doors intimidating Jews, the end result is an erasure of Jews and Jewish culture from Britain’s public space. ""
since the marching pas synagogue bit is a lie ??? ( I believe)
Sparrow should correct ?
"" Jewish acts and actors are now being routinely cancelled from events across the UK. As with the marches and protests going past Synagogues and knocking on doors intimidating Jews, the end result is an erasure of Jews and Jewish culture from Britain’s public space. ""
since the marching pas synagogue bit is a lie ??? ( I believe)
Sparrow should correct ?
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Re: Thursday 28th May 2026
It was hammering down here when I got woken about half 5 by the racket. From my vantage point I got a great view of lightning strikes right across the North of Leeds before sticking earplugs in and going back to bed.refitman wrote: Thu May 28, 2026 6:13 am Thundery this morning. Just had a clap so strong, it moved my bedroom curtains through the open window.
No rain though.
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Re: Thursday 28th May 2026
It was an 'AI special' QT tonight so I can't really give it a proper review, but I'm happy to say it was better than I thought it was going to be.
Suffice it to say if any of the Yank tech bros were watching they wouldn't have been pleased. Throughout the programme all of the applause from the audience came in response to comments about the dangers it poses and the harms it can already cause. A couple of audience members tried to insist we should be more positive but they were overwhelmingly drowned out by the negative opinions and responses. There was one poor, idiot woman who thought ChatGPT had been a better therapist for her depression than a human councillor, which was genuinely uncomfortable to watch as Fiona Bruce egged her on, but mostly it was a fairly reasonable debate.
Curiously the Tory Julia Lopez was decent, and sounded a lot more sceptical the Labour's Darren Jones. She was the only one to point out a rather important new development, that the cost of AI tokens (put very simply the cost of using AI) are climbing so high that for businesses it's already becoming more expensive than hiring humans. She said it in passing and it didn't get talked about but when you have the CEO of Uber just this week saying they were seeing no discernable benefits for the expense, and it's even causing Microsoft to row back their AI spending, maybe we're beginning to see signs of the bubble bursting.
Of the AI 'experts' probably the most impressive was Laura Gilbert of the Tony Blair Institute. Obviously given the organisation she works for I had it in for her but it turned out she was a lot less gung ho and far better informed than her idiot boss. She pointed out how absolutely terrible humans are at predicting the future, especially experts, and she made some genuinely good suggestions about developing AI in the UK, such as making it Open Source so anyone could get involved.
But really the audience were the star of the show, they'd used AI at home and at work and overwhelming their responses and views were negative. Which is something we're seeing across the world, or at least the Western world. Despite billions spent on promotion and advertising by the tech companies the majority of us are increasingly making it clear that what they're desperately trying to ram down our throats is shit. We can all see it's a colossal bubble they need to keep inflating to maintain their share prices because they're all running at a massive loss and when that bubble pops they're fucked. It wouldn't be so bad if what they're foisting on us actually worked, but take a look at the report on AI accuracy from the recent elections in Scotland, ChatGPT gave the wrong answers to questions (or just made shit up) 42% of the time.
People are losing their jobs and kids are facing a bleak employment future for what? So billionaire sociopathic freaks can promote fascism while building luxury bunkers for themselves to hide in when the dystopia they're intent on creating becomes a reality.
Suffice it to say if any of the Yank tech bros were watching they wouldn't have been pleased. Throughout the programme all of the applause from the audience came in response to comments about the dangers it poses and the harms it can already cause. A couple of audience members tried to insist we should be more positive but they were overwhelmingly drowned out by the negative opinions and responses. There was one poor, idiot woman who thought ChatGPT had been a better therapist for her depression than a human councillor, which was genuinely uncomfortable to watch as Fiona Bruce egged her on, but mostly it was a fairly reasonable debate.
Curiously the Tory Julia Lopez was decent, and sounded a lot more sceptical the Labour's Darren Jones. She was the only one to point out a rather important new development, that the cost of AI tokens (put very simply the cost of using AI) are climbing so high that for businesses it's already becoming more expensive than hiring humans. She said it in passing and it didn't get talked about but when you have the CEO of Uber just this week saying they were seeing no discernable benefits for the expense, and it's even causing Microsoft to row back their AI spending, maybe we're beginning to see signs of the bubble bursting.
Of the AI 'experts' probably the most impressive was Laura Gilbert of the Tony Blair Institute. Obviously given the organisation she works for I had it in for her but it turned out she was a lot less gung ho and far better informed than her idiot boss. She pointed out how absolutely terrible humans are at predicting the future, especially experts, and she made some genuinely good suggestions about developing AI in the UK, such as making it Open Source so anyone could get involved.
But really the audience were the star of the show, they'd used AI at home and at work and overwhelming their responses and views were negative. Which is something we're seeing across the world, or at least the Western world. Despite billions spent on promotion and advertising by the tech companies the majority of us are increasingly making it clear that what they're desperately trying to ram down our throats is shit. We can all see it's a colossal bubble they need to keep inflating to maintain their share prices because they're all running at a massive loss and when that bubble pops they're fucked. It wouldn't be so bad if what they're foisting on us actually worked, but take a look at the report on AI accuracy from the recent elections in Scotland, ChatGPT gave the wrong answers to questions (or just made shit up) 42% of the time.
People are losing their jobs and kids are facing a bleak employment future for what? So billionaire sociopathic freaks can promote fascism while building luxury bunkers for themselves to hide in when the dystopia they're intent on creating becomes a reality.
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Re: Thursday 28th May 2026
Anyway getting back to being boiled alive. Tuesday was an ordeal. When I got up early in the morning after barely sleeping it was (no word of a lie) 29.8° in the front room. It remained above 29° until the evening. I ended up resorting to wrapping ice cubes in a flannel and plonking them on my head. Which actually worked pretty well apart from giving me the occasional ice cream headache. I eventually refined the technique by using one of those little blue elastic bands that come with spring onions to hold the flannel closed so the ice cubes didn't slide off on the rare occasions when I moved. In truth it was horrible and I'm going to have to think of something that doesn't involve the ruinous expense of genetic resequencing or even worse...air conditioning.
I'm thinking I could possibly get enough plastic sheeting and duct tape to create a tunnel from the freezer to the door of the front room but that would risk me ending up frozen and waking up thousands of years in the future in a world ruled by giant cyborg crows. Because people always like to say cockroaches will survive any Armageddon but look at crows. The more our environment goes to shit the stronger and more numerous they become.
I'm thinking I could possibly get enough plastic sheeting and duct tape to create a tunnel from the freezer to the door of the front room but that would risk me ending up frozen and waking up thousands of years in the future in a world ruled by giant cyborg crows. Because people always like to say cockroaches will survive any Armageddon but look at crows. The more our environment goes to shit the stronger and more numerous they become.