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• Post #4350981

  “Forecourt Eye said it would partner with facial recognition company Facewatch to offer more than 2,000 retailers free access to crime reporting technology from the autumn.” https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy8mrrlkjppo #FacialRecognition #Surveillance

• Post #2070726

  Time for a fresh #introduction. They tell me I’m chronically #trusting and #optimistic 🤜 🤛 . It’s a weakness I feel no need to address. After the first 10 years my wife said she wasn’t going to explain my jokes any more 🙅‍♀️ , since I didn’t seem to care if anyone laughed anyway. That was a while back, and our #kids now have the same policy. Professionally I’m what happens if a #scientist 🥼 looks at themselves and asks what that’s for. Spoiler: it ended up being about people, and how #technolog...

• Post #1811375

  Me: hmm I have a problem with tomorrow morning’s meeting. OH: what’s the problem? Me: it’s in Tokyo.

• Post #1175979

  OH: so what are you kids going to eat tomorrow night? Offspring: can’t we just get Uber Eats? Me: … Offspring: ImeanDeliverooImeanJustEatImeanImeanImeanGourmetFarmKitchenOrganicSomething Me: Right.

• Post #1175978

  It’s that time of year again, when #BBCNews editors rediscover “Spring”. > Temperatures hit 25C making it the warmest day in the UK for six months https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/articles/cn7866klrp2o

• Post #1175977

  OpenAI insist that they can’t make money from the putrefaction of human knowledge unless all of their input costs are government-subsidised and they can freely steal copyrighted works. Good to know. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/09/openai-pulls-out-of-landmark-31bn-uk-investment #AI #OpenAI #LLM #Parasitism #Theft #Slop

• Post #1082370

  So I ask myself cui bono? Who benefits from the story that #Claude #Mythos is the scariest creature in these woods? And who told us this story?

• Post #944358

  @robotics@mastodon.world Why make them humanoid?

• Post #921665

  @davidgerard@circumstances.run I can help you with that.

• Post #917761

  Ooh! Ooh! I know this one! Is it shorting their stock?

• Post #868120

  @lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org You can even change it to a Protonmail address.

• Post #570954

  @ufofeed@channels.im Which one of these cartoon characters is supposed to represent the Indian Space Agency?

• Post #450433

  @petersuber@fediscience.org Score -5 points to #OpenAI! Current score: -8319 points. https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/trump-bans-anthropic-government-use-rcna261055

• Post #377122

  @bestforbritain.org @bylinetimes.bsky.social I am #shockedshocked.

• Post #342107

  @Ask_aubry@mas.to Oh no! Think of all the women who won’t have the opportunity to marry this prime specimen of humanity!

• Post #326681

  @futurebird@sauropods.win @Moss@beige.party Millipedes are the ones with three rows of legs, yes?

• Post #319361

  @michael_w_busch@mastodon.online Yeah, a necrotic hernia would have got me at 16, or if I survived that then a burst appendix would take me out in my early 50s. Plenty of other infections along the way, too. Yay for antibiotics.

• Post #218269

  @enerdata.bsky.social Meanwhile their oil and gas extraction is responsible for emissions of 562Mt/year. We should never allow them to mention one number without the other. https://earth.org/36-fossil-fuel-giants-responsible-for-half-of-worlds-co2-emissions-report/