Steve Coogan explains the reason we have sewage in our rivers & lakes is because of a 35yr failed experiment with water privatisation, its a broken system & the private companies have extracted over £80bn in that period. "It should be taken back into public ownership"👏👏

Apparently, Google Search sucking isn't just an SEO and censorship issue. Prabhakar Raghavan, Google head of ads and then search and former head of Yahoo Search [lol], deliberately made it worse so that, by making more queries to try to find things, users would see more ads.

kid was cooking

Published the ASCII illustration tool I've been working on for Oxide Computer Company (mitos.shared.oxide.computer) and it's even open-source: github.com/oxidecomputer/…

Exploration using the iPhone accelerometer

artbutmakeitsports is my hobby; for my actual job, I work Sportradar leading our broadcast group, and helped launch the platform that generates these w/some super talented folks. assets can be rendered in near real-time, for any player, any shot. Sports, ButMakeItArt 👀

Learnt today that you can type any nonsense into Google followed by "meaning", and AI will assume you're searching a well-known human phrase and frantically come up with what it thinks it could mean.

r/changemyview had their views changed by clandestine bots during a secret persuasion experiment. The bots were never detected. From the paper;

I found, in Brazil, the exact opposite vibe:

A series of Claude self-portraits. All from a single collaboration between two instances of Claude Opus 4 without human intervention.

Born just in time to have psycho-spiritual experiences from reading pdfs in the workplace

i can't believe this shit actually works

in 2016, a film student exploring a rural moldovan village found over 4,000 soviet-era photographs in the attic of an abandoned house. they were all taken by zaharia cusnir in the 1950s-60s, an unknown alcoholic who died forgotten. he captured the life of an entire community:

tool is live, show me what you cook: ascii.0xbalance.xyz

One of the greatest achievements of a talented man may be avoiding work for 20 years

autechre analysis... is kind of ok?

The immortal science of dialectical materialism

Read this to see the future