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@Daojoan or new ways to get hold of data from other people than the signed up customer that they can sell to their 789 partners?

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@TheBreadmonkey mis remembered it but found it.

https://nathanwpyle.threadless.com/designs/lost-in-a-good-book-3/home/fine-art-print

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@TheBreadmonkey I’ve tried Google and 2 LLMs and can’t find it but there is a lovely cartoon of a person who is then pictured on a subway or such, having dropped the book they were reading and they pick it up and the story resumes.

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@TheBreadmonkey

https://youtube.com/shorts/BLN5Q0YTk9o?is=hzEO6Nf2UsKNHSiD

Classic

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@GossiTheDog AI layoff washing innit? All these DCs won't come online and many won't even be constructed in the end either. Wild this has not popped yet.

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@Jyoti always a one way street - was just thinking this reading Palantir UK going on about 'idealogical motivation', a company founded by Peter fucking Thiel no less haha get tae...

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@aka_pugs don’t worry, thanks to the awesome power of Gen AI we shall get back to those glory days of 59% uptime 🤣🤣🤣

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@aka_pugs bound to never happen anyway. Performative stock market nonsense stuff this DC boom with no power and no chance of having up to date GPUs in them if they ever do come online. Subprime for tech is coming.

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@TheBreadmonkey the eating hot chicken wings stage of the next U.K. GE should be fascinating watch for the political pundits. The News Agents / TRIP special episode.

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@thisismyglasgow I think we know the answer. It's not even the will, we live in a metaphorically gaslit age where we are told there is not enough money to do things, whilst there is to build lots of DCs so people can create images for memes and billionaires can play NASA.

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@baldur @Zitron has lots on this, the fantasy numbers and how it differs from
Dot com, 2008 and Enron, and is, if anything worse.

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@TheBreadmonkey He always seems like a person who wants to do the right thing and, like you say, has to make a living via this stuff. I am surprisingly into his ventriloquist shambolic Newsround parody :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-45ZHGUVTwI

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@thisismyglasgow

https://youtu.be/INtlW5YniVA?is=Iiqs_FkPmrLSOTLW

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@magicalgirlsabrina I just don’t see any sign of a profitable business in it yet. It’s like the ultimate of startup culture: operations that only exist due to investors money that have no path to profitability. Once it’s charged at a level to make a profit, the customer base will shrink fast.

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@magicalgirlsabrina I don’t think anyone will buy any AI company until the VC money stops and their value plummets

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@lowqualityfacts far too coherent a reply to be the orange clown.

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@thisismyglasgow how big is it? Very hard to tell from a picture. Looks like some sinister LoTR/Darth Vader castle :)

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@TheBreadmonkey just wait until the VC money tap runs dry and they have to try to make an actual profit out of Gen AI.

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@coreyspowell https://youtu.be/GmJI6qIqURA?is=53J7iAt50wu_tU6u @acollierastro puts it nicely - these guys could easily take time out to go get a PhD in Physics but they’d rather spout uninformed nonsense.

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@coreyspowell please don’t point it out as it’s super depressing to think what could’ve been achieved in general with all the dollars squandered by big tech on shite.

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@Edent I always felt it like it went along with thick as thieves being good to be close.

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@thisismyglasgow like the way they worked the logo into it

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@thisismyglasgow I like this nod to Mackintosh in the material for my current client’s conference this year, which is being held in Glasgow - first time I’ll be back there since I left for France in November 2020!

https://communityovercode.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Community-Over-Code-Prospectus-2026.pdf

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@hotdogsladies The Young Ones is to U.K. comedy what the Sex Pistols at Manchester Lesser Free Trade Hall was to music, discuss.

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@holdenweb @Nickiquote maybe 3 hours of relentless piss taking satire of billionaires, and political donators, asking quite why a top economy needs so much charity and has poverty and homelessness at all.

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@candlesnuff @luisfcorreia @jeffjarvis indeed and nurses dutifully record your weight and height in metric and then tell you it in imperial and so it goes on and on.

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George Lucas’ 2001 https://youtu.be/v_suy7gARps 😀

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#music is a real Dr. Manhattan type of thing for memories eh? One minute it’s 2023 and I’m driving through the countryside in France and the next it’s 1991 and I’m back in the Glasgow Tech union or QM, drunkenly shoe gazing, and it’s all because Fields of The Nephilim came on in the car :)

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Recommended #TV on #channel4 #UK #everyoneElseBurns Funny and absurd but had a heart and kind of dark also. Worth a watch. All on #All4 also.

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Is it just me or a #genx thing, that the most arch of people from school days have turned into the most tedious, reactionary old geezers? Perhaps they were just contrarians all along.

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I confuse Apple’s #fitness app thing by mostly not doing long enough dog walks to meet the goal but also exceeding it by up to two times on days I go for a #run.

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Surprising #cheese related observations of #france , or at least #thedordogne Brie? Not so much. Camembert? Absolutely mad for it. Loads in the shops, more than any other cheese type.

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(@mrneilscott ‘s latest on views of the future and the prisms we used to view it through, is worth a read in my opinion too)

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Patrick Macnee in it too.

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Tonight’s Twilight Zone original series repeat is about a ship called ‘S S Queen of Glasgow’. It’s always good to be reminded just how well known my home town was for producing ships in days past. Rod Sterling does a decent job of pronouncing #Glasgow too 👍

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Lol #JoeLycett in #marseille drinking #pastis - “the most popular drink in France, the second most popular, is of course, Irn Bru” 🤣

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#dogsofmastodon Millie the drama queen.

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New contract started today. Usual baffling details of names of people, systems and new and familiar tools used in familiar and also different ways. Keeps the brain churning for sure and will all become familiar in about 3 months or so :) #devops #contracting #work

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The amazing disappearing snout of Millie. #dogsofmastodon

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I have to say, this whole doing stuff for others in exchange for tokens to exchange for food, shelter and sundries, it’s getting very old after 33 years now, just like what I am. #work #retirement?lol

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Love John Robb’s description* of his forthcoming goth music book. (Starts with the fall of the Roman Empire and ends with Instagram influencers). Sounds kind of circular? :) * Electronically Yours podcast with Martyn Ware of Heaven 17.

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Getting there. 10K Sunday, 35 min 5K today. #running #c25K anniversary this year. 10 years since I graduated from walking to jogging slowly lol

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You know, I never properly watched #seinfeld until after I had watched #youretheworst and I think the characters in #YTW are more likeable individuals because at least they don’t try to pretend to not be horrible and selfish humans :)

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