“Scientists Warn Carney’s Changes Will Bring ‘Wilful Extinction’”: Conservatives actively attack and defund environmental measures. Liberals just… ignore them, apparently, in favour of their industrial buddies. We’re well on our way to become the U.S. in a few years.
The Silo TV series is really good, but instead of a mini-review I’ll just say that when we’ve watched a couple episodes and it’s 11PM and I tell my wife we should go to bed, she becomes feral, screams at me, and pounces on the remote to start a third episode.
Seeing a new push for genAI coding agents as a wedge for acceptance of the tech. Articles like “if you haven’t used Claude in a while, you might not grasp how good it is now!”
These articles still miss the fucking point and sound like “these Thracian slaves are actually getting pretty good now!”
I learned recently that John Romero (the video game designer) supposedly has hyperthymesia, which makes his “Hi Sandy, I hope you’re well. This is incorrect…” replies all the more funny and brutal. I love the guy just for that.