Notices by Wieferich Prime (pikesley@mastodon.me.uk)

"I went to the Nazi bar and I didn't see any politics" says more about you than you maybe realise

"Being British is very bad for your wellbeing"

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/oct/08/covid-brexit-liz-truss-mini-budget-lasting-decline-mental-health-uk-study?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Poisoning the LLMs until every response is some variation of "Unionise"

So much of our current fuckery feels downstream of People Thinking LinkedIn Is Important

Some rich tech asshole: "I am a fascist. Here is a list of fascist things that I, a full-blown mask-off fascist, believe"

Equivocating FOSS Libs on here: "Well, it's impossible to say if he's actually fash. He's said some racist things, sure, (and I'm apparently OK with that?) but I don't believe he's actually a fascist"

Having Opinions about specific versions of LLMs feels a lot like Knowing Your IQ. Like, I understand that you believe it's important, but it's telling me much more about you than you think it is, and not in any kind of good way

This thought brought to you in part by ruminations on some Thought Leadership to which I was exposed at #DevOpsDaysLondon last week

"You may think [this thing], but that all changed when Opus 4.2 came out"

You realise you sound like you're talking about different grades of Magic Lantern, right?

This is what Too Much LinkedIn does to a MF

LinkedIn and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race

Thinking about this awful goblin again. So much of our current fuckery feels tied-up with this abject soullessness

https://youtube.com/shorts/vAn7DsXWQGE?si=Cr7i5BgXxay1duiV

Fifty unbroken years of fanatical neoliberalism have led people to genuinely believe that the urge to create doesn't exist. People who pick up guitars are faking it

Zawinski's Law, 2026 Edition: Every program attempts to expand until it can have some pointless fucking AI shit, that nobody asked for, shoehorned into it

the volume of a pizza of radius `z` and thickness `a` is pi·zz·a

"No, I didn't plagiarise it, I simply Found It In My Training Data"

People You Wouldn't Trust To Pour Piss Out Of A Boot With The Instructions Printed On The Heel are somehow running the country, Part #3214312

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/sep/02/uk-datacentres-ai-boom-foi-environment

NHS Choose A Consistent Channel To Contact Me On I Am Begging You Challenge

Sometimes we'll send you messages on the NHS app. Sometimes stuff will just appear there, unheralded. Sometimes we'll send you SMSes. Sometimes we'll also call you, and sometimes that'll be from a number you recognise. Or maybe we'll send you a letter. Perhaps that letter will be from a clinic berating you for missing an appointment you didn't know about

"Please call this number urgently for an urgent appointment that we've just decided is urgent"

Oh, this one's been outsourced to some parasitic private healthcare fuckery. So now I have to deal with a whole other binfire of bureaucracy