Notices by Bob Thomson (bobthomson70@mastodon.social)

@cstross I think many of us in France think it’s time for the 6th Republic to spin up.

@NatureMC @cstross to me it’s like many western democracies now; it has a system that does not reflect the multi party situation now, and also the participation of actors who give no fucks about accepted conventions of how things are done and thus demonstrate the need for more guardrails.

@ryanhoulihan fuck that jeez

@ryanhoulihan is today’s Wordle Cock?

@ryanhoulihan a lot of these folks are begging to be replaced by automaton. After all, as you say, if they are going to uncritically publish press releases, what actual journalism is being done there? Just a pipeline of BS :(

@ryanhoulihan tomatoes + cheese and salt on the tomatoes, nice!

@ryanhoulihan do Americans just never use butter in a sandwich? I’m going to start a U.S. buttered sandwich chain: Buttery Bob’s It will be a revolution. Butter and jam pieces for the US masses! Jambon beurre FTW.

@ryanhoulihan I’m only on the latest main stable version but they somehow fucked autocorrect a release or two back by trying to improve it, to the extent that a pal thought they had a hardware fault on their screen that was not detecting their typing.

@ryanhoulihan a buddy system for life.

@ryanhoulihan I’m pretty sure no LLM will be ever be truly intelligent, but I’m absolutely certain none will ever match your sass hen.

@ryanhoulihan I loved my first 2-3 weeks on steroids. Wrote so much. Since then it’s dropped off a cliff again ugh 😣 10 more days and off them once more. Back to brain fog and fatigue land.

@ryanhoulihan I’m always amused by how appalling bad Trump’s fake tan line is, or indeed how bad every aspect of it is, colour and all. Ad hominem is bad, but JHC everything about the presentation of that guy is ridiculous, and I say that as a fully paid up member of the scruffy schlub club.

@ryanhoulihan and he routinely mixes up names, can’t navigate through 2 sentences in a row in a coherent manner, and can barely say one without an outrageous lie in it, but that’s all just priced in and accepted as how he is and is just fine. Utter insanity.

@ryanhoulihan aren’t we all knock offs in the end? #philosophy #thoughtfortheday

@ryanhoulihan got to make room for that Halloween tat.

@ryanhoulihan as with most things, Starmer not terribly clear or decisive on such issues and trying to please all. Wiki -

@ryanhoulihan only saw this when it was on TV the first time, would like to again.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0353104/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk

Literally what they do at the end of it :)

@ryanhoulihan I think that the thing that keeps humans going, despite knowing about their own mortality is the ability to deny it regularly and, unfortunately most who have the spare time to do so, overuse that ability to retreat into every day minutiae and culture in order to avoid difficult issues. Same thing that allows populism / conspiracy to flourish too I’d say: the world is horrific and complex, make it binary and simple like a good guy / bad guy action movie please they say.

@ryanhoulihan that sure goes for, a lot, most/all, of the people who are elevated to the stop of end stage capitalism, a system that venerates folks who are part of the problem and not the solution.

@ryanhoulihan some library love from my childhood. https://medium.com/@bobthomson70/me-well-read-not-really-dc868d9d49df libraries so important.

“Libraries gave us power
Then work came and made us free
What price now
For a shallow piece of dignity?”