Andy Wootton

@vfrmedia@social.tchncs.de @confusedMiddleAgedDad@mastodon.social @kibcol1049@mstdn.social Ecstacy was not Coke, or Ketamin, or Spice. I think the drugs got angry and violent.

@confusedMiddleAgedDad@mastodon.social @kibcol1049@mstdn.social I've wondered how many old 'swords in walking sticks' were bought for path-clearance rather than defence.

@vfrmedia@social.tchncs.de @confusedMiddleAgedDad@mastodon.social @kibcol1049@mstdn.social I have only ever known one person who was stabbed, in a country lane by a complete stranger, walking to a birthday party in the 1970s. We didn't have mobile phones then so he turned up at the party with blood on his shirt.

@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io The UK is planning to drill for more North Sea oil and gas to burn. :-/. Our current political parties must have been bought.

@wendypalmer@mastodon.au Or are you being understood/encouraged, by a good friend with a similar addiction? I'm currently trying to avoid buying another musical instrument by sending links to a friend who also doesn't need it.

@andreamm@mastodon.social They can ask but I think I might politely decline.

@lankohr@mastodon.social @kibcol1049@mstdn.social It's just maths. As the radius of your circle of knowledge increases, the border with everything you don't know increases 2π times more. You have only become more ignorant *relatively*. :-)

@riverpunk@defcon.social @thomasjwebb@mastodon.social @mcc@mastodon.social @cwebber@social.coop "Regression is the new Progression' is going to be getting the hard sell.

@jakob@pxi.social I would favour "slop-frosting", in English :-). "Cheesy" has other meanings.

@randahl@mastodon.social But he thinks that's OK if you are white, because he's a racist, as well as a hypocrite.

@randahl@mastodon.social Canada first. He's a classic economic migrant.

@ItsThatDeafGuy@beige.party That sounds like hate speech of a protected characteristic, which is illegal. Has anyone reported them yet?

@CppGuy@infosec.space @naturepunk@ecoevo.social Yesbut: hospital staff working shifts when/where there is no public transport shouldn't have to pay to park.

@naturepunk@ecoevo.social Imagine being so tight that you'd rather move home twice a year than pay something towards the NHS (or for the armed forces to defend their country, if they are that way inclined.)

@mcspocky@mstdn.party That's why I regularly turn off Android backup and remove photos from my phone. I deleted the Facebook app too but caught the web page trying to reinstall it and deleted it again. I'd really like a phone the techbroze don't think they own.

@naturepunk@ecoevo.social Saving water by avoiding avos became gesture politics when techbroze accelerated stealing water to evaporate in AI data centers.

@gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green I don't want AI because this was obvious. What is less obvious, is why anyone else does. AI should be a few research projects at this point. Will the AI Winter be this year or next? Do we have another year?

@DrALJONES@mastodon.social Who's going to apologise to Jeremy Corbyn on behalf of the UK government and the BBC?

@fazalmajid@social.vivaldi.net @ReggieHere@mastodon.social @cstross@wandering.shop @NotTheLBCGuy@mstdn.social Yeah, they do that. Half of us are below average intelligence, despite Michael Gove's best efforts.

@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io It would look like a disclaimer? Or be interpreted as "I'm proud that I chose not to write this" :-). I enjoy thinking so I haven't tried an LLM yet but I'm retired now so I'm not under pressure to work 'faster but worser' any more. I did experience the early part of that trend and I didn't like it.

@electric_gumball@mastodon.social @hatter@metasocial.com @nixCraft@mastodon.social They always do what the other lemmings are doing, so they don't feel left out. We are (mostly) tribal animals, at a time when we need individuals to think for themselves. What is the obsession with "Reality" TV and Social (engineering) Network click-bait really about?

@me@jaehanley.social You only have to adapt to stay alive if the environment has changed. Maybe it's less work to change it back than to keep obeying a dictator's latest order.

@An0n@beige.party We still stole half their language but that's different. A "nation of [linguistic] shop-lifters".

@bascule@mas.to AND they are cheaper!

@An0n@beige.party I think it's a mainland European thing. You do it the British way. I blame Napoleon, with zero evidence. We traditionally blamed the French for most things until fascism broke the natural order of things :-).

@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us They may be successful in the way that Margaret Thatcher was when she pushed Labour to the right, under Tony Blair. What a pity the LibDems didn't find a role for Zack Polanski, pushing them a little Left. That's where a progressive party needs to be to stay elected. The media of the Far Right clearly understand that.

@0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange I thought that was obviously nonsense. How much trouble could it be to avoid a small monument? OTOH: I find it odd that a film set has acquired religious significance.

@harrybo@gamerstavern.online I'm shocked by the things you see taken to 'the dump'. It may be called a "recycling centre" but I don't see much evidence of that.

@danielbierstedt@norden.social @nixCraft@mastodon.social So far...

@ben@werd.social They are lying. They want to make everything much worse.

@mikemcquaid@mastodon.social Hmm... Fix 'taking without paying' by 'taking without paying'? I guess that might (occasionally) work out fairly but mostly it feels like a revenge attack on corporate greed and more likely to lead to FOSS being banned if your 'activism' is detected. You will probably end up on a list of suspected terrorists. :-)

@noplasticshower@infosec.exchange OK, if you prioritise power and luxury over longevity.

@GeofCox@climatejustice.social @thepurpleoctopus@lgbtqia.space @Colman@mastodon.ie Are you sure it's the British system that's broken, not some schools? My daughter attended a state school, studied German, Japanese and Latin to GCSE and has A Levels in Art, Design & Technology, Maths and Physics. I'm terrible at languages. I can't learn vocabulary (possibly undiagnosed ADHD), so I'd have hated being forced to continue to fail.

@longhairmoto@infosec.exchange Why won't they think of the billionairs and the fossil fuel industry?

@beyondmachines1@infosec.exchange Do I hear echoes of sub-prime mortgages?

@subterfugue@sfba.social @danielbierstedt@norden.social @nixCraft@mastodon.social Automation is 'doing work automatically' that that used to be done by a human. This was justifiable when it freed them to do something more valuable with their time. We've replaced farm labourers, weavers and knitters, scribes, human computers, filing clerks and factory workers with machines. What will we do when machines replace thinking and our knowledge is no longer useful to whatever beings might have fed us but will decide that is no longer viable.

@openrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.org While I agree, I found 38degrees to be very 'noisy' after signing a previous petition, as if they had over-stepped the boundaries of the permission I had given them to use my data.

@thepurpleoctopus@lgbtqia.space @Colman@mastodon.ie I think Cambridge University still awards Natural Science 'Bachelor of Arts' (:-/) degrees.

@johnzajac@dice.camp @Janet_52square@sunny.garden @nixCraft@mastodon.social If they've 'laid-off' 4 others, they'll be happy but you now have a target on your back as a 'reducible expense', so their bonus can go higher.

@Jeremiah@alpaca.gold That only sounds like the extravert version.

@sil@mastodon.social It depends what they're urging you to do.

@noplasticshower@infosec.exchange Don't kill them. Civil War is exactly what they want; a return to Feudal Society, with them as Warlords.

@Colman@mastodon.ie @thepurpleoctopus@lgbtqia.space I think STEAM is more popular now.

@angusm@mastodon.social Is the UK government fighting itself out just technically clueless? Ban kids from The Socials while teaching them how to pretend to be in another country where those laws don't apply? Is this a way to train future spies and hackers?

@ben@werd.social I think 'woke whacking' was a policy, though none of their supporters seem able to define what they think "woke" means.

@indivisibleteam@mastodon.social People were rather foolish to vote for such an obvious fascist. It's happening in Europe too.

@mattblaze@federate.social I'm generally unimpressed by the 'Universality' of USB-C. The faster charging problem could have been solved with exchangeable batteries. It was once.

@eco-g@stroud.social I thought he wanted to keep his family out of the public eye. "You can take the boy out of the palace but...". What a bad choice of subject for attempting a UK career reboot. I assume he must still be taking US 'celeb' PR advice.

@danielbierstedt@norden.social @GrandmasterBash@chaos.social @ben@bluetoot.hardill.me.uk @nixCraft@mastodon.social Why do you have to create presentations? If companies fired the people who ask for reports they'll never read or ask for 'dashboards' they won't look at, they wouldn't need AI. Or: why don't THEY ask AI to write them? If managers were asked to show the benefit:cost ratio of THEIR decisions, could they?

@ben@bluetoot.hardill.me.uk @u0421793@toot.pikopublish.ing @doctormo@floss.social @nixCraft@mastodon.social @danielbierstedt@norden.social Cocane. I had no help from AI to do that.