Reece’s persona is barely contained anger, and it feels like that’s not at all far from his personality…

Deliberate destruction of property to influence the government, with an ideological cause. I dunno - not hard to see the people behind this having an ideology and wanting to influence the government with their destructive act

What conversation do you believe you’re in? This is for UK chat about fish and chip shops.

And the answer to the question should have nothing whatsoever to do with a “fish guy” (FFS), but rather is a chip butty or chips and mushy peas

Freedom*

*To work really hard so that you can hand it all straight to banks

That looks like it would just about hold an old-school Palm Pilot or Psion - I can’t see it holding even a small MacBook in that space

Bran flakes have a lot of sugar in them. I’m sure Special K does too, but I love it too much to risk checking

This is one of his best. Love the overwrought emotions in his hand in the last frame

This CD was basically the soundtrack to my university years

Totally unrelated though, and just a coincidence. The word meme in the way we use it today was coined by Richard Dawkins in (IIRC) The Extended Phenotype. I presume it’s an abbreviation of Mental Gene, or something like that. The idea was that a meme is an idea or concept that can fight for survival amongst other ideas, just as a gene tries to survive being being a good fit to its environment

Might be the best of the series so far. The stage task was dramatic, and Matthew’s anticlimax well deserved that chef’s kiss

If people are wondering how traffic noise is so deadly, it’s usually things like hypertension and the effects of chronic sleep disturbance

They are the goodest space dogs

Great thread from Ed Zitron with some thoughts on this, and extracts from the suit

One reason I’d like to see Germany held to account is their long-term efforts to push the interests of their car industry, even as it filled the world with overly polluting (and, recently, increasingly over-sized) vehicles

I recently used just some smoked paprika for the same job. It was much nicer than the OEP spice mixture, and a lot cheaper

It’s one thing to push for car dependency, and to push for oil profits. But what boils my blood is the people who dress it up as being about equity.

The idea of general intelligence (g) is that you’ve got some overall capacity that can be turned to any task. Human intelligence is probably much more like a big toolbox of skills, though, and I can’t see a version of computer “intelligence” that’s any different to that. I worry that people who get excited about AI are kidding themselves a bit as it isn’t going to be general - it’s going to be a toolbox at best: an LLM for writing, a totally different system for drawing, another for identifying birdsong, and and yet another for maths… And at that point you’ve not got some special interesting AGI - you’ve just reinvented the idea of apps

If AGI is made of components, you could argue that it isn’t “general”. Which would be fine, as most psychologists would say the same about human intelligence

I can’t remember who said it, but somebody once framed this as “You can make a place easy to drive around or you can make it worth visiting, but you can’t do both”

I loved this game! I’ll never forget the time I came back from certain defeat when we suddenly passed a pub in northern England called something like “The Batley Marching Band”