British tech has always been about weirdos in sheds making things that just work. We should get George from Robot Wars to come up with some crazy drone design that decapitates people and mass produce it to clear out the Donbas.

Massive if true.

Calling calling International Rescue

Then they can ask the chatbot how to get the country out of debt.

Totally normal.

Nearly missed Saddam.

The Fediverse is a great idea, but tbh there’s a lot about the current generation of apps that is centralised in other ways that will doubtless compromise them later. As we can see from how even instance mods can behave, any concentration of power at all can and will lead to fief building. The aim should be to allow the network paradigm to have enough plurality and redundancy to outlive such politicking.

And they’re absolutely armed to the teeth in terms of guns per capita.

Sure, maybe they’d win the invasion easily, but can they win an occupation of a hostile populace for an indeterminate duration? The 21st Century repeatedly suggests the answer to that is “no, eh”.

Instead of “bad” you have to say “ungood” from now on.

The tech companies seem more interested in what will bouy up their share prices than actually producing products that people want.

I have one of those at work now, but my experience with it is still quite limited. With Copilot it was quite useful for knocking up quick boutique solutions for particular problems (stitch together a load of PDFs sorted on a name heading), with the proviso that you might end up having to repair bleed between dependency versions and repair syntax. I couldn’t trust it with big refactors of existing systems.

At a beach restaurant the other night I kept hearing a loud American voice cut across all conversation, going on and on about “AI” and how it would get into all human “workflows” (new buzzword?). His confidence and loudness was only matched by his obvious lack of understanding of how LLMs actually work.

Always wondered why Americans say “missul” instead of missile. Now I know.

It’s 100% a Viz scan from the 90s.

Clever girls.

They should include all the Roman forts marked on the OS map, and when you go there there’s only the slightest hint of rectangular mounds in the field. Also, it should be “British, Yorkshire and Irish Islands”, if we’re going to keeping expanding it based on levels of beef.

Are you a bad enough dude to Kompromat the President?

We need to make this happen.

If we took away the officers we would at least give the soldiers a fighting chance, under equipped and trained as they doubtless are.