What bad English? 😅

I saw this in the news today and remembered our conversation: https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/george-rr-martin-confirms-the-winds-of-winter-isnt-his-current-priority/ar-AA1U9JZB

And frankly, I can’t blame him. After all, we’re wired to seek joy and fulfillment in our lives, and I guess it’s pretty clear where those lie for good ol George these days. My secret hope though is that he’s just giving us time to forget the horror show before he releases the true ending of the story.

Also, if I were him, I’d just kill Tyrion out of spite, and then in the stupidest way possible. Let him get randomly kicked by a camel and choke in his own blood (or equivalent) and let a 3rd rank, barely named character take the spotlight in his stead. Maybe Polk will discover he has a head for politics after all? Go wild!

We live in interesting times. We’re all historians on Lemmy.

I feel your pain. Truly.

George and Pat Rothfuss changed my reading habits, now I’m not picking up series unless they’re done. Plenty of great works out there, like The Last Kingdom or the Aubrey/Maturin series. Ditto for TV series, especially Netflix produced ones. Too many get the chop on a dip of viewership these days.

I half suspect George lost his will to write after seeing how dnd massacred the last 3 seasons. Who wouldn’t? Especially if they were mangling his book notes. Now he’s treating this series as a chore, and he’d rather do anything else.

Source: trust me bro

https://www.standrewslawreview.com/post/brexit-s-detrimental-impact-on-environmental-law-and-protection-in-the-uk

If engineers ruled the world, this would be the everyday news.

#nottheonion ?

On topic: I’m in the same boat as you. My phone still works and has a decent battery life, so I don’t see the point of upgrading. I don’t game on my phone, well, nothing resource intensive anyway, and setting up a new one to my liking is a pain.

The other criterion for me is whether the phone still gets security updates. Once those stop, it’s time to look around. That may mean a new phone, but for Pixels you also gave Graphene OS as a possibility.

Bit off topic, but do yourself a favour, take a wooden toothpick and gently remove the lint from the USB-C port. You can thank me later.

Formal logic says you’re right. I was just thinking of making it an inclusive slogan (yeah, I’m overthinking this) 😂

First of all, hats off to you and your colleagues, it’s a hell of a job and I’m really glad you’re doing it, and doing it well.

I remember that night I wasn’t even mad, just glad they were on the ball. As for the other effect, my thinking before dialling was “someone must have called this in already, but let’s make sure anyway”. Wouldn’t take much to land on the other side of that decision, especially if you just see the aftermath of an incident.

Merry Christmas!

“Pain = gain” would probably be more accurate.

Almost ran into a broken down car on the highway, two wheels still on the overtake lane. Night, crowded, raining to boot. After I got my heart out of my throat I gave them a ring. The operator probably saw my location, so the conversation went like:

• Are you OK?

• Yes, I was calling…

• About a broken down car on highway XX?

• Yes, almost ran into it.

• You’re the 20th person to call. Emergency services are on the way.

Fastest mike in the West.

To the surprise of absolutely no one. No?

O the other hand, at least they spell it out. Willing to bet Meta is already doing all that and more behind the scenes, and data includes WhatsApp messages, DMs, photos… all the juicy stuff.

At this point, posting AI content on these platforms might actually be a form of fighting back, since new models might get indigestion as a result. Would love to hear someone qualified chime in on this.

Look Ma No Wires

I don’t miss it. I clicked today on a reddit search result after a long while and ended up on an AI generated search thing that was trying to be helpful. Noped the hell out.

“Accidentally” my foot, the one with bells on it. The engineers knew.

Whether Elon knew and green-lit it, or even ordered the move as payback for his unceremonious departure from DOGE is anyone’s guess. But I stand by what I said earlier, this was intentional - and more power to whoever pushed it to production.

Judging through the lens of history? A common enemy, and time. If there was another workable solution to the larger problem, they would have found it by now, as many people considerable smarter than me have tried.

No outside factor can build a durable peace, unless that peace is desired from within. Strong-arm tactics from the outside lead to cease fires, not peace. The lid goes back to the pot, but the fire is still there.

Gormenghast, that is, the main massing of the original stone, taken by itself would have displayed a certain ponderous architectural quality were it possible to have ignored the circumfusion of those mean dwellings that swarmed like an epidemic around its outer walls. They sprawled over the sloping earth, each one halfway over its neighbour until, held back by the castle ramparts, the innermost of these hovels laid hold on the great walls, clamping themselves thereto like limpets to a rock. These dwellings, by ancient law, were granted this chill intimacy with the stronghold that loomed above them. Over their irregular roofs would fall throughout the seasons, the shadows of time-eaten buttresses, of broken and lofty turrets, and, most enormous of all, the shadow of the Tower of Flints. This tower, patched unevenly with black ivy, arose like a mutilated finger from among the fists of knuckled masonry and pointed blasphemously at heaven. At night the owls made of it an echoing throat; by day it stood voiceless and cast its long shadow.

– “Titus Groan” by Mervin Peake

It’s a mood.

Marvin OS

Thank you for smoking (2005)