MrBarrington

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Stockholm-based, London-born book/language nerd 🤓

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FWIW on the owlsite

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Newsletter: Goldman Sachs has called BS on Generative AI, and I believe that it's time that everybody follows suit - generative AI is unreliable, unsustainable, requires an entire rebuild of America's power grid, and is most decidedly not the future. www.wheresyoured.at/pop-culture/

Pop Culturewww.wheresyoured.at A week and a half ago, Goldman Sachs put out a 31-page-report (titled "Gen AI: Too Much Spend, Too Little Benefit?”) that includes some of the most damning literature on generative AI I've ever seen. ...

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Epische foto.

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To be clear: a coalition of the Left — the socialists — and the Greens were able to block the far Right in France. And there is a lesson here for the US: voters across the West want the neoliberal experiment to end. We CAN and we MUST end it to save the future & improve people's wellbeing to boot!

Well France apparently just collabed between everyone else to kick a far right party out of the chance to take power, it can be done if enough people want it to be, folks

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Am I cooler than the least cool thing imaginable? Yeah, probably.

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Amazing the Olivia Nuzzi story can’t get a single person to go on the record, and the strongest evidence against Biden’s mental health is he didn’t remember her name.

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It’s legitimately amazing no donor would give their name to call Biden old or forgetful.

Amazing the Olivia Nuzzi story can’t get a single person to go on the record, and the strongest evidence against Biden’s mental health is he didn’t remember her name.

Slightly tripped up by realising on page 66 that Marie Darrieussecq’s Sleepless has been translated into Australian English

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Dirk de Herder. Amsterdam, 1940's More here www.mutualart.com/Artist/Dirk-...

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The Court ruling today is terrible but expected. I will just gently remind everyone that the election hasn’t happened yet. We shouldn’t assume the worst outcome as a foregone conclusion. That only encourages more apathy than many are already feeling.

Among the childhood toys of my partner & her brothers is Globochem's magical, pan-sexual, non-threatening spokesthing Pit-Pat

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Fucking hell imagine going to the gym and finding this parping arsehole's there. Actually, imagine going to the gym.

CrossFit Trainer Plays Trombone While Doing Squats laughingsquid.com/playing-trom...

CrossFit Trainer Plays Trombone While Doing Squatslaughingsquid.com CrossFit Trainer Sam Woodhead combines his love of music and fitness by impressively playing trombone while doing squats and other exercises.

Ah yes, traditional Swedish chorizo just like your gammal abuela used to make

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There are “no links whatsoever between the offshore wind development activity and especially the humpback whale mortalities. None. Zero.” But oil & gas & shipping interests sure want you to think wind energy is what's killing whales 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/whal...

Whales Are Dying but Not from Offshore Windwww.scientificamerican.com Politicians and nonprofit groups have blamed offshore wind turbines for whale deaths, but the science doesn’t support those claims—at all

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Friends don't let friends use AI as a reference book.

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I learned at an engineering conference recently that one crypto mine in TX, 100s of MW, makes more money off ERCOT demand response markets than it does off crypto repeat: TX ratepayers pay them more to sometimes stop mining than they make by actual mining just bananas misuse of power markets 🔌💡

Crypto-mining accounts for 2% of all U.S. electricity usage. (Bitcoin alone consumes the same amount of energy as the entire state of Utah.)

Crypto Mining Consumes a Mind-Boggling 2% of U.S. Electricityheatmap.news Bitcoin alone consumes roughly the same amount of energy as Utah.

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I have some Bluesky invites, if anyone needs one just DM me

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Malcolm Tucker's Star Wars. You can catch up on the original trilogy canon in thirty seconds.

Star Wars Described by a Non Fanyoutu.be The Thick of It's Malcolm Tucker (Peter Capaldi) trying to describe Star Wars in series 4 episode 2.

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The mainstreaming of 'AI' scepticism: https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2024/the-mainstreaming-of-ai-scepticism/

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“I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again — Ludicity” ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-... > This isn't a recipe for disaster, it's a cookbook for someone looking to prepare a twelve course fucking catastrophe. Today’s must-read

I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again — Ludicityludic.mataroa.blog

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taxes

For the life of me, I will never not pronounce her name as “Charli XKC”

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Trying to fix a sentence, and sharing the thought process. open.substack.com/pub/awriters...

On Fixing a Sentenceopen.substack.com from Yesterday

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A live online Bloomsday gathering on Sunday 16th June featuring authors Lee Klein and P J Blumenthal, poet Simon Barraclough and Joyce scholar Caroline Hett. Free, and all welcome. Full details here: davidjcollard.blogspot.com/2024/05/a-bl...

A Bloomsday gatheringdavidjcollard.blogspot.com Sunday 16th June at 7pm UK time On the 16th June we celebrate Bloomsday (of course) with American authors Lee Klein and P. J. Blumenthal ...

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Seeing lots of centre-left people enjoying the return of Farage as another way of sinking the Tories. They are very mistaken. The man is poison, and the death of the Conservative Party is nothing to wish for given that he plans to reanimate it in his image.

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Wait. Hold on. I know the answer to this one…

Google Is Using A.I. to Answer Your Health Questions. Should You Trust It?www.nytimes.com Experts say the new feature may offer dubious advice in response to personal health queries.

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Cryptocurrency companies have raised over $115 million to influence US elections this cycle, and they’re just getting started. We need to closely watch how cryptocurrency companies are influencing US politics. www.citationneeded.news/2024-cryptoc...

Cryptocurrency companies have raised over $115 million to influence US elections this cycle, and they’re just getting startedwww.citationneeded.news As election season kicks into high gear, we need to watch how cryptocurrency companies are influencing US politics.

We’re pretty diligent in this house about using all the leftovers, still I’m not *super* excited about this week-old quinoa with reheated four day-old quorn taco mince assembly, let’s see if some hot sauce will cover up the worst of it

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just remembered the time fergus craig decided to have a sandwich in every pret in london in a single day ferguscraig.substack.com/p/i-decided-...

I decided to have a sandwich in every Pret a Manger in London in one day. Here's what happened.ferguscraig.substack.com 10am. Today I’m going to do something a little bit different, a little bit wacky and - hopefully - a little bit fun. I’m going to eat a sandwich in every Pret A Manger in London. My pub crawling days ...

Hilarious that Peter Thiel wants to found a Mediterranean city and call it “Praxis”, what a dumb fricken name