Ben Pine

I recently made a comic complaining that NASA refuses to listen to my good ideas for improving the Solar System (xkcd.com/2750). To my delight, NASA’s Science Mission Directorate has sent me an actual expert panel evaluation of my “flatten the planets” proposal! Sadly, they decided not to fund it.

Late to the Pitch Perfect party, but “I ate my twin in the womb” is a candidate for best line in a film.

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Today has been a good maths day

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For those who haven’t tried it: If you put the emoji 📌 in any comment or post it will save it to this private feed that only you can see 👇 bsky.app/profile/did:... It’s super useful

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20 years ago we were suing teenagers for millions of dollars because they were torrenting a single Metallica album and now billionaires are demanding the free right to every work in history, so that they can re-sell it. The law only ever serves capital.

‘Impossible’ to create AI tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material, OpenAI says

‘Impossible’ to create AI tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material, OpenAI sayswww.theguardian.com Pressure grows on artificial intelligence firms over the content used to train their productsBusiness live – latest updatesThe developer OpenAI has said it would be impossible to create tools like its groundbreaking chatbot ChatGPT without access to copyrighted material, as pressure grows on artificial intelligence firms over the content used to train their products.Chatbots such as ChatGPT and image generators like Stable Diffusion are “trained” on a vast trove of data taken from the internet, with much of it covered by copyright – a legal protection against someone’s work being used without permission. Continue reading...

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With parts of England flooded again, a reminder that one key reason is that our winters are getting wetter as the world is warming. Lots of variation from year-to-year but winter rainfall has increased by ~27% overall since records began in 1837.

But Tenet is great!

I don’t want to give spoilers but Rebel Moon is really bad. Really really bad.

Love this and all your stuff.

Holdfast. #art #guildeleven

This year I’m thankful for our new 10 year old, one eyed, pirate cat Tiggs, who has filled a hole in my heart.

I just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in.

And I just want to thank you for the opportunity to see just how much I could make from you

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OKAY FUN RESOLUTIONS, GO mine is that my condo complex has a weekly mahjong group and I want to go regularly enough to get really good at it

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The sun rises. You make coffee and lace your boots. You whisper to the pines. They do not respond. It has been hours but the sun is still rising. You curse the pines like a poem. You drive. The road turns to coffee and you sink into your boots. The pines do not whisper. It is time to start again.

Boy, did I have a day. It lasted many hours and was full of events. Words were uttered. I drove an automobile. You don't even know.