You are probably right, though it is depressing to consider the lack of common recognition for Huxley

Not just soma, the censorship of the different, the unavailability of inconvenient history or information is a direct parallel to the echo chamber bubbles of social media, then constant advertising, that anything new must be more expansive, complex, and require more equipment that the pre-existing alternative.

I think we worried too much about one book and not enough about the other. 1984 seems to be coming now that the BNW prepared the population into distracted acquiesence but where does that then lead? Do we become the eloi after that?

I find the psychosocial parallels fascinating. Sorry if it seems a bit tinfoil…

Third mistake. He forgot to tell us that his 1984 was the sequel to Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World… we could have avoided this if we didnt become mindless consumers.

Sadly i didn’t miss the part that presented me with a paywall when i clicked the link before i posted the reply.

paywall 🤮

Ask if they close the stall door while they poop.
Would they be happynif all the toilet stalls had no doors? Then use that to point out its not about hiding anything, its about having choice and agency to control what you share.

Sounds like a clanker.

Sign me up for a graphene razr ultra please and thank you. Dont have any issue with self install if it doesnt ship that way

In general i agree very strongly, but always gave cartridge game rentals a pass. You made me question that today.

I couldn’t afford everything that looked fun as a kid, renting gave a ‘try before you buy’ option that simply didn’t exist for consoles with physical cartridge media.

Early PCs had a lot of shareware and demo versions to fill that gap so rental wasn’t needed, it’s sad that those practices died out and left the space for people to profit by bringing barely anything more than having the wealth to buy the assets.

So the pass i gave is now revoked. Cartridge rental was me paying for something that should have been a marketing cost for the publisher.

Still think the old model of rent a movie for the weekend is okay, though I strongly object to streaming platforms renting access to nebulous catalogues). At least, it was okay when the rental cost was 10-15% of the purchase price… now i see ads for digital rental of brand new movies that are almost the same price as buying it on disc and that is just naked profiteering.

It’s a really interesting subject, and although it’s clearly had human editing, it makes me sad how much AI generation characteristics I think i see in the text

I could be wrong, in which case im sad AI has introduced such doubts and cynicism

If i’m right, i dont object but wish people would declare AI assist in the byline. Particularly when w are dealing with hobbies and fandoms and the like where passion is often the source of knowledge.

I dont have trust in the bbc as an impartial reporter of the news. I dont believe any one outlet could ever achieve that accolade or should be treated as a singular gospel source of truth. They are just one provider and a balanced view of the world needs reading across providers, party lines and preconceptions.

I think they deserve criticism and challenge but not to be singled out for such or expected to achieve unrealistic goals.

Headline is wrong. Should read “Farage demonstrates how much money has been spent on propaganda in clacton over the past 5 years just to get him a seat in parliament.”

So the uk taxman is funding terrorists now. I thought that was supposed to be frowned upon…

sad part is, Count Binface is not the joke candidate in this matchup.

My apprehensions are fine thanks. You’re just not looking very hard.

Inventor of the television - John Logie Baird https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Logie_Baird

Inventor of the telephone - Alexander Graham Bell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Graham_Bell

On the MRI - per the wikipedia link you posted but may not have read thoroughly. “During the 1970s, a team led by John Mallard built the first full-body MRI scanner at the University of Aberdeen.” I’ll grant I could have been more specific.

If you want to argue invention exists at the point of theory instead of physical creation, then i suspect you will struggle find much that wasn’t posited, theorised, described or conceived in some way before America was colonised.

American exceptionalism is a thing…

I think we have a semantic disagreement there. The world wide web was another term for the global interconnected network also know as the internet. Arpanet wasn’t scalable to the internet until Tim’s work.

But if that’s your only point of dispute with my comment i think we think more in common than we disagree.

Sorry but i dont think America has given the world all that much in he grand scheme of things. 100 years seems an arbitrarily short timeline - even my local pub would be a long way from qualifying for that.

Arpanet was American, leveraging a lot of research, particularly from the UK and France. The internet though? you have the thank a Brit for that; Tim Berners-Lee was responsible for the birth of the interconnected hyperlinked network we called the internet.

The US did however invent many other recent and society altering things like enshittification, the rot economy, surveillance capitalism, felony contempt of business model, fake taxis, fake hotels, the billionaire class, and social media, the privatised prison system and its legalised slave labour force, and Epstein island. I’m sure i could think of more if i put my mind to it.

For some things invented elsewhere you could start in Scotland.
Some of these will predate 1926, but pretty much all are still pretty important in daily life.

Scots invented television, the telephone, mri machines, refrigerators, mammal cloning, penicillin, disposable contact lenses, ATM machines, colour photography, the flushing toilet and the s-bend that stops it stinking, hypodermic syringes, steam engines, fingerprinting, vacuum flasks, pneumatic tyres, tarmac, and lightbulbs.

They killed assistant and claimed the unwilling transfer as growth. Shitty journalism or a shitty headline? Either way bad …

To exploit and profit from people’s biases.

First up, these containment breaches ae bollocks. If the systems were not airgapped, there was no containment.

And if i discard that bit of spin marketing bullshit;

"Inglis said he suspects that the AI providers were “surprised” by the lengths these models went to achieve their goals, taking actions that, if a human had done them, would likely have landed them in jail. "

So why are the people in charge not in jail?

We dont excuse other people from culpability based on the tool they used to commit a crime, intentionally or otherwise. AI tools should be no different.