The most powerful people in the world are fucking idiots.

Thank you for everything, and sorry it became a sour experience. Most of all though, thank you for handing it over to others to continue! Too many projects just die; hopefully this one will live a long life.

In the long list of “thing Liz Truss is wrong about”, this is one of the biggest.

Thing is, this isn’t AI causing the problem. It’s humans using it in incredibly dumb irresponsible ways. Once again, it’ll be us that do ourselves in. We really need to mature as a species before we can handle this stuff.

Trying out Arc, which I like, but if I want a full browser experience, then Firefox.

I read this in John Oliver’s voice…

Yep, time to just blackhole their DNS entries.

This is exactly what happened with the early waves of mastodon migration; a whole load of instances suddenly had to up their game, there was defederation all over, and tooling had to improve to handle mod needs in larger communities. We’ll get there, it’ll stabilise. In the meantime, fund your server and thank your mods :)

And you can see highlights on Mastodon: @openbenches@botsin.space

On a slightly similar though perhaps less useful note, a colleague of mine runs https://govbins.uk, collecting pictures of council bins, so maybe take a photo of your bins too while you’re out doing benches. I love British whimsy projects.

Oh, thank god, /r/CasualUK was the best place on Reddit. Glad some of us have made it over here.

Any luck catching them swans, then?

I knew I’d never get round to exploring all this WAD had to offer, so I watched this video instead, would recommend. What an incredible piece of work this thing is; I really want to see a tech breakdown video next that explains how the hell all the “impossible” stuff was done.