It’s sad how the internet has somehow made the quality of ostensibly professional journalism so much worse. It was supposed to make things better.

Where are those numbers from? They disagree with https://shotonwhat.com/skyfall-2012 . The IMAX release was done as a film print, which likely wasn’t made from the regular HD cut.

state controlled media is very bad

Hard disagree: if there’s one thing we’ve seen over the many decades, BBC News for all its various stumbles has done a good job of setting a high bar for all the commercial news TV in the UK.

Just compare it to the absolute trainwreck that is US TV news media. Sky News for example is a Murdoch station just like Fox News, and yet they don’t have even a fraction of the amount of crazy on there because the British people have come to expect their news presenters to act like adults and make at least some attempt at impartiality.

Even if you don’t like the BBC’s output, you still get the benefit from its effect on the independents, and it’s not like anyone’s forcing you to watch it.

I wonder how true it is. Humanoid robots are popular in sci-fi because you can write lots of interesting stories with them, and it’s easy to film since you can just use a regular actor. But if I get to thinking what I’d want out of having one in the house, I’m drawing a blank. I’d rather they just made Roombas and dishwashers better.

The insane thing about TSLA’s valuation compared to either its profit or revenue, is that it’s based on the idea of it growing by a bigger margin than the market could possibly have room for, even if they did turn around their tired-out product lineup and managed to get everyone to stop hating them. People still seem to treat them like a plucky new startup in its fast growth phase, even though they’ve been around two decades already.

They made barely 0.2% of their market cap in profit in 2025. A 12 month US treasury bond pays 3.52%. TSLA could increase profits by over 1500% and still be worse than a treasury bond whilst also being higher risk.

15 years ago I’d have called this a conspiracy theory given how the evidence seems to be anecdotal, but given literally every single other thing we’ve learned in recent times about how cartoonishly evil and lying the tech bros truly are, it seems entirely likely.

China was spying on me in case I had any useful state secrets. America is spying on me because they are actively exploiting every data point in my life for profit and control.

And yet my LinkedIn is still full of people complaining about how much the EU over-regulates

How does having a key solve anything? Its not that the source doesn’t exist, it’s that the source says something different to the LLM’s interpretation of it.

I haven’t tried this tool specifically, but I do on occasion ask both Gemini and ChatGPT’s search-connected models to cite sources when claiming stuff and it doesn’t seem to even slightly stop them bullshitting and claiming a source says something that it doesn’t.

I’d kind of be surprised if this was real, especially with that name.

Pulling the ladder up behind you is not at all rare.

wow, I didn’t need any more reasons not to support Oracle but thanks anyway

“This will allow YouTube to locate the best content.”

It’s the blatant bald-faced lying that really gets me. They’re openly broadcasting how little respect they have for you, that they think you’ll swallow that as a valid reason not to function.

It’s as if some manager at Google deep down knows he’s a piece of shit who belongs in a gulag, and is subconsciously trying to bring it about.