evilstevie @evilstevie@mastod1.ddns.net

This is hilariously bad peak bubble bullshit marketing. The value proposition of this product is apparently you don't have any human friends so you want inane LLM babble at the press of a button to convey the impression of a "friend" interacting with you.

It's like a Furby without the fur.

https://www.friend.com/product.html

People: AI is destroying our environment.

Tech bro: This is an incredible opportunity for innovation in green tech energy!

People: There's no such thing as green tech energy. It all pollutes. It's just a matter of scale

Tech bro: The more energy and water AI consumes the greater the opportunities for tech innovation in energy and water conservation

People: You're not making any sense.

Tech bro: AI is the future. You can't stop progress. Innovation is key to everything.

People: Are you AI?

The more you work with governments and multinational enterprises internationally, the more you realise that the ‘deep state’ and most popular conspiracy theories couldn’t possibly be true because most people are just incompetent.

Like *sure* they have the resources, but have you met half the people working at these levels?

And they can’t operate without staff, and people would just leak it all, not even intentionally.

I think of the idea of the Illuminati or some other underground network controlling the world, then I log into Azure DevOps and look at 1000 people’s efforts to deliver a fucking web service and I’m reassured that I’m correct, without a shadow of a doubt.

Just remembered the museum we visited in Norway 5 years ago where everyone else was inexplicably ignoring a whole building & jetty full of VIKING SHIPS, we had the area to ourselves

I was called to a job yesterday.. "they just cut through their internet cable while redecorating, both ends of the cable are accessible, they just need rejoining."
🔌
Nobody told me one end was a ~100pair (200 wires) and had been cut almost back to the wall.
Needless to say.. I couldn't repair their internet, without having engineering access to put a tone on the line from the exchange I had no hope of guessing which pair it should have been connected to 😭.
#BT #BTOpenreach #Openreach #DSL #VDSL

Appybird has gone to Southwold Pier for its summer holidays. Wish it luck. #emf #emfcamp #emf24 @emf

It's FRIIIIIIDAAAAAAY! As ever have a good weekend, if you possibly can. Whoop whoop!

#sillyScribbles #FridaySparklyDancers #animation

BBC Model Linear B

The US finally understands the UK's reaction to the Cameron pig thing

RIP John Mayall

For those of over 60 John Mayall was one of the ways we discovered the blues (and its interaction with Jazz) in the 1960s/70s.... a fabulous advocate for the blues whose (often) mixed-race bands were a lesson in recognising your influences.

#music #blues

https://www.theguardian.com/music/article/2024/jul/23/john-mayall-blues-dies

When the sea splashed the lens…

#seascape #pontadesagres #portugal #photography #sunset #lighthouse #meermittwoch

I only boot this up to mess with the stats.

Went for a walk. The clouds were in fine, fine form. Slightly badly behaved though.

#sillyScribbles #cloudCreatures #silly #nonsense #skying

Seriously, the clouds were spectacular today. Look at this fluffy beast!

#sillyScribbles #cloudCreatures #silly #nonsense #skying #googlyEyes

Portrait of Myfanwy van Egg, aka horned wimple FTW

#sillyScribbles #MyfanwyAndFriend #artwork #silly #nonsense

I often worry that my imposter syndrome isn’t real.

Fuchsia flowers, in both bud and blooming forms, always make me think of fancy frocks. So aye.

#sillyScribbles #flower #photography #silly #nonsense