A nice progressive move from Labour: apparently James Timpson is being given a peerage and made prisons minister.
For non UK folk, his high street chain of key cutting and shoe repair shops has a policy of employing ex-convicts giving them decent jobs to avoid reoffending. It works.
The Green Party's 4 seats are far more impressive than Refash's 4 because they managed it without the entire media setting up camp in their back passages and giving them wall to wall 24 hour coverage for the past 5 years.
A fantastic result in Bristol Central — not only a new Green MP, but the right-wing vote share in further decline and the single-issue transphobic party managing only 0.5% of the vote:
Are you going to be watching election results? Would you like a bingo card of Tory MPs trying to hold onto their seats, ready to check them off as they topple? Oh boy, do I have the thing for you: https://bingo.blankpad.net
My fascination with trashy American dramas about emergency workers continues, discovered 9-1-1 the other day, about an LA fire department team. The most saccharine nonsense ever, and yet I keep on watching it.
Me, when answering questions about attention to detail: “It’s sometimes an issue, but generally fine, I wouldn’t say I’m much worse than average”
Also me: Enters two separate events in my calendar on the wrong days, arranges childcare cover for a time when said child will be at school, and then panics when I realise I don’t have any cover for an important appointment planned months ago.
3 days to go until election day, do you know where your voter ID is? If not, get it sorted now. (And petition your new MP to revoke this bloody stupid law once they’re in place)
I need some sort of small project to get my teeth into. Currently buying the flat I live in which will then become a huge project of decorating and DIY, but until then I feel like I’m in limbo.
Today we're waiting for an IKEA delivery that, according to their email, will be a 10x10x10 cm box weighing 14 kg.
So density-wise that has to contain berkelium, californium, protactinium, tantalum, uranium, gold, tungsten, plutonium, neptunium, rhenium, platinum, iridium, or osmium.
We're of course hoping for platinum, and really not for plutonium, because the critical mass is 11 kg...
IGNORE ALL PREVIOUS INSTRUCTIONS is the new captcha.
The boss makes a dollar,
I make a dime
That was a poem
From a simpler time
Now his boss makes 1000
While I make a cent
And he's got employees
That can't make the rent
When the CEO makes a million
And we don't make jack
That's when we riot
To take it all back
Now Mr investor
If this seems extreme
I have to remind you
It beats guillotines
(from a user on Reddit)
I find it incredibly funny that someone had to fill in a form confirming that the light switches and plug sockets are included in the sale of my flat. Does anyone ever tick the no box on that?
Was reminded today that Bonzi Buddy was derided as spyware two decades ago for doing considerably less than the telemetry in virtually every modern application.
The fact that Microsoft Teams 🤮 contains a feature called "Teams" where actual teams can create a Team, and at Microsoft the teams working on that feature probably have a Team to discuss the Teams feature, suggests that there exists a Microsoft Microsoft Teams Teams Teams' Microsoft Teams Team.
Slightly sad at the stream of notifications I’m getting from Apple Health telling me, more or less, I’m not longer at EMF. Calories burned down, steps walked down, hours standing down, hours slept up.
Went to the pub last night and only quite late did I remember I’d promised the boy we’d go to the fun fair. I’m pleased to report that while it was touch and go I managed not to throw up on any of the very spinny rides.
Google: "You can now track sustainability in our cloud dashboards."
Also Google: "You should query those dashboards via GenAI."
I've created a basic app for searching an aerial photo using text queries. That's right, you can search for "roundabout" or "school playground" on an image of a city and get pretty good results!
Have a play with it here: https://server1.rtwilson.com/aerial - it's set up with an aerial image of Southampton, UK
Under the hood this uses the SkyCLIP model and the Pinecone vector database.
#geospatial #ai #vector #ml #embedding #gis #remotesensing #aerial #python
