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Once again, it turns out “fully autonomous” means “a guy in the Philippines.”
It Turns Out Waymos Are Being Controlled by Workers in the Philippines
During a Congressional hearing, Waymo's chief safety officer, Mauricio Peña, was grilled over the company's reliance on overseas workers.
futurism.com
February 6, 2026 at 3:37 PM
Once again, it turns out “fully autonomous” means “a guy in the Philippines.”
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What I find amusing about the Express' cinematic universe is that the UK is simultaneously free and thriving thanks to Brexit and poor and oppressed thanks to the current government. This dichotomy is also reflected in Mail/Telegraph etc but its at its most acute in the Express.
February 3, 2026 at 11:42 AM
What I find amusing about the Express' cinematic universe is that the UK is simultaneously free and thriving thanks to Brexit and poor and oppressed thanks to the current government. This dichotomy is also reflected in Mail/Telegraph etc but its at its most acute in the Express.
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Ed Zitron made a post saying he blocks people that pedantically point out his typos. So I joked that he's typo negative and he blocked me.
December 30, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Ed Zitron made a post saying he blocks people that pedantically point out his typos. So I joked that he's typo negative and he blocked me.
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I posted this print by Danial Ryan that I have, and someone got really mad, saying that I was promoting harm toward cats, obviously don't care about animals, animal abuser, etc. etc. They were not joking.
December 31, 2025 at 3:47 AM
I posted this print by Danial Ryan that I have, and someone got really mad, saying that I was promoting harm toward cats, obviously don't care about animals, animal abuser, etc. etc. They were not joking.
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Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
December 29, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
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Our house has a covenant from when it was built in 1948 decreeing that no alcohol other than that purchased from the brewery who built the estate should be consumed on the premises.
December 10, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Our house has a covenant from when it was built in 1948 decreeing that no alcohol other than that purchased from the brewery who built the estate should be consumed on the premises.
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Reminder that X has been blocked in Russia since 2022, people now regularly go to jail for like 10-15 years for posting a wrong thing online, and one of the biggest topics in Russian nationalist channels in the last few days was a proudly announced migration deal with India.
December 6, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Reminder that X has been blocked in Russia since 2022, people now regularly go to jail for like 10-15 years for posting a wrong thing online, and one of the biggest topics in Russian nationalist channels in the last few days was a proudly announced migration deal with India.
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If any Eurovision fans want to jump to something else, silent movies have all the glitz and glam and trash
December 5, 2025 at 5:21 AM
If any Eurovision fans want to jump to something else, silent movies have all the glitz and glam and trash
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The 'public services' the public endlessly demands need to be understood as pensions, heathcare, potholes repair and policing. Everything else is wasteful 'welfare'.
November 28, 2025 at 11:36 AM
The 'public services' the public endlessly demands need to be understood as pensions, heathcare, potholes repair and policing. Everything else is wasteful 'welfare'.
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Biggest trends of the 'account location' discoveries on X:
MAGAs: the whole of Indian subcontinent, quite a few Arab states
Russian patriots: Nigeria, India
European nationalists: Americans
Islamists: UK, Canada
MAGAs: the whole of Indian subcontinent, quite a few Arab states
Russian patriots: Nigeria, India
European nationalists: Americans
Islamists: UK, Canada
November 23, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Biggest trends of the 'account location' discoveries on X:
MAGAs: the whole of Indian subcontinent, quite a few Arab states
Russian patriots: Nigeria, India
European nationalists: Americans
Islamists: UK, Canada
MAGAs: the whole of Indian subcontinent, quite a few Arab states
Russian patriots: Nigeria, India
European nationalists: Americans
Islamists: UK, Canada
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I reckon you can learn a lot about the atmosphere in various Oxford colleges by looking at what they choose to name their cats (courtesy of @oxfordclarion.bsky.social ). We should all aspire to the energy of a Teabag, Isambard Kitten Brunel, or an Admiral Flapjack
oxfordclarion.uk/college-cats...
oxfordclarion.uk/college-cats...
November 21, 2025 at 1:01 PM
I reckon you can learn a lot about the atmosphere in various Oxford colleges by looking at what they choose to name their cats (courtesy of @oxfordclarion.bsky.social ). We should all aspire to the energy of a Teabag, Isambard Kitten Brunel, or an Admiral Flapjack
oxfordclarion.uk/college-cats...
oxfordclarion.uk/college-cats...
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Compare and contrast the Government language.
£3,750 EV grant on a £35k car: ‘helping families’.
Cycle to Work: ‘subsidising leisure’.
And yet cycling delivers TEN TIMES the impact of electric cars for reaching net zero. It’s almost like narrative, not data, is driving policy.
£3,750 EV grant on a £35k car: ‘helping families’.
Cycle to Work: ‘subsidising leisure’.
And yet cycling delivers TEN TIMES the impact of electric cars for reaching net zero. It’s almost like narrative, not data, is driving policy.
November 21, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Compare and contrast the Government language.
£3,750 EV grant on a £35k car: ‘helping families’.
Cycle to Work: ‘subsidising leisure’.
And yet cycling delivers TEN TIMES the impact of electric cars for reaching net zero. It’s almost like narrative, not data, is driving policy.
£3,750 EV grant on a £35k car: ‘helping families’.
Cycle to Work: ‘subsidising leisure’.
And yet cycling delivers TEN TIMES the impact of electric cars for reaching net zero. It’s almost like narrative, not data, is driving policy.
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I’d like to see Claire Danes play a lady for whom everything is going great and nothing worries her at all. Maybe she’s not even a lead, just the lead’s friend who lives in comfort, amusement, and delight.
I think she’s earned it.
I think she’s earned it.
November 19, 2025 at 3:06 AM
I’d like to see Claire Danes play a lady for whom everything is going great and nothing worries her at all. Maybe she’s not even a lead, just the lead’s friend who lives in comfort, amusement, and delight.
I think she’s earned it.
I think she’s earned it.
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I have a bit of a thing about Elizabethan men at the moment so most people Nicholas Hilliard painted...
November 4, 2025 at 5:04 PM
I have a bit of a thing about Elizabethan men at the moment so most people Nicholas Hilliard painted...
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Trump’s Agriculture Secretary Rollins & Johnson called 42 million Americans losing SNAP benefits a “silver lining” because it sparked “a national conversation.”
Imagine being so detached from hunger that you see families skipping meals as a PR opportunity.
Imagine being so detached from hunger that you see families skipping meals as a PR opportunity.
October 31, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Trump’s Agriculture Secretary Rollins & Johnson called 42 million Americans losing SNAP benefits a “silver lining” because it sparked “a national conversation.”
Imagine being so detached from hunger that you see families skipping meals as a PR opportunity.
Imagine being so detached from hunger that you see families skipping meals as a PR opportunity.
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October 27, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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Martha Evans Martin wrote a popular guide to the night sky in 1907 called "The Friendly Stars." Of Fomalhaut, she wrote: "The loneliness of this star, adds to the somber signs of approaching autumn, and sometimes gives one a touch of melancholy.”
www.space.com/stargazing/f...
www.space.com/stargazing/f...
Fomalhaut, the 'solitary' star, announces the arrival of autumn in the night sky. Here's how to see it
If there is one star that serves to announce the arrival of fall as the leaves have begun to turn, unquestionably that title would have to go to Fomalhaut.
www.space.com
October 26, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Martha Evans Martin wrote a popular guide to the night sky in 1907 called "The Friendly Stars." Of Fomalhaut, she wrote: "The loneliness of this star, adds to the somber signs of approaching autumn, and sometimes gives one a touch of melancholy.”
www.space.com/stargazing/f...
www.space.com/stargazing/f...
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‘but it’s not what you’re supposed to do with a corpse’. Fantastic Stellan Skarsgård: www.vulture.com/article/stel...
October 24, 2025 at 10:04 AM
‘but it’s not what you’re supposed to do with a corpse’. Fantastic Stellan Skarsgård: www.vulture.com/article/stel...
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I like to close the set with “Daydream Believer.”
October 24, 2025 at 1:01 PM
I like to close the set with “Daydream Believer.”
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ACTUALLY, I have a theory that most books enter a cultural "uncanny valley" 20-25 years after release, where the culture has shifted just enough they're not contemporary anymore, so new readers can't directly relate, and they stay in the valley for about 50 years until they're clearly historical
Is there, like, an interregnum during which a book should be gracefully retired, until such time as it becomes "a classic, an artifact of its times"?
October 13, 2025 at 11:55 PM
ACTUALLY, I have a theory that most books enter a cultural "uncanny valley" 20-25 years after release, where the culture has shifted just enough they're not contemporary anymore, so new readers can't directly relate, and they stay in the valley for about 50 years until they're clearly historical
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How to *nearly* understand what's going on.
October 11, 2025 at 9:48 AM
How to *nearly* understand what's going on.