Dan Taysin-Ferneau
@innumo.bsky.social
Struggling to make peace with a world that makes no sense. https://lunarfish.github.io/wealthscales Everyone needs 1 home. No-one needs 2. If you're not a socialist, you're either a sociopath or an idiot.
The thing I do miss about CRT TVs is the convex screen meant you had a better view from more of the room. Now we have flat screens or even concave screens you need to sit directly in front of. It's a metaphor for us becoming more self-involved and isolated.
November 25, 2025 at 7:45 AM
The thing I do miss about CRT TVs is the convex screen meant you had a better view from more of the room. Now we have flat screens or even concave screens you need to sit directly in front of. It's a metaphor for us becoming more self-involved and isolated.
Might have been a lie I guess. I was told that by one of the staff on a cross country train when I was using one of the luggage racks as a standing desk.
November 24, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Might have been a lie I guess. I was told that by one of the staff on a cross country train when I was using one of the luggage racks as a standing desk.
Career means two things. 1. Your work life. 2. To career out of control. I think those two things are largely the same thing. It's like the "time can only be lived forwards but can only be understood backwards" thing.
November 23, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Career means two things. 1. Your work life. 2. To career out of control. I think those two things are largely the same thing. It's like the "time can only be lived forwards but can only be understood backwards" thing.
I suppose it's the nature of the sociopathic people who've risen to power that they don't understand or don't care that there are other interpretations of reality. We could do with finding a way to stop rewarding and promoting sociopaths.
November 23, 2025 at 10:40 AM
I suppose it's the nature of the sociopathic people who've risen to power that they don't understand or don't care that there are other interpretations of reality. We could do with finding a way to stop rewarding and promoting sociopaths.
This is another thing I don't understand. There are designated crumple zones on trains which you're not allowed to travel in.. unless the train is very busy... In which case it's fine.
November 23, 2025 at 10:02 AM
This is another thing I don't understand. There are designated crumple zones on trains which you're not allowed to travel in.. unless the train is very busy... In which case it's fine.
If we did we'd arrive daily on the space travel equivalent of small boats. Imagine the local news coverage.
November 23, 2025 at 9:45 AM
If we did we'd arrive daily on the space travel equivalent of small boats. Imagine the local news coverage.
I don't understand how ok everyone is with the training data use. My understanding is it represents a huge number of books and papers. Copyrighted material and intellectual property that hasn't been licensed or paid for. If they were stealing physical books and filing cabinets it wouldn't be ok.
November 23, 2025 at 9:22 AM
I don't understand how ok everyone is with the training data use. My understanding is it represents a huge number of books and papers. Copyrighted material and intellectual property that hasn't been licensed or paid for. If they were stealing physical books and filing cabinets it wouldn't be ok.
The conservatives started lying when they decided to call themselves conservatives and I'm not sure they've told the truth since then.
November 22, 2025 at 8:24 PM
The conservatives started lying when they decided to call themselves conservatives and I'm not sure they've told the truth since then.
Generative AI is organised crime and unlicensed human experimentation. It's also dangerous and a bit crap. So that all tracks with the present US administration.
November 22, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Generative AI is organised crime and unlicensed human experimentation. It's also dangerous and a bit crap. So that all tracks with the present US administration.
And it's not entirely his fault. We've got a long history of glamourising the formerly millionaire now B'aire or even T'aire playboy lifestyle from Bertie Wooster through to Bruce Wayne and Tony Stark. The message of Ironman 2 (which Elon Musk was in) was that billionaires should be above the law?!
November 22, 2025 at 12:21 PM
And it's not entirely his fault. We've got a long history of glamourising the formerly millionaire now B'aire or even T'aire playboy lifestyle from Bertie Wooster through to Bruce Wayne and Tony Stark. The message of Ironman 2 (which Elon Musk was in) was that billionaires should be above the law?!
There's a word for what this young man aspires to become. It's parasite.
November 22, 2025 at 12:03 PM
There's a word for what this young man aspires to become. It's parasite.
Douglas Adams wrote Dirk Gently in 1987 and described a man made rich by software called "Reason" where you specified the desired response and the software came up with a plausible argument to justify whatever it was that you wanted to do. Funny how life imitates art.
November 22, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Douglas Adams wrote Dirk Gently in 1987 and described a man made rich by software called "Reason" where you specified the desired response and the software came up with a plausible argument to justify whatever it was that you wanted to do. Funny how life imitates art.
I think it's really scary what happens to the generation of people AI is currently experimenting on. The people who get dangerous DIY or medical advice. The people who get self-serving relationship advice. The people who lean on AI to do their job for them rather than developing their own skills.
November 20, 2025 at 8:20 AM
I think it's really scary what happens to the generation of people AI is currently experimenting on. The people who get dangerous DIY or medical advice. The people who get self-serving relationship advice. The people who lean on AI to do their job for them rather than developing their own skills.
People don't like it because it's an "attempt to humanise humans"? Why do some humans need other humans to be humanised? If that attempt fails which party has failed to become humanised - the subject or the viewer?
November 20, 2025 at 8:11 AM
People don't like it because it's an "attempt to humanise humans"? Why do some humans need other humans to be humanised? If that attempt fails which party has failed to become humanised - the subject or the viewer?
My one of these is Northern Lights by Lucy Jago about the life of Norwegian scientist, Kristian Birkeland. Partly because his life was extraordinary and partly because it runs so parallel to the fictionalised, fantasy version Phillip Pullman turned the story into.
November 20, 2025 at 7:55 AM
My one of these is Northern Lights by Lucy Jago about the life of Norwegian scientist, Kristian Birkeland. Partly because his life was extraordinary and partly because it runs so parallel to the fictionalised, fantasy version Phillip Pullman turned the story into.
The thing about human rights is that by definition they apply equally to everyone. Changing the law so they don't apply equally to arguably the people most in need of them is inhuman and illogical. What is wrong with everyone's brain?
November 18, 2025 at 8:18 AM
The thing about human rights is that by definition they apply equally to everyone. Changing the law so they don't apply equally to arguably the people most in need of them is inhuman and illogical. What is wrong with everyone's brain?
Am I right in thinking it can only be defamation if he didn't do it and they could make a pretty solid case that he did do it? In effect what he's done is challenged a group of journalists from a country he doesn't have control over to make the case proving he did incite the insurrection?
November 15, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Am I right in thinking it can only be defamation if he didn't do it and they could make a pretty solid case that he did do it? In effect what he's done is challenged a group of journalists from a country he doesn't have control over to make the case proving he did incite the insurrection?
Not sure if it's the quality of the joke or my state of mind but I can't stop laughing at this.
November 14, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Not sure if it's the quality of the joke or my state of mind but I can't stop laughing at this.
In one of the earlier strikes a doctor said they got paid something like £12 for surgery to remove an appendix. A 29% increase means getting paid around £16 for surgery to remove an appendix. A large percentage of not much is not much.
November 14, 2025 at 8:04 AM
In one of the earlier strikes a doctor said they got paid something like £12 for surgery to remove an appendix. A 29% increase means getting paid around £16 for surgery to remove an appendix. A large percentage of not much is not much.
Presumably the only way this works is in traditional gender role households where the wife actually buys all the groceries and the husband sits watching TV and doesn't listen to her.
November 14, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Presumably the only way this works is in traditional gender role households where the wife actually buys all the groceries and the husband sits watching TV and doesn't listen to her.
I am neither a scientist nor a lexicographer so I'm not going to argue about the definition of the word science but I do know this. If you want to know what a word means, what you don't do is ask a politician.
November 13, 2025 at 9:53 PM
I am neither a scientist nor a lexicographer so I'm not going to argue about the definition of the word science but I do know this. If you want to know what a word means, what you don't do is ask a politician.
Sometimes I worry that my misanthropy is a character flaw that I should treat and correct and then I remember that a huge number of people in positions of power and authority are desperately trying to protect the clients of a child sex trafficking ring from being prosecuted.
November 13, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Sometimes I worry that my misanthropy is a character flaw that I should treat and correct and then I remember that a huge number of people in positions of power and authority are desperately trying to protect the clients of a child sex trafficking ring from being prosecuted.
There must presumably be a bunch of people on whom this "saying big money numbers makes me sound clever and important" stuff works?!
November 13, 2025 at 7:56 AM
There must presumably be a bunch of people on whom this "saying big money numbers makes me sound clever and important" stuff works?!