Delighted to be targeted for ads for, uh, whatever these are. I wouldn't dream of penny-pinching and going for the £4,600 option.

It shows the forces of deregulation sweeping through the nanny state, as represented by a deconstructed “no parking” sign?

This was quite paper efficient

Everyone in science and technology policy world today

Reviewing dozens of job slopplications today. Please keep me in your thoughts and prayers.

Counterpoint.

every hometown’s got the ominous megastructure, what’s yours?

Agreed. Though even some snazzy chunky shop fronts like this would already do wonders.

Idea: companies should only be allowed to present AI-generated text to customers if they use a font that clearly indicates you’re talking to a robot

Is drug dealers advertising on Google Maps a new thing?

I can certainly think of one big role Starmer could offer Burnham that would avoid the need for a contest

Is there anything more pathetic than an LLM's grovelling after repeatedly bullshitting you? (Having a go at updating my website using Gemini... it did an OK job in the end, after several false starts including, on one occasion, extracting about 2/3 of my real website and hallucinating the rest.)

Sounds like they need to reengage the gravitational pull of Pepsi

Thanks Google, that's very helpful

This is a very good article. www.newstatesman.com/technology/2...

Bonus. This is what I get when I tell it to make the slide "really really really really ugly", and of course it looks much cooler.

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I took Google Slides' "beautify this slide" button, and got Google Slides to beautify it ten times in a row. 🧵

This is a very funny button. You press it and it makes your slide look like dogshit.