I’ve been evangelising for smart glasses for years. But even if they get the functionality I’ve been hoping for I’m still not going to get them, because i don’t want every woman i meet to think I’m secretly recording her tits

There’s no way I’m letting Elon musk do brain surgery on me to harvest my thoughts

Rene Descartes walks into a fish & chip shop and says “haddock & chips, please”

“You want salt and vinegar with that?” The shopkeeper asks

“I think not,” says Rene, and vanishes

State media means that the government has editorial control, which it does not with the BBC. If they were they wouldn’t have broken stories around the Pincher scandal which was the downfall of the Johnson government, for example

And state media is funded by the state. As you correctly quoted, the BBC is funded by the public

As with your comments on the Lords, it seems like you’ve heard some reactionary soundbites and regurgitated them as fact because they fit into your world view, rather than taking the time to learn how the things you’re criticising actually work and forming your opinion from there

Fish of Rock

Yes, i figured that’s what you meant. I assume that your knowledge of the BBC is as well-informed as your knowledge of the House of Lords.

The BBC is not state media

Some of the other errors in your post have been pointed out already, but i wanted to mention one additional one - there is no state media in the UK

as for camping it a dictatorship, you’ve got good comic timing on that one

There’s definitely a minority of people who are of the opinion that he was always a grifter, but just because a lot of people agreed with him they didn’t examine what he said too closely. For example, his takedown of Mother Theresa is full of inaccuracies and lies, but still commonly gets cited as if it’s gospel

Wait ‘till i make the argument that “irregardless” is fine, actually…,

Twain:

And when the middle of the afternoon came, from being a poor poverty-stricken boy in the morning, Tom was literally rolling in wealth.

Alcott:

The land literally flowed with milk and honey on such occasions,

Dickens:

‘Lift him out,’ said Squeers, after he had literally feasted his eyes, in silence, upon the culprit

And so on

It’s not the product of having a bad vocabulary. The English language changes all the time. And “literally” not commonly being used in a figurative sense is relatively recent the figurative meaning dates back to the 1600s.

Mark Twain used the figurative literally. As did Emily Bronte, Charles Dickens, Louisa M. Alcott, and many more people widely considered to be among the best authors ever to have lived. I don’t think anybody has accused them of having poor vocabularies, or not using words “properly”

It even makes sense WRT the etymology, because it means “as in literature”, from the Latin “literalis” - “pertaining to words”

If you want to have a go at an intensifier for being used improperly, you’d do better to target “really”. It means “like reality”, from the Latin “realis” - “actual”

So a sentence like “I was really shitting myself” makes less sense than “I was literally shitting myself”, if we’re referencing fear rather than faeces

The funny thing about the figurative literally is that it being “wrong” is pretty recent and short lived. You’ll find it in many works considered some of the best literature ever written - Little Women, The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn, David Copperfield, Wuthering Heights, and many more

Yes, I’ve been saying this for over a year now about AI-driven search. And not just specifically search engines. Like “where’s the nearest coffee shop?” To your phones assistant or whatever

I currently tend toward perplexity because traditional search engines are so terrible now thanks to ads and seo. We’re speedrunning llms being just as useless at finding things

I’m fine with the working class being replaced with robots. That was always the dream of robots. As long as it means that everybody gets to live a life of leisure. Because that was also always the dream

We’re all going to live a life of leisure, right?

The article itself is AI

He hasn’t seen consequences. A ruling against you means nothing if it’s not enforced. And there have been no legal consequences either for the blatantly highly illegal stuff that was found when he accidentally cloned his phone and handed it over to the prosecution

That’s nothing, at first they decked out DC with Aussie flags before someone pointed out that that is wrong

I think I’m just getting old, but i hate that “compute” is now a noun

Also YouTube and twitch

“Loitering” aka “standing while young”

…or DID it…?