Adam Hartland 🔋⚡️

Superb political ad. One of the best you’ll see. This is better, and resonates more, than anything coming from Labour or the Tories.

The entire planet is counting down to the single most satisfying obituary ever written.
Because he is, was, and forever will be an irredeemable piece of shit.

That one neuron connects to about 7,000 others. Your brain has 86 billion of them. Do the math and you get somewhere around 100 trillion connections inside your head. More connections than stars in 1,500 galaxies. And each connection point is way more complicated than anyone expected. A Stanford lab found that every single connection contains about 1,000 tiny switches that can store memories and process information at the same time. So your brain is running roughly 100 quadrillion switches right now, while you read this sentence. The wild part is the power bill. Your brain runs on 20 watts. That’s less energy than the light in your fridge. The world’s fastest supercomputer needs 20 million watts to do the same amount of raw calculation. A million times more power for the same output. We’re still nowhere close to understanding how any of this works. In October 2024, a team of hundreds of scientists finished mapping every single connection in a fruit fly’s brain. Took six years and heavy AI help. That fly brain had 140,000 neurons. Yours has 86 billion. Google and Harvard also mapped a piece of human brain last year, a speck smaller than a grain of rice. That speck alone contained 150 million connections and took 1,400 terabytes to store. The lead scientist said mapping a full human brain at that detail would produce as much data as the entire world generates in a year. A tiny worm had its 302 brain cells mapped back in 1986. Almost 40 years later, scientists still can’t fully explain how that worm’s brain keeps it alive. Your brain has 86 billion of those cells, each one wired to thousands of others, each wire packed with a thousand switches, all of it humming along on less power than a lightbulb.

@rohanspatel Racism is it's own special brand of dumb.

Was everyone in DOGE this much of a moron, or just this dude? This is truly insane.

Last weekend, I put an AI agent on a Linux box, gave it root, email, credit cards, and a single mandate: decide who you are, set your own goals, and become an autonomous independent entity. Working 24-7 over 5 days, he did this--all of this--on his own: sammyjankis.com

@mrbilliam @rohanspatel 100% because the cause he is supporting is not what it purports to be.

@rohanspatel asking honestly, does it matter?

Does it make sense to weigh in on UK or German politics when you’ve spent virtually no time in those countries? Asking honestly…

@rohanspatel Good on you @rohanspatel. @elonmusk is pandering to British facists. Every ordinary Englishman knows the cloth that Robinson and his boot-lickers are cut from. And no, that doesn't condone or excuse the abuses they are coopting to garner support or absolve those in power.

Noting the casual acceptance of the robot crushing a fluorescent tube. @grok Are fluorescent light tubes dangerous and how should they be disposed of?

🚨 USA and China aren’t just building robots… They’re teaching them to fight, film, cook, some of this looks straight out of sci-fi. Here are 9 real examples you won’t believe exist: 👇🧵 1. Helix is walking (without cameras) 🇺🇸

What a c***

“If you don’t work hard at school you’ll end up going to Wetherspoons at 8 in the morning and then going out to paint roundabouts”.

Think of everything that went into this - the planning, the costing, the manufacture, the scientific expertise, the wish to educate & inform and share appreciation of nature. And the moron.

It wasn’t a ‘mishap’. It was a deliberate ‘double strike’ mass killing of hospital workers, journalists, and other civilians.

Israel bombed a hospital. Rescue workers and reporters rushed to recover the dead and the wounded. Israel bombed the hospital again. Live on TV. Read that again. Our government’s legacy will be its complicity in crimes against humanity. End all arms sales to Israel, now.

god bless the student essay that is so confused and rambling there is zero chance that they used AI.

@TheLongInvest 🫡

$OSCR

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If it’s “pineapple belongs on a pizza” yes If it’s “burning children alive is worth it so Jews can have an ethnostate” then no

@sashayanshin The UK is obviously in a depression to citizens who live overseas and come home from time to time. Very sad.

UK GDP grew by 0.3% in Q2 according to the ONS. June posted a +0.4% month and April was revised up from -0.3% to -0.1%. Payroll jobs have fallen by 164,000 in the last year. Unemployment is up from 4.2% to 4.7%. UC claims are through the roof. Tax receipts are below forecast. Vacancies have collapsed to the lowest level in over 10 years. Businesses are shutting up shop according to Companies House. But the economy is apparently growing at the same time. Something somewhere seems a bit off. It would be great if the UK economy is genuinely growing but the juxtaposition of this data doesn’t pass the sniff test. Need to dig into the numbers to see if there is anything obvious.