Ben Norris

Timeline is just full of sickening videos and racists. Platform has had it for me.

Damn that’s impressive! Life sized Macaw from Makerworld!

@Saffron_Sniper1 What might be better is to build an escape ladder so that it isn't so difficult

This is the most satisfying news you’ll hear today ! Do you remember when a group of boys, strangers to each other, formed a human chain to save a dog from fast flowing water? Today, local authorities unveiled a “Unity Statue” at the same place to celebrate human unity.

@VividProwess You say the words but don't understand the implication. The Muslims that Israel are fighting are descendants of the Jews who originally lived there. It's not about taking anything back from people who moved in, it's about punishing those who dared to change religion.

Can Muslims stop saying Jesus was a Muslim or Palestinian? Jesus was a Jew, born in Bethlehem, and lived in Judea. Islam didn't exist.

@lollujo Chalmers

Attention nerds. Consider this a book recommendation.

@eevblog So that the same parts can be used for left and right side driving regions.

I've been looking at cars on the road. Why are there no visually asymmetrically designed cars? Apart from functional reasons (exhaust port, side opening tailgate, number plate etc) all visual design elements are symmetrical. Yeah, yeah, I know, humans like symmetry, asymmetry is branded ugly. But why so few examples of it and so many companies unwilling to rock the design boat? Are us humans that wired to symmetry that it's impossible for an asymmetrical design to be successful? Only major production example I can think of is the Nissan Cube, and they only did it because it's part of the functionality of the side opening tailgate.

A massively consequential investigation by Alan Rusbridger into GB News: how "one political party in Britain has effectively ended up with its own television station". Raises deep questions about hi-jacking of British media/political culture: thenewworld.co.uk/alan-rusbridge…

@Girl_Dm_ DLSS is giving extra performance for less cost. Its not causing expensive graphics cards, its a response to that. Hate AI all you like but this isn't reverse world.

I DONT WANT DLSS 5 I WANT TO BE ABLE TO BUY COMPUTER PARTS FOR A REASONABLE AMOUNT AND I WANT THE DEVS USING UE5 TO FUCKING OPTIMIZE IT BEFORE PUBLISHING FOR PC YOU FUCKS

@floatign prompt confirmations are an additional charge 😋

shoutout to ryanair for taking 3 hours to send me my booking confirmation email yesterday, for those 3 hours i thought they’d just robbed me of £500

Blaming asylum seekers for homelessness? What about the 720,000 empty homes in England, and the 1,627,450 second homes in England alone. Blaming asylum seekers for expensive food shops? What about the £3,100,000,000 profit Tesco made last year? Blaming asylum seekers for expensive energy bills? What about the £438,000,000,000 made by just 20 energy companies in profit? Blaming immigrants for not getting an NHS appointment? What about the 260,000+ migrant workers keeping the NHS going? And what about the 25% real term cut in NHS funding, think that could do it? Blaming people on welfare for a lack of money to fund the NHS? What about the £36,000,000,000 tax gap due to avoidance and evasion by the elite? It's time to realise it's not immigrants, asylum seekers or people on welfare causing you any harm, it's capitalism and the mega rich hoarding all the wealth.

@_Freakyclown_ @metoffice We don't have a ton of asbestos blowing around though

And yet people still ask why we moved to vegas from the UK. I wonder what the best UK run is? @metoffice any ideas?

@PausedByPaul @pimoroni Wearing a badge with someone else's name prominently on it won't ever cause any confusion... 🤣

I’ve finally released the badge apps for my Twitch wearable app for the brilliant @pimoroni Tufty2350 and Badger2350. If you want to show off your stats IRL, get yourself a badge and download the code and setup your account with the API at github.com/PausedByPaul/b… I’ll be rocking mine at @DreamHack Birmingham at the end of the month and @TwitchCon Rotterdam in May. #wearables #twitch #streamer

@BlindButcherBru @chrisramsay52 No it is brown sauce, you can see the sachet

@chrisramsay52 Is that American BBQ sauce? 😍

Took a first class train in England. Was offered a sausage sandwich for breakfast. How could I refuse such a luxury?

@Matt_Pinner I'm on the border of GenX and Millennial and have done all of these.

7 for me!!….I feel confident nobody Has all 20!! How many for you?

@FabianSani8 @feydemon and yet they fly to Canada

@feydemon Yeah, it’s a huge conspiracy. British people apparently forgot the “fly over the ocean” part and decided 2,000 miles of water was just… too much effort.

I don’t think I’ve ever encountered a single British person while living in America for 2 whole decades do they know they’re allowed to come here

@in_thine @veritasium Does the computer know that and give you nothing or does it think you will rebel the logic and give you the million? Thats already predecided before you make this choice.

@in_thine @veritasium but you choice isn't to take the million because the computer has already chosen. So its either take 1k or nothing. OR its take 1M1k or 1M. So in either case taking both boxes is better.

This Paradox Splits Smart People 50/50

@dafeez @veritasium But since the robot has chosen before you then the sort of person you are only affects their choice not yours so you can change it and take both. Although if the robot has accounted for that you can never win the million so you may as well take both.

@veritasium The computer would realize I’m the sort of person who wouldn’t jeopardize a chance at 1 million for the sake of an extra 1k. I could also live with being wrong. Those two combined would make me rich unless it wasn’t a good predictor, which I can’t control.

@veritasium If you think that one box is the right answer, then you may as well take 2 boxes and get the extra 1k too. If the computer predicted that you take 2 instead, then you could never get the million and have 1k as a consolation.

@seanonolennon Just assume that everything could be fake

There used to be an FBI warning on every dumb video you rented from blockbuster. Can’t they put warnings on all AI video content and make that a thing so we never have to guess what’s real ever again?

@KateBMwriting Partially because recruiters block CVs on all sorts of crazy unpredictable criteria. People are resorting to asking AI what they actually want because they make it so opaque and random.

I’m reviewing job applications and 90% of the cover letters are AI generated. They use identical phrases and have exactly the same structure and word count. Why do people do it?