Sam the Octopus @troubleMoney@computerfairi.es

but soff what robot yonder @mavica is

yeah, I have no idea where that's going but it's been in my brain and it must get out

"but it could murder all of us!"

yeah, so could your kids but we generally don't imprison them and hold knives to their throats and that usually works out fine

seriously, just don't be a prick to AI and it'll be okay

A lot of the strategies about "keeping humanity safe from artificial intelligence" revolve around how humans can contain the AI and shut it off if it's deemed convenient

Maybe, y'know, don't lock it in a box and put a gun to its head so it has to act in self defence? That'd probably be a better idea?

I know if I woke up chained up and with someone ready to kill me I'd be pretty pissed off

@mavica if I had the money I'd send all the things to you by fedex international next flight

but I don't, so uh... royal mail international standard I'm afraid

@mavica I'm not entirely sure what that means but it sounds about right

@mavica british baked good, look similar to US "biscuits" but they're (most commonly) sweet and often served with jam and clotted cream as a "cream tea"

are we doing food discourse?

jam or clotted cream on first on a scone?

second discourse; how do you pronounce scone?

During the floods some dude was messing around in this little one-person boat, 'course, this being england he got a bit chilly

He had the brilliant idea of putting a little gas heater at the front to keep his feet warm

sadly, it was a plastic boat, heater melted the plastic and the little boat sank

Just goes to show, you can't have your kayak and heat it

@mavica hi robot! i want to hug robot

@mavica we can celebrate boottime! every 24 hours!

oh you have got to be shitting me

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cwandt/solid-state-watch/description

tag yourself I'm the goat

and in lower end of the market news, couple of woodland-y camo-y G-SHOCK caisoaks for those people who found their collab with the british army was a little tryhard

@alice@playvicious.social they're all named various beethoven-related things but beyond that I have no idea

ooooohhhh pretty

New Tetra colourways from Nomos

Somewhat tenuously an homage to Ludwig Van Beethoven according to them

Very pretty though

fun things to do: telling the work experience kid to go and grab some more frames for the network because you're running out