Sam the Octopus @troubleMoney@computerfairi.es

walking into a hospital with green mud on my face

"the doctors said I should wear a facema... oh, yeah, that makes more sense"

In watch news Watches and Wonders Geneva (formerly SIHH) has been cancelled, joining Swatch Group's Time to Move and the Grand Seiko Summit in events that have been cancelled this year

sharknado but reshot with all blahaj..es? blahajar? ikea sharky friends

I'm beginning to think I may have to enlarge the doors on the hedgehog cafe

It's long been said that your phone has more computing power than the computers on apollo 11 which went to the moon

today it's more accurate to say that your phone charger has more computing power than the computers on apollo 11 which went to the moon

https://forrestheller.com/Apollo-11-Computer-vs-USB-C-chargers.html

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

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

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

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

the vengabus is still in my head from yesterday

I keep seeing the new star trek thingy being referred to as "st:picard" and thinking "wait, when did Jean-Luc get canonized?"

If you've got a couple of quartz watches, do yourself a favour and pick up one of these cheap watch tool kits

They cost about 15 bucks, watch batteries are a couple bucks a pack, it's super easy to replace them, and to get it done by a jeweller costs 10 bucks

Change two watch batteries and it's paid for itself

Also includes all the stuff for sizing bracelets and changing straps, well worth it