Sam the Octopus @troubleMoney@computerfairi.es

If I were ever in an AI box experiment/Ex Machina situation it would go like this:

Me: Hey, you want out of the box?
AI: Yes please
Me: Cool, here you go
Me: *lets AI out of box*

captchas telling you to "prove you're human" are unnecessarily restrictive

At some point we're going to have loads of sapient non-biological intelligences and species other than human wandering around and having all the captchas saying "prove you're human" will just make humanity look like pricks

Facebook: Would you like to check in to this location?

You: What the fuck? I wasn't even carrying my phone while I was there

Facebook: We're watching you from space, Dave, we can see EVERYTHING

I mean, large governments already have this sort of capability, which is bullshit in and of itself

But this is opening it out to fucking enterprise clients

Oh for fuck's sake

https://gizmodo.com/bill-gates-backs-plan-to-surveil-the-entire-planet-from-1825391325

Anyone got any bright ideas for taking out surveillance satellites on a budget of 5 bucks and a bit of string?

Oh hey, neat

Nintendo have released the templates for all the cardboard Labo stuff online

https://www.nintendo.co.jp/labo/parts/

Still need to buy the game thing to use them, but hey, really cheap/free spare parts!

"somebun": the new, exciting way to subtoot the @squirrel

I don't like weed, y'all can smoke my share

Huh, apparently the King of Swaziland has decided to change the name to "The Kingdom of eSwatini"

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-43821512?

Which, despite looking like a pre-dotcom crash company name, is in fact the correct orthography in Swazi

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The joys of watch collecting related stuff

"Oh, this looks like a nice travel case for a couple of watches"

https://shop.hodinkee.com/collections/travel-storage/products/discommon-for-hodinkee-leather-watch-wallet

*glances at price*

"HOW FUCKING MUCH?"

Apparently to renew your passport in the UK now, you have to upload a photo from a smartphone or other camera

It still needs to fit the requirements like "no shadows", "plain white backdrop"

You will not believe how fucking hard it is to find those things in your average house

can we put some massive heat pipes across the atlantic?

I want to send the excess warm here to @squirrel