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Jack Aidley 🇬🇧🇩🇪 retweeted
Hold Cobra meetings. Call in the army. Threaten more anti-union legislation. *Anything* except talk to the unions about pay. Shameful!
Slow clap to @RockstarGames for not only gatekeeping their games behind a "social club" no-one wants, not only making it require a verification code each time it rejects your nickname, but also coding the launcher so badly that it doesn't work when you actually find one.
Jack Aidley 🇬🇧🇩🇪 retweeted
BTW, Dwarf Fortress is out on Itch too, for the same price as Steam. The devs get a much larger cut of sales from here, AND you get both DRM-free and Steam key versions of the game.
kitfoxgames.itch.io/dwarf-fo…
Basically no reason not to get it there.
Jack Aidley 🇬🇧🇩🇪 retweeted
The Continuity of Splines is now on YouTube!!
it has been a year in the making, goodness ;-;🎉 I hope you'll like it ❤
❱ youtu.be/jvPPXbo87ds
Jack Aidley 🇬🇧🇩🇪 retweeted
a YouTube comment about the way AI destroyed the field of translation years ago
Interesting post (and thread) from the guy who wrote "The End Poem" for Minecraft. Sort of about art and passion and friendship and business and the misalignment when they meet.
So if you want to set the words of the End Poem to music, or animate them, or dramatise them, or mash them up with something, or use them on t-shirts, posters, tote bags, barn doors, be my guest. They are now free. Here’s the post explaining everything.
theeggandtherock.substack.co…
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Jack Aidley 🇬🇧🇩🇪 retweeted
DoNotPay is building a chrome extension where you can specify something like “negotiate my Comcast bill down,” and it will use the Comcast online chat to lower your bill with GPT-3.
Over time, Comcast will also use LLMs. So robots will just be negotiating with each other!
Jack Aidley 🇬🇧🇩🇪 retweeted
People - esp doctors
PLEASE STOP saying that ppl who are highly POS on rapid Ag tests after 5 days are not infectious
There is NO reason to say this
All evidence suggest you are likely Infectious if POS
Biological evidence is MUCH more informative than “but it’s been 5 days”
My 5yo is still testing positive on day 15! 2 docs told me he’s no longer contagious and stop testing. We have a negative 8yo & now my Mum at home so seems silly to stop precautions we’ve had for 16 days if he’s testing positive still. Who else knows about rapids?@michaelmina_lab
Jack Aidley 🇬🇧🇩🇪 retweeted
#OnThisDay in 1978, Acorn Computers Ltd was formed in Cambridge. Imagine a world without our BBC Micro, Archimedes, or Electron... Then come and visit our 80s classroom for a good cheering-up! computinghistory.org.uk/cgi-…
Jack Aidley 🇬🇧🇩🇪 retweeted
Did you see that lawsuit where identical twins were accused of cheating on an exam, and used the defence "we're identical twins - our answers *should* be identical"?
Well...
stuartritchie.substack.com/p…
Jack Aidley 🇬🇧🇩🇪 retweeted
Yet another win for Nadhim Zahawi’s strategy of using libel threats to keep his tax avoidance out of the papers:
thetimes.co.uk/article/b7ab0…
Jack Aidley 🇬🇧🇩🇪 retweeted
Though the administration and many faculty may not realize it yet, UC’s bargaining tactics are causing serious damage to our academic culture. The long-term damage from alienating the UC’s academic workforce will be far more costly than any concession in a contract negotiation.