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  1. Erich Templar

    Nobody cares about "AI" (Chatbot: I disagree.)

    Cat: "What do you mean, human, 'my hovercraft is full of eels?'"
  2. Erich Templar

    Nobody Cares if it's Off Topic

    I once had a colleague who had the task of updating a piece of software every year for the beginning of the new financial year. He would release it on the Friday, having booked holiday for the following week... I never knew whether to be impressed or annoyed.
  3. Erich Templar

    Totally random picture thread

    WTH is this? By the styles I'm guessing this is 60s or 70s, and it looks like some kind of waiting room, but what's with the arm-rest TVs?
  4. Erich Templar

    Author J. A. Cipriano on what AI reveals about the relationship between creators and customers

    TBH, I've found the same to be true of AI, which often seems to act like a temperamental artist.
  5. Erich Templar

    Nobody Cares about Pre-History

    Ah, no, my point would be that I don't see why it is unlikely that multiple different groups of people could have developed agriculture independently, give a time scale of several thousand years. My assumption would that the climatic situation was such that agriculture become viable around that...
  6. Erich Templar

    Nobody Cares about Pre-History

    "...within a few thousand years of each other...". That's an interesting definition of "the same time frame".
  7. Erich Templar

    The Trump Presidency, Season 2

    And I'll bet it went clean over his head.
  8. Erich Templar

    Yay! Nobody Cares about Tickle Me Elmo Musk

    That article seems to ignore the 'one rule for the rich, one rule for the poor' concept that billionaires have been making hay with over the years.
  9. Erich Templar

    The Trump Presidency, Season 2

    Workers at NASA Told to ‘Drop Everything’ to Scrub Mentions of Indigenous People, Women from Its Websites According to the article, "...These changes are a result of President Donald Trump’s executive order 'Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing.'..."
  10. Erich Templar

    LL Begins Testing Of Browser Based Cloud Streamed Second Life

    Yeah, it works really well (though I miss my Firestorm settings!).
  11. Erich Templar

    Nobody Cares about Britain

    Slightly worrying that 'imports' seems to be on a significant upward trend, though
  12. Erich Templar

    LL Begins Testing Of Browser Based Cloud Streamed Second Life

    I think it says something that LL are still doing serious development work related to SecondLife.
  13. Erich Templar

    Nobody cares about "AI" (Chatbot: I disagree.)

    An article generated by AI followed by a string of comments also clearly generated by AI... The 'dead internet' theory is starting to sound mighty plausible. (And I'm beginning to have my suspicions about some of you people. :shiftyeyes:)
  14. Erich Templar

    Totally random picture thread

    It's just making sure that when Google Maps directs you into a river, there's a street-view for it.
  15. Erich Templar

    Nobody cares about Art

    But Lem's original Solaris is a gloomy Russian psychological melodrama (just happening to be science-fiction as well).
  16. Erich Templar

    Nobody Cares about Britain

    Paging Lady Penelope!
  17. Erich Templar

    Random Youtubeness

    That was wonderfully bonkers!
  18. Erich Templar

    Nobody Cares: PRS

    I don't think he would face criminal charges, but the insurance company will want to come after him with a big stick.
  19. Erich Templar

    The AI (Christmas) advertisements are coming!

    :qft: Adverts have always been fake. AI adverts just make the fakeness blatantly obvious.