Normal countries should start doing this too just for US visitors so we can find out who really killed JFK.

I notice they didn’t say it was any good.

Because it’s cool.

UK tech is always invented by weirdo boffins in a shed so they already told everyone in the local how it works.

Conflict resolution

A lot of irony is supposed to be deadpan anyway (e.g. something like okmatewanker is pretty heavily ironic), but I get people not picking it up because they’re not in the same cultural context. Sarcasm tags make sense because sarcasm is about tone of voice, but a lot of people suggest them inappropriately as sarcasm is more caustic. It’s like telling people they should be offended at your tone!

I’m actually quite enjoying watching the LLM evangelists fall into the trough of despair after their initial inflated expectations of what they thought stochastic text generation would achieve for the business. After a while you get used to the waves of magic bullet solutions that promise to revolutionise the industry but introduce as many new problems as they solve.

I went on Twitter to download my data pre-deletion (still nothing) and Billy Bragg was on there. What the hell?! That’s practically on a par with guesting on Joe Rogan by now.