I cut myself the one time I tried one. But then I’ve cut myself with an electric razor before.

A lot of companies are already doing that https://www.404media.co/companies-are-using-reddit-to-manipulate-chatgpt-and-google-ai-search/

It’s an AI program specifically to use AI models to recognise birds. If you’re against AI you should probably learn to recognise them manually.

It can run on device on your phone https://birdnet.cornell.edu/

People are realising how much of a scam leaseholds are?

Can’t wait to see how much they charge for tickets to an event about “inclusivity”

Tommy Flowers, the man who built the first computer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Flowers

Neat.

Are they just cable tied to the pole?

Even just wrapping them in tinfoil should work.

I’m guessing those emoji happen to encode the opcodes for a program?

Unfortunately it’s a lot easier and quicker to scan a book if you remove the spine, since it’s then just a bunch of pages that can be fed through an auto feeder. Proper book scanners that turn pages are slow and expensive.

I don’t like the idea of destroying books, but it’s certainly a lot less unsavoury to destroy a single copy to create a publicly available archive.

Not all, in fact probably the minority, of rare books have anything special about their binding. There’s one reference book I’ve been looking for a copy of that was only published 20 years ago in paperback, but copies regularly sell for £150+ on ebay.

Can’t wait for the stoning DLC for the Sims (fnord)

Yes, I was told it was to standardise the number of days between payments.

Can we make him president?

Altberg boots https://altberg.co.uk/ are the best boots I’ve worn, and they’re made in the UK and Italy. They even have a resoling service.

It’s a Moorean fact.

Such a society would ban onlyfans, since it exists solely to exploit vulnerable lonely people.

Until 2022 it carried a maximum sentence of life imprisonment. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police,_Crime,_Sentencing_and_Courts_Act_2022