I’ve realised why CEOs are all so into LLMs - it’s because they all have the same energy as a CEO, spouting complete bullshit based on half remembered think pieces, but in a way that comes across like they know what they’re talking about.
The boy’s gaming laptop has decided the week before Christmas is the time to self-destruct. Mostly it does nothing but turn the power LED on. Occasionally it’ll crank all the fans to full power while doing so.
I hadn’t really planned on tomorrow’s holiday activity being to remove every part from a laptop one by one, but here we are.
@jarkman I’ve got all the necessary bits to do a walk in the rain, just not at all enthusiastic about doing so, exercising for an hour or two, then turning around and doing it again.
It’s usually fine but days like today I wish I had a car. I’d like to go climb but the gym is a 25 minute walk away and it’s pissing down with rain and will be for some time.
For your collective delectation this holiday season:
Quite possibly the silliest thing I've ever written (and definitely the most ridiculous graph I’ve ever made)!
https://loreandordure.com/2025/12/16/jingle-bells/
[And If you've enjoyed this piece of seasonal silliness (and, critically, have a few quid to spare) I'd be grateful if you popped them in the hat:
https://ko-fi.com/loreandordure
(Support for the blog is a big part of how I fund my PhD expenses!)]
@tony @nonfedimemes surely that’s more than 100kg of peanut butter. Rough guess I’d say each of those pallets is a 100kg each.
@nonfedimemes in fairness that is a lot of peanut butter for $600.
@james I’ve got one of them in my flat. Not even convinced it’s connected to anything on either side, as far as I can tell turning it on and off does nothing.
@nocontexttrek I’m not sure this version of the twelve days of Christmas scans very well.
There’s a genre of “I learned/did [thing] in [n] hours” YouTube video which always includes a picture of the creator looking miserable in the thumbnail and it’s such a turnoff. Why would I want to watch someone have a terrible time learning something new?
@dave how is the money never just the monthly bill they want to charge people? Just once can we have a company that sells a product to customers and makes that how they make money?
@cmconseils probably more being a creative thinker can also lead to having a messy or cluttered room, but I’m on board with the thought.
Deeply amused by Google trying to upsell me on More Security while I look at last year’s Christmas dinner spreadsheet to remember what needs ordering.
@mattgrayyes loved this, I’m immediately stealing “it’s getting done badly or it’s not getting done at all”.
@joenash hopefully I can get it properly playable by EMF. It’s called DashCam, a game in which one player takes regular selfies, and the other team tries to locate them before the clock runs out.
@james oh I’m aware. Hoping I can find some way to assess it as not at all risky but I fear the worst.
Ugh. Once again realised I have to work out content moderation if I ever want to release my silly game to the world at large because a core element is users posting photos.
Watching a video on Blender, I feel the need to admit I made an “oop” noise when the guy popped the roof of this little building like it was tipping its hat.
"We need to be more fascist to defend us from fascism".
@pikesley maybe? The guy could have been giving me the secret to eternal life for all I know.
Nazi dipshits in 1941:
“Today the Führer […] decided that roman is from now on to be designated as the standard letter. All printed products will be progressively changed over to this standard letter. The use of Schwabacher-Jewish letters by authorities will in future cease”.
Nazi dipshits in 2025:
“To restore decorum and professionalism […] and abolish yet another wasteful DEIA program, the Department is returning to Times New Roman as its standard typeface.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/10/trump-times-new-roman-font-return-state-department
![Nazi edict banning blackletter as “Judenlettern” 1941 [as shown in ‘Blackletter: Type and National Identity’, with English translation by Robin Kinross]:
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Circular letter (not for publication)
For general notice on behalf of the Führer:
It is false to regard or to describe the so-called gothic script as a German script. In reality the so-called gothic script consists of Schwabacher-Jewish letters. Just as they later took possession of newspapers, so the Jews living in Germany owned the printing offices at the introduction of printing and thus there came about the strong influx into Germany of Schwabacher-Jewish letters.
Today the Führer, in a discussion with Herr Reichsleiter Amann and the printer Herr Adolf Müller, decided that roman is from now on to be designated as the standard letter. All printed products will be progressively changed over to this standard letter. As soon as is feasible, only the standard script will be taught in schools.
The use of Schwabacher-Jewish letters by authorities will in future cease; certificates of appointment for officials, street-name signs, and the like, will in future only be produced in standard lettering.
By order of the Führer, Herr Reichsleiter
Amann will first change over to the standard script those newspapers and magazines that already have a foreign distribution or whose foreign circulation is desired.
On behalf of M. Bormann
“](/proxy/post_attachment/641898/9f4e64bc4a.jpeg "Nazi edict banning blackletter as “Judenlettern” 1941 [as shown in ‘Blackletter: Type and National Identity’, with English translation by Robin Kinross]:
“
Circular letter (not for publication)
For general notice on behalf of the Führer:
It is false to regard or to describe the so-called gothic script as a German script. In reality the so-called gothic script consists of Schwabacher-Jewish letters. Just as they later took possession of newspapers, so the Jews living in Germany owned the printing offices at the introduction of printing and thus there came about the strong influx into Germany of Schwabacher-Jewish letters.
Today the Führer, in a discussion with Herr Reichsleiter Amann and the printer Herr Adolf Müller, decided that roman is from now on to be designated as the standard letter. All printed products will be progressively changed over to this standard letter. As soon as is feasible, only the standard script will be taught in schools.
The use of Schwabacher-Jewish letters by authorities will in future cease; certificates of appointment for officials, street-name signs, and the like, will in future only be produced in standard lettering.
By order of the Führer, Herr Reichsleiter
Amann will first change over to the standard script those newspapers and magazines that already have a foreign distribution or whose foreign circulation is desired.
On behalf of M. Bormann
“")