Eric KIs Your Child Suffering from Brain Rot or Quoting Finnegans Wake?
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/is-your-child-suffering-from-brain-rot-or-quoting-finnegans-wake
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Jason LefkowitzHaving fun with the revelation that Kagi Translate is actually something like a thin wrapper over an LLM, so you can pass anything you want as the "to" language in the URL's query string and it will do its best to "translate" your text to that
https://translate.kagi.com/?from=en&to=pentagon+speak&text=I+think+we+should+break+up.
allisonSome potentially good news for #NightTrains in #Europe: new EU state aid rules for transport will allow operating aid to cover the initial losses of launching new commercial rail connections for passenger night trains, as long as they connect stations that have lacked scheduled night trains for at least three years:
https://www.railtech.com/all/2026/03/17/eu-adopts-new-state-aid-rules-for-transport-including-rail/
Maybe we’ll get that Malmö-Brussels service after all
I for one am excited by the possibilities of new AI-driven video game image enhancement technologies:
Open Rights GroupTrump threatens allies with retribution for not bending the knee.
UK digital infrastructure can be used as leverage or disrupted on his say so.
We need interoperable open-source systems, so we're not locked in to services owned and controlled by foreign tech firms.
Sign the petition for #DigitalSovereignty ⬇️
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/stop-trump-s-kill-switch-secure-our-digital-sovereignty
#Trump #nato #starmer #ukpolitics #ukpol #petition #opensource
A new low-budget independent film has caught the mood in Hungary as it heads to the polls:
“The psychological thriller tells the story of a saleswoman who is abducted into a family that follows the orders of an authoritarian father-figure, Papa, and whose members get privileges if they play by the rules. The main character, Rita, tries to escape, but finds that even outside everything seems to be owned by the family, so there is no point in asking for help.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/17/low-budget-thriller-highlights-hungary-election-divide
George MonbiotThe only way Reform UK could win a general election is through our first-past-the-post system.
If we had proportional representation, the threat would evaporate.
We don't have PR because Starmer has blocked it.
This allows him to say: vote Labour or you get Farage.
Because it's all he has left.
Unseen JapanRobo Stadion, a fab shop for makers in Tokyo's Akihabara, has found a clever way to repurpose an old tobacco machine: it's vending UIAPduino Pro Micro CH32V003 microcontroller for 300 yen a pop, which devs can use for a variety of robotics and IoT projects.
o lаvrоvsky"Chris Marker was the first, the first geek, the first programmer, the one who dove into computers, graphics cards, PEEKs and POKEs, who took a bite out of the apples of Alan (Turing) and Steve (Jobs and Wozniak). ... This is the story of a man, his screens, his machines and his languages. It is also our story, that of computers and of thought: Do machines think? And the story of an unrealized dream from the 1980s, a utopia developed out of AI." -- Poptronics, 2013 in https://kubicki.org/letters/the-festival-of-the-machines/
