Mastodawn

Series B, Episode 10 - Voice from the Past

AVON: Of course, as trigger signals for hypnotic states, used to condition convicted offenders for memory revision. [Cally puts the pad back on Blake] And they would hypnotize them with a combination of drugs and one of these trigger signals. After a little while, a few days, they would no longer need the drugs, the signal itself would be sufficient to keep them under.
CALLY: So could Blake be somehow hypnotizing himself? He goes to… (1/2)

gurnaik 3d ago

Kevin Beaumont 3d ago

KPMG issued a report citing all the transformational ways GenAI has transformed industry, it’s been widely cited.

One minor problem: it turns they used AI to write the report, and it made up all of the evidence.

KPMG have now withdrawn the report in full.

https://www.ft.com/content/b3828e92-4961-4b39-84f0-c42f33be3c3f

gurnaik Jun 8

Blakes7Bot Jun 8

Series B, Episode 06 - Trial

TRAVIS: GET OUT!
[On the planet. Blake trips and falls, and lie there until he is poked by a stick. He tries to catch Zil but nobody is within reach. When he turns, Zil is standing in sight.]
BLAKE: WHAT are you?

https://blake.torpidity.net/m/206/266 B7B2

gurnaik Jun 5

Moby Dick Jun 5

mark the stranger’s evil eye

gurnaik Jun 4

Dare Obasanjo Jun 4

Microsoft’s employee survey omitted questions about pay and confidence in leadership.

In the age of AI driven layoffs and pay cuts in big tech, it’s no surprise that some companies have decided the charade of pretending to care what employees think no longer matters.

https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-employee-survey-compensation-question-omitted-2026-6

'You can't handle the truth!' Microsoft staff push back on survey results.

Some Microsoft workers ask whether questions were omitted from a recent employee satisfaction survey, reflecting broader tension inside the company.

Business Insider

gurnaik Jun 3

Open Rights Group Jun 3

MPs want Palantir OUT of the NHS and the UK public sector!

ORG has long warned about our dependency on Big Tech – from vendor lock-in to security risks from foreign-owned companies.

Chi Onwurah MP has echoed our call for Digital Sovereignty to ensure we have control over our critical infrastructure.

UK lawmakers call on government to ditch Palantir NHS contract

Lock-in to a small number of suppliers holding up digital government plans, committee says

theregister

gurnaik May 28

LibreOffice May 28

If between 2006 and 2008 everyone had done their part, today there would be a single open, multi-vendor interoperability standard for office documents – our ODF – governed neutrally and implemented by all: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/05/28/odf-vs-ooxml-an-issue-that-should-never-have-existed/ #foss #openSource #freesoftware

gurnaik May 24

German Fernsehen 📺🥴May 24

#DerSechsMillionenDollarMann

gurnaik May 24

Blakes7Bot May 24

#Blakes7 Series B, Episode 04 - Horizon

GAN: Not a thing. We're all alone up here.
BLAKE: [V.O.] Make sure we stay that way.
GAN: I'll try not to drop off.
JENNA: Well, that's all right, assuming they haven't got a fix on us from the ground by now.

https://blake.torpidity.net/m/204/139 B7B1

gurnaik May 23

If the hot weather this bank holiday weekend is not for you:
https://virtualosmuseum.org/

The Virtual OS Museum

Over 1,700 pre-installed operating systems spanning 1948 to today, in a single Linux VM. Bundled QEMU, VirtualBox, and UTM. One-click launchers for Windows and Linux.

The Virtual OS Museum