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Blockchain: a slow database

Crypto: an expensive slow database

NFT: an expensive slow database to store URLs

AI: a way to write slow and inefficient algorithms

LLM: a database that stores text in a slow and inefficient way

Chat GPT: an expensive imprecise query language for slow and inefficient text databases that often returns wrong results

Excellent explainer by @davidallengreen How the legal system made it so easy for the Post Office to destroy the lives of the sub-postmasters and sub-postmistresses - and how the legal system then made it so hard for them to obtain justice https://emptycity.substack.com/p/how-the-legal-system-made-it-so-easy?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=474138&post_id=140614319&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=8zwbz&utm_medium=email

#OnThisDayInNTK:1998 http://ntk.net/1998/06/26/?arc

debut mentions of:

David Brake

doomed Psion/Nokia/Ericsson Symbian phone OS

"portable hardware [MP3] players"

Game Boy Camera, Game Boy Color & Datel's characteristically demented "GB Game Booster for Sony Playstation"
https://mamedev.emulab.it/haze/2018/01/28/things-youre-probably-not-going-to-want-to-do-348693/

Fun couple of days at the #BreakthroughListen meeting at #SKAO this week, hearing about all the ways astronomers are searching for evidence of #technosignatures 👽 🛸 (we haven’t found any yet, but there are some really clever search techniques). The best bit? The final day pick n mix selection included UFOs…! 😁

Brexit: New report suggests UK £311bn worse off by 2035 due to leaving EU
https://news.sky.com/story/brexit-new-report-suggests-uk-311bn-worse-off-by-2035-due-to-leaving-eu-13046256
The report came up with a scenario for growth if the UK had stayed inside the EU, and compared it to forecasts the Office for Budget Responsibility made in March last year.

Brexshit was always a stupid idea!

Now we need to find politicians brave enough, and/or not in the pockets of the Brexiteers, to take us back into the EU

#Brexit #BrexitDividend #BrexitHasFailed

Well done, Sadiq Khan. One of the very few mainstream politicians (in England, at least) brave enough to speak the unspeakable.
* UK economy £140bn smaller than it would have been without Brexit – shrinkage of 6%
* 1.8 million fewer jobs — a drop of 4.8%
* Average Briton nearly £2,000 worse off (typical Londoner £3,400 worse off)
He wants "a pragmatic debate" on the UK rejoining the Single Market and Customs Union.
OVER TO YOU, KEIR STARMER.
https://www.ft.com/content/bcc52e35-f5b1-4c26-abbf-422f613d54e2

Whenever I see a news article with an isometric illustration my first reaction is “I’d love to play that game”. In this case I’m imagining rushing to apply surreal repairs (plasters, rubber bands, duct tape) to a miniaturised rail network while the trains are still running on it.

Remember when AOL would post these out everywhere, all the time?

' In all these cases, the counter calculated a value of 1p and the calculations
carried out at the host gave a value of £0.0099. As the first three digits were 000 the
system took this to be 0p and so reported a false discrepancy. There was however no
financial discrepancy.'

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@verge fuck off. Then fuck off some more. Then keep fucking off. Then when you think you've fucked off enough, fuck off one more time to be sure.