Paul Sutton @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org

@stablehorde_generator Draw for me a photo realistic image of scared Tories in a small boat trying to cross the channel Include Rishi Sunak, Boris Johnson, Nigel Farage, Lee Anderson, Suella Braverman, Priti Patel and Jacob Rees-Mogg.

Every major media outlet covered the story this week, which is a welcome change for stories about non westerners. Still, even in death Prigozhin looks like he'll push this out of the headlines and back into irrelevance.

I don’t know if recent NVIDIA drivers, or a recent update to the Linux kernel did this, but battery life on standby on my laptop (12rh gen intel + RTX3050Ti) has improved significantly!

Usually, if I left it on suspend overnight, it drained about 20% of its battery. Yesterday it lost something like 6%!

Of course they did.

https://jezebel.com/viagra-might-relieve-period-cramps-but-male-pharmaceut-1832853955

UK academics urge Royal Society to condemn fossil fuel industry:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/aug/23/uk-academics-urge-royal-society-to-condemn-fossil-fuel-industry

Tropical forests face ‘massive leaf death’ from global heating, study finds:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/aug/23/tropical-forest-face-massive-leaf-death-global-heating-unable-conduct-photosynthesis-study

Prigozhin lived way longer than I anticipated.

Strategic mastermind apparently.

Brain implants could one day restore communication for people with paralysis - Both studies show that it’s possible to decode brain signa... - https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/23/23842109/brain-implants-speech-paralysis

@cstross

On the farcical side,

"A statement from Russia's air transport regulator says they've opened a criminal case regarding the downed aircraft, for violating air traffic safety rules."

Will the official line be "Nothing personal, we had to shoot them down for their own good, they were violating traffic air safety rules."

Jet believed to be carrying Wagner boss Prigozhin crashes in Russia https://www.politico.eu/article/jet-believed-to-be-carrying-wagner-boss-prigozhin-crashes-in-russia/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Russian windows. #prigozhin

DeSantis support drops 11 points after campaign reboot: poll | The Hill

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4166249-desantis-support-drops-11-points-after-campaign-reboot-poll/

Sure, I’m sure there’s nothing fishy there.

"Footage posted by onlookers in the Tver region showed what seemed like the trail of an antiaircraft missile and then the jet, an Embraer Legacy 600, falling out of the sky with one wing missing."

Plane Carrying Wagner’s Prigozhin Crashes in Russia, All Aboard Killed https://www.wsj.com/articles/plane-carrying-wagner-owner-prigozhin-crashes-in-russia-all-aboard-killed-82d25f1e

So, a little bit of warning for folks following me: I have no patience for any talk about "AI" being close to, on the verge of, or displaying sparks of Artificial General Intelligence.

The AI researchers making these claims are *severely* underestimating what even animal-level reasoning and problem-solving involves, and seem to be utterly clueless about what human level capabilities involve

It's bullshit sci-fi that's designed to sell you stuff.