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- Continuity3
2026 World Cup
I hate the fact most of this WC is in the US.
I hate the 48-team format.
I hate FIFA and Infantino with every fibre of my being.But fuck me, I'm looking forward to Canada's first match on Friday.
- I'm in it for the USA chants.palimpsest
- Too many teams. Wont feel special until the Quarters. But yeah, cannae wait.zardoz
- Haters gonna hate and ain'ters gonna ain'tneverscared
- good luckmilfhunter
- Many teams = a chance for surprises, I'm all for itspl33nidoru
- I can't even this go around. Been checked out on footy tbh.garbage
- But also, if you had a favorite lazy instant noodle to start a base with, what would it be? I've got a cold and about to make an H Mart run.garbage
- Absolutely Nissin Ramen Premium, because air-dried noodles.
Or anything sold with straight dried noodles with two portions.Continuity - I am a Nissin fan. Will confess my lazy is Shin Black or Shin Air Dried.garbage
- I'm a sucker for Asian junk food. Bibigo Chicken Bulgolgi all day lol. I'm going to grab a spread, will report back.garbage
- I also do the David Chang.. which I felt seen when he admitted he does that too.garbage
- Gardener10
Banksy
I was reminded by a friend earlier that it was 9 years ago today that I flogged the 2 rarest records I have ever owned. So here I am showing off my Banksy designed sleeves, I sold both of them and took the lad on holiday and bought a car! The Blowpop Records 12" above STILL holds the world record for the most expensive Banksy sleeved disc ever sold at auction. It was hand-sprayed by the mystery artist himself and was in mint condition, it went for £5,850 to an art gallery in Paris. The other one is a compilation that went for over £1,200. They were both sent to me free ten years earlier by the promotions company when I was working as a volunteer DJ on a community radio station. I carried a tiny pang of guilt for selling them for a while but when the station moved to new premises I repainted the building inside and out so felt much better, haha. I have no regrets in parting with them either and have never seen copies out in the wild or at fairs since though I have looked in vain!
- Sick. Out of curiosity, looked up how much his Paris Hilton CD went for.
https://www.catawiki…garbage - holy shit! that is amazing @gardener! congrats on making it into a paid vacation and car!lvl_13
- great story!whatthefunk
- Wow, you reached hit the top tier of record collecting :)yuekit
- Sick. Out of curiosity, looked up how much his Paris Hilton CD went for.
- Continuity4
Food
As if the boys from Fallow weren't cool enough.
Now they get to go hang out with George Motz, too.@Nairn: I followed Motz's method he mentioned in the kitchen early in the video, about making the beef almost like sausage meat for this evening's smash burgers for Best Girl and me.
It was a solid sheet of crust when I flipped them. A sheet.
Beef. Candy.Do this.
- Oh shit, I missed this somehow?Nairn
- I screwed it up today, my wife got extra lean beef and I couldn’t get the temperature right, do you sear on high?_niko
- Also my beef balls started out bigger than the ones in the vid but ended up shrinking to nothing. Argh I suck lol._niko
- Extra lean be—oh, niko, I'm so sorry.
Have you filed yet?Continuity - But yeah, heat ... your pan needs to be screaming hot, like you would with have if you were cooking a steak.Continuity
- lol continuity there's not a judge in the land that wouldn't take my side!
but yeah I tried medium heat- shit. medium high- better but shit. High - managed a_niko - ...crust but my pan turned black and started smoking and I set off the fire alarm lol._niko
- and yes before you punch me through the screen, my wife also drew out my cast iron skillet because germs and I had to use her new ceramic coated nonsense -_niko
- ...which I'm glad I ruined!! :)_niko
- She did what to your cast iron pan?!
GERMS?!
And now, I'm reminded of my ex- from years ago, who 1) doesn't cook, and ...Continuity - ... 2) tried to convince me with a straight face that you shouldn't eat lettuce cores because — according to her — they're carcinogenic.Continuity
- mort_12
- garbage3
blog
Also totally forgot, but I know there's some cross-contamination.
Anybody else getting spam mails from Y@yhooray?
- Nah. This was one website to which I never signed up. They can't spam an address they don't have! Have some of *that*, fuckers!Continuity
- I got 1 last weekYakuZoku
- I thought it was dead, still didn't checkYakuZoku
- @cont lol, you weren't missing much.
@moldy didn't check either. There was maybe 3 good users there, and then just an endless march of cunts.garbage - Got onepango
- Me too, two in the last two months. Didn't remember signing up there...Longcopylover
- yepprophetone
- Yep.. went and still Konik and few others arguing over .. no clue, doesn't even make sense.hydro74
- ^ This is both hilarious and unsurprising.garbage
- mort_13
- whatthefunk10
- "Two large pepperoni with extra cheese"palimpsest
- "Volareeee..."OBBTKN
- "Who's coming to the pool party tomorrow"whatthefunk
- "ah, hahaha, I'm so happy i stole this white brick that feels so nice rubbing against my beard from that spider, ah haha!!"Nairn
- “I bait the hook with a block of butter and wait. Sounds daft, but that’s exactly how I ended up catching a Pavarotti"kingsteven
- shirt is tres sickprophetone
- This is that chef, no?monospaced
- stole gardeners shirt ?neverscared
- Lol@nsOBBTKN
- damnit, kingsteven, so much betterNairn
- PAPARAZZIPAVAROTTI PAPARAZZIPAVAROTTI PAPARAZZIPAVAROTTIstoplying
- dbloc1
Artificial Intelligence
Anthropic calls for pause of global AI development
https://www.yahoo.com/news/scien…- https://www.engadget…Nairn
- yeah, like that will ever be adhered to. mmmhhhmmmmlvl_13
- Nerds have only been warning about exactly this for decades.monospaced
- AI development is slowing down, they're marketing it like its a responsible choice. Anthropic peaked at Opus 4.6kingsteven
- Impossible to do anything without parallel agents because its so fucking slow, all while hemorrhaging money. bubble is ready to blow. say it aint so.kingsteven
- I think the release of Claude Mythos (apparently happening soon) will tell us a lot about the pace of development.yuekit
- there are multiple reports from those who have access already. when testing against dario's claims it was found to be equal to GPT 5.5 in performancekingsteven
- Existing models found many of the same exploits but worked out 700x cheaper than Mythos :|kingsteven
- It seems like it's difficult to get an objective measure of how much they're improving. Mythos does do better on coding benchmarks but those don't necessarilyyuekit
- map onto real-world use perfectly and can be gamed by the AI companies.yuekit
- yeah, even the benchmarks which try to make comparisons are struggling with mythos. market for small capability increase at 700x the price... it could be a yearkingsteven
- after release and opus 5.5 exceeds its performance. is the way im looking at it. frontier is no longer going to be a no brainer or level out to the previouskingsteven
- models pricing... and in a year it could be 2-3 times the price across the board.kingsteven
- I think a lot of gains in capability will be made by building on top of the models or custom tuning them, like with Claude Code. So it could look like amazingyuekit
- progress is being made for awhile even if actual improvement of LLMs is not that great.yuekit
- yeah, i do believe that anthropics competitive edge and the focus of innovation which has led to notable improvements in the last yearkingsteven
- has been due to workload structuring and safeguarding, with the underlying agent mostly limited by the pace of technology, ie. increased context etc.kingsteven
- the realtime SD stuff i was doing recently was an eye opener, the same models you can achieve 6x the speed on the same hardware nowkingsteven
- all down to the surrounding technology. and on a 2 y/o card i can get 30fps due to hardware optimisations. Then I imagine Claude 4.6 running at 20x the speed...kingsteven
- but everyone uses the same hardware so anthropic knows it'll be harder to maintain a competitive edge without showcasing capable but impractical frontier agentskingsteven
- the industry 'slows down', incremental price increases to become profitable and not pop the bubble, and a narrative of safeguarding. that or they release akingsteven
- borked version of mythos, focus on the model rather than reasoning like openai o1 in reverse.kingsteven
- dur, i mixed up 'technology' and 'hardware' up there and reasoning then 'reasoning' and 'workload' and this is why 4.8 is not working for me lolkingsteven
- its like having a pedantic co-worker.kingsteven
- Apparently it's coming out tomorrow so let's see!yuekit
- getting my predictions in :)kingsteven
- Gardener1
Boards of Canada
new album ticking ALL my boxes this evening,
double red vinyl = check!
great fold-out sleeve = check!
lovely booklet = check!
HEXAGONAL FLEXIDISC!! = checkety check!
- HEXAGONAL FLEXIDISC wow niceprophetone
- the hexagonal flexi disc was a nice surprise in my package! been listening to it non-stop. I do agree with some critics saying that some of the vocal is a...lvl_13
- little overused-or too much in focus. overall though, super solid!lvl_13
- @Gardener How'd you rate the music?jagara
- thumbs up, have had it on in the front room whilst reading and the dl in the car as background to family chatter, digging itGardener
- I'd say it's about as good as Music Has a Right to and Geogaddi. It's a bit of a grower because there's so much in there.CyBrainX
- _niko12
Vibe Girlfriend Wanted
ok, Please create a girlfriend for me, she should be blond, love sitting on stairs and wearing cut-off jean shorts and be from Poland.
My online friends should be jealous that I have such a hot babe for a GF.
- skwiotsmith11
Show some recent work
Officially launched The Future Sucks today. Really happy with how all this site came together.
- The artwork for Earth House Hold is amazing. Great work all around.CyBrainX
- Appreciate the kind words, and I'm with you. I still love how the Earth House Hold project turned out.skwiotsmith
- Beautiful and memorable work. <3mort_
- I'm a fan!palimpsest
- so many times i wanted to click to hear or to buy !_me_
- @_me_ appreciate that callout. I'll look to add something like that in the future!skwiotsmith
- "Hmm, colored vinyl.." in the Homer Doughnut Voice. Sick stuff.garbage
- beautiful works <3microkorg
- The future sucks and I like it!futurefood
- NBQ0013
- BusterBoy2
Vibe Girlfriend Wanted
You're fucked if your internet stops working. Say hello to Mrs Palmer and her 5 daughters.
- palimpsest5
- lol
she's goodscruffics - Even if she dresses like a whoar.palimpsest
- 28:30 is genius.
xNairn
- lol
- _me_3
Punches For:
Read this in a brief this morning: We are doomed.
___We are an early-stage digital marketing company building our complete brand identity from the ground up. We are looking for one exceptional brand designer to lead Phase 1: a full typographic identity and working design system delivered in Figma.
This is not a logo job. It is a systems job. The identity is built on Swiss typographic precision and Nordic spatial restraint — authoritative without being cold, premium without being opulent, minimal without being empty. If those words mean something specific to you, we should talk.
- Never forget:
https://www.qbn.com/…palimpsest - ChatJMB and get two birds stoned at once.kingsteven
- sounds like claude nailed whatever you get from lovable out of the box...ArchitectofFate
- i am more about the french spatial exuberance and david carson typographic anti-precision and fuck upneverscared
- @paly I swear I got shouted down ages ago for saying this shit is coming for all of us. AI is for memes, the unskilled and the artless. Period.garbage
- Oh and for mass surveillance. Forgot about that one. Trash bag your local Palantir, folks.garbage
- memetic warfare ... people are waking up to do it 20 years after its coiningneverscared
- or 50 years depending if count dawkins selfish gene as an originneverscared
- "authoritative without being cold" Homer <Simpson backing into bush gif>CyBrainX
- Kurt Vonnegut, Player Piano. 1952.garbage
- It’s a job!monospaced
- It staysmonospaced
- It can stay but the person writing the job description can go.CyBrainX
- Never forget:
- palimpsest6
- Smoking kills.CyBrainX
- stress kills, smoking is finerobthelad
- “It's not the fall that kills you; it's the sudden stop at the end.”
She died of "sadness" from losing her partner.palimpsest - Smoking is not fine. We have more than half a century of medical research warning us.CyBrainX
- Smoking is universally accepted as a horrible concept, except by smokers who think it's fine.jagara
