In the news

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlGklt4BSQ8

If this crap is better than life, what did we escape from?

metaverse

Isn't this just a vehicle for selling internet enabled flashlights?

You joke but VR and internet enabled fleshlights are very much in development. I know a company that is creating 3d models of porn stars just for that purpose.

I didn't know it was happening now but always figured it was one of those sooner or later type things.

I find it a bit disturbing that the reality of where we as a species are voluntarily heading is that much sadder and seedier than most of the dystopian sci fi I obsessed over as a teenager. Or maybe I'm at the start of a slippery slope that ends up with me viewing the past through rose tinted lenses and voting for whatever the future version of Brexit is.

I never understood why the Google glass project didn’t gain more traction in the consumer market

Look shit. Solutions to non-problems which opens up a never ending series of privacy issues.

The main benefits of smart glasses are commercial. First responders. Mining. Manufacturing workers. Etc.

Call me old fashioned, but fucking a sex toy while watching porn on a glorified TV seems much less disturbing than all the other gashness these big tech vampires punt.

I guess Ukraine is happening. F*ck Putin, I am praying for peace

Always a good read but today's OP from Marina Hyde is very to the point https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/feb/11/farewell-cressida-dick-the-met-chief-only-interested-in-one-thing-ignoring-bad-coppers

https://twitter.com/STFU_anajai2/status/1491927773736316928

No captioning make this tweet completely useless.

When life imitates Seinfeld

Server: "It doesn't work like that it [intelligible]"

Lady "I wanna talk to the manager"

"OK one second" [Spins under the counter and re-appears] "Hi, How can I help you?".

"What the fuck is your problem?"

"What is my problem! You came in here acting like you own the place"

"I want to rent a ... Yaaacht"

"Does it look like we have yachts?"

"I see them all around there"

"We don't have any yachts for rent"

"I see them, who's yachts are they?"

"They're personal yachts"

"You don't want to make any money at this restaurant?"

"I guess we don't"

"Well f... [pause] What the hell are you doing you can't record me, that is against my [something] law"

"Ma'am, ma'am"

"Gimme that"

Looked pretty set up to me

Feel a bit sad reading such a sombre Marina Hyde article.

Kinda like we've reached the point where public figures have used up all her comic bile and were just left with depressingly serious content.

So like this country losing their collective shit at free broadband for all (poor people) a year before we moved indoors forever and insisted our kids can only be educated over the internet...

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/tony-blair-keir-starmer-is-a-work-in-progress-dk3hnpmv6

"I don’t want to retire; Henry Kissinger is the role model, in his late nineties and still sharp as a tack.”

Must be trolling?

Speaking as the CEO of Twitter I can only apologise for the lack of subtitles. I'd also like to apologise in my role as head of the BBC, chairman of ITV, big boss at C4 and Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan for similar failings.

Two good threads on UK future battery production

https://twitter.com/EdConwaySky/status/1492219479308345365

https://twitter.com/EdConwaySky/status/1492418987107442689

The twist:

https://twitter.com/EdConwaySky/status/1492419058083549184

Grim.

https://news.sky.com/story/hackney-wick-seven-people-rescued-after-mezzanine-floor-collapses-at-london-bar-and-restaurant-12540653

Lovely stuff.

" This is a government that lies. It lied last week as it lies every week. It lies to the Queen. It lies to parliament. It lies to the electorate. It lies to itself. It lies as a matter of policy. It lies as a matter of course. It lies when it doesn’t need to lie. It lies because it doesn’t know what else to do. It lies because it is all it can do. This is a government that lies"

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/feb/12/lies-lies-and-more-lies-a-government-built-on-lies-is-incapable-of-anything-else?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Not so grim imo. Everything is made from something, and that some crude oil is being used in this way (not burned) and it's using as much of the product as possible (less waste) is a good thing

Thank dude!

scary happenings in that hackney wick bar
luckily very few people on the ground floor under the bit that collapsed