9 votes so far today on /links

apparently this was to get around a chilean no-ad breaks promise, though it could all be some viral ad campaign bullshit I suppose, I don't care enough to investigate
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Duration: 5:43
( , Wed 8 Oct 2025, 21:58, Reply)

For some reason this clip made me laugh like a drain that's all.
( , Thu 9 Oct 2025, 16:07, Reply)

How is AEW going? I am going to assume the product has not improved in Jim's eyes.
( , Thu 9 Oct 2025, 16:35, Reply)

His videos often came up in my feed, and I watched quite a few of the wind turbine related ones. Feeling sad.
( , Wed 8 Oct 2025, 18:45, Reply)

Sad.
( , Wed 8 Oct 2025, 21:44, Reply)

Worth a read:
hackaday.com/2025/10/08/honoring-the-legacy-of-robert-murray-smith/
( , Wed 8 Oct 2025, 22:54, Reply)

Not a joke. I've lost friends to suicide, two of them my besties at the time.
I've been close myself, but never stepped over the line.
There's always hope somewhere.
( , Wed 8 Oct 2025, 23:06, Reply)

I had a bit of a breakdown last week and have been spiralling since. I've had issues with anxiety before, never bad enough to medicate, but this time I've been really bad, anxiety, depression, panic attacks, the whole nine yards. It took me until this morning to even call my best mate - who has been through similar in the past - which is fucking ridculous.
I think we're better than we used to be about talking about this stuff, but it's still stupidly difficult to make that call, even though I expect the majority of my friends have their own issues.
Anyway, feeling a bit more human now, and have a doctor's appointment next week.
God bless internet anonymity
( , Thu 9 Oct 2025, 11:16, Reply)

Been there too and felt stupid and guilty for doing so but you're not alone and lots of people love you.
( , Thu 9 Oct 2025, 13:29, Reply)

just accept you're feeling it with a detached acknowledgement, like it's your haemorroid playing up again. something that will be unpleasant but won't kill you. it's just feelings. you recognise it, and developing the self-awarenes to recognise when you're catastrophising because of it is also part of that, but you'll find ways to function despite it while you slowly wait for your equilibrium to eventually return.
I'm afraid that's all we're got time for. If you'd like to book another session, speak to frida on the way out
( , Thu 9 Oct 2025, 13:36, Reply)

Playing with mam’s dog always did the trick for me. Cooking something nice for myself too.
And stay away from booze; it does more harm than good.
Stay strong b3ta buddy.
( , Thu 9 Oct 2025, 14:27, Reply)

The meds will be interesting, don't lose hope if the first ones don't cut it. It takes time to find a suitable one, same for therapists.
You will survive this, most people do.
Be kind to yourself.
( , Thu 9 Oct 2025, 16:15, Reply)

but the hardest part of getting better is asking for help, and you’ve done that bit! Yay! Go you! etc
Meds might work for you, they might not. Personally I found them useful to get me the space/capacity to find a therapist, and that talking to a professional was what really helped me.
My GP said two things that stuck with me:
“Treatments are like trying on jeans. Some of them fit, some of them don’t, but you can always try a different pair”
“Therapy is like going through your pockets, working out what’s rubbish you can throw away, what’s a credit card receipt you need to deal with, and what’s a treasured item you need to hang on to”
Good luck, I hope you get the help you need, and can come out with lighter pockets.
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High security a fact of life for UK's Jews living in fear of attack

( , Wed 8 Oct 2025, 9:53, Reply)

I don't mean to kvetch, but as if that granny in the middle could kick the crap out of an attacker.
( , Wed 8 Oct 2025, 15:26, Reply)

Woman spots Diet Coke in clearance section at Morrisons and is floored by price

( , Wed 8 Oct 2025, 4:50, Reply)

that you're having more success copypasting unexpurgated LLM-generated slop into your articles than you possibly would using what's left of your own brain.
Fuck me.
Edit:After taking a look at her other articles, I'm questioning whether she's a real person at all...
( , Wed 8 Oct 2025, 5:56, Reply)

used to know quite a few, print and tv. None of the them are still working as journos.
( , Thu 9 Oct 2025, 1:02, Reply)

Slop videos are regularly snuck into my feed. Robot voice, aimless repetitive script saying odd things and mispronouncing words and names than no expert or enthusiast ever would... Filler text consisting of cliches and dead end tangents... It's not always super easy to spot the stuff instantly, which is annoying.
Occasionally a friend will try to talk to me about something astronomical and increasingly the stuff they tell me is complete bollocks from a slop video.
YT is fully on board and is actively encouraging content creators to make this crap, according to Universe Today. We need a human-only alternative.
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See what you can see. The landscape has changed.
( , Wed 8 Oct 2025, 16:16, Reply)

Ironically, Kurzgesagt's tiresome voice over and mismatched synthetic music always sounded artificial
( , Wed 8 Oct 2025, 5:24, Reply)

I learned two things from this video:
1) How to pronounce Kurzgesagt.
2) You can persuade 4.5m people to voluntarily watch a twelve minute advert for a calendar.
( , Wed 8 Oct 2025, 17:55, Reply)

also a lot of righteous anger about stealing the work of creative people in a video which does not have a single original defining element. Everything in this is drawn from the work and ideas of others who came before. I don't think it's any better than the thing it criticizes.
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Yes, almost everything builds on what has gone before, with humans making attempts to verify, the current iteration of 'AI' doesn't seem to differentiate much between established fact and opinion/propaganda/conspiracy bollocks.
( , Thu 9 Oct 2025, 16:28, Reply)

Stock Aitken and Waterman flooded the music world with slop. It's just the amount of slop.
AI can generate slop in sufficient quantities to drown out genuinely creative humans. It's already pretty much there in science papers.
( , Thu 9 Oct 2025, 1:11, Reply)

It was derived from Motown and acid house and is actually rather well written in some cases. Not being to your taste doesn't make it slop.
You are also trying to compare truth and art. Art slop is not the same problem as fake news/science/history.
( , Thu 9 Oct 2025, 16:15, Reply)

I think I have trained my algorithm to give me old clips I can't believe are not GC
( , Tue 7 Oct 2025, 15:26, Reply)

but I'll give it a click anyways...
( , Tue 7 Oct 2025, 13:44, Reply)

Pretty sure this must have appeared on here at some point in the past...it used to regularly be shown on the screens in the main room at Jilly's Rockworld rock club in Manchester.
( , Tue 7 Oct 2025, 8:28, Reply)

But based on the previous comments, I ain't risking that......Go well, young Paduan thingummyjig.
( , Tue 7 Oct 2025, 12:35, Reply)

That channel has a really good collection of stolen cult movies. Just needs Alex Cox to introduce each one.
( , Tue 7 Oct 2025, 14:41, Reply)

don't recall them ever doing 'Man bites Dog' or ' Black Emmanuelle II' though
( , Tue 7 Oct 2025, 20:52, Reply)

Besides, a man discussing his feelings with his talking penis is probably woke. Somehow.
( , Tue 7 Oct 2025, 22:08, Reply)

( , Wed 8 Oct 2025, 20:47, Reply)

Might have been me that linked it, I forget.
Anyway, enjoy the candles and keep your dick out of holes in the wall, no matter how inviting they may seem.
Oh, and avoid camel priests; they’re all duplicitous, conniving bastards.
( , Tue 7 Oct 2025, 22:11, Reply)

We all knew it, here is a thorough take down of why it is
Why do LLMs freak out over the seahorse emoji?
( , Mon 6 Oct 2025, 17:48, Reply)

And I'd love to be able to put in enough time to understand it, but alas the list of things I want to to is only getting shorter because I'm starting to realise I'm unlikely to be physically capable of ever doing them!
I even suspect a pull-up might be out of the question...
( , Mon 6 Oct 2025, 21:14, Reply)

And will all blow over soon enough.
Do what makes you happy
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But at some age it's going to be physically impossible to train enough to do a pull-up. Would that count as a disability? I guess you could argue it does but I doubt I'd get a blue badge!
( , Tue 7 Oct 2025, 17:42, Reply)

It was trained to people stuff so it makes people fuckups
It should have been trained on dogs or a nice cup of tea.
( , Tue 7 Oct 2025, 10:06, Reply)

earthspecies.org
( , Tue 7 Oct 2025, 12:24, Reply)

Many of them seem genuinely surprised when reality-based people take the piss out of them for it.
( , Tue 7 Oct 2025, 14:17, Reply)

1973 documentary about Britains most remote lighthouse
( , Mon 6 Oct 2025, 17:46, Reply)

Much respect to them for doing that.
( , Mon 6 Oct 2025, 23:59, Reply)

Now I want a life size, badly cut-out car, to appear 'shopped on streetview.
( , Mon 6 Oct 2025, 22:21, Reply)

blocks RightMove, but allows me to come and visit B3ta. WTF?
I'm not going to complain about it though...
( , Tue 7 Oct 2025, 10:31, Reply)

They seem to have deleted the good one. It looked a lot like that one up there ^
( , Tue 7 Oct 2025, 20:29, Reply)

But not that much worse than some of the interior photo staging.
( , Tue 7 Oct 2025, 21:30, Reply)

Too many of these listings using images with low-distortion super-wide angle lenses that make pokey one-bed studio flats look like sweeping penthouses.
( , Wed 8 Oct 2025, 8:51, Reply)

This is spookily relevant to my interests, given that I'm currently kitbashing a spaceship and listening to the Hitchhiker radio series.
( , Sun 5 Oct 2025, 12:02, Reply)

If you're a wizard, tell me how I should attach these engines. I can't figure it out.
( , Sun 5 Oct 2025, 12:17, Reply)

If Greig Johnson has taught me anything, it's that almost any problem can be solved with an appropriate application of hot glue.
( , Sun 5 Oct 2025, 13:25, Reply)

I've been trying to work something out with steel rods, but I'm beginning to think the answer might just be a fuckton of Milliput.
( , Sun 5 Oct 2025, 14:21, Reply)

Works for me, some of my stuff is still holding together a good fifteen years later
( , Mon 6 Oct 2025, 9:46, Reply)

Today is the day of the one pull up. Awful night's sleep - I imagine this is how footballers feel before the FA Cup final. Whatever happens today I have absolutely loved training for this one pull up. I'd go so far as to say it's been transformational and I've never been so committed to something so seemingly pathetic. Anyway I'd highly recommend it to anyone who is a slightly chubby, out of shape, and looking for a moderate, but obviously epic, challenge. Thanks for the support (from most of you!). That's been the best part really - chatting pull ups, and general 'getting older' advice over the DMs etc. Cheers. Simon
( , Sun 5 Oct 2025, 11:09, Reply)

than I was expecting to be when you started.
You’ve got the first half of the movement, you’ve got the second half. You can absolutely do this!
UNLEASH THE BEAST!!!
( , Sun 5 Oct 2025, 12:17, Reply)

you've been close for ages but your mindset hasn't kept pace with your physical progress
( , Sun 5 Oct 2025, 13:37, Reply)

If YouTube is starting to recommend the Critical Drinker, you're already on the alt-right pathway.
( , Sun 5 Oct 2025, 10:32, Reply)

while she looks at her sixty million pounds...
( , Sun 5 Oct 2025, 18:53, Reply)

as this sneery vid makes out. it was a "I still care for her anyway" olive branch, though I think Rowiling was well within her rights to tell her to get fucked
( , Tue 7 Oct 2025, 5:14, Reply)

This one is for the engineering/physics nerds - I know there are one or two of you here. lol
I've followed Huygens Optics' channel for a few years. I think it's one of those gems in the Youtubiverse that gives me a glimmer of hope for the interwebs.
( , Sat 4 Oct 2025, 23:28, Reply)

Again, surprised this 17-year-old clip isn't GC...
( , Sat 4 Oct 2025, 20:14, Reply)

New 9/11 Evidence Points to Deep Saudi Complicity

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to saying "the global War on Terror was based on a mistake". I guess it's punchy for those who tldr and grist to the "saudi bad. no comedy for bad saudi" mill
I had a quick wade through the court filing for my own curiousity and they seem to be making the legal argument that they don't actually need to show evidence of direct involvement or knowlege of the saudi government for their tort (damages claim) to be valid, citing cases that they only need to show material support (aparment finding help) and that those giving it were employed by a foreign government. Good luck to them, I think the yanks have been stingy with their compo, so perhaps the saudis might cough up something after almost 30 years, they're not short of a quid.
My take is it sounds like this Thumairy character had been getting a stipend by the saudi intelligence service since 1990 to report what various saudi in the US were up to while performing his main job of giving consular help. That's pretty much the shocking new revelation in the case, "fbi records...confirming Thumairy’s regular involvement in receiving radicals upon their arrival in the U.S.and hosting them while in Los Angeles" It's possible he was sympathetic to wahabist causes like al queda, but no evidence he knew about the plot or had any direct involvement in it, or in fact, treated them any differently to any other saudis he dealt with in previous years. He might have been getting regular pay for being an informer, little diferrent to how other spy agencies use embassy staff.
As a small aside, I once had a saudi student staying at my place for a brief year I lived in Sydney. Nice bloke, paid his board and was no fuss. Had a few chats with him to learn about life there, though he did once offer to give me a koran which I politely refused. Said his dad was a real estate agent in Riyadh. Had a knock at the door one evening and it was the Consul General from the Saudi embassy. He'd come personally to my apartment in maroubra to check up on this kid.
( , Sat 4 Oct 2025, 15:59, Reply)

There is no fucking way on earth that US intelligence services weren't aware of an impending attack on American soil. The 3,000 dead is peanuts in exchange for the utterly perfect propaganda piece that a (second) attack on the Twin Towers offered.
The idea that using a hikacked plane as a weapon instead of a bargaining chip was unimaginable before September 11th is also utter bollocks.
The only mistakes made were in how American troops conducted themselves overseas in the following years.
( , Sat 4 Oct 2025, 18:19, Reply)

and it did eventually have a fair influence on change after decades. Consistent international sanctions and their stagnant economy led botha to internal reforms before de clerk ripped the band aid off. People were quite clear about the issue, the disenfranchisement of 85% of the population based on race.
However I don't see this with Saudi. they're not hugely different from other muslim country in the status of women or gays. They're an autocracy (that britain created), but so are many countries, so the question would be why pick on them instead of say, Oman or uzbekistan, or pakistan for that matter if people are posting about countries that helped 9/11 hijackers? I don't see this international movement or sanctions against them. If you do and think this will bring about change, I can respect that. Picketing BAE for doing huge amounts of business with them. refusing to fly with airlines that use aramco aviation fuels like many british airlines do, etc. Supporting Saudi women calling for change.
But I'd bet for most this is just people posting shit having a go at some comedian doing a gig there is the extent of their opposition. it's the lamest, laziest form of vitue signalling. And rather than aparteid, you could use the better example of an autocratic opressive state that had done horrible shit, the soviet union. It wasn't sanctions and the 40 years of cold war that brought it down. I reckon that opposition helped prop them up. It was when we finally relaxed and allowed them to be exposed to western culture. All the shit they were missing. blue jeans, billy joel touring there in 87. the population had a taste and decided they had dick of it, and it collapsed, even rejecting gorbi's compromise of glasnost. these things happen by internal pressure, what we really want is enough saudis to think our western values are worth adopting. Can't see how stopping the first comedy festival in an authoritarian state acheives this. Anyway, I've waffled enough and made my points, but I imagine if the soviet union was around today those same people would be whining online to cancel billy joel, and he's the piano man goddammit
( , Sun 5 Oct 2025, 1:14, Reply)

I remember when it was 'The War Against Terror' before they changed it because it spelt TWAT.
( , Mon 6 Oct 2025, 0:20, Reply)
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