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I was today years old when I learned that I own an NFT 🤣 Turns out I’m a massive hypocrite and I didn’t even know.

(Yes, it’s a Reddit “Collectible” avatar)

My friend now has a mandatory, annual “AI objective”. I suggested this:

Minimise the risk of inclusion of mathematically certain, AI hallucinations, for which I would be blamed, by avoiding any usage beyond simple sentences rephrasing/proofing

Learned the meaning of some words today:

Exophthalmic (adj.), from Exophthalmos – a bulging of the eye anteriorly out of the orbit

Impecunious (adj.) – having little or no money

Prurient (adj.) – an inordinate interest in sex

TIL that they’re called “outplacement consultants” or “career transition specialists”. I didn’t meet one. I just had reason to look it up.

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I use the Redirection plugin on WordPress. As a result I am in a constant arms race with spammy 404s, like these:

/page/320/?s
/page/7/?s=九州通2025校园招聘
/page/87/?s=Which of the following can result if an embryo implants close to the internal opening of

Redirection supports regular expressions and this is one of the few regular chances I get to use them. I only use simple Ignore so there’s no real harm if I get them wrong either. I just need to keep the logs clean(er) so I can see the legit 404s.

This is what I got:

^\/page\/\d+\/\?s.*

And the final redirect in Redirection looks like this:

Source URL: ^/page/\d+/\?s.* Title: Ignore spammy page/?s 404s Match: URL only When matched: Do nothing (ignore)

Can’t quite believe that the UK government is in exactly the same position as it was throughout the Sunak years. Completely obsessed with its own appearance whilst, apparently, doing absolutely nothing of note except talking about illegal migration. Pass a Bill or something. Jeez.

When your Vice President proudly carries the coffin of a self-avowed white supremacist, Christian nationalist, it’s time to stop lying to yourself.

‘Yes, I did describe the paedophile financier as “my best pal” but there is context…’ The public don’t care about context any more, Peter, so just state your intention to resign in due course.