mindwanders

1. Town's Huge Christmas Mural Was Generated Using AI, Resulting in Ghastly Chthonic Horrors

(tags:AI Christmas epicfail )

2. The 10 most important life lessons to master in your 30s

(tags:life advice )

3. Building on Ruins: The Russification of Mariupol, One Apartment Block at a Time

(tags:Ukraine Russia OhForFucksSake )

4. UK Supreme Court rules Christian-focused RE taught in NI schools is unlawful

(tags:law UK religion christianity GoodNews NorthernIreland )

5. Worrying about UPFs is extremely premature

(tags:research food health )

6. Christian school objects to children singing about demons. Even about the hunting thereof.

(tags:singing christianity religion uk )

7. The U.S.'s first out trans diplomat was once considered a hero. Now she may never come home.

(tags:LGBT transgender USA bigotry OhForFucksSake )

8. Pfizer's mRNA flu shot outperforms standard flu vaccine in late-stage trial

(tags:flu vaccine )

9. The Patent Office Is About To Make Bad Patents Untouchable

(tags:patents usa OhForFucksSake intellectual_property )

10. Aging Out of Fucks: The Neuroscience of Why You Suddenly Can't Pretend Anymore

(tags:women age psychology )

1. There has to be a better way to make titanium

(tags:materials )

2. Reselling tickets above face value set to be banned by UK government

(tags:concerts tickets regulation UK )

3. Legendary game designer, programmer, Space Invaders champion, and LGBTQ trailblazer Rebecca Heineman has died

(tags:history obituary games lgbt )

After several hours of hammering and some excellent assistance from Sophia, we have constructed a child-stacking device.

(Side-pieces to be constructed tomorrow)
Original is here on Pixelfed.scot.

1. I am fascinated by how much language cats and dogs can have when you give them the opportunity

(tags:communication cats dogs )

2. if I was designing a kid's toy then I wouldn't connect it to an AI without making sure it wouldn't teach them about matches, knives and sexual kinks

(tags:ai toys children wtf )

3. Do not compare yourself to people you see online. They quite possibly don't look like that

(tags:ai video bodies society )

4. France drops demand for UK to pay up front for Brexit reset talks on cheaper food

(tags:uk europe food trade france )

5. Spiral-Obsessed AI 'Cult' Spreads Mystical Delusions Through Chatbots

(tags:ai belief patterns delusion )

I can't believe I have to put up with another 11 days of the news cycle being about what may or may not possibly maybe be in the budget.

1. GLP-1 Drugs Linked to Dramatically Lower Death Rates in Colon Cancer Patients

(tags:glp cancer GoodNews )

2. The No. 1 country song in the US right now is AI-generated

(tags:music ai )

3. Edinburgh's Argyle House (home of Codebase) is being demolished

(tags:edinburgh architecture )

4. Reminder that if you see a paywall on the web then you can usually get past it with archive.ph (but if you keep using it for the same site, you should support the site)

(tags:archive web paywall )

1. Multilingualism and Extending Healthspan

(tags:language health lifespan viaKenny )

2. 'V for Vendetta' TV Series in the Works at HBO

(tags:comics alanmoore tv )

3. Law used to ban Palestine Action being used too widely, report says

(tags:law terrorism uk OhForFucksSake )

4. Why has one of Edinburgh's best views been off-limits for seven years?

(tags:edinburgh safety rocks )

5. UK Government sets out plan to reduce animal experiments

(tags:uk animals research safety )

1. Women are three times more likely than men to get severe long COVID

(tags:women Pandemic )

2. We've found a biomarker for Sudden Infant Death Syndrome

(tags:babies death )

3. Chinese Authorities Shut Down Film Festival in New York (By harrassing filmmakers and their families)

(tags:china censorship movies usa OhForFucksSake )

4. The modern homes hidden inside ancient ruins

(tags:architecture history )

5. What do voters think would count as Labour breaking their promises on tax?

(tags:tax labour polls politics uk )

6. A Gene Editing Therapy Cut Cholesterol Levels by Half (trial only lasted 60 days)

(tags:genetics health )

7. Interactive Time-Lapse Map Shows How the U.S. Took More Than 1.5 Billion Acres From Native Americans

(tags:history USA maps visualisation )

8. Why didn't Democrats codify Roe v. Wade when Obama had a fillibuster proof majority in 2009?

(tags:abortion politics USA )

Every night for the past two weeks it's gone something like this:
Me: Gideon, do you want Daddy to shout at you?
Gideon: No
Me: I don't want to shout at you either.
Gideon: Good
Me: So, how do we make Daddy not shout at you?
Gideon: Not muck about in bed
Me: So you're going to curl up, get comfy and go to sleep
Gideon: Yes
...Three minutes pass...
Gideon: Fidgets
Gideon: Plays with his foot
Gideon: Sings songs under his breath
Gideon: Makes clicking noises
Me: Gideon, if you aren't quiet, I'll get grumpy with you. Is that what you want?
Gideon: No. I'll be good.
...Three more minutes pass...
Gideon: Sings, fidgets, rolls over, refuses to hold still, twists his arms around his legs until he looks like a pretzel, and then grins at me
Me: WILL YOU LIE STILL, STOP MUCKING ABOUT AND GO TO SLEEP.
Gideon: Gets tears in his eyes, chokes up slightly, curls up, and stops mucking about,
Gideon: goes to sleep in about 45 seconds.
Me: Is stressed for about half an hour and angry at myself.

If anyone has advice on how we can skip stages 9 through 17 I would appreciate it.