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Unfitforpurpose @unfitforpurpose.net · 07/10/2026

Oh. It's giving cyber truck. Which is certainly a choice.

Picture of the new luxury electric Jaguar car in all it's blocky glory.

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Unfitforpurpose @unfitforpurpose.net · 29/09/2026

Well now that "she was once" just feels ominous as fuck.

Rufo is married to Suphatra "Kip" Paravichai, a Thai American. She was once a computer programmer at Amazon Web Services. As of 2021, they live in Gig Harbor, Washington, with their three sons. He is Catholic.

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Unfitforpurpose @unfitforpurpose.net · 18/09/2026

"Since stepping down from parliament in 2019 Watson has revealed himself to be a complete scumbag, you just weren't paying attention."

Since stepping down from parliament in 2019, Watson has been an adviser to the gambling and music industries and, since 2024, he has been a part-time adviser to Palantir, including accompanying Mosley at Labour party conferences. He was a defence minister and a minister for digital engagement in Gordon Brown’s government. Palantir has a £240m contract with the Ministry of Defence.

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Unfitforpurpose @unfitforpurpose.net · 17/09/2026

Once again I must regretfully inform Americans that yes, electing Trump twice is going to change how the world looks at you. Yes even if you didn't like him. Yes even if you think America is super, special and great.

Ed3d quibbling about the use of the word mandate rather than addressing someone's point.

Ed3d just continuing to pretend using the word mandate is what the issue here.

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Unfitforpurpose @unfitforpurpose.net · 11/09/2026

I was struggling to have some strong feelings about Tottenham's transfer window, but now I've settled on sad.

There is no truly egregious transfer on this list. All of them are some variety of “fine, I guess.” Justifiable given their level of production and Tottenham’s squad needs. But there’s something to nitpick about all of them. A couple years too old, £10m too expensive, low cost but highly unlikely to do anything.

And the result of doing this 8 times is essentially the equivalent of doing something like Man United buying Antony. There is no single Antony here, but Spurs have recreated one of the Premier League’s worst transfers in the aggregate.

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Unfitforpurpose @unfitforpurpose.net · 10/09/2026

Now remembering the very brief Sheen action hero era.

Martin Sheen auditioning for Conan the Barbarian.

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Unfitforpurpose @unfitforpurpose.net · 15/08/2026

They want to do the plagiarism but they don't want the clients to smell the stink of AI on them.

Business Insider spoke with four users who said they had canceled their Claude subscriptions. Some users, who shared confirmation of their cancellations with us, said they disliked the prospect of a persistent marker in their work and were worried about their AI use showing up in client work, such as coding.

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Unfitforpurpose @unfitforpurpose.net · 11/08/2026

I don't pretend to understand the internal working of Axios but an ex editor in chief happily posting about losing the ability to be literate does not seem like the great advert for LLMs they think it is.

Screenshot of Nicholas Johnson's bio on the Axios website.

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Unfitforpurpose @unfitforpurpose.net · 10/08/2026

Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa on that and many other days.

Screenshot from GTA San Andreas. Main character walking down a street saying "Ah shit, here we go again."

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Unfitforpurpose @unfitforpurpose.net · 08/08/2026

This is entirely correct. But also, we have graphs if you want.

Screenshot from Cinema Wins' video explaining the plot of Tenet. Picture of a graph showing the Protagonist's timeline through the movie and showing how he experiences it in linear time.

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Unfitforpurpose @unfitforpurpose.net · 04/08/2026

He's just like Brennan Johnson, you say?

Odysseus tied to the mast of his ship hearing the song of the siren and reading their spreadsheets.

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Unfitforpurpose @unfitforpurpose.net · 31/07/2026

Culminating in the greatest crossover of all time.

Picture of all the character from the Marvel/DC Amalgam comics event. Do not ask.

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Unfitforpurpose @unfitforpurpose.net · 27/07/2026

Read this after hearing you guys talk about AI. Kenny is doing his best but I don't think we're being cynical enough. ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/ai-mani...

This is to say that we’re facing a coordination problem around executives being honest around the AI gains they’ve witnessed – if they co-operate, they keep their jobs. If they defect, they will possibly be fired by their embarrassed peers (who have now been implicitly called liars, cowards, or incompetents) and then replaced with someone that will toe the line anyway. If they could all admit the truth at once there might be some hope, but there is no way to coordinate that event.

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Unfitforpurpose @unfitforpurpose.net · 25/07/2026

Spurs fans using themselves is what does it for me. You're not being ironic, you lack mental discipline!

Batman, breaking a rifle over his knee and saying "this is the weapon of the enemy. We do not need it. We will not use it."

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Unfitforpurpose @unfitforpurpose.net · 15/07/2026

"People keep calling all the raping I'm doing rape and it's really getting me down, man."

"It’s basically like: I’m drunk, I’m horny, I weigh 50 pounds more than you, we’re gonna have sex, it’s not really rape because we sleep in the same bed."

"We’ve been calling everything rape and I don’t think that’s a good idea."

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Unfitforpurpose @unfitforpurpose.net · 14/07/2026

Look, I'm not saying there's a Terry Pratchett quote for every occasion. However ...

There are, it has been said, two types of people in the world. There are those who, when presented with a glass that is exactly half full, say: this glass is half full. And then there are those who say: this glass is half empty.
The world belongs, however, to those who can look at the glass and say: What's up with this glass? Excuse me? Excuse me? This is my glass? I don't think so. My glass was full! And it was a bigger glass

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Unfitforpurpose @unfitforpurpose.net · 14/07/2026

Gretchin. The comic reliefs comic relief.

A small goblin-like creature, wearing a horned helmet and waving around a pistol and a metal club.

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Unfitforpurpose @unfitforpurpose.net · 13/07/2026

"Well maybe if you read it in context it gets better?" Eh.

That’s how I experienced it. I began playing football aged six, in 1976, after moving from London to Leiden in the Netherlands. Most Dutch boys I met belonged to a football club. (The Dutch football federation, like many other leading countries, banned female football until shortly before that time.) European social democracy supported male football: the local council obsessively watered and mowed my club’s only field.

As one of the world’s richest regions, western Europe has been able to afford to pump cash into sport. In Norway, said Klaveness, profits from the state’s betting monopoly were spent on “Norwegian sports and fields”. Children from the poorest families could usually play for nothing, while others paid as little as $10 a year, she said.

The little Leiden region had dozens of football clubs. Some fielded 20 senior teams, seven teams of under-eights and so on. Many people built their identity and social life on being the right-back or linesman of the 14th team. The Netherlands in the 1970s reached two World Cup finals.

Everyone played and understood how to play. Football is geometry — about creating space when you have the ball, and shrinking it when you don’t. That knowledge is all around you in western Europe, unlike in Asia, Africa, the US or Brazil.

Dutch football culture later expanded to include women. In 2017, the average Dutch person lived 1.6km from a football field. Neighbouring Germany’s football federation is the world’s largest sports association, with more than 7.7mn members.

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Unfitforpurpose @unfitforpurpose.net · 02/07/2026

pivot-to-ai.com/2026/07/01/a...

When you write a computer program, you will often want it to access private things, like a database or a service you’re paying for. A human, you could ask for a password. But a program needs an access secret so a human doesn’t have to press a button each time.

There are ways to do this without just putting the password into the program code. They’re sort of convoluted, but any competent programmer should be experienced in them.

Chatbots aren’t competent programmers. So the way coding bots keep doing this is to put the access secret right there in the code!

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Unfitforpurpose @unfitforpurpose.net · 30/06/2026

Not going to QT Patrick because he's talking about more important things but dear lord these generational divides are bullshit. I will at my cloud forever about how stupid they are.

I think there's a microgenerational gap between older Millennials/young Gen-X and younger Millennials/Gen-Z on this - being old enough to understand the Matthew Shepard attack, not knowing any out gay adults, not having many queer kids at school - and worse if you grew up in an exurb/rural vs urban.

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Unfitforpurpose @unfitforpurpose.net · 27/06/2026

I was wondering about that with the cinnamon to be honest. That or there's an offshoot of homeopathy that's made it into pest control.

Don Draper from Mad Men angrily proclaiming "That's what the ant powder is for!"

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Unfitforpurpose @unfitforpurpose.net · 19/06/2026

It can never be emphasised enough just how much Stephen Bartlett needs to be put in the fucking bin.

Screenshot of a YouTube thumbnail from the Dairy of a CEO podcast. JD Vance and Stephen Bartlett's faces on either side of a black background. Title card central saying They Lied About Trump.

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Unfitforpurpose @unfitforpurpose.net · 09/06/2026

I want to see their working out.

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Petty, the Political Arithmetick
You think the world can be measured, tabulated, and improved—that with the right numbers a clever person could redesign a kingdom. Number, weight, and measure, and only from causes you can see.

Representative figuresWilliam Petty, John Graunt, Samuel Hartlib

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Unfitforpurpose @unfitforpurpose.net · 04/06/2026

Oh this is interesting. I wonder if the Vibesession guys are going to spin off into dismissing public opinion more generally now they've got a story about internet hysteria? The strong US economy argument at least has a good case. This just looks like dismissing the incredibly obvious.

Screenshot of a Will Stancil Skeet: "Genuinely don’t understand what’s happening here - it’s not like there’s been some major data center disaster. It feels like a meme around an issue the public only loosely understands to begin with"

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Unfitforpurpose @unfitforpurpose.net · 24/05/2026

I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue.

Screenshot of the title card from the BBC sport match page for todays Spurs Vs Everton. Kick off at four o'clock.

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Unfitforpurpose @unfitforpurpose.net · 23/05/2026

I did it everyone, I found the worst take!

Screen shot of skeet by @polygon.com. "The Boys failed to live up to the standard set by the comic books."

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Unfitforpurpose @unfitforpurpose.net · 29/04/2026

Worth noting the headline is doing a number on the actual quotes on this one.

"I have seen a growing number of cases that you are referring to and also raised the issue with the Home Office," Phillips told the committee.

"However, I have seen thousands more of those cases be completely and utterly legitimate."

She said that more needed to be done to prevent false claims but cautioned that it was important that this did not adversely affect genuine victims.

"Nobody would want to see that woman have to jump through many hoops to get away from being raped or being held down until she was pregnant which are cases that I have seen," she said.

"You have to make it so that the evidential bar is a fair one that stops the issue that you are talking about but allows people with very little recourse to the law actually to be kept safe from terrible perpetrators of some of the worst crimes I have seen.

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