From The Desk of Peter Mandelson feat. Gareth Fearn
It's the free one!
We look at some correspondence from the Prince of Darkness and a company offering a great way to make your garden shed worth $160k. Then, Riley speaks with Gareth Fearn about the ongoing unfolding energy crisis, and how the British state has spent the last twenty years solving the problem they wish they had.
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Comments (36)
A Royal Dutch Shell Game, if you will
HOW DOES NOVA KEEP DOING IT???
the same Pulte whom is now running housing and intelligence policy for our fair country putting data centers in your house, making you own the cost of stealing your own data i am sure that’s fine
A second Gareth has struck the podcast.
"Nobody gets past Jupiter without being part vampire." - Blindsight, chapter 1
okay but realistically what IS more Cyberpunk than having to micro-monetize ever smaller and smaller chunks of your existence on behalf of an AI overlord
Lately I've been doing energy market modelling and I felt like I was losing my mind. The switch to renewables is on track to be the greatest upward wealth transfer in history and NOBODY talks about it. The interview with Gareth restored like, half my sanity points at least.
‘the uk government doing what it does best which is pretending it has the problem it likes to have’ is *such* a good summary, my god
someone get that to the greens as a new catchphrase
so far the most annoying effect of AI at my job is that people start to send me pull requests with like 5000 lines modified and I'm genuinely like I'm happy for you or sorry that happened but I ain't reading all this shit [approved]
oh it passes the test suite that was also generated and that I haven't read? that's awesome man [approved]
"A meme of nothing": Did somebody say Blindsight??
A round table of Gareths.
LAIN MENTIONED thank you hussein 🙏
gamer's nexus' coverage of the data dust sheds is good additional information re; the purpose and levers being pulled for the stupid idea
So, stupid question. Many parts of the US are already having problems with even finding home insurance. What insurance companies are going to insure the flimsy money shack in your backyard? And who is going to pay for it? Not even landlords are stupid enough to be on the hook for that.
Generational, long-term landlords no. The bargain basement, temu-knockoff nobility......
The shed in my backyard screeching and glowing with light like The Golden Throne at 3AM because someone wanted to generate Starmer with mommy milkers
“Starmer with mommy milkers” Babe, wake up… new sleep paralysis demon just dropped
Apollo picking up the dodgeball of prophecy and hurling it at Nova’s head.
He’s just dribbling it at this point.
Would a stand alone AI computer not annihilate the data centre business model?
It's called homelabbing and just because it's going to give me heatstroke doesn't mean I deserve this attack
lmao
you guys really need to talk about what’s happening in Australia: Albo finally decided to go after finance capital and have an economy that actually produces things instead of catering to rent seekers and now all the rich people are mad and saying they’re going to become literally Hitler in response
It's not like one of the (on paper at least) co-hosts was recently in Australia or anything.
Getting a text from Mandelson that's like, "this is more of a comment than a question".
Once a week or so, the infrasound noise from the malevolent shed modulates into a brown note, and your whole family starts to 💩 simultaneously and uncontrollably. The shed is using all your municipal water, so it's not possible to flush or shower.
High winds drop a tree from your neighbour's yard on the shed, triggering an alarm. Within minutes, a SPAN™ Asset Protection Team rappels out of a Blackhawk onto your patio and drops/zipties everyone in sight, also your dog.
so this startup is the cyber great leap forward
le epic leap forward
Pretty sure my house has Span...
Isn't the Royal Mail meme possibly making a Mail/Male joke about the "Ukrainian rentboys" or "Starmer secretly stayed at Lord Ali's house because he's in a lavender marriage" things that all of the totally straight manly men, with Lion / Reform logo twitter profile pictures, are obsessed with?
Picture Gareth Dennis on Peter Mendelson's desk.
My dinner is nice. It took two days to make. Why WHY
filing this one under "titles that make the light leave your eyes a little more"