The Ass-inine Report ft. Seamus Malekafzali
Added 2024-09-13 22:20:14 +0000 UTCSeamus Malekafzali returns to the show to talk to us about a report into the BBC’s reporting by a law firm that alleges the organisation is not sympathetic enough to Israel… but don’t worry about the report being biased, they used ChatGPT! Also, we talk about Elon Musk’s blanketing South Memphis in methane gas, and look at executive misbehaviour at Neom (which, wouldn’t you know it, is a kind of French Foreign Legion for senior businesspeople who are unhireable anywhere else).
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We out here
Joseph
2024-11-01 20:44:37 +0000 UTCOh shit, another TF patron named Joseph who lives in Memphis and has appropriate contempt for Paul Young. What's up?
Joseph Gross
2024-10-29 22:02:46 +0000 UTCI thought that when someone told me XAI was moving here that it was a joke. It didn’t take long to realize that it was a joke on us not about us. The kind of innovation incubation that our great new mayor loves to tell people he will bring. XAI will join the proud tradition of biochem/industrial concerns polluting the hell out of the working class neighborhoods in North and South Memphis. I wonder what the racial makeup of the nearby neighborhoods is 🧐
Joseph
2024-09-17 14:13:44 +0000 UTCdon't vote for the red smoke that will smother the earth, vote for the blue smoke that will smother the earth
mexicanhalloween .
2024-09-16 19:46:36 +0000 UTCYou can take the Wayne out of Australia but you can't take the Australia out of the Wayne
Dave Clarke
2024-09-16 05:23:31 +0000 UTCNewsom: "We are spending millions of dollars on AI to combat homelessness" AI printout: "You should have spent the money on homeless people instead"
Insom
2024-09-15 13:02:16 +0000 UTCPlease discuss J*hnny D*pp's relationship with MBS some time, it really is as insane and pathetic as you would imagine
A Horse In A Man Costume
2024-09-15 10:24:57 +0000 UTCSo you're telling me that this entire AI data center will use 1/20th of the water that Trump Tower Chicago does (See 12/9/2024 Cook County, iL court ruling) and will still manage to kill more fish?
Professional Void Screamer
2024-09-15 10:21:52 +0000 UTCThe image of someone stuck in a seven front war and not seeing why, would be very funny to me if what actually is happening wasn’t so horrible.
Nys
2024-09-14 22:39:03 +0000 UTCSpeed *is* better than cocaine
Feedbag
2024-09-14 19:31:48 +0000 UTCI googled the last "guy", as it sounded familiar. Yep, part of the "good old party" in this region of souther europe , which had been in power for decades at this point , and frequently accused of corruption. But this "guy" is pretty low tier. Think of a "right hand" to the "right hand" of the "mafia boss". Third tier at most. Not high on the power totem. And here he didnt even exercice a lot of power , just a place in townhall (of a 6 milion city , though). What the heck did he end up doing in NEOM, seriously.
Josep C.
2024-09-14 17:39:13 +0000 UTCI thought "lounge lizards" referred specifically to the sex workers (usually women) that frequented the lounges, which has its counterpart in "lot lizards", who are sex workers that frequent truck stops in the US.
Marjorie Zeager
2024-09-14 12:07:53 +0000 UTC“The people of San Francisco are eternally evil and the larger American nation is continually punished for their crimes” ok true but ouch Seamus
Shanti
2024-09-14 11:14:26 +0000 UTCVery disappointed you didn't call the names people take to work in Saudi Arabia "Neom de Plumes"
Aidan Connolly
2024-09-14 11:09:12 +0000 UTCOh shit. We are at the "this machine can't be racist. It literally cannot wear blackface" level of technology. I wrote a comment long ago, that programmers love to prescribe how "proper code" should look like. I expect the clean code inquisition next year the latest.
Jonas Schwammberger
2024-09-14 10:45:13 +0000 UTC**** Gavin btw
Shivvy
2024-09-14 10:07:36 +0000 UTCI hella forgive Seamus for calling my hometown evil bc he referenced the (political) ghost of Matt Gonzalez! I did *not* see that coming. #mayorsPod
Shivvy
2024-09-14 10:06:52 +0000 UTCShould I dress as Shrimp Jesus or Antiwoke Puckish Rogue for Halloween?
Shivvy
2024-09-14 09:55:08 +0000 UTCThe only thing I know about Saudi tv is the inexplicable popularity of a 70s anime about a nonbinary superhero who fights dinosaurs
Zipzapzop
2024-09-14 07:17:17 +0000 UTCTo issue a correction to the correction, the Dunkin' Donuts commercial in the seminal comedy Jack and Jill is a punchline that occurs right before the credits (think the Pepsi bit in One, Two, Three), so while you could call it diegetic, you'd be doing a disservice to the quite pronounced wink at the audience.
Andrew Davis
2024-09-14 04:44:55 +0000 UTCIt's honestly insane they will have like 6 layers of backups but still be like but what if it all fails?
John the penguin
2024-09-14 01:59:02 +0000 UTCI worked for tech support for Adobe and we got to go out to see the data center where our shit was hosted - they had generators the size of buses there and a 20-ton flywheel spinning at all times to maintain continuity while the backup (or backup-backup) gennies came online. It was all in service of shitty SAAS bullshit but very impressive nonetheless!
UltraCoil
2024-09-14 01:50:20 +0000 UTCSeamus taking a bullet for anyone else Riley might make watch things.
Nick Gully
2024-09-14 00:28:54 +0000 UTC'Failure to address levels of journalistic freedom in Gaza' is an incredible part of the report. Like brother I don't think you'd like honest reporting on that topic.
12345
2024-09-14 00:22:55 +0000 UTCOf course the episode comes out at my bedtime. :( Well, at least I have something to listen to for breakfast tomorrow. :D
Katherine
2024-09-14 00:22:47 +0000 UTCThe worst part about that article trying to "prove" BBC is being anti-Israel is, BBC coverage is already fucking pro-Israel as hell hiding and euphemising almost all of the fucking war crimes! They are just angry that the BBC is not licking the boots enough!
Mercury Chan
2024-09-14 00:11:21 +0000 UTCFun fact: The Dunkin' Donuts in the Dunkaccino opening shot was a Dunkin' Donuts on the Main St. of my hometown. It closed some years ago unfortunately. I would often stop there on my way to middle school.
Bedris
2024-09-14 00:08:19 +0000 UTCThe high of Riley accepting my needlessly pedantic correction about Dunkaccino is going to last me all year
Will Hitchcock
2024-09-14 00:04:46 +0000 UTCIt’s not just the BBC. I don’t think TF is sympathetic enough to Israel. They’re also not sympathetic enough to Neom. Won’t someone think about the Saudi billionaires?
Phillip Alden
2024-09-13 23:38:49 +0000 UTCLounge lizard is something your mum calls you when you Xbox instead of chores.
12345
2024-09-13 22:59:57 +0000 UTCHaven't listened yet, but glad to have some coverage of Elon Musk's Memphis fuckery. I live and work in North Memphis, so I'm not directly affected by the methane, but I am deeply concerned the supercomputers are gonna dry out our aquifer.
Joseph Gross
2024-09-13 22:46:42 +0000 UTCAll data centers have multiple power residency. Extra electrical line ups, multiple transformers, generators and backup generators. Just in case the power goes out and the first generator fails. - I work in data center operations
John the penguin
2024-09-13 22:38:19 +0000 UTC
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