Category: Fun

Enshittification is taken seriously by the Norwegian Consumer Counsil, with a well-dony funny clip and more information

Here is a video interview from 2036 with Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Sam Altman.

From their description:

After the stock market crash of 2026 the economy faltered, 80% of people lost their job and the US tech elite had to find a new way to keep the world moving: Energym - Human-powered AI systems, fulfilling both the machine’s need for energy and the people’s need for purpose.

When it snows and the roads in Scotland need cleaning, public gritters do the job. You can see their live location here. More interestingly, their names were decided by the public. All names are shown here, but below I keep a selection that shows democracy working.

• Albert Icestein
• Always Be Grit-Full
• Basil Salty
• Buzz Iceclear
• Chun-Ski – Street Gritter
• Coldfinger
• For Your Ice Only
• Freeze Witherspoon
• Grit-Tok
• Grit-Zilla
• Grita Thawberg
• Gritallica
• Griticle Mass
• Gritney Spears
• Gritt Scott!
• I Want To Break Freeze
• Icetalavista Baby
• Licence To Chill
• Lord Coldemort
• On Her Majesty’s Slippery Surface
• Salt Disney
• Salt Shaker
• Sir David Attenbrrrrrr
• Snow Connery
• Snowing Me, Snowing You
• Snowrassic Park
• Spready Gonzales
• The Meltonator
• William Wall-Ice
• Wizard of Ice
• You Only Grit Ice

Here is video that can be used as a wake up call for many purposes.

While researching time zones to avoid getting the time of international Zoom meetings wrong, I came across this video of weird time zones.

I knew about China being on a single time zone. I never thought why Spain is not in the UK time zone, which makes sense geographically. Hint, they don’t like late sunsets, even though that is a good reason to do it.

Music break! Check out Michael Winslow perform the electric version of Whole lotta love, with just a microphone.