If I’m getting the latest release of ChatGPT image (2), it doesn’t really have much knowledge behind it.

Yay!

Weird and grim, but my first thought was Three Body Problem?

I don’t know enough about Opus Dei, clearly. www.todayintabs.com/p/papal-bull

Product manager, games @ gdm www.google.com/about/career...

Game design job ad at Google DeepMind in London www.google.com/about/career...

to be fair, also me most mornings

Painters have been lying with mirrors for 600 years From van Eyck in 1434 to Magritte's backward mirror, painters have been subverting reflections for 600 years.

Random link from my newsletter showed up in Boing Boing - wonder if it will impact subs at all? boingboing.net/2026/04/16/p...

Mastering e-Paper displays (Part 1) A guide to exploring the fascinating world of e-paper displays and their applications. By Profe Tolocka.

I’m in love with the little examples on top of this intro to hacking with epaper displays www.hackster.io/etolocka/mas...

lol

and my moronic minions used up 99% of my usage

it's appalling... we're now arguing about code history vs. plans

To wit: "The agent did Phases 2–4 correctly, but also did unauthorized out-of-scope refactoring while it was in those files." It wants my opinion on how to respond to its minion now.

One of the more frustrating aspects of our new agentic coding lifestyles is we used to be the one managing and prompting, and now we do that to the manager model, who is a middle-manager who might not be good or have good employees. Claude just reported bizarre agent changes it didn't request.

Hey have you ever wished to be able to sort your Steam wishlist by time to beat, to help you decide what to play next?

Me too, so I made this little web app with Antigravity. Check it out! t0mg.github.io/howlong/

Friday! Lunchtime! Superb links to click on while you watch the media riffing on Poor Keir's pain! Web Curios! The best of the web, the worst of humanity, in one, massive, indigestible bolus! webcurios.co.uk/webcurios-17...

fantastic! congratulations!

yes - they integrated it a while ago, i just keep being impressed all over again

Gemini app screenshot showing mini map of london and pins for villages.

The Gemini app is fantastic for the kinds of travel research I regularly want - it has access to google maps, can make a mini map of results, and also can get google hotels data. It knows things about transport lines. So useful.

Four images, three of fabric pages with different abstract designs and one image of a fabric book with the title on the white front cover in red font

In 2002, at the age of 91 years, artist Louise Bourgeois created 'Ode a L'Oubli' (Ode to Forgetting),  a book of 35 fabric pages made from her own cloth saved from different eras of her life #Womensart

lol.

Are you an early career research who would like to spend a semester at the Center for Digital Narrative at the University of Bergen? We have a call out now for a stipend to cover mobility expenses for 3-4 months in the first half of 2027. Apply before 15 May! skjemaker.app.uib.no/view.php?id=...

📘 Now Available: Book of Abstracts – ADHO Digital Humanities Conference (DH2025, Lisbon, NOVA FCSH)

We are pleased to share that the Book of Abstracts for the ADHO Digital Humanities Conference 2025 is now available online.

🔗 Read the full volume here: zenodo.org/records/1949...

Owl saved from electrical fence adopts abandoned owlet Staff at a wildlife center paired a baby-less owl mother with mother-less baby owl.

Owl saved from electrical fence adopts abandoned owlet www.popsci.com/environment/...

I tested out Seedance on Fal, spent too much, and ended up with a bunch of Veo + tons of good Nano Banana image edits to make this little fictionalized (based on true events) story of me and my drone at the Pont du Gard.

excellent news!!

Friday! Lunchtime! In an uncertain world, cling to the universe's One True Constant - that Web Curios is too long, poorly-written but PACKED full of the best links you will find anywhere, this week or any other. Distract yourself from the madness! webcurios.co.uk/webcurios-10...

egad.

Would you realize if the book you were reading was AI? What if it was humanized to remove AI-speak?

We find that even without using stylistic cues (e.g., word choice or sentence structure) narrative choices alone give AI fiction away!

also the whole concept!