Rake stomping as an art form.

Were they all the word “ah”, but with increasing font size?

Isn’t one of the obvious lessons that there should be no politically appointed ambassadors. Just let the civil service do its job (as it was doing fine before Gov screwed it up for no good reason).

This Is Just To Say

I have turned off
the AI features
that were in
the update

and which
you were probably
hoping
to monetize

Fuck you
they were stupid
so unnecessary
and so annoying

Yolk’s on you

Will he be wearing the hotdog costume?

This thread is endless but extremely helpful if you read it to the end.

I didn’t need to hit play to know what this would be. (But I hit play, because it is awesome)

I think Apple Silicon, with its unified memory architecture, will turn out to be one of the most profitable business decisions ever made.

John! You never told me you were an artist.

Right now I’d settle for just being able to get the NHS to tell me the value of my pension without having to complete and post a paper form and either (a) waiting 3+ months or (b) paying over £400 and waiting _only_ 8 weeks.

Repeat please!

Little 🧵 on vetting:

There’s been a certain amount of chest-puffing from former holders of DV clearance about how rigorous and exacting the vetting process is and how rare for it to be overruled. The latter is definitely true. Never heard of it happening, ever.

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Marina’s on form

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While I know really young people are few and far between on Bluesky, I’d still like to talk to an under-25 who’s been looking for (or found) a job and AI was part of the recruitment process.

DMs are open if you know someone and they can talk, incl anonymously!

Bob Monkhouse: Million Joke Man | Presented by Paul O'Grady YouTube video by U

Yup, that was my fist though too youtu.be/1oiIjtQqGKU?...

An image showing two YouTube embeds. One labeled "Section 230 Explained: A brief overview of Section 230 and why it matters" and the other saying "The Future of Content Moderation: Keynote on the challenges facing platforms." Both videos show "video unavailable" with a "watch on YouTube" link.

CLAUDE CODE JUST RICKROLLED ME. I'm working on a project where part of it will involve videos, and in building out the project it created a dummy page, with made up content (relevant to me!) with two video links pretending to be something else and BOTH WERE RICKROLLs.

If he keeps growing at this rate, you’ll be able to saddle him up and ride into town like Mowgli on a rampage

Preserving The Web Is Not The Problem. Losing It Is. Recent reporting by Nieman Lab describes how some major news organizations—including The Guardian, The New York Times, and Reddit—are limiting or blocking access to their content in the Internet Ar…

Publishers have real questions about AI, but let’s be clear: The Wayback Machine isn’t a backdoor for AI scraping.

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This is an extraordinary story they deserves much more airtime. Shocking in so many ways. Share widely.

What a fantastic job, and what a clever, engaged hiring process.

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Still on the backer train for Omniboz - really hoping it makes it as this has one of my weirdest and most grotesque stories ever. www.indiegogo.com/en/projects/...

Also, it depends what your definition of “wrong” is. Perfectly reasonable to argue that AI stock prices are wrong (no way they have the collective value their price implies). But not necessarily irrational if you believe there’s a large kernel of value only 1-2 will retain when the bubble bursts.

The Matt Goodwin book review you were going to do for Women Weekly?

Volunteers turn a fan's recordings of 10,000 concerts into an online treasure trove In 1989, an up-and-coming rock band from Washington called Nirvana played in Chicago for the first time at a club called Dreamerz

To compensate the many nightmare news coming from the US right now, read this beautiful American story

abcnews.com/amp/US/wireS...

Utterly damning

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As an afterthought, maybe consider adding a layer of soil on top. Baldrick coffee is what they deserve.

It’s beyond redemption. Time for Soph’s own jar, to kept in a secret place away from the hoi polloi.