But also- fancy lunch or a beer soon? It’d be lovely to catch up!

I feel like I’ve disappeared a bit as well. But I think we were just lucky enough to work in the blip where social media gave free exposure and wasn’t too toxic. It was an exception, not the norm.

When zuck released the video finally announcing legs in the Metaverse, I spent far too long adding this audio. I'm not proud, but it still makes me laugh.

BTW, I'm 54.

The sentence is:

"And so that is why, if these days you’re spending your time on LinkedIn instead of eating rat pizza at a child casino — which, I mean, same thing — all you will see are people hawking their Claude Code apps."

The italics in the original on 'which i mean, same thing' are key

{D} Claude E. Cheese Vol. 6, Issue 177 // pics + links // maybe try clicking the pics too

@lifewinning.com for consideration as a Perfect Sentence - it's in a piece that compares LLMs and tokens to the economy of Chuck E Cheese:

stevebryant.substack.com/p/d-claude-e...

We like ‘Artetachoke’

My twin brother was at the gig on Wednesday when Johnny Marr guested!

if you make it to the fridge, Musical Youth pass you a ‘Dutchie’ and the keys are randomised for the walk back to the sofa

The Scotland one? They teased that the night before, then said they were going to play it at the sinister gig!

You’re at the same gig as my twin brother! I was there last night with my wife for Tigermilk

No e-numbers in them as well!

Instagram Create an account or log in to Instagram - Share what you're into with the people who get you.

That’s by the brilliant artist and musician Elijah, who uses that yellow square format for inspiration and protest:

www.instagram.com/eli1ah/

Ryan! Does 1986 mean nothing to you? Think of Bill Buckner!

Understanding Comics - Wikipedia

The excellent Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud goes into great detail about how the gaps between frames create narrative tension. It’s such a great explanation!

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underst...

Fascinating indication of the rise in political frustration.

Use of the phrase "for too long" in Hansard in my lifetime.

Meta still on target to take more ad revenue than all global tv advertising put together this year though, for the first time. We need to break the ad model to see serious change. Unfortunately, that’s only likely to happen if AI search eats their lunch.

That also has advice on complaining to the CAA if Veuling continue to be rubbish.

Get airline compensation for lost or delayed luggage What to do if an airline loses your luggage, or it’s delayed - claiming on your travel insurance and getting compensation from the airline.

did you file a Property Irregularity Report at the airport? It’s best to do this as well as notifying Veuling. This CAB advice says that if you had travel insurance, it’s probably better to claim through them than the airline, though:

www.citizensadvice.org.uk/consumer/hol...

AI is nearly exclusively designed by men – here's how to fix it With the Trump administration’s attacks on so-called woke AI it is becoming even harder to make the technology we use fairer and more diverse. Leading voices are speaking out, reports Catherine de Lan...

Nice write-up of our women and the future of AI panel at the Royal Society last week www.newscientist.com/article/2519...

The Many-Worlds Edition On Google's Willow, quantum chips, and a new proof.

This article from WITI today was very good at explaining this. It broke my brain a bit.

whyisthisinteresting.substack.com/p/the-many-w...

Remember soft power? It went out of fashion.

Too “soft” for the right.

Too “power“ for the left.

But just as critical as ever.

A despatch from Serbia, where I’m part of a project to build cooperation on science and tech.

open.substack.com/pub/howtorun...

@hollygramazio.bsky.social I got The Husbands for my birthday (it’d been on my list for a while) and absolutely loved it! Read it in a few days, and can’t wait for the TV show!

The one time I saw Habermas speak was at the 2006 ICA conference in Dresden. I remember a few things from his talk, but one detail that really stands out is how he warned us all that “we must not let the public sphere become just another market.” And that’s basically exactly what happened.

William Davies · Short Cuts: Tactical Voting Despite the misinformation and alienation that have led so many citizens to regard democracy in general with despair or...

I have some reflections on the constitutional-democratic chaos that Britain is encountering, in the age of 5+ party politics. It's hard to see how we get from this to the kind of 'bold' and 'radical' government that (consensus has it) everyone is calling for right now www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Colin’s Castle by Holly Swain | Waterstones Buy Colin’s Castle by Holly Swain from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £25.

Colin begs to differ

www.waterstones.com/book/colins-...

Psycho Kilter

An End-to-End View of AI Safety In this blog, Rachel Coldicutt OBE, Executive Director, Careful Industries discusses our newly published literature review on the safe adoption of artificial intelligence in engineered systems.

This is where we are with the findings on our foresight review www.lrfoundation.org.uk/news/an-end-... if you're working on sociotechnical assurance or safety by design am v keen to hear of best practice ...

Breaking Free In the new report Breaking Free: Pathways to a fair technological future, the Norwegian Consumer Council has delved into enshittification and how to resist it. The report shows how this phenomenon aff...

Making enshittification a consumer protection concern: Bravo Norway!

I agree the dressing up can be a pain, but the benefits- to a beleaguered industry as well as the kids- far outweigh the pains.

I just dropped my wife, a kid’s book author and illustrator, off at a school where she is spending the day doing readings and workshops. Kids’ reading levels are cratering, and for a lot of writers/illustrators WBD is a rare chance to meet kids and spark a love of reading.