remember when you could go online and search for "good pillow" and you'd get like blog posts reviewing and comparing pillows but now you just get an Amazon page for Good Pillow Great Sleeping Perfect for Single or Couple Great Soft sleepy Dream Pillow for soft Bedtime Relaxation pillow ($97.83)

Achievement unlocked: flying out from one of the three remaining gates in the original terminal building at @dublinairport.bsky.social .

Number crunching: Telegraph editorial columns in December highlighting ‘the unreliability of social media’ v corrections the Telegraph has had to publish so far this year due to inaccurate reporting From the new Private Eye, out now.

Christmas morning #Parkrun #Laytown #Meath #Ireland

🎶 She wore an Itsy bitsy teeny weeny…

My Ubuntu Summit talk is up! Where I talk about: 1. How Desktop UX is effectively dead 2. Why I hate the term UX/UI with the heat of 1000 suns 3. How OSS can actually innovate in #ux www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fZT...

SCOOP: Academy Award-nominee Liam Neeson narrated a recent anti-vaccine documentary that glorifies RFK Jr.’s rise to power. In the film, Neeson—a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador—calls the COVID-19 vaccines “dangerous experiments.” www.importantcontext.news/p/liam-neeso...

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

This is so disgusting.

Saw an ad for One4All digital gift cards, so time for my annual remainder to you all. Do not buy One4All digital gift cards. It might seem like a lovely gift but it is incredibly difficult to actually spend the money plus, they will eventually start monthly charges.

Your annual reminder that the most revealing difference between Irish and Scottish Gaelic is definitely in the words for December: Mí na Nollag (Month of Christmas) in Ireland, and An Dubhlachd (the Blackness) in Scotland. So once again may I wish you all a lovely Blackness.

Influencers! Stop normalising the practice of holding a lapel mic in your hand and talking into it. It's utterly stupid, it's meant to be on your shirt/top and ah, what the hell, you'll just ignore me and carry on doing it. #OldManYellsAtClouds

I am a podcast literalist. Existing in other formats in parallel is fine, but if it doesn't have an RSS feed with enclosures, it's straight up not a podcast. Spotify exclusive? Only on YouTube? Not a podcast. Podcasting isn't a format or a presentation style. It's a file delivery mechanism.

Asked ChatGPT for the sheet music to “Jingle Bells.” Okay

You can hire me to edit for you! I provide fast, professional, and personalised proofreading, copy editing, and developmental editing services www.wellreadherring.com/editing

Big-name antagonists! Shock deaths! Long interview scenes! Lots of acronyms! More wee donkeys! I wrote about what we want from the return of #LineOfDuty www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

It’s the exclusive everyone wanted, the story that will win next year’s Pulitzer… I can reveal London’s giant AI generated Christmas artwork, the subject of much online mockery, is being torn down - and I honestly *genuinely* think you’ll never guess why. www.londoncentric.media/p/ai-artwork...

I've mentioned this quietly, but - since the summer my hobby has been making this ambitious murder mystery podcast. A story. Narrated by me, with a mouthwatering cast. Partly interactive. Trailer is coming tomorrow but if you like the sound of this, please follow @murderbastard.bsky.social.

More than 1,600 fossil fuel lobbyists granted access to the Cop30 climate negotiations in Belém (Brazil), 12% up from last year’s talks in Baku, Azerbaijan. What should be the most serious, urgent talks on the planet continue to be a farce. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Good morning 😊 Yes, Sir Clive hated that the Spectrum was popular because of the games and a C5 could never go this fast, but I had a lot of fun making this tribute to Sir Clive Sinclair ZX Spectrum 👍 Animation made in Blender, sountrack made in Studio one #zxspectrum #retrogaming #8bitgaming

Bugger, that’s been my starting word for years. #wordle Wordle 1,603 1/6 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

House prices have gone up in the French town of Sauté since it's become gentlyfried.

Last chance to turn it off. On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default. To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.

The numeric keypad as we know it has come quite a long way – in fact, you might be surprised that its journey has not been as simple as it seems. Francesco Bertelli explains the not-so-simple history in the following article: https://www.doc.cc/articles/a-brief-history-of-the-numeric-keypad

A request for weather interested volunteers! Met Eireann would like to rescue millions of weather observations taken in Ireland over many decades that are still stuck on paper. #WeatherRescue Anyone can help: www.zooniverse.org/projects/met...

I talk to many professional #UX designers and no one is using genAI in any MEANINGFUL way to revolutionize their design work. Sure, everyone is playing with it, and it can do some cool parlor tricks, but there isn't anything significant happening in design. This needs to be said louder.

kids teacher just sent this home as part of an assignment he's doing and i want to smash every computer at the school

Then: the office of the future will be paperless Now: keep paper records

NVIDIA and OpenAi: Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“ @bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀 www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Still I'm sure it'll be fine. It's not like those expectations are based on a completely unproven product with deranged costs and hysterical levels of hype.

This is a lie. There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years. But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.

Amazon have removed the guns from their Bond posters, giving the tantalising impression that Sean Connery and Pierce Brosnan think you’re a wanker.

I know what you're thinking and no, that's not how they rescued him. www.irishexaminer.com/news/munster...

ok this breakdown of AI writing indicators is incredible. Huge shout-out to the Wikipedia community for this

Fun fact: the only officially-licensed Columbo game was released on the Apple Newton. (Less fun fact: Columbo wasn't in it.) www.mobygames.com/game/97257/c...

And “just making everything legible for everyone” isn’t the default because…? #accessibility #a11y

People say why is it flour and not flower and I say because it's spelt that way.

waka wake

I love the smell of consequences in the morning. Thank you, @dragoncon.org

RFK Jr. taps his top deputy, Jim O’Neill, to be the new CDC director. Both men appear to wear skinny ties from Otaa. Otaa's ties are made in China from microfiber, a kind of plastic that, under the right conditions, can migrate to your balls.

The divorces are going well x

Just had to remind myself how far down the list Reform actually are. Infuriating beyond belief how far their voice is disproportionately elevated and Labour try to appease. members.parliament.uk/parties/comm...

So now the argument is over which of the British political parties can deport people more efficiently. The Overton window has disappeared over the (rightward) horizon.

age 15: Computers are amazing! I'm going to do amazing things with computers! age 45: explaining to the fourth person this week why Chat GPT is not a replacement for google or the library or friends

It is clearly the case that asylum protests were smaller this weekend than the small over-hyped protests on August 8th, and smaller than in the second half of July. No broadcast outlet has accurately conveyed that + asked why: they have explicitly stated and inferred growing protests

Just received a blanket pitch from a children's book author (sent, presumably, to many indie bookstores) pitching a clearly AI-illustrated book. In the interest of public service, this was my response. I'm fucking done with being nice to these people.

It’s like someone used a ‘worst possible idea you could have’ generator, and shat on it.

I don't know about you but I've had about enough of mainstream media & politicians legitimising racist anti-asylum protests that terrorise refugees & communities. I had to push back hard, TWICE on BBC yesterday about supposed "legitimate concerns" www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtkA...

The rate at which AI is cooking people’s brains is horrifying to see. I showed someone a painting I’d done the other night and they thought it was something I’d done with a prompt. Fuck this for a future.

Calling historians and researchers. The BBC Written Archives Centre has changed its access rules without consultation. This means an end to proper independent research into the BBC's rich history. 178 have already signed the open letter. Please join the campaign here: tinyurl.com/bbcwaccampaign