Remember: When Tylenol was poisoned *by an outsider* and killed people, the company recalled all their products & redesigned them. When Intel’s Pentium had a bug so obscure it affected 1 in _9 billion_ long division calculations, they recalled their chips. ChatGPT was made deadly *by its team*.

Somehow Tiny Tim returned

So, just to confirm, the BBC can’t keep Robin Ince on the air because his trans allyship brings the organisation into disrepute, but they can keep David Walliams, who performed Nazi salutes at the recording of this very show, on the air despite him being predatory towards women. Cool. Very normal.

We're Marley and Marley

Antidote to the madness.

Some of my favourite games are in the sale: Into the Breach £3 store.steampowered.com/app/590380/I... Inside & Limbo bundle £2 store.steampowered.com/app/304430/I... Slay the Spire £2 store.steampowered.com/app/646570/S... Inscryption £6 store.steampowered.com/app/1092790/...

Wildly different things, tasks, techniques, subspecialties being lumped into "AI" and then being conflated with each other, doesn't help. Different types of models vs the techniques to train them vs the tasks they are supposed to accomplish, all under "AI".

Have you been wishing masonry layouts would just hurry up and arrive in CSS?? Well, happy holidays! webkit.org/blog/17660/i...

Pluribus is little Wes Anderson y

The actor Michael Sheen used all his money to start a fake debt collecting business, buy 900 people in Wales's debt, and excused it. If Musk bought ALL $194 billion in medical debt in the U.S. and excused it in the same way, he'd still be the world's riches man by hundreds of billions of dollars.

I had never even heard a hint that generational upward mobility had been higher in the UK than in the US for decades, until seeing that second chart.

I guess this has probably already gone viral somewhere but I am simply dying at this picture of a bear that looks like it hired a photographer to do a glamour shoot

Praise retweeting

Happy 100th birthday Dick van Dyke, inventor of the DVD player.

Per my last re-post, twice this year I've been commissioned to write reviews of harms that can arise from the use of LLMs and then, as we surface the harms, told it's not appropriate to be political. But LLMs are a deeply extractive technology, they are political by design.

Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.

this makes absolutely no sense, *paying* a billion so 'Open' AI can use Disney IP?

Fellow people in marketing: see this as yet another warning. People do not want to see AI and it’ll do damage to yours/your client’s brand www.bbc.co.uk/news/arti…

The Top 10 (non job links) from my newsletter this year - About the GOV Reuse Library reuselibrary-dev.apps.cloud-platform.service.justice.gov.uk/about.html ...was top by a country mile.

hope this means Liquid Glass can go away www.theverge.com/news/837654/...

Who has made this 🤣

I'm not sure it's in the self interest of America's tech bro billionaires to suggest that we bring back public executions to punish the most destructive people in our society.

This morning I used the handy "go to point" function of our robot vacuum to deliver toast to my partner in the living room and heard an "oh for fucks sake" in response

Some people think the earth is flat, some people think the earth is round, as a centrist I

Idea for an occult podcast: Stuff You Shouldn't Know

Gonna try responding to humans with http codes. 200 ok, 303 go away, 400 what?

“A survey […] finds that while 87% of executives use AI on the job, just 57% of managers and 27% of employees do.” & “A paper […] refers to “genAI’s mediocrity trap”. With the assistance of the tech, people can produce something “good enough”.” Perhaps it is the execs who can be replaced?

I know this isn't new but Mac OS 26 is so extremely ugly. Glowing icons, horrible glass effect (even when turned down) random drop shadows everywhere for no reason, poor spacing and alignment

The Internet Archive just released tens of thousands of seed catalogs, spanning over two centuries! They are both lovely and interesting. Check them out! archive.org/details/usda... 🗃️ #c18th #c19th #c20th #illustration

Roblox boss says problem of predators is an "opportunity" for the platform, in disastrous interview following latest child safety measures www.eurogamer.net/roblox-boss-...

Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...

Are any of those little LED projectors that cost around €100 actually any good? Ideally ones available in Europe, on not-Amazon (for me that probably means at MediaMarkt or Saturn). Or are they all rubbish? I am no audioviz enthusiast so I mean, passable quality is OK with me!

'Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has made Tehran impossible to sustain' #Iran 🇮🇷

A great article on 'one thing per page' grillopress.github.io/2019/01/31/o...

Quit instagram, WhatsApp Meta’s owenternal study: “The Nielsen study does show causal impact on social comparison,”… staffer worried that keeping quiet about negative findings would be akin to the tobacco industry “doing research and knowing cigs were bad and then keeping that info to themselves.”

Meta (Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram) are the worst www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

This PR and the author’s comments are incredible. https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/pull/14369 Just a complete lack of critical thinking about the tool. Even if LLMs are generally valuable this is clearly not a helpful approach on multiple levels.

yes, the answer is yes

BIG NEWS: We are no longer Eggplant. We are, simply: The Secret Lives of Games AND ALSO: We've launched the first episode of All Systems Brough, a year-long, one-a-month series exploring the work of @smestorp.bsky.social. Join us and play along! secretlives.games/all-systems-...

Plus suspicion of public bodies using AI to process consultation responses. If AI becomes a byword for laziness, exploitation, and lack of care, how will that affect where it's adopted, attitudes towards those who use it? And will that matter, or will we just be resigned to it?

A (horrible) alternate reality, inspired by yesterday. #Cloudflare #Teletext #TeletextArt #Art

The scale of the damage at the British Library is difficult to fathom from the outside. Working in the wreckage of the hack has made me even less sanguine about the digital age into which we have leapt feet first.

The difference between M&S, the Co-op, Jaguar Land Rover and the British Library is that only the latter was created by an act of parliament. A cyberattack preventing part of the UK state from functioning in the way required by law deserves a different form of attention and scrutiny.

Twenty-two years ago today Section 28 was repealed. But we're seeing history repeat itself as some in the media and in politics spread bigotry and misinformation about trans people. 1/8🧵

Open data friends, If you could recommend only one resource (book, website, organisation, social media account, video, tool, other) what would you recommend to someone starting on their #opendata journey? Something that will help them learn and explore.

Tonight's film: The Menu

This is good news www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Alice Wong was one of the most effective people challenging the Whiteness of disability communities and its many flaws, but who believed fiercely in us as a community, in disabled people as oracles. Alice brought so much to so many of us, it’s hard to measure the kind of gratitude I have for that.

You were incredible, Alice Wong, and it was a blessing to have collaborated with you on projects, to have read your words and to have heard your voice, as full of life and passion and joy and rage as it was. You made a difference—so much of a difference. Rest always in peace, and always in power.