I thought I'd blog about why I've stopped reading Twitter/X posts, even when 'anonymised': blog.korny.info/2026/01/25/r...

Democrats Condemn ICE For Murdering Without Proper Warrants

Crackdown. My @smh @theage cartoon.

Especially given that Wikipedia is under concerted attack from the right (see also: Elon launching his competitor) and we just saw a gunman storm their leadership meeting *days* ago, be mindful of anything trying to undermine the site while it’s under siege from all of the AI platforms.

Minority representation on TV causes outrage From the new Private Eye, in shops now.

I've shared an updated version of my Agentic AI and Security article on @martinfowler.com's website: martinfowler.com/articles/age... (This is based on all the great research being done by others especially @simonwillison.net - my aim is to provide an accessible overview for others)

the Muppets have been real quiet since the Louvre heist

Last week I posted a new blog post about using Mermaid.js more effectively in Claude Code: blog.korny.info/2025/10/10/a... I'm also ditching Discus comments on my blog - instead I'll make social media posts (like this one!) and link them in the blog text.

It’s pronounced cyclist.

Cry Ribbit and let slip the frogs of war

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

What do you do when your media org is captured? You start your own. Introducing....The Nerve!!! @thenerve-news.bsky.social We're all-female, journalist-owned & launching next week. Please help us build a truly independent, progressive new media!👊👊👊

Trump Spends Entire U.K. Trip Trying To Figure Out Where He Knows Prince Andrew From

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

Am I the only person who reads this and pictures giant 5 meter sea urchins?

I can

melania constantly refreshing the tl

Old Soviet joke for today: A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves. After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?” “I’m looking for the obituaries.” “The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.” “Not the one I’m looking for.”

Why, you might ask, do the BBC and Sky News, casting their editorial guidelines to the wind, keep giving massive airtime to the far right, while shutting out leftwing voices? Don't their bosses understand the likely consequences? Only one explanation now remains. They do. And it is what they want.

For me, the BBC’s image choice here is reprehensible… …it glorifies these thugs who were intimidating refugees - makes them look like they are protesting for some sort of freedom… rather than the targeted harassment of the vulnerable.

If you want a weird but true fact to talk about: Dexter Holland, lead singer of The Offspring, was instrumental in this. His doctorial thesis in molecular biology was sequencing mRNA in HIV. The paper was also heavily cited in creating the COVID-19 vaccine.

Holy shit, they did it. They wrote the headline.

When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.

I forgot to post this to bluesky! Life has been busy...

How many times do we have to remind people: the chatbot *cannot* admit to *anything*. It *doesn't know*. When you ask it about itself, it generates its answer the same way it generates your request that it write an email. It takes what you tell it and responds in way to sound plausible.

It's performative. If Steve Reed were really "furious" about water bills, he wouldn't have ruled out renationalisation, or forbidden the Independent Water Commission to recommend it. He enables the filthiest, most parasitic capital to defeat the public interest. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

By any metric of fascism, when they come for the comedians, it's here.

Researchers in Darwin added First Nations seasonal calendars to solar irradiance forecasting and came up with some vastly improved results.

Everyone seems to be re-posting the METR paper on my feeds with "this proves the tools slow developers down" - nice to see a bit more nuanced discussion.

The more interviews with billionaires I hear, the more I believe they’re billionaires because of luck followed by the compounding benefits of capital. Their world views are simultaneously simplistic, confused, and deluded. Tax them out of existence

BBC Two currently showing Live Aid on a 40 year delay in order to meet Lisa Nandy's new demands for all music performances to be vetted before broadcast

Marines and DHS arrest anti-ICE protester after children were spotted in chains at the federal detention center in LA

My son, in the midst of a typical 8yo conversation asked me "what is the Tri-State area?" I didn't know, and I was tired, so I made up an answer which seemed plausible. And if he finds out I'm wrong, I'll say "you are correct! I was mistaken" ... Are LLMs just treating us like tired parents?

The Shock of the New en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sho... - an amazing introduction to modern art for a 16-year-old, so good to get some breadth outside my STEM world

Super excited to be able to publish the People Friendly: Teachers' Guide to AI that the incredible @summerscope.bsky.social and I have been working on. The guide will grow and develop as the technology does, and there's more to come! adsei.org/pfegtai-intr... #EduSKY #EduSKYAU

The EHRC is meant to protect everyone’s rights. But internal documents reveal a different story: repeated meetings with anti-trans lobbyists, legal bias, and secret coordination. We filed the FOI. Here’s what we found. tacc.org.uk/2025/07/01/f...

26 MPs - only 26 - voted against proscribing Palestine Action. It will now be a criminal offence punishable by up to 14 years in prison not only to be a member of but merely to express support for Palestine Action. We live in a fascist state.

I must be clear that AGI and superintelligence are a HUNDRED times stupider than the Metaverse, because the metaverse at the very least had virtual worlds you could point at. There is no proof AGI is possible. None. Zip. Taking it seriously - as in the concept - is doing free marketing.

Much of the reporting of Starmer's weak and evasive intervention on FWS is dishonest. He has said (main head) "all guidance needs to be consistent with the ruling and we need to get to that position as soon as possible." He hasn't said (sub head) that anyone is defying the law or what the law is.

BBC news headlines right now. It's utterly depressing.

This was a fun excursion - getting an LLM to analyse the characters and interactions in the book Stonemouth by Iain M banks: blog.korny.info/2025/06/27/a...

it's been a very difficult year or two for @gnomefoundation.bsky.social and, to continue to exist, the foundation really needs you. however, we first want to ask you to *donate less*: blogs.gnome.org/steven/2025/... #gnome

we’re about to find out if loving SimCity makes you a better mayor Mamdani was asked in 2002 by NY Mag what he wanted for Christmas and said SimCity 3000

You have more in common with the average Iranian citizen than you do with the people that run this country

This is "fun" - "Why I don't have a country any more", a brick-out game where an annoying white block appears for every day the Telegraph newspaper posted a transphobic article. kit-barry.itch.io/brick-out

Walking around the local canal-side fields and I really understand Day of the Triffids now.

The false narratives on both sides are so far from center that they're not providing balance. They are so misleading that those not experiencing #GenAI for themselves can't possibly know the facts. LLMs are not messianic and LLMs are not the devil incarnate, and sure aren't human.

If we, as a society, used cars the way we used public transportation (paying per use), people would be rioting for public transportation. Automotive financial infrastructure disconnects cost from use, making driving seem like a cheap alternative. The closest you get is at the pump.

Government policy, while improving, remains feeble against the scale of the carnage. Or worse. Shockingly, it has just given £360m to the fishing industry. More than all the new money for local amenities - parks, libraries, swimming pools etc - in the spending review. www.gov.uk/government/n...