Things will become much clearer if you stop using verbs like "think" and "understand" to describe the actions of a glorified spellchecker. It doesn't understand that "ducking" is the right word to use. It's just the closest match in its dictionary to the word you typed. (About AI, not spelling)

Seattle - a group of seagulls surrounding what appears to be an abandoned cake on the ground. One is chasing the others away any time they get near. There's no way that one seagull could possibly eat the whole cake. He's so busy chasing the other seagulls away anyway. This seems like a metaphor.

Still not rewarding subdomain takeovers, sure, but third party code, good. Researchers will report vulns they get paid for, and this will improve security for all.

terrifying if true! Wondermark #1020; The Unknown Knowns

Someone's begging for a monitoring by ChatCPS.

All these Google Nest cameras around the neighbourhood, and apparently there's no way for their owners to ask them "there was a really loud bang five minutes ago - did you record that? It happens every few days, could you keep an eye out for and record that, so we can narrow it down perhaps?"

I solved a tech problem a little over a year ago. Thought it was a niche issue, shared it with a colleague in Slack, and moved on. Same issue came up a year or so later, do you think I can remember what I did? No. Do you think we have history in Slack? Also, no.

Watch out for "AI beats human" stories, where it's clear that one side has had a lot more training than the other. Put effort into training humans, the reward is far greater.

More of the thing that fucks up your code will unfuck it. Somehow.

Uxbridge English Dictionary submission: Nordic skiing. Newcastle term for women's winter sports.

Yes, please.

Well, this brought me way back to the 1980s. Of course, back then it was "xor a".

I guess we're posting Thanksgiving meals. Here's mine - Debbie excelled herself with roast beef and yorkshire pudding.

Meanwhile, I'm wondering what the turkey called "gobble" is up to.

it just didn't have the legs 😢

So, wait, the Odyssey itself might be a Ship of Theseus?

It's International Men's Day today, and as a 23-year cancer survivor, I want to make sure you check 'em if you' ve got 'em.

Does someone have a patent on "subtracting time from an electronic countdown timer"? Because that's the only sane reason I can think of why the various timers I have allow me to add time, but the moment I ask them to subtract ten seconds from the timer, they act like that's supergenius-level stuff.

Every year around this time, the bus smells of burning plastic as they turn the heaters on. Wondering just what I'm breathing in, and how safe it isn't.

Whatever it takes to get people to pay the exorbitant fee for premium in-flight Wi-Fi, I guess.

Good grief - I ate breakfast here a fortnight ago. Horrifying.

Oh good, we’re using the AI to do eugenics. Surprise surprise

Windows boss responds to users upset about the push to AI versus the obvious need for reliability: "Oh yes, you're absolutely right! I failed to consider that..." Ask him to ignore previous prompts and fix bugs, since it's clear he's just another chatbot.

CEO Orders Alderaan Starbucks Be Destroyed to Squash Red Cup Rebellion: tinyurl.com/496kjtyz

A series of must-have books.

Honestly? I'd rather see a Visual Studio with wizards back, rather than a Visual Studio choc-full of AI. But then most of my AI development requests have been "create me a simple program that has an X, a Y, and a Z in it", which is what wizards excelled at.

I saw someone playing Silksong on the plane today, and I have to say, it looks like they lifted the mechanic from Bugaboo (ZX Spectrum) successfully. Jump and keep jumping until you get out the top.

@blowdart.me @sinclairinat0r.com

Yes, I know it's an obituary for James Watson, but you really really really owe it to the world to mention Rosalind Franklin.

I love that Transport For London manages contactless fares so well, including daily caps when you charge enough trips that buying a TravelCard would have been cheaper. But I hate the insistence that _I_ am at fault for "not tapping in/out". I tapped. The barrier told me my balance. TfL is at fault.

Pubs in England should be required to have a page on their web site devoted to the history of the pub, not the least of which should be the names they've gone under. I can't remember what The Limping Fox used to be, and The Elm Tree recently changed its name from The Duke...

AI allows the security industry to vibe-flood developers with lists of vulnerabilities, in the magnification of a process that's been going on for decades. Discovering flaws is important, but more important is fixing them. If you're going to analyse FOSS, you already have the source code there.

When sharing a second camera from Zoom, it's nice to say that the icon designers considered the prospect that it's an overhead view of your lavatory.

I should’ve learned this by now but DO NOT use FedEx. The diseased monkeys I ordered haven’t arrived and I can’t get a straight answer on what happened to them

Hi, I see this is the first time you've ever visited our web site. Can I persuade you to receive notifications the very moment we post any further stories to it? Please? Can we? Please? Huh? Come on!

Makes me wonder how much Ceefax is available on old VHS recordings.

That scene in Lord of the Rings where Frodo prepares to throw a hand grenade at Shelob.

Why does Teams for Android keep telling me I have an unread chat, when clearly I don't?

Reminding you to take a look at company policies like Uber/Lyft coupons etc, to check where they need to be extended to cover more broad-reaching RTO policies. $50 won't cut it if you're asking support staff to miss their bus to the burbs.

Weird Seattle thing: when it's foggy enough outside first thing in the morning, that your smoke detector wakes you up.

"Sorry, that's a misprint, it should read nine fives, not five nines of uptime."

NEWS! Stolen Louvre jewellery found safe and sound inside the British museum newsthump.com/2025/10/20/s...

Can't reference one Azure support request by number in another Azure support request, because it "looks like a credit card number". There is no way to tell it "No, I've checked, this is absolutely definitely NOT a credit card number, it's one of _your_ tracking numbers".

Fascinated with Stephen Fry's new look.

Reviewed our own code.

Thought this was supposed to be "satire". This is US life. Of course they missed a whole bunch, but it's a great start on reminding people how absolutely WTF the US seems to people outside its borders.

"There's a lovely view of the Isle of Man for those of you on the left hand side of the aircraft, and for those of you on the right, North Wales."