Five words is excessive. I can do it in two words. If I'm really pressed for time, I can do it in one word with fewer than 5 letters.

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I long for the day when this podcast is no longer relevant. But if you're still trying to understand sex testing and gender in sports, I made this for you. There are transcripts on the site if you don't like listening to stuff.

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The UK really should make corruption illegal.

These are all fantastic. Lucky students

Just binge-watched the C4's The Jury. Amazing TV that we paused to discuss about every 15 minutes. It's alarmingly like The Traitors - very worrying when you consider the real-life significance - but with much less duty of care towards the jurors. Also, sadly, almost exactly like most HR meetings.

Ever had a bad work day or a Zoom call that ended badly? Imagine flying an F-35. In a scene out of Die Hard, suddenly the plane thinks it's on the ground not in the air. You call Lockheed Martin. After 50 minutes nothing can be done. You bail, leaving the $200 million plane to crash in a fireball.

If any news event should bring @mrjamesob.bsky.social back from holiday it's this: A power plant providing electricity through osmosis: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Saying you have to shut down and restart the Alan Turing Institute is in some ways a tribute to Alan Turing himself.

It looks like there are some quality issues with GPT5 Tried to use it properly in the last couple of days. It's very lazy, actively avoids complex tasks and just stopped work a couple of times. Top tip: if you go to cancel a Pro account you get 50% off for a while. Maybe they'll sort out the bugs

Another afternoon with the world's best coding AI

I think a new version of Claude is coming. I just had one chat that solved a five-day programming and architecture problem in about two steps. All its code ran first time. Solutions were elegant and creative. Then this really quite magical chat ran out of space and I went back to normal Claude 😠

Despite being dorkily irritared by some minor incongruities with the original that seem sloppy rather than deliberate, really enjoying Sandra Newman’s “Julia,” a retelling of Nineteen-Eighty Four from her perspective.

Forests may look quite resilient to changing conditions if trees are still standing, but if they're not regenerating there'll be nothing to replace the old trees as they die. They are dying on their feet And if they're not regenerating already, at 1.5C...

I was always a little concerned about confidentiality with regards to WeTransfer. The idea that they would ingest user files to train AI models is appalling. Today's reversal and 'clarification'still does not promise that they aren't snooping.

Why would I want to invite my driver to my online business meetings?

This is lovely from @jonnelledge.bsky.social as ever I see a parallel with Iceland's homelessness strategy, which is to house people first then sort out other issues With obesity, why not solve the weight issue first then make lifestyle changes after? It's easier to go to the gym when you're slim

I got curious about how much of 'Project 2025' might already have been implemented. Here's how the US Government is progressing in implementing ideas the 'Mandate for Leadership' document. I used ChatGPT o3, and I'll provide the prompt at the end. ✅🕒❌ indicate task completion, not approval. 🧵👇

If you're ever wondering how Mark Gatiss is so productive, we have the answer: Time travel. Totally explains his interest in Dr Who. This Sun article explains that Mark Gatiss married his husband Ian Hallard in 2018 after meeting on a dating app in 2000. Or is The Sun's Caroline Peacock AI?

We have our Hue lights set up so that the whole room syncs with the TV. It's fun and immersive. Watching Wimbledon I was expecting them to be greenish most of the time. But there's a surprising amount of pale pink. The reason? Crowd shots!

Whilst this is unethical, it is a counter to unethical reviewers who should not be using LLMs to write their reviews.

Teachers - did you know about I'm a Mathematician/I'm a Scientist? You can book a free online chat with your class and a real life mathematician, statistician, or scientist to ask them all about their job and career. Bookings here: imamathematician.uk/book-activity/

I don't normally post work stuff here but my company, @1827marketing.com has just published an article about the uses of AI video in marketing. This little animation, made in Midjourney using an image also generated in Midjourney, is so cute that I wanted to share it again.

This viral video of Indonesian boat racing finally reached me. I had no idea that this was a thing. About to spend my lunch break goind down a rabbit hole.

"entering a lottery to be allowed off your doomed island" feels a bit on the nose

Nearly at the finale of Handmaid's Tale. I love the writing, directing, world-building, and of course Elisabeth Moss and Yvonne Strahovski. It used to contrast Christian Nationalist oppression with liberal feminism. Now it's more about rival interpretations of Christianity. When did that shift?

Having a "The food is terrible - and such small portions!" experience of #Murderbot This show is terrible - and such short episodes!

If you ask Claude Code to read any of the OpenAI docs it hits a 403. 🤷‍♂️

It is Pride Parade Day in Sao Paulo We're watching from London. The sign language interpreters and co-host, including Diva Depressão (Depressed divas) are doing a fabulous job. Here's Ludmilla performing to an unbelievably huge crowd. #ParadaSPnaDiaTV Link here: www.youtube.com/live/tgs5Lpa...

When I first joined BlueSky I followed a lot of starter-packs and ended up following around 3000 people. I think this is too many so I wrote an automation to unfollow most of them.

Half-way through watching Adam Curtis' SHIFTY People question the logic and argument, but for me this is completely outweighed, as media art, by the mischievous, laugh-out-loud critical engagement with the medium Terrific that the BBC commissioned such distinctive work and found an audience.

@mikecaulfield.bsky.social Have you tried your SIFT framework and prompt with Manus? If not, you might be interested to see how it deals with your sample diabetes question (which it says is correct) In this video it uses to-do, search, browser, markdown file editor, Linux terminal and pdf creation

New piece by me! I wrote about how freaky measles is, which many people don't know about. It depletes immune cells, and makes people vulnerable to many other infectious diseases. This raises the risk of complications for years after an infection.

A new measure of international, political and economic instability could be the proportion of articles on @financialtimes.com that do not allow reader comments. In general I think they exercise good judgement over which articles allow comments and which do not

This is great news. We tried @mikecaulfield.bsky.social's SIFT framework last week. It was amazing - verifying and cross-referencing multiple claims using reputable sources. Using Claude Deep Research and MCPs for browser & structured thinking we got it to list all claims then validate each one.

This might be the most English explanation ever posted on the Internet.

Judgement Day for the EHRC: How the equality watchdog turned into a toxic culture war campaign group iandunt.substack.com/p/judgement-...

Waymos summoned and set ablaze in Los Angeles. Lime bikes used as projectiles or to block police ramps in Seattle. At some point a smart cultural theorist is going to write an fascinating PhD on how protestors started to weaponize platform economy hardware. (links in alt)

I don't like Harry Potter so I won't watch the series. I thought it was going to be weird that many actors I like and admire will disappear from my cultural experience for a decade. Now I realise I will see them, but only when they are berated on social media. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Just got access to Google's new Gemini Diffusion Model. First impressions are: - it's extremely fast - text generation is very bland, even by the low standards of generative AI - seems pretty good at coding

NEW: A watershed moment for global media will happen this year. For the first time, user-generated platforms (YouTube, TikTok etc) will attract more content-driven advertising than professionally produced content. WPP Media report neatly summarises the huge change in media consumption.

This seems important

This is very important from @mjcrockett.bsky.social I think the implications in EU and UK, could be very serious for businesses and researchers, especially for GDPR. It impacts OpenAI API use as well as ChatGPT, and comes at a time when CRM companies encourage connecting to AIs via MCP.

I'm watching CNBC's livestream from Los Angeles. I was curious about why so many troops were stationed at what looks like a healthcare facility. ChatGPT o3 was able to identify precisely which building is in the footage and explain why it was chosen. The explanation is in the screenshot here.

Leaving the ECHR has been a mainstream Conservative idea since Cameron, if not before. It featured a lot during Cameron's EU renegotiation, then Brexit and then Rwanda. I often suspected that Rwanda was mostly intended as an expensive excuse to leave the ECHR rather than serious policy.

It has just struck me that when they were last seen in public together, Musk denied having a massive ketamine habit and then Trump gifted him an enormous golden key.

@aiannucci.bsky.social would you consider bringing back Malcolm Tucker as a podcaster? Perhaps he could co-host with Peter Mannion.

If you're still on Twitter, this is what you're arguing with.