ketanjoshi.co/2026/07/01/g... Google’s exponential path to climate-wrecking digital bloat

Can't get these Bluetooth headphones' fast-forward or rewind controls to work. Any suggestions? #WAR #Anker #Soundcore #TheShadows #walkman

Important data collection work going on here.

I wonder if the simple hack to AI is to not call it Claude, or Gemini, or Siri, but CliffClavinAI. If every response was in a speech balloon coming out of Cliff, then the "should I trust this answer" common sense filter would surely kick in.

Holy shit the accuracy

Count Binface will never win an election, obviously. That’s not his point. Seeing Farage v Binface in a sham election is a perfect image for what’s happening. But just imagine how classic British sitcom it’d be if Farage were disqualified at the last minute and Binface had to serve Clacton.

He walked so the Count could run (in Clacton).

"Emergency podcasts, sir. Thousands of 'em"

Cobbled together some thoughts on what happens to STV after the SkITV deal.

Canada. At Eurovision. Well, this opens up many awkward questions about the Contest, its traditions, its direction, its finances, who's going to judge who is 'worthy' to enter... all without being "political."

Me with my BlueSky mutuals.

RIP Paul, one of the few people who saw my early open mics in 1998, utterly charming, welcoming, and full of advice and praise. Will be a quieter world without him, www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Anyway I think if I was the UK's most profitable podcast network I probably wouldn't advertise a job writing half hour, 7-day turnaround audio drama adaptations without royalties for £1k as a competition but I guess that's because I believe in labour laws @writersguildgb.bsky.social #Goalhanger

Tucked away in the 'Canada is entering #Eurovision' press release is this beauty... "Co-ordinated by the EBU, ESC is a springboard for songwriters, singers and musicians, offering them exceptional international exposure" So the Contest is "a springboard" for new talent who'll do it for "exposure"??

John Oliver on General Hospital? "Bring on the scenery, daddy needs to eat." latenighter.com/news/john-ol...

So much 'wall to wall' coverage of the new Supergirl movie from so many 'need to cover the keyword' sites; it's always nice to find a review from someone that I can trust to tell it straight, like (excuse me) a pear cider that's made from 100 percent pears. Thanks, @steveshives.bsky.social

incredible lightning over arthur’s seat in edinburgh tonight constant (every couple of seconds!)

You want some Scottish baseball in your life, don't you, @mlb.com? Here we go, and I can guarantee that there's a Scottish victory at the end. A Glasgow/Edinburgh game, a bit of ASMR, or just curious about what we have as our theme tune. Here you go!

Tartan Army wins at the World Cup. Scotland ... less so.

Now, over to Scotland's reality correspondent, Russell Crowe.

Gerrymandle is a daily game where you “draw electoral district lines to win more seats than your opponents and win the election”. [gerrymandle.cc]

From @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social “Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. “ slate.com/technology/2...

But when's the Scotland game?

Today's jangly nerves need a soundtrack... www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmzD...

I resent the video-fication of podcasting. That's just a TV show. Podcasts aren't supposed to be for hot people. They have everything else

So, Ghana win 0-0, yes?

it’s so wild that they are still called podcasts when ipods have been discontinued, that would be like calling a music award after the gramophone

“The Web is for People” www.torgo.com/blog/2026/06... – some half-formed thoughts on the future of the web in the age of AI hype.

There's a new pisode of my time-travelling baseball history podcast, as the team at CBR recreate the AM Radio broadcast of the Padres @ Mets game on May 6, 1972. Tune in for sports, history, and ASMR in this Audio Vérité of baseball Links to the Podcast at classicbaseballradio.com

And don’t forget on June 26th @ midnight GMT, over 100 yrs since BBC Radio first started on Long Wave for the whole UK and beyond closes down. Three Radio 4 Transmitters (not operated by the BBC now) at Droitwich, Burghead & Westerglen in Scotland finish after their 90 yrs of providing basic Radio.

Have to laugh at comments today that under-16s won't know how to set up or use a VPN. Pretty sure that years of Surfshark and NordVPN on YouTube have given them a pretty good idea some VPN capabilities. If politicians could understand that there are more uses to VPN, that would be a good start.

“Ultimately I feel this proposed ban is hasty, ill-thought through, disadvantages everyone it doesn’t protect, and lets off the major social media companies for things they don’t want to pay to control.” - @phil.gyford.com www.gyford.com/phil/writing...

Just imagine growing up, and you could only watch CBeebies (nee Children's BBC) until after you finished your GCSE/Standard Grade/O Levels... that's the cultural impact the banning of YouTube will have on generations here in the UK if this becomes law.

Today's soundtrack on the mini magnetophone is Bruce and Hank doing some cover songs.

Unsurprisingly, when cherry picking, you draw attention to everything else. And everything else says "a blanket ban is a bad idea"

Does anyone have a copy of the curriculum that Starmer is presumably introducing so those 16 years and 1 day old can navigate "the internet" safely? And will they make it available to the older generation? Or perhaps it should be compulsory for everyone to get your "you can go online" licence?

@cc-chapman.bsky.social all your city belongs to us now. ;-)

Killing Eve. Solid endings at the end of the second and third seasons. Best not talk about Season 4 at all.

“Fatima’s next job won’t be in cyber because the government won’t let her online.”

And with that, the Scotland team can teach the world the word 'jammy' (We're still going out on goal difference, that one may not be enough). Back to Le Mans and the Circuit de la Sarthe it is.

Multi-screen time.

Double Scotland sports fun tonight!! Gabriel Roncones, jr, is heading to the Phillies right field tonight in MLB. Not bad for a Fifer who grew up in Glenrothes and played at Edinburgh Baseball Club. www.instagram.com/p/DZf3yPLmUh...

"Sudo You Think You Are"

A reorganised bookshelf, and memories of #sxsw friends (nods to @weegee.bsky.social )

Lots of "I used Apple's Siri AI and it's good" after WWDC. Hmm. I'm reminded of Jon Gruber's experience of early VisionOS and Apple Intelligence demos, the strict coded guardrails, and the limits placed by Apple's demonstrator. To twist a maxim, "No AI plan survives first contact with the public"

Two of my podcasts, Classic Baseball Radio and The Edinburgh Fringe Show, have been nominated in the Scottish Podcast Awards. @classicbaseball.bsky.social for Best Sports Podcast works, I am giggling as the Fringe podcast is in 'Scotland's Emerging Talent'. Its first ep was released in August 2005.

Guardian should ask mathematicians to rank the best 100 numbers. This idea occurred to me as a piss take but it could potentially be good.

Please Please Me, by The Beatles.

Reading about what has happened to the once S-Tier Alamo Drafthouse on Colorado St in Austin has really put a downer on my day. :-(