This is the entire point of AI. Destroy creativity. Control what words get put where & what words get censored. It’s a tool to help them control the narrative and eliminate “problematic” language forever and the very ability to even imagine a better world. It’s 1984's fucking Ministry of Truth.

I’m very finished the book I was reviewing & given all my feedback, which meant that today I work a little on the studio… Starting to make the space for the day bed between the Kallax at the back of the room, and the ones at the front. I’m done, if I don’t stop I run the real risk of a PEM attack…

Buying books online has the convenience of getting more choice more easily. And it may be cheaper. However… Your local independent can generally order you what you want, and you can’t pick 5 books and then take 30 mins at a table to pick. Support your local independent shops. They are awesome.

Google having a celebration of Earth day whilst building massive data centers for AI and wasting stupid amounts of eneergy and water is sick. And not in the good way.

Yeah, sure, AI has made great strides and can be made to do some really cool things. But at what cost? No, I mean literally. How much is it really going to cost? ardalis.com/ai-benefits-... #AI

Progressive Disclosure is a design principle that has applications everywhere from games to teaching to API design to even, yes, how you structure your code for your coding agents and agent teams. ardalis.com/optimizing-a... #ai #claude #copilot #agents #agentteams

Just to give a sense of the insane scale of billions of dollars…MacKenzie Scott got about $38 billion after divorcing Bezos in 2019. She has become the world’s most generous philanthropist, giving away over $19 billion…and she’s currently wealthier than she started. Just. Tax. Them.

This isn't being talked about enough: President Trump is hosting a gala at Mar-a-Lago next week for the top 297 holders of his #$TRUMP memecoin. Not only is this blatantly corrupt, it's a national security threat.

I solve the problem of not knowing what I'd like to order from Starbucks by simply not ordering anything from Starbucks. If I wanted it at all, I wouldn't need gimmick software to tell me I wanted it.

Hey internet friends, I need some help: I have a family member who just applied the Windows April 2026 patch to his home business laptop and it forced a reboot and is demanding a bitlocker key. The problem is: he didn't bitlocker his laptop. There's no key on his account online. What can he do?

The weather has improved and seeing as the treadmill was busy at physio I decided to just take a walk outdoors ☺️

Just a reminder to everyone who buys physical media to own the content. Get that content backed up! I’m working through backing up my collection and have about a 5% failure rate on discs.

Woohoo! spent some time getting and admin portal made for my website! It doesn't look great, but that's fine only I am using it. And it means that I can start to get my engagements up to date. I've added the 2 upcoming in April! stacy-clouds.net

Spent some time playing in the studio — new video is live! Topic: secrets. How we handle them (or don't) in our code. This is one of those things that feels obvious but is easy to get wrong & AI tools make it even easier to expose sensitive data without noticing. youtube.com/shorts/u2AzG...

Some more updates! The layout for mobiles didn't quite work as I had hoped, so I made some updates this weekend. Making the tags work better, fixing issues with the images, and making it easier to read for both mobile and desktop.

I will never not love this building! #Stadhuis #Leiden

The last few weeks I've been spending a few minutes here and there with my website, stacy-clouds.net, this morning I just put the new design live. Is it perfect? No 😅 But perfect is the enemy of of done, and it's as least as good as the old one - in fact it's better 🤩 No to refine it!

Elon Musk is acting like “talking about your feelings” is weak and unnecessary while he simultaneously uses his account with 230 million followers on the platform he owns to post about his feelings like a 14 year old emo kid on MySpace in 2009

Q: You don’t regret that people might’ve lost important income to support their lives? A: No, I think it was more important to reduce the federal deficit. Q: Ok. Did you reduce the federal deficit? A: No, we didn’t.

OMG, it happened... After moving to macOS last year I set up a windows machine this weekend. And... I hated it... Things that never used to bother me are now just so annoying to deal with... Eek... Not that macOS doesn't have it's annoyances, but I do think it's easier than windows to set up now

I don't want to brag, but in the last 2 days I made 4 phone calls that I have been putting off for weeks. I'm exhauted now 🫥

After time spent either ill or in buirn out, I managed to do something this weekend 🤩 My first short using my studio and new editing kit. Super happy with the results, and super happy with the boost it gave to my enerygy 🥳 Now to make a habbit of it! youtube.com/shorts/JZ1lJ...

Does it count as a hack, if bought full size keycaps for my low profile keyboard (because I like the look and typing experience) but then sanded down the keys that caused a problem? After all, MOA kecaps are not supposed to go on low profile keyboards...

I feel I’ve maybe made a mistake with the iPad I got this summer. I’ve always wondered what made a 13” iPad make sense. Obviously they work for enough people, but not me. Well… Yesterday, I installed @procreate.com and I get it now 😅 I imagine that extra screen makes a huge difference!

I’m on the sick at the moment with a flare up of my ME, to try and keep me occupied I’ve been doing another picture (when I have the mental/physical energy at least). I’m loving seeing my improvements over time 🤩

www.youtube.com/watch?v=pey9... @nielsstubbe.bsky.social @flensrocker.de

in a way, this is an allegory of labor history. Exploited, devalued, tossed aside, and finally recognized

This has me thinking… When I was 16 I got a pair of Panasonic in ear (but not earbud), bass boost earphones that cost £90. That was the most expensive they had a time time. Even with inflation they were only €90… What can you today for that price with decent quality? 😵‍💫😅😂

Ohhh... New headphone initial impressions... Due to reasons, I need cheap(ish), wired, white, NC headphones for my studio. The cheapest I found where Sony ULT Wear. I got a 2nd chance from #Coolblue. Then looked at reviews (wrong way round). The reviews looked good & I breathed a sigh of relief.

Today was a little better. I managed this from start to finish. Practice with acrylic pens using gel pens for details. Next time I’m going to try alcohol, acrylic, and gel pens all together. When I’ve recovered more, doing this has hit my fatigue again…

Well, I managed the swatch sheets. Just. Seems that even coloring was too much for my body… After I got these finished I couldn’t do any actual colouring, and instead slept for 3 hours… Maybe today, we’ll see…

#Swetugg the aftermath! After an amazing few days that triggered my fatigue more than I was expecting, yesterday was super tough, and today and tomorrow are going to be bed days. So time to try my new pens and see if this helps…

Another #Swetugg over, Ted and Hippo are ready for the trip home. The conference, speakers, and of course the attendees have been amazing as always. Hey da Stockholm. Hope to be back soon!

#hourly #wah https://api.tinyfox.dev/hourly/wahs/photo_135@26-09-2019_01-00-03.jpg

The majority of scientific advances before the last century were made by bored rich people. People who had enough to live on discovered gravity and electricity. The idea that people need to be in fear of starvation to work is deeply stupid

Oh wow! It seems that I owe my headphones NC a little bit of an appology... Whilst it is not on the same level as Sony, the crew information just carry directly through without any reduction was probably my new hearing aids activating on the telecoil system! No wonder it seemed so clear!

My cognitive function this morning. Struggle out of bed, set up the laptop for work. Sign in, open teams, open Outlook, think that is a lot of mail... Notice some mail from a shop. Why are they sending mail to my work mail? Look at the colour of the laptop and realise I set up the wrong laptop...

I've never gelled with dark themes 💯 because the contrast was just too low for my comfort. However... Hearing of a VS OLED theme by @madskristensen.net that was changed for me yesterday! I don't have OLED, but an MBP mini-LED screen works just as well! marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemNa...

I've just set up a new keyboard (nice to use, but for the price I expected a lore more - review). However... I did learn something more, it is windows only, so CMD & Option are mixed up & i thas no mac. But you don't need it! I found this tip for win boards on mac: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PM3k...

Woohoo! Hippo and her travel companion are on board and ready for our Stockholm adventure! A week with Friends and then on to #Swetugg!!!

My first “disappointment” with my B&W headphones, and one that I should have expected… Like the CM9s I got a decade ago, they reproduce sound really well. Sounds awesome, and when you have a great sound source, it is.

7 years ago I did something that I never thought I would want to do*. I stood up in front of people and dlivered a talk, my first ever talk. At an international conference, #Swetugg In just over a week, I'll be back, this time helping as well as talking 🤩 See you there! swetugg.se

Wow... I needed new headphones and after thinking about it for an age jumped for the B&W PX7 S2e. My Sony WH1000 XM4 were good, but these are a different level! So comfortable that I have been wearing then since for more than 4 hours now and don't have a hint of discomfort or fatigue.

And it’s done! I’m very happy with the results!

A relaxing morning of learning to shade using alcohol markers, and highlighting with gold, silver, and white gel pens. The fade. Between sky couples could be better, but not bad!

So... I just had a conversation with my partner... We were playing a family game we got for Christmas. It came with crappy plastic holders for the cards. That screech and scratch everytime they moved. So after a couple of games I stopped and designed a better holder that would sound better 1/n

After getting bored with the same old, same old. 80s and 90s Rally Cross came across my feed 🤩 Grouo B rally cars, banned from Rally, competing on short rally cross circuits. Outstanding!!!! Takes me back to being a kid and watching this with my dad on Sat. afternoons 😍 youtu.be/-y3mzKuoTic?...

Found the actual men in women's bathrooms assaulting women.