Side effect of two European road trips and a tour of Aus & NZ via Hong Kong and Singapore. I am way better at Geoguessr than I used to be. So I guess it’s South America next for me.

Seems a bit out of the way???

So long normal island, I'm off to Australia (and NZ, via Hong Kong)

I think I may fallen a tiny bit in love with Claude. But don't tell anyone, it'll destroy my rep.

When unchecked site search policies and AI go rogue. Also, I’m not surprised.

Well. For a great many reasons that I may explain later, I am going to attempt another ultra marathon to raise money for Mind. Health and fitness levels have gone through the floor. I have a year to turn it round though. Wish me luck. www.justgiving.com/page/natalie...

😳https://news.sky.com/story/albanias-prime-minister-appoints-an-ai-generated-minister-to-tackle-corruption-13429704

I don’t think the SERPs are ok to be honest. In what universe are three random travel blogs a better result for “things to do in London” than VisitLondon and TimeOut. Be serious.

Something tells me it might not be the future after all.

Something it can't do. This is a relief actually.

Is it just me, or it GPT-5 kind of dull? Bring back unhinged sycophantic April 4o I say.

Human marketing consultant for hire. Can keep your secrets. Won't share them with the NYT like your favourite LLM.

I wonder if all the people using ChatGPT as a therapist know this is going on arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

That whole site:chatgpt.com/share "hack" that is doing the rounds is making me despair of humanity. Look at what people put into that tool and what it spits out. If ChatGPT is genuinely set to overtake search engines as a source of information in the next few years, I think we're all in big trouble

HOW RUDE www.thetimes.com/culture/art/...

Lost an evening rowing with Google Gemini about its perception of reality which was super productive 🙄

I’ve just seen an ad for a degree in Content Creation and I say this as someone who thoroughly enjoyed their degree in Pop Music when it only incurred a fraction of the debt that undergraduate degrees rack up these days: now I have seen everything.

I keep trying to use it as a search engine, I really do. Mind you Google's not much better these days.

MerseySearch is back. Me, @jomarieoreilly.bsky.social and our colleague Polly V are hosting an SEO meetup in Liverpool with some exceptionally good speakers, talking about ethical use of AI in SEO. Tickets available here: www.ticketsource.co.uk/merseysearch...

A moment that defined a season ✨ #ChelseaFCW #BarclaysWSL

Perfectly normal, nothing to see here youtu.be/EtNagNezo8w?...

Insanely good is right.

Just putting this out there because I find the gratitude thing does work. I have the best client list I’ve ever had at the moment, I am loving my work, long may it continue.

Kate Bush is a prophet I swear. youtu.be/nzqF_gBpS84?...

Wondered if ChatGPT could be used to put an outfit together. Put my prejudices aside. Those links are to a set of out of stock swimming trunks, and a 404 page. Still not a search engine.

Bravo Lucy Bronze, what a hero www.bbc.com/sport/footba...

Well there we are. He has spoken.

No they don’t!!!

At Women In Tech SEO having my daily reality presented back to me live on stage.

Adventures in “Deep Research” ChatGPT “goes away” and does “deep research” on a celebrity (redacted for now) and comes back with a commonly told myth about them. I correct that and this happens:

Tubewalking. Doing all the parts I couldn’t bring myself to a few years ago. Greenford is in my future.

Still not yet worried about a machine taking my job.

THIS IS NOT A DRILL www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

Chelsea are hoping to pull off a sensational deadline-day move to sign the England star Keira Walsh from Barcelona, the Guardian understands. The WSL champions and current leaders have held advanced negotiations with the European champions. More here. #BarclaysWSL www.theguardian.com/football/202...

I’m keeping the car. Anyone who calls me a fascist will be referred to my decision tree analysis.

Also I seem to have developed a bread allergy in my old age. FML as the kids don’t say.

Just in case anyone is interested in the Tesla saga. Took it for a service (its first since the guy who sold it to me told me all that it really ever needed was a tyre change, which had been done). But you need to service it before you hand it back to the finance people for… reasons

Pros - massive screen Cons - spending hours of your life sat in a Holiday Inn car park

Test drove a BMW i4. All the cool little things that come as standard in the Tesla Model 3 are extras. So a £60k car ends up being £70k. And I thought I’d been ripped off with the non-existent FSD. Motoring is a scam.

In 2021, i wanted to buy an electric car for climate change reasons. I found out there was a tax incentive that I could make use of to buy the best electric car on the market. Without that incentive I wouldn’t have been able to afford it.

About bloody time! No longer need to specify “women” when searching for football fixture/result details. You can now toggle. A small thing but a big difference.

When the giant calculator can't even do that

No balloon day here so taking matters into my own hands open.spotify.com/playlist/36x...

Clear as mud, thank you Google

I PASSED MY MBA. Oh my god the relief. Doing that alongside running a business was insane behaviour. But I did it. I’m in a state of shock.

Well this is grim

Please tell your kids, every damn day if necessary, that chatGPT is not a goddamn search engine and you shouldn’t believe a word it says. Tell the adults too, but it’s especially imperative to inoculate kids against this

Also would love to get behind ChatGPT 4o’s voice mode but it keeps speaking to me in Welsh.

I really want to get on board with this NotebookLM stuff but it’s a bit distracting considering it can’t even pronounce the word “is” correctly.

Playing with my giant calculator friend