Here's something really neat: @jamestkelly.bsky.social wrote an article using my Lamenters Battlecry video as a springboard to talk about misinformation. It says nice things about me so it must be correct! jamestkelly.com/what-toy-sol...

For lots of reasons, I don’t like LLMs and I don’t use them, but I know there are serious people working on ways to meaningfully incorporate them into education and I don’t doubt there are ways to do that productively. It’s probably obvious that “Have the LLM tell you the answer” isn’t one of them.

Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI technology to generate low-effort rage bait. My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.

My list of fantasy books has proved pretty popular over the years, so I finally got around to writing its SF sibling. Here’s 20 science fiction books you should read next! jamestkelly.com/20-science-f...

Bloody hail, it’s helling here!

I was so surprised to find out a lot of people hate Star Trek: Generations. It’s absolutely got its flaws, but it’s always been my favourite Star Trek film.

“They say time is the fire in which we burn.” Chills. Every time.

That wonderful time of year when we arbitrarily change all the clocks and mess up our sleep schedules for a few days.

Some days that seems more fantastical than the spaceships.

Yes, I'm late to the party, but damn I can't believe Instagram so casually broke my carefully constructed grid.

Yes, I'm late to the party, but damn I can't believe Instagram so casually broke my carefully constructed grid.

Feels like the biggest ebook retailer should be the easiest one to use. But I'm updating ebook files and it's been a breeze with Kobo, clunky with Draft2Digital, and AGONISINGLY slow and painful with Amazon. Send patience.

Because LLMs are designed to sound right, not be right.

we used to get this once a fortnight

Bloody hell, all that design work that went into Liquid Glass and there’s still no dark mode for Pages?

I can categorically deny being a Bigfoot, but I will not be taking questions about being a leprechaun.

How do we call people in rather than out? The world is complicated - and our conversations should reflect that.

I’m a fan of high contrast, so Apple’s new Liquid Glass effect is not my favourite ever.

The next time someone says the iPad is a laptop replacement, I’m going to bonk them on the head with the Wordpress website I couldn’t update today.

Building Tyranids while watching Alien Resurrection feels a little too on the nose.

Someone is using ChatGPT to count the number of times he’s masturbated.

The Independent Adviser on Ministerial Standards said Angela Rayner acted “in good faith,” “relied on the legal advice she received,” offered “full and open cooperation” and “sought quickly to correct the mistake.” So when someone calls her a liar or a tax dodger, you know they’re talking shit.

“Every mistake is part of your plan.” - Jon Torrens I love this advice. Don’t berate yourself for making a mistake, Just reframe it. Like today. I just walked all the way to the Post Office and realised I hadn’t put the letter in the bag. But it’s just all part of my plan to get more steps in.

This is an extraordinary book, highly recommended.

AI bros: Marketers are cooked! OpenAI:

Cite👏your👏sources!

@openvibe.social Is there an issue with Bluesky? I’ve not been able to connect for a while.

Anyone else at their most creative when they’re meant to be doing something else?

Anyway, thought you might find that interesting, or at least useful to know that your ever-growing work-in-progress folder doesn't have to be a folder of shame. It can be a resource your past-self has gifted to you.

I will never get over how Google worked so hard to make itself so trustworthy and then spaffed all that trust up the wall with genAI. www.vice.com/en/article/p...

“I’d like to pay workers less or make them redundant so I can make more money.” Fixed it for you, Jimmy.

My kitbashing evening has resulted in a Fallen Dark Apostle and his two disciples, a Farseer augmented with some Eldrad bits, and a Death Jester based on the Kyganil figure which is 70% done. Pretty pleased with that. Although my vision is starting to blur from squinting at all these little bits! 😄

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“I don’t care what anyone says, I like that movie.”

Can’t remember the last time I saw someone blurt a movie spoiler on social media. Have we evolved as a species?

“AI is coming for you!”

“i have to use AI because i’m bad at drawingggg 😭😭😭”

What do you think of personalisation FNAME ELSE friend? Great idea? A mistaek waiting to happen? Phoney marketing bollocks?

Fascinating to see how websites have interpreted “users should have a choice about cookies” as “users can have a choice about cookies if they pay us for it.”

My new coat arrived on Thursday and I’ve had three (3) emails from the retailer asking for a review. Can only assume they think: 1) I’m five and I’ve been wearing it around the house 2) I took a day trip to the nearest walk-in freezer 3) I’ve been wearing it in the shower 4) All of the above.

Always interesting to see someone saying national ownership had its chance when privately-owned services are given endless opportunities to fail.

We watched Annihilation a few years back (on Netflix, I believe) and I thought it was fantastic.

This age verification thing sounds like a good idea. But is there much point when you can get around it with a simple VPN?

Remember when cereal had a toy inside? Now they run big competitions. And entering is as easy as providing your name, email, your original receipt, three photos of you eating the cereal while holding the day’s newspaper, and your neighbour’s inside leg measurement. I wonder how many people win?

A lot of people are going to learn the hard way how generative AI works.

It feels like a lot of things are getting worse while costing more. And I can’t tell if this is true or I’ve just entered my “In my day” phase. Or maybe it’s both?

The irony of Bumble, an app designed to help make human connections, reducing its humanity by axing 30% of its workforce so it can invest in AI.

Jurassic Park was great because it had a sense of wide-eyed wonder and it treated dinosaurs like real animals. The rest of the franchise is pretty much just dino-themed monster movies.

“Shocking”? Farage has shown us who he is. Why is anyone surprised? “Same-sex marriage is wrong.” We already knew he was a bigot. “Government finances should be run like a business.” Governments are meant to look after their people, not turn a profit. But the grifter wants to keep grifting.