The latest in my occasional series of over-complicated literary interpretations, this time on what connects Oedipus Rex (Sophocles) and Angel Heart (Mickey Rourke) Warning: spoilers interconnected.org/home/2025/11...

AI peas peas with AI www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

hey shout out to east african indian diaspora, big day. more metro area mayors yelling about how migration + multiculturalism is great actually pls

Seeing as it's 5 November, something about Bonfire Night... The topsy-turvy celebration of Guy Fawkes interconnected.org/home/2022/11...

“Loosely I can see two visions for the future of how we interact with computers: cyborgs and rooms. The first is where the industry is going today; I’m more interested in the latter.” interconnected.org/home/2025/10...

Filtered for wobbly tables and other facts https://interconnected.org/home/2025/10/30/filtered #math #mathematics

The tiny grandpa from Grandpa in My Pocket is the same guy as Terry Collier from Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads

gonna start a consultancy that optimises layout for time and motion in corp office microkitchens. fee is 1% of company value created pro rated to staff-minutes saved. enough with the hot water, spoons, tea bag, bins, sinks metres apart

I love the smell of autopoiesis in the morning L: https://interconnected.org/home/2025/10/15/3dp C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45703664 posted on 2025.10.25 at 09:15:56 (c=1, p=5)

✈️ 14C from Ibiza IBZ to London LCY

@genmon.fyi interconnected.org/home/2025/10... I just watched and loved that movie too! And A Short Hike was so fun, also my kids first game she played all the way through. I think it's the same guy as adamgryu.itch.io/pumpkin-carver which was a hit for us. Tis the season.

Cyborgs vs. rooms, two visions for the future of computing L: https://interconnected.org/home/2025/10/13/dichotomy C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45633900 posted on 2025.10.19 at 09:16:25 (c=0, p=3)

https://interconnected.org/home/2025/10/13/dichotomy "Loosely I can see two visions for the future of how we interact with computers: cyborgs and rooms." Cyborgs is us being augmented with implants or devices we wear. #ai #compute

Big’s Backyard Ultra individual world championship has begun — the runners are 12 hours in and the race won’t complete for at least another 4 days/400+ miles Here’s why you should be watching interconnected.org/home/2023/10...

Big’s Backyard Ultra individual world championship has begun — the runners are 12 hours in and the race won’t complete for at least another 4 days/400+ miles Here’s why you should be watching interconnected.org/home/2023/10...

✈️ 20C from London LCY to Ibiza IBZ

Just a note that the US/China tariff situation makes me miserable and (personally) today it is very much tarnishing what should be a milestone to celebrate. I hope everyone steps back from the edge and realises that global trade is good for us all

writing this earlier this week really helped something click in my head, and this lens of augmented self vs augmented environment is really working for me...

AI as a ghost is pretty wonderful. It's not alive but it some how can do things that normal humans can't, yet has some fatal flaws. Stuck in pergatory or on a device. @genmon.fyi writes about this: interconnected.org/home/2025/09...

Got a new 3D printer and I’ve been printing bits for my new printer on my new printer Which makes me think about exploring the galaxy. New blog post! interconnected.org/home/2025/10...

Coral NPU, a new open platform for private edge AI and ambient sensing, targeting low power devices and wearables From Google Research with silicon from Synaptics Expect more platforms like this in the future. Ambient intelligence is coming! research.google/blog/coral-n...

I wrote about what it was like to go online for the first time 30 years ago. How hard and complicated it seemed, and then how amazing this entirely new world was. Including some extracts from my 1995 diary. www.gyford.com/phil/writing...

Got a new 3D printer and I’ve been printing bits for my new printer on my new printer Which makes me think about exploring the galaxy. New blog post! interconnected.org/home/2025/10...

Can’t count how many times I’ve played the Tron: Legacy soundtrack. Can’t remember if I’ve seen the movie

there are two visions of the future of computer interaction: cyborgs and rooms cyborgs = augmented self. AI glasses, brain-computer interfaces... the personal computer paradigm rooms = augmented environment. from smart speakers to dynamicland. ambient computing! interconnected.org/home/2025/10...

there are two visions of the future of computer interaction: cyborgs and rooms cyborgs = augmented self. AI glasses, brain-computer interfaces... the personal computer paradigm rooms = augmented environment. from smart speakers to dynamicland. ambient computing! interconnected.org/home/2025/10...

A new week - and a new huge milestone! @greenparty.org.uk now have 100,000 members!!! We are absolutely on track to next overtake the Tories - let's make hope normal again! Join.greenparty.org.uk

Very much over-sharing on the blog today interconnected.org/home/2025/10...

Very much over-sharing on the blog today interconnected.org/home/2025/10...

The age/identity verification system should be an independently run industry co-op that disburses frequently rotates anonymous tokens and publishes statistics on government warrants to connect them to real names. Nothing else shared. It worked for payments infra, would work for identity too

This week @eliotpeper.bsky.social’s new novella ENSORCELLED has been living in my jacket pocket, with me on my commutes I’m transported to a mountain lake, the wilderness in vivid 15 minute spells I was lucky enough to get an advance copy It’s out today eliotpeper.substack.com/p/ensorcelle...

We’re all agreed now that Liquid Glass is pretty good actually, right? And anyone that doesn’t like it is a joyless nerd?

This week @eliotpeper.bsky.social’s new novella ENSORCELLED has been living in my jacket pocket, with me on my commutes I’m transported to a mountain lake, the wilderness in vivid 15 minute spells I was lucky enough to get an advance copy It’s out today eliotpeper.substack.com/p/ensorcelle...

you merely adopted the dark, I was born in it, molded by it

Always about two thirds though Goblin Market, when Lizzie returns to save Laura, I regret picking this as bedtime reading for my kid, and suddenly remembering that I had the exact same feeling last time at the same point

6 months of VO2 Max I remember that aborted run on 15 Aug. Crazy fatigue out of nowhere. Training only just feeling normal again this last week

Blimey The Ballad of Wallis Island is wonderful isn’t it

Got a 3D printer and it’s DOA. I can see the misassembled part and there’s no way to fix. Support closed for Chinese holidays so a while to get it replaced too… Boooo

An objection from #RobinSloan no less! Now author etc but also in previous lives a media inventor — remember Fish? Spring ‘83? www.robinsloan.com/lab/temporar...

New blog post Why can’t I get a portrait mode TV? Here’s a plan for BBC to launch a new portrait only channel, BBC Vertical. And all the other networks too Because why not that’s why interconnected.org/home/2025/10...

Phrases never before uttered

Fizzy beef cc @beefanddairy.bsky.social

Turns out that my kid’s year 1 teacher used magpie as a verb frequently, such as “I magpied that thing you made and added it to X for my own invention,” and (a) what a great way to introduce collecting creative references and (b) so good to have a positive counterweight to “copying” as an idea

I blogged about finding a weird LLM slop file on my computer and how I want more of it interconnected.org/home/2025/09...

Not that my reckon carries any weight, but Times Higher Education asked me who I thought could possibly replace the irreplaceable Melvyn Bragg on In Our Time, and here’s what I said archive.ph/x3SBf

I blogged about finding a weird LLM slop file on my computer and how I want more of it interconnected.org/home/2025/09...

I would have saved a lot of money if I’d seen this a week ago

ONE THOUSAND MILES 🏃‍♂️

The future of AI interfaces is centered on the "Do What I Mean" (DWIM) philosophy, where systems interpret user intent directly rather than requiring precise commands or navigating complex interface bureaucracy. interconnected.org/home/2025/08...

Been hearing about Super Typhoon Ragasa. Apparently Shenzhen is better than it was and well prepped but Dongguan doesn’t have as good drainage so flooding is a risk. Rain worse than wind Thinking about my friend who was over for visits (years back) as his injection moulding supplier got flattened…