Nighty night all. Sleep tight. www.youtube.com/watch?v=045H...

I can't compete with this.

"Sam Altman only looks confused when you ask him a moral question" 🔥 youtu.be/zwO3CKa6RuY

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.

Monday. Coffee.

Good summary from @hansardsociety.bsky.social on how today's ~the children~ Commons debate on a social media ban for <16s is, regardless of your opinion on the issue, very bad lawmaking and government, rehashing (as I've said) bad ideas which were smacked out of the OSA years ago for a reason.

Reflecting on the last quarter can be summarised by this. Again. I should know better at my age :-)

Finished this morning The Stone Canal by @amendlocke.bsky.social Excellent read, really enjoyed this 2nd in the series, the description of the balkanisation of UK/Europe, love the political mechanics of it throughout, and it's consequences into the future on planetary settlements. #booksky

Coffee.

UK arts must not be sacrificed for speculative AI gains, peers say

Friendly reminder: We're about to enter that period where the USA folk have ambled over to daylight savings before everybody else — those with calendars events pinned to USA time zones take note :-)

Heh

March's #MonthlyAlbum

Monzo doing www.theguardian.com/money/2026/m... some anti-user data research and content design

Sighing at another American author talking about "Africa" and "Europe" as if they were countries.

Another day, another skillfully hidden hallucination.

Currently being reminded why I wrote adrianhoward.com/posts/bad-pe...

I’ll be watching this all day! 😹😹😻

Two weeks until the next #BalancedTeam in the Ether — a regular free online discussion on effective cross-disciplinary work! Previously we've covered everything from framework fatigue to making room for play! Sound fun? Tickets & info > www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/balanced-t...

This book is excellent So clear and relevant. Easy to read (which is a big compliment as a dyslexic person). Bonus is it's in a font size which doesn't make me feel I need to squint or hold the page next to my face

Well… the house has electricity today… so progress!

In today’s episode of #FixTheForms, a terrific blog post from Tracey Wilson on identifying ownership of content. Absolutely all of this applies even more to forms, although in my experience identifying the ownership of forms is even harder.

love this: ai/dr

Good morning, Bluesky. Y'all wanna think about "Spirited Away" a whole lot? www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ye0...

This is my shocked face: 😐 Look, I love science fiction & desperately want many of its concepts & ideas to be real (but, y'know, w/ the sociotechnical concerns attended to because I Actually love sci-fi). But some people want sci-fi to be real so bad that they ignore obviously over-hyped bullshit

Went to check out the owl nest that is less than a block from my house. Omg, there WAS an owl in it! 😃

Nighty night all. Sleep tight. www.youtube.com/watch?v=045H...

my copyeditor holding my hand and looking me in the eyes like she's staging an intervention:

More. Coffee.

Still clinging to the weekend. No current plans to let go. #MondayMotivation

Monday. Coffee.

ELIZA wants to know and how do you feel about is it ok to go to war in Iran

I prefer to save talking till I know what I’m talking about.

Once more begging folk looking at a 9% drop in <whatever> in February compared to January — please remember how many days there are in the month. (amazing how many times this comes up when folk hand roll their dashboards & analytics :-)

broke: citing work from 2027 woke: citing work from 1987 BESPOKE: citing work from 1887 Louisa S. Cook's Geometrical psychology, or, The Science of Representation: An Abstract of the Theories and Diagrams of B. W. Betts @publicdomainrev.bsky.social publicdomainreview.org/collection/g...

Retrospective done. Day done. Week done. Done. Time for sushi & beer. Hope you're week went week. Have a good weekend y'all!

Less than three weeks until the next #BalancedTeam in the Ether — a regular free online discussion on effective cross-disciplinary work! Previously we've covered everything from async work to managing inexperienced managers! Sound fun? Free tickets & info at www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/balanced-t...

So the Telegraph is taking this well

Coffee.

Quite rare to see a chart that says quite so overtly that no one involved has the slightest clue what’s happening here

Feeling old as I see folk assume a thermostat = sensors + a little computer — rather than some neat mechanical engineering around a bimetallic strip/coil.

I'm starting to find that papers mis-cite my own papers in really, really perplexing ways. It's quite obvious why if you just go to that one hyped up tool and ask it about your own work... ChatGPT got my supervisor's name right but changed me to be a "William" (lol) and gave the wrong number

"The updated subscription pricing reflects the significant added AI value" Gee. Thanks Google Workspace. The added value of all those damn features I continually have to disable coz they foul up what I'm trying to write, suggest wildly inaccurate spreadsheet formula, and similar dipshittery. Sigh

Oh Indeed afutureworththinkingabout.com?p=5442

Coffee.

What made my day here is that they got no sympathy even on Muskrat's platform lol. And unlike Anthropic, deepseek is paying for model use when they do this, to create models that are open weight. They're showing how this entire bubble is being propped up by the equivalent of a toothpick.

but also, it's not that good at summarizing

Once more being amazed how many mission/vision statements fail two simple tests…

On anthropomorphizing language about AI, I'm pleased to say that this paper with @nannainie.bsky.social and Peter Zukerman is finally out in the world! firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph... >>

Monday. Coffee.