Anyway, we've seen this before. Please enjoy my one and only article in an academic journal, on the topic of tech billionaires forced to weep salty tears by their unstoppable personal potency hdsr.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/wz35dvpo...

“In ten days last month, the Wikimedia Foundation fired the longtime lead developer of MediaWiki and disbanded the team whose entire job was to listen to volunteers. Most of the people they fired were union organizers” medium.com/@jakeorlowit...

The secret is: you can always read them again. In my case, while I've read them all at least once, I listen to almost all of them at least once a year while I'm at work.

This by @naomialderman.bsky.social on AI therapy is vg (& includes a snippet of conversation with me). Particularly like, "We’re creating AI models out of 'everyone who’s ever typed their thoughts, in proportion to how much internet typing they’ve done'" naomialderman.substack.com/p/6795dc06-3...

After reading and re-reading pTerry’s Diskworld books for most of my life, I’m still finding things both cunningly hidden and blazingly obvious. Only just seen the pun in Mistress Tick (doh!) #diskworld #pTerry

This is good and worth reading.

Nerds assemble! I need recommendations for a speaker who can talk not only about the growth in awareness of ADHD/autism in the UK, and the importance of accommodations etc., but also the sociological aspects of underdiagnosis/stigma in women/minority communities etc. Pls repost for wider reach, ta.

Folks, I’m seeing a lot of people saying “well, company x has my biometrics/PII why should I care if company y does?” You should care about *every* company that has your data because they will eventually be compromised, and your data will be sold and exploited.

I HATE TIMED QUESTS SO MUCH

the far right is arguing we should ban brown people from being MPs and the girl guides and the WI are banning trans women from being members. the consensus opinion from those with power seems to be that offering any opposition would threaten their own position and so is, regrettably, not worth it.

I would love to play Carcassonne with tiles like these

Just wilful performative cruelty that is entirely out of step with the majority of British people. How many Labour MPs got into politics in order to vote for stealing jewellery off of people seeking refuge from war and persecution?

Manchester Metrolink marketing by, it seems, Phil Dunphy …

OK, by this logic...the surveillance of every facet of life--from comms to movement to social relationships to etc--which has become the norm over the last decades c/o the surveillance biz model, makes LE surveillance MORE possible than it's ever been in history. But somehow e2ee is the problem?

🔔 freelance researcher call At @carefultrouble.bsky.social we're looking for freelance researchers to deliver a literature search on the impacts of AI adoption, looking at worker safety, infrastructure resilience, and environmental safety www.careful.industries/blog/2025-9-...

Everyone should sign up to Holly's newsletter because this is an absolute delight. Everything about it is excellent.

Hi guys, did you already know there are competitions for window tinting? With better commentators than most of the tennis matches I’ve watched on ESPN? (Low bar I know) Anyway if you need to procrastinate harder than you’ve ever procrastinated before, I got you

You mean, create things from whole cloth without any guaranteed market or ROI? What do you think this is? Art?

This is a really great thread on generative AI use.

Aside from how on earth this will play out in the three countries that aren't England, what I find quite weird about this is how quickly senior politicians seem to forget what everyday life is like and how to use everyday words.

New blog post from me on what AI is and isn't, and why we all have a democratic duty to do some myth busting before the dreaded management sci-fi comes to get us www.careful.industries/blog/2025-4-...

Women's appearance and behaviour is about to get even more highly policed in the UK, with a few people doubtless being emboldened to "take action". This whole billionaire-funded enterprise dials back gender equity by decades.

The UK paperback of "The Husbands" is out! Today!! May I buy your momentary attention for it with a beautiful cat (yellow is the US/Canada edition, out last week; blue is UK, turquoise is a UK indie bookshop special edition)

6ft 4 cis woman loses her job at Walmart because of trans witch-hunt. Woman was followed into the staff bathroom by an anti-trans male, who called her names and threatened violence. When Wal-Mart found out, they fired HER.

Thinking about why public services should not be designed in the same way as private-sector ones. I've 5 points so far: (1) CHOICE: with v few exceptions, we get to choose the private-sector digital services we use but most public services need to be universal at the point of access (1/n)

Yesterday a group of us put our heads together to think about the questions that should be asked of Starmer's plans for AI in government - you might have seen this nod to it in Politico this morning. These are for journalists, politicians, and anyone with an interest in pro-democracy tech (1/3)

Going through the National Museum in Oslo, I came across this doorway in the modern art galleries. It stood out from the classic “white cube” gallery and hinted at some kind of immersive installation piece. When I got closer, I saw it was by an artist I’d wanted to see for a long time: Ilya Kabakov

I really liked this guy noticing that Dua Lipa is great at interviewing authors. youtu.be/QN1rULxGHCA

Great piece, and I love to see it covered on a video game site!

Choose 20 plays that have stayed with you or influenced you. One play per day for 20 days, in no particular order No explanations, no reviews, just a cover or poster. #TheatreSky Day 1

🌈☎️🩷THANK YOU FOR CALLING THE LESBIAN LINE cover reveal!🌈☎️🩷 I can’t wait for readers to meet the women who worked & called the Lesbian Line, & discover the brilliant, ordinary queer women who found community & joy in its service & who helped me figure out what being a lesbian means to me 🩷 #booksky

Truly brilliant and awful

this is wonderful aworkinglibrary.com/writing/unif...?

I'd believe you without question if you told me this was the new cast of Death In Paradise. #BakeOff #gbbo

Well, good morning, I have thoughts about the internet. www.wrecka.ge/against-the-...

Let’s run the government like a business, drive the car like a bicycle, and play the guitar like a piano

What you doing for Christmas? PLEASE SHARE! thank you 🎄❤️ 🎄 youtu.be/Dx8o88Hpuzc?... bit.ly/40X4hKy #TheChristmasDinners #LemnSissay #GoldFromTheStone

Bluesky currently lacks: 1) private lists, 2) ability to make someone unfollow you without blocking them. 1) is about usability,but (2) is about common sense AND safety. @bsky.app

Hey theatre and live events peeps. Has anyone got a starter pack they can recommend?

A DISCWORLD PRIMER* *or, why should I read this thing that everyone keeps going on about? Come on in, sit down, pull up a chair. If you have followup questions, feel free to ask me or @ankhmorporkcity.watch, we're always happy to help. (1/a lot, idk, we'll figure this out as we go)

This @adalovelaceinst.bsky.social paper by Anna Studman and Mavis Machiori on local govt procurement of AI is vg and points to a fundamental chicken and egg problem of procurement www.adalovelaceinstitute.org/report/spend...

Meeting at BBC accessibility: where shall we put the subtitles? OVER THE FUCKING SCORE OBVIOUSLY

building a tech product & giving it away for free can just about work financially, if the marginal cost of giving it away is close enough to zero. but it totally doesn't work if the marginal cost is actually appreciable. and yet everyone assumes stuff is gonna be free!

Hey did you know: Saltsea Chronicles is STEAM DECK VERIFIED ✅ ✨ Our new story-driven adventure game comes out real soon! Oct 12th! ⛵ From the studio who brought you MUTAZIONE. A flooded-world story driven adventure game where you play as a ship's whole crew… saltseachronicles.com

I'd add some of Iain M. Banks' Culture books. Some form a series, but some are self-contained and on balance, they're relatively positive as to a future for humanity (with some grim stuff obviously, eggs, omelettes and all that). The ship Minds are really fun, in an offbeat way.

I don’t think it can be emphasized enough that large language models were never intended to do math or know facts; literally all they do is attempt to sound like the text they’re given, which may or may not include math or facts. They don’t do logic or fact checking — they’re just not built for that