The battle for the left between greens and labour is going to tear your friendship groups and family part. My advice is stay out of it with the line, "I'm going to vote for whichever left-ish party has a chance of winning in my local area, based on polls just before the election."

for the sake of argument this Star Wars Day - surely some of the appeal of cinema scifi comes from the transportative novelty of the production design, which comparatively lower-budget TV shows can't easily compete with (though Dr Who & Star Treks use various techniques to try)? @robmanuel.b3ta.com

#OnThisDayInNTK:2001 ntk.net/2001/04/27/?... @edfelten.bsky.social et al defeat audio watermarks, silenced by RIAA Lucozade renamed Lara(Croft)-zade "Large Global Anti-Capitalism Protests Put Smaller, Local Protests Out Of Business" web.archive.org/web/20010603... & "..one Cheggers made earlier"

This makes me so angry. Honestly think it should be illegal. Losing millions, and every so often asking the public to fund your large salaries for the next while, with no financials even provided. And others: www.reddit.com/r/crowdcube/...

I'm speaking on the 26th of April (tomorrow!!) at www.oggcamp.org in Manchester speaking about my much loved Open Source Design Diary studies project! which you can read here: github.com/sprblm/Diary... #oggcamp #oggcamp26 #oss #opensource #opensourcedesign

#OnThisDayInNTK:2001 ntk.net/2001/04/20/?... netimperative.com & Attachments' in-show site web.archive.org/web/20110725... battle on longer than expected + following en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sho... comic Bob Mills gets 2nd series of similarly Larry Sanders-y BOB MARTIN: youtu.be/lR5ZWi0F4Jw

3 sentence horror story

Train tickets booked for #oggcamp 😃 Hope to see lots of you there. I'll try to bring random electronics for the swap shop. Weekend tickets still available on https://www.oggcamp.org/

Get your schooling on resisting Big Tech empires next Saturday from @globaljusticenow.bsky.social with @doctorow.pluralistic.net and others This is not one to miss 👇👇

#OnThisDayInNTK:2001 ntk.net/2001/04/13/?... Higgs "Bosun" ahoy! ntk.net/2001/04/13/d... (perhaps deliberately?) cheesy promo Alt Reality Game for Spielberg A.I. movie legacy.aintitcool.com/node/8659 & Nazi shows may lose ratings battle, say media analysts... "but zey vill vin - ZE WAR!"

had to go back to Twitter, wasn't as bad you'd expect?

former Tory defence minister Tobias Ellwood is still doing his quote about "It will cost each taxpayer roughly the price of a cappuccino a day" ...like he's asking Britons to set up a charity direct debit, or to crowdfund unexpected medical expenses for a pet www.the-express.com/news/world-n...

Your Kindle's not obsolete, it just needs a jailbreak — and I'll show you how it's done You can transform your old Kindle — even a bricked device — into the ultimate open-source reader. Here's how. www.zdnet.com/article/your...

#OnThisDayInNTK:2001 ntk.net/2001/04/06/?... RMS' odd behaviour fairly well-known 22 years ago zork.net/pipermail/cr... gamers conned by bargain deals - on PlayStation 2 Harlan Ellison's anti-piracy campaign - "I Have No Caps Lock Key, And I Must Scream" web.archive.org/web/20010418...

I've just had an amazing idea

The quality of photos from Artemis II of the moon surface is incredible to witness in real time.

In his grave at Golgotha, Lord Jesus waits dreaming

#OnThisDayInNTK:2001 ntk.net/2001/03/30/?... Mike Magee quits @theregister.com, launches The Inquirer (later sold to VNU) web.archive.org/web/20050502... not an April Fool - Avon quits Blake's 7: The Movie hermit.org/Blakes7/news... & state-of-the-art JS encryption: web.archive.org/web/20010216...

Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/b...

always good for indie game devs to have a "unique" PR angle, although...

#OnThisDayInNTK:2001 ntk.net/2001/03/23/ debut mentions of: no free Tacos for deorbiting Mir web.archive.org/web/20010405... the Ted Nelson-esque nongnu.org/gzz/ Bandle Bobble remix.kwed.org/files/RKOfil... Open Firmware anthem www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8Wy... & Foot & Mouth vs - Jerry & Margo?

london! @jbrew.bsky.social will be hosting robot karaoke among other awesome shows (shouts out to algorave!) on friday at this london games festival event www.vam.ac.uk/event/Wl9jvz...

taking pleasure when bad things happen to ai is called claudenfreude

Poem of the day from the East Anglian Daily Times.

#OnThisDayInNTK:2001 ntk.net/2001/03/16/?... Cheltenham cancelled, election postponed & 6m culled by viral outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease - was Pope to blame? web.archive.org/web/20010406... & who said it - Eric S Raymond's dating tips, or The Eagle's "Doomlord"? catb.org/~esr/writing...

D...did Marc just leak his system prompt?

Sorkin's done some great things, but this looks like a remake of his Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip?

#OnThisDayInNTK:2001 ntk.net/2001/03/09/?... BBC tracking a "web bug" news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tec... pursuing a "cyberwoozle" news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/busines... chasing (the same?) web bug news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tec... & Craig Charles/ Jeremy Clarkson sadly not available to host youtu.be/VjxtXau0924

We want to hear from campaign & advice organisations who work in #Wales! We'd like to hear your experiences, so we can learn more about helping people get the right message to the right representative on #WriteToThem. Please pass this on to any suitable orgs: www.mysociety.org/democracy/ma...

#OnThisDayInNTK: 2001 ntk.net/2001/03/02/?... 1st (often last) mentions of: Claude Shannon RIP the Isle of Man's very own Data Protection Registrar ...vs the battle to be London's official vampire slayer rationalwiki.org/wiki/Se%C3%A... & Unlambda + Erlang:

reposting for - relative - topicality...

sounds like a fun event, especially if attendees all greet each other with the now-traditional: "...Do you remember Acorn Computers? The company designed and delivered the first ARM chip and the BBC Micro!"

#OnThisDayInNTK:2001 ntk.net/2001/02/23/?... debut mentions of: "All Your Base" meme - vs Iraq's no-fly zone taner.net/AYB/allyourb... Bearshare/Limewire Prime-like? ZapItOver (née WapItOver) .com Wales' en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jester_... & Barcelona's ever-catchy youtu.be/PWVGdMPuwVo

I wrote a brief thing about Rob Grant: profadamroberts.substack.com/p/rob-grant

#OnThisDayInNTK:2001 ntk.net/2001/02/16/?... Future Publishing closes MP3 Magazine, Arcade, Cult TV & "Connect" (us neither) maybe try Ruby while waiting for Perl 6 aka Raku, due around 2015? & early days of "Copyright Infringements @milmillington.bsky.social / @dailymail.co.uk Have Argued About"

although: is Kind Hearts and Coronets arguably a toned down version of the novel it's loosely based on - Israel Rank: The Autobiography of a Criminal (1907)?

Everyone's talking about wuthering heights but no one wants to acknowledge the very real risk of wuthering lows

#OnThisDayInNTK:2001 ntk.net/2001/02/09/?... a young(ish) Julian Assange proposes crypto to confound - at-the-time-theoretical - captors web.archive.org/web/20010308... Arnie "ponders" California governor bid ...neither quite as frightening as - you've guessed it: web.archive.org/web/20010207...

A Three Thing Day is happening threely this month: 12/2: Hen & Chickens Theatre Bar London N1 19/2: @oldwoollen.bsky.social Farsley W.Yorks 27/2: Tom Thumb Theatre Margate It's a comedy concerning affinity, vertigo and phone reception and is smart, warming and weird. Tixdeets via Linktree in Bio.

In-person tickets for FOI Fest have almost sold out, so act now if you are hoping to join us in London: pretix.eu/mysociety/fo... (online spaces are limitless, but still a good idea to book now while you're thinking of it!). #FOI #freedomofinformation

#OnThisDayInNTK:2001 ntk.net/2001/02/02/?... @billt.bsky.social backs Net Proficiency Test web.archive.org/web/20010419... final mention of Erich von Daniken - currently residing in the Was God An Astronaut? file & KPMG herald new "golden age" of dire CORPORATE ANTHEMS youtube.com/watch?v=NCvK...

I'm co-hosting this talk by science fiction writer Joan Slonczewski, this Saturday at Frontier Tower in SF! Don't miss it! luma.com/minds-in-tra... #SanFrancisco #ScienceFiction #AI #BioPunk

#OnThisDayInNTK:2001 ntk.net/2001/01/26/?... quirky h2g2.com Wikipedia-alike sold to BBC, resold in 2011 to "the owners of Lycos Chat" debut mentions of: Bonsai Kitten @bruces.bsky.social's Viridian @theregister.com's society/gossip correspondent Kieren McCarthy & SchNEWS hassled by [its own] PCs

similarly, the entry for @danny.spesh.com feels compelled to include "his [...] presenting role in 1999 on the single episode of Doors to Manual" - it was actually a series: grokipedia.com/page/Danny_O... ...yet omits "introduced Stewart Lee to internet in 1988" www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhJx...

#OnThisDayInNTK:2001 ntk.net/2001/01/19/?... MI6 memoir The Big Breach published in Russia, then confusingly in UK by directory-enquiries dissidents 192 .com inventor of then-unannounced Segway aims to manage expectations zdnet.com/article/inve... & "My God, it's full of stars!"

a) most people on BSky think they're temporarily-underrecognised creative millionaires, & b) we're only 2-5 years from this Eno quote applying to the current artefacts of generative AI?

#OnThisDayInNTK:2001 ntk.net/2001/01/12/?... final mentions of: RedHotAnt unmetered (/illegal) ISP DoBeDo Island Terry's Chocolate Raspberry Indigo Children 3D0 Magazine web.archive.org/web/20000824... hahabonk .com designweek.co.uk/issues/11-ma... & RMS' intergenerational grudge-bearing skills:

ditto this salacious weekly invitation - "They've left you all alone in the living room, which means it must be time to..."