Here’s a smoll car.. uh, cat in the meanwhile
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Sometimes-photographer and video tech.
Bloody Wordpress slipped an AI assistant feature into a website I support, one where that feature is absolutely not appropriate. And there's no way to turn it off.
I'd be a lot less hostile if the choice was offered, rather than made for us.
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“Toolmen | A Working Library”
https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/toolmen
> Engaging with AI as a technology is to play the fool—it’s to observe the reflective surface of the thing without taking note of the way it sends roots deep down into the ground
Truth.
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Cry and sob hysterically at every occasion, especially when confronted by government clerks.
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Inside you there are two wolves.
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No one who cares about wildlife and ecosystems is now likely to vote Labour in 2029. Or about Gaza. Or poverty. Or inequality. Or international aid. Or corporate power. Or democratic reform. Or racism. Or trans rights. So that's goodbye to just about its entire vote. What are they playing at?
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Q&A from a talk I gave last week.
Q: "What do you think is the biggest threat in cybersecurity right now? Is it post-quantum computing? Is it AI?"
A: Fascism. It's fascism.
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Four years ago Kenmure Street in Glasgow became global news. Hundreds of people united in peaceful protest and successfully freed two men from the UK Home Office van in which they had been detained.
“…a nation that walks forward together” you could say.
https://bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/05/13/kenmure-street-not-downing-street/
What's surprising-not-surprising to me is that Labour is still trying to win over right-wing voters by echoing Farage's poisonous ramblings, as if we haven't seen this fail again and again across the world.
It's only more aggravating because this course was predicted by basically everyone before the 2024 election. You could almost set your watch by the complete capitulation of self-describing moderates and centrists to the far right.
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People think they miss manufacturing jobs. They don’t. They miss social benefits guaranteed by a union.
40 hour work week? Union won.
Worker’s comp insurance? Union won.
Overtime pay? Union won.
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This will turn away even more international students from the Uk & further harm the higher education sector.
It doesn't seem Labour has learnt anything from losses in the recent local elections.
If Labour continues to move to the right like this, expect Farage to win more.
They seem to hate the Labour left so much that they are happy to lose to the right.
Extraordinary
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If you ever think you're not great at tech, web design or use cases you're almost certainly still better than the person who built this
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How serious is the crisis in the UK university sector?
Across the sector university managers are (perhaps perversely) cutting staff as a way of trying to resolve budgetary problems, reflecting an abiding British management problem that sees staff as a cost rather than an resource that needs to be nurtured & invested in.
QMUL-UCU have been tracking announcements of staff reductions & their list suggests universities are shedding staff at an alarming rate!
#universities
https://qmucu.org/qmul-transformation/uk-he-shrinking/
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Stop all conversation when axis nationals or quislings enter a cafe.
@tomw Did a whale write this?
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Non-zero chance my **unionized**, U.S. based design systems team will be hiring a designer, an iOS engineer, and an Android engineer soon. Just FYI 🙇🏼♂️✨
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India’s repair culture gives new life to dead tech
https://www.theverge.com/tech/639126/india-frankenstein-laptops
> Singh recalls a young engineering student who visited his shop last year, desperate for a laptop to complete his coursework. “He had saved up for months but was still short of money. I put together a machine for him from spare parts, and he left with tears in his eyes. That is when you know this work matters.”
@yorkie @quixoticgeek @afewbugs augh, this was my experience too. Heavy steel bike, lots of bags, ongoing frustration with the bike coffin being used as extra storage space for other stuff. Queue of irritated people forming while the bikes are rearranged.
My bike's bars are slightly too wide for the coffin doors to close, which might actually have been a blessing because the overworked guard has better things to be doing.
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