Former network cable rustler, now underwater robot wrangler. Founder member of the Union of Modern Luddites. "AI" is terrible for people and the planet.
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You can host your own using home assistant and BirdNet-Go (github.com/tphakala/bir...) without any cloud services required.
This is some of the hardest shit I've seen in my life
In China, they've built a 35-meter plexiglass sphere full of 20,000 tonnes of a strange liquid, 700 meters underground, to measure the entries in a certain 3×3 matrix. It's gonna be great. mathstodon.xyz/@johncarlosb...
We Have AI Now www.youtube.com/shorts/8-lgJ...
Astronomers have found a truly huge black hole, 36 billion times heavier than the Sun, in a galaxy that has eaten all its neighbors. And that's a peek into our own future. First our galaxy will hit Andromeda.... johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2025/08/16/t...
It makes me happy that Mars has water, like this fog in Vallis Marineris - a canyon 10 times longer, 20 times wider and 5 times deeper than the Grand Canyon. Just a foggy day down there!
The original post is lost in time but I'll paraphrase; Apple Maps: Our elite team of cartographers has hand crafted this route for you - 17 minutes. Google Maps: The shortest route - 15 minutes. Wazes: Cut through this guy's back garden - 12 minutes.
It's still £44k (plus change) in Scotland.
Cooled off to 17 (65) here at 11pm but a lovely 85% to really make it feel close.
Patiently waiting... 👀😅🤣 #dog #dogday #bluesky #turtle
That Trivago advert running in the UK right now has some serious uncanny valley shit going on with the AI modified mouths (I guess used when they dubbed the language). Hate it.
I think you're right, found this on some fishing website, it's supposed to be dissolvable PVA mesh with bait inside. The spongy balls could be what's left of boilies (normally carp fishing, but who knows!)
Devon, England.
Berger's three laws of chatbotics: 1) The bot should never express emotions. 2) The bot should never praise the user. 3) The bot should never say it understands the user's mental state. There's no use case for these things, and they're obviously problematic. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/t...
My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com
The the first book I bought from Amazon in 1999 (Neuromancer by @greatdismal.bsky.social ) back when they were just a book seller has that smell and the pages have that slightly brown appearance with age now.
bsky.app/profile/rich... I loved this post from a few months back where someone found a real life Mr Benn shop in Switzerland...
Today is the 47th anniversary of this clearly unimprovable photo, from a story so absurd that it shouldn’t be true, but is: the day a team of workers from British Waterways pulled the plug out of the Chesterfield Canal, and all the water emptied out
This is from the front page of today’s Sunday Telegraph and suggests that the ol’ UK Online Safety Act’s Age Verification wheeze is turning out to be a big old car crash where Ministers blame tech for the consequences of their own stupid law.
I have lived with several Zen masters -- all of them cats. Eckhart Tolle
Newsletter: In a media landscape dominated by algorithmic feeds that aim to manipulate and extract, sometimes the most radical thing you can do is choose to read what you want, when you want, without anyone watching over your shoulder. Here’s how to use RSS. www.citationneeded.news/curate-with-...
Why not? Let’s do this. One like, one opinion that’s not on politics.
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And you would need a toilet paper subscription for their paper service with DRM to prevent other brands of... Hang on, I've got an idea 🤔
there are so many great things about generative AI! here are some of my favorites <3
The cake is "Scone", whereas the town in Scotland is most definitely "Scone".
Switched two years ago, no regrets. Ubuntu 24 has been very easy to get the hang of.
⚡️COMING TO PC TOMORROW⚡️ Get ready to step into 1980’s London and discover a mysterious world of paranormal puzzles, restless spirits and ancient magic, wishlist now! 👻(www.bit.ly/GhostTown_SteamVR) #vr #vrgaming #steam #steamvr #ghosttown #wishlist
We are back! #C64 www.commodore.net The first official Commodore 64 in over 30 years is here - a faithful recreation of the original motherboard on FPGA hardware. HDMI, WiFi, USB, but compatible with every existing cartridge and peripheral. Not an emulator - a recreation. Same price as my first $299
Why does this still look kinda fun though 😭
📷 Cracking shot by George Kelsey of the Water of Leith otter he calls "Scarface." 👏 #otter #waterofleith #EdinburghWildlife
'Take the Third Reich'
They should align the tax rate/bands in England and Wales with those currently in Scotland.
Astronomers may have just discovered the third interstellar object passing through the Solar System! ESA’s Planetary Defenders are observing the object, provisionally known as #A11pl3Z, right now using telescopes around the world.
I imagined the Chatsubo in 1984. 41 years later I opened its door. Neuromancer is in production.
Hire this man
Help us save our Forgotten Forests! 🌳 40% of precious ancient woodland has been converted to plantation forests. 🌲 It's not too late to rescue these irreplaceable woodlands. Can you help? 🌱 Ask Scottish Government to rescue our #ForgottenForests 👉 buff.ly/pFPzNJm
Interesting: All world cities ranked according to the quality of their cycle network cityratings.peopleforbikes.org/ratings
I went to a nightclub like that in 1995, instead of hearing the music it just rhythmically rearranged your internal organs while distorting your eyesight. You couldn't put a drink down anywhere as it simply bounced off on to the floor.
If you didn't know this already have a fact to brighten your day. This is my cat Boris when he played Jones in Aliens. He was picked because he would hiss on camera because he was not a nice guy.
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Boys, oh boys... I think he's come back for his noon feeding. #Jaws50
If you were 21 when Definitely Maybe was released you're 52 now...
I told you we’d be back
Fexophenadine was a game changer for me. First got it in Oz before it was over the counter in the UK (Alevia) and it not only works, it's the only one that doesn't knock me sideways like Zirtec or Claratin used to do.
I’ve never forgotten this picture from 2016 and how it completely reshaped my understanding of how the media covers protests.
"Nothing in here Bob, maybe you should order some delicious McDonalds™ from Just-Eat™ instead."
Fantastic news! The Minister has heeded our plea to hit pause on the controversial "Flamingoland" development at Loch Lomond. 👏 👉 buff.ly/RNwPX54 🧵 1/3
The opposite of fine dining?
Time to Old Yeller the business. Let it go bust, government steps in to continue operations. No buyout of shareholders (yes, even the pension investments) full bankruptcy and full loss to investors.
I'm not familiar with x-rays, but does your throat/wind pipe normally swing off the the right (patients right) as it appears here? Heart too far to the centre of chest?
PSA as we quickly approach tomato season, the most beautiful season of all: store your tomatoes stem-side down to make them last literal weeks longer please don't refrigerate your tomatoes ♥️
Elon threatening to just leave people on the ISS is making a pretty good case for why you nationalize your space program!
Morning all. Today is Sheffield Wednesday. And here are some House Martins, so happy hour all round. Have a nice day. xx 🪶 #ukbirding
Celestia mobile 1.8.2 for Android devices has been released. This update includes content updates, better temperature calculation, revisions and corrections, and other minor changes. Full changelog and download available on GitHub
Today is the 91st anniversary of the last diary entry of the first man who tried to climb Everest solo. Mind you, his plan had been to crash land a plane 14,000 feet up and then stroll the rest of the way, so perhaps he wasn’t destined to succeed
This photo of magnetic core memory popped up, taken by Ansel Adams. I investigated a bit: this memory holds 4000 bits, each stored in a tiny magnetized ferrite ring. It may be from an IBM 705 vacuum-tube business computer. 1/N
Dormers, chimneys and little spires with weather vanes get added automatically when building roofs. E.g., spires are added when all roofs meet in one point, dormers when you build a wall extending partially up a roof. Looking forward to adding lots of little details like this!
I'm sure they'll be as tolerated in public as when someone walked into your local bar wearing a pair of these...
Any story about Gazza is an excuse to post the legendary picture of him and Vinnie.
my hope is that AI can empower the Dumbest, Least talented slobs i know to replace everything i ever loved with One Million Years of Content
lite.cnn.com Is a refreshing change for news.
Elite on a BBC Micro ... It was 3D!
welcome to the future, now your error-prone software can call the cops (this is an Anthropic employee talking about Claude Opus 4)
I've spent *years* researching 3D Platformer Cameras in hopes of making Slime 64's camera "not terrible." In this thread, the White Cylinder is the Camera Target (slightly above the player!), and the Orange Cones represent the "vertical dead zone" where the camera won't follow player movement.
When the oven and fridge both stopped working at the same time (suspicious as should be on separate circuits) in a rental flat led us to find that the entire kitchen was wired off the light switch... (The fuse wire for which had been wound with copper wire)
i feel compelled to remind everyone that chatgpt/LLMs are functionally the *opposite* of an actual expert. the more your problems are unusual or novel, the more likely LLMS are to be wrong. they are least helpful when it's most important
No, I believe this is the original post; bsky.app/profile/anth...
LLM's are 'average' machines, the more unique your query/problem the less accurate they will be.
This is so fucking good
🚨SICK GAME JUST LAUNCHED🚨 a game where you play a cute spider, cause chaos and solve tasks - build super big physics-based spider webs - ride a fingerboard (!!) - ride a soap - fix a printer - build a rocket - make toast details below
The #LochArkaig Pine Forest #Volunteer Programme is here! Join Arkaig Community Forest & WTS on 24 May to remove beech saplings that will soon suffocate native flora. Meet: Clunes Forest School, PH34 4EJ at 10am No experience needed. 8+ years welcome. Biscuits provided! Register: tr.ee/Opg98v 🌱🌿
Stanislav Petrov, the man who saved the world, died on this day in 2017. If you don’t know the story, just read this www.theguardian.com/world/2017/s...
Hey artists! 👋 That art share you’re hosting belongs in a museum! 💙 We’re building a little game that lets you link a Bluesky feed or post and it will display your images in an art gallery. Just like Bluesky, it hides posts for logged-out viewers if you have visibility off. 🙂 #screenshotsaturday
bsky.app/profile/unra... 👀
Fixing bugs today and enjoying the sun ☀️
I managed one shot of the cotton candy cumulonimbus before darker, low-level clouds slid into the top of the frame. It was a gorgeous, surreal moment to see rain still falling over the east side of downtown, while fluffy pink clouds and blue sky belied the strength of the storm still in progress
A shame Queen never got one, I'd go with The Prophet's Song. youtu.be/HzdjMLKKdgk?...
GenX childhood in the UK was this basically;
Hey, we may not be big, but we are at least respect... Oh. Oh, right. Carry on.
