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Dr David Hunt @atypicaldavid.online · 03/03/2026

Wordy, or Word·y, or WORD·Y (I haven't quite decided)... Anyway, it's a word puzzle game I recently created. Still in beta, I would love some feedback. One word. Three connections. Find them all to solve the Y. #Wordy #WordGames

word-y.com

Word·y - The Daily Word Connection Game

Find the missing link that connects words in a Y-shape pattern. Play free daily puzzles and track your streak.

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

2025: A WordPress plug-in accidentally pushes something to live - the chair of a national institution resigns OpenAI intentionally release products to a mass market that includes errors, manipulations and stolen material - cool, cool Is this how it works? www.theguardian.com/business/202...

The report found that the OBR had uploaded its budget documents to a link which it believed to be inaccessible to the public. However, because the organisation was using a particular add-on to the WordPress publishing system, the link ended up being live, unbeknownst to the OBR itself.

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Neil Williams @neillyneil.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

25 years of agile software development and the media still can't grasp the basics of launching products early so they can be iterated to meet real user needs. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

theguardian.com

Gov.uk smartphone app to launch with limited functionality

First version steers users to existing webpages, with AI chatbot, notifications and digital driving licences to follow

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

This is well worth reading on the human labour involved in reinforcement learning

DeepSeek’s latest model is completely reliant on these data
workers, despite the company’s emphasis on “reinforcement
learning”. Unlike supervised learning, which follows an ex
ante approach—training models with pre-tagged data before
deployment—reinforcement learning works ex post, correcting
outputs through rewards and penalties. In theory, this reduces
the need for data workers.
In practice, however, reinforcement learning neither
revolutionizes AI training nor significantly cuts labor costs.
While it may lessen dependence on pre-labeled datasets, it
still requires human oversight, as annotators must provide
feedback on model outputs. Even when users casually upvote
or downvote a chatbot’s response, they unknowingly
contribute to this process—unpaid and uncredited.
DeepSeek may promise labor-saving automation, but, like all
AI models, it runs on human toil.

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Dr David Hunt @atypicaldavid.online · 05/02/2025

Anthropic, of claude.ai fame, is asking job applicants not to use genAI in their applications to work at Anthropic. www.ft.com/content/9b1e...

ft.com

Anthropic: ‘Please don’t use AI’

🎶 I just want something to hold on to / and a little of that human touch 🎶

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Imogen Parker @imogen-parker.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Great to see this out in the open. Dropping AI pilots isn't a bad thing. It underscores the importance of testing new tech before rolling them out. Particularly in welfare, where the risks of amplifying inequalities and causing real world harm are significant. But... (1/5) tinyurl.com/6tn2r24x

theguardian.com

AI prototypes for UK welfare system dropped as officials lament ‘false starts’

Exclusive: Pilots for staff training, jobcentres and speeding up disability benefit payments not being taken up

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Dr David Hunt @atypicaldavid.online · 22/01/2025

This was my concern after seeing the trailers/reviews. I suspect they thought of the title first. There are more interesting/niche defined numbers. Perfect numbers are ripe for "The Perfect Crime". Or Mersenne primes — "The Mersenne-ary"? There must be others.

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Dr David Hunt @atypicaldavid.online · 21/01/2025

Today's announcement of the blueprint for modern digital government includes a welcome focus on agile, user-centric service design as a cornerstone of transformation.

gov.uk

A blueprint for modern digital government (HTML)

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Dr David Hunt @atypicaldavid.online · 08/01/2025

Hard to believe it's 2025 and I still come across digital developers and agencies seemingly unfamiliar with WCAG guidelines or even general accessibility principals.

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Peyman Milanfar @docmilanfar.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

2025 is … a perfect square 45 x 45 = 2025. a sum of cubes: 1³ + 2³ + 3³ + ... + 9³ = 2025 a perfect square when you add 1 to each digit: 3136 = 56² a perfect square when you increase the first digit by 1: 3025 = 55² Maybe the only number with all these properties

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Dr David Hunt @atypicaldavid.online · 18/12/2024

Eric Morecambe dying. I was at my grandparents house, and interrupted their dinner to inform them of the news.

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Dr David Hunt @atypicaldavid.online · 02/12/2024

@schreiberland.bsky.social I'm seeking a reference for the conspiracy theory that the Titanic sank due to too many time travellers, but all I can find are ones about Jack Dawson from the movie being a time traveller. Am I remembering correctly that you mentioned the former theory in a past Fish?

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

New edition of Just enough Internet just landed in inboxes. This one on how non-technical people actually appear to be using generative AI at work. buttondown.com/justenoughin...

buttondown.com

FOMO is not a strategy

End of year reflections on how people are using genAI at work

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Sharon O'Dea @sharonodea.com · 26/11/2024

Lots of orgs are trialling Microsoft Copilot, but few share results. Vendors offer glowing case studies, but what about the, err, less glowing ones? That’s why I was excited to see a public study from the Office of Digital Government Western Australia. So let's get stuck in shall we? A 🧵...

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Dr David Hunt @atypicaldavid.online · 21/11/2024

Does anyone know if starting a post with a handle is like a reply, or just like a normal post on Bluesky? Also, are they just called posts here? Someone said they're skeets, but I hate it so no thank you ta.

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Dr David Hunt @atypicaldavid.online · 20/11/2024

It's not right to take a hard line on "genAI wrote your application" because, as @jiggott.bsky.social and others note in this thread, any potential "tells" are phrases that a real person may actively choose to use. You can't dismiss an application on that basis alone.

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Dr David Hunt @atypicaldavid.online · 20/11/2024

Really liking the Feeds feature here. "Popular With Friends" is a great way to discover new people to follow. bsky.app/feeds

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Ed Conway @edconway.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

🧵SALT🧵 It's been snowing in the UK and the road gritters are out in force, begging the question: Have you ever wondered where that grit actually COMES from? The answer is more magical, beautiful and fascinating than you probably realised. 1/14

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Dr David Hunt @atypicaldavid.online · 19/11/2024

We are here for you but don't you dare reply to us.

Screenshot of the top of an email to me from Essex & Suffolk Water. The subject line reads, "We are here for you this winter... [NO REPLY]".

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Just a reminder that there is absolutely no imperative to follow loads of terrible people who make you feel sad so you get a rounded view of things. Terrible people are likely to be *more terrible* if they also think they are popular.

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Dr David Hunt @atypicaldavid.online · 19/11/2024

"The leadership team ... share a conviction that working in the office is important for creativity, collaboration, problem solving, performance and engagement." What's always missing from this statement and others like it? Oh that's right: the evidence. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

theguardian.com

Starling Bank staff resign after new chief executive calls for more time in-office

Exclusive: Staff complain Raman Bhatia is creating ‘grey corporate hellscape’ and offices already lack desk space

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Because I did something wrong in a previous life, I'm spending my Saturday afternoon reading the Industrial Strategy and, guys, can we just agree to have a moriatorium on "unleashed" and "unleashing" when talking about "the potential" of innovation? DOGS ARE ON LEADS, INNOVATION IS NOT

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Dr David Hunt @atypicaldavid.online · 02/09/2024

I had high hopes of my first ever Bluesky post somehow poetically mirroring my first ever tweet, so eagerly delved back into my now-dormant account to discover what pearls of wisdom I leapt onto the scene with. To quote the Man in Black: get used to disappointment.

Screenshot of my first tweet, from 20 January 2012, 6.16pm: "Saw more diamonds that I've ever seen in one place today at the V&A Museum #GetSherlock"

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