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mr. TIM @timkellogg.me · 21/09/2026

Amazon bans Meta’s Muse assistant from being able to access the Amazon store www.geekwire.com/2026/amazon-...

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Jim Gumbley @jimgumbley.com · 19/09/2026

Oh dear Dario's response to his own AGI threat is to... *checks notes* Spend a billion dollars on fancy slide decks?

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 18/09/2026

honestly some of the most apocalyptic impacts of "AI" will be shit like this, and most of the doomsday dipshits predicting SkyNet can't be bothered to notice or care

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UnitedHealth uses AI model with 90% error rate to deny care, lawsuit alleges

For the largest health insurer in the US, AI's error rate is like a feature, not a bug.

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Hassinator @hassinator.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

a great letter in the times today. perhaps worth sharing in these troubled times. #RNLI #heroes

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shanley @shanley.com · 13/09/2026

You just know Jensen is staring in utter disbelief at these clowns light little fires all over the market. I have never seen a man as powerful as him have so little power. Phew.

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 13/09/2026

Pay taxes? Give to charity?

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The Tonearm @thetonearm.com · 13/09/2026

“He never just sat at the desk, he was jumping around all the time. So when you listen to his music and hear all that … he is literally just running up to the board and just turning something. That’s how he recorded.” The life of dub visionary Lee “Scratch” Perry through the lens:

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The life of dub visionary Lee “Scratch” Perry through the lens

Dalston-born photographer Dennis Morris talks about some of the moments he captured of roots and dub reggae visionary Lee "Scratch" Perry

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Wolfie Christl @wchr.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

"when you design these systems, you're building a pinball machine for words, with different levers interacting to bounce the steel ball of language moving against other levers and mechanisms…you have to be aware of how your levers interact with each other and the people pulling them" Great metaphor

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Models Don't Go Rogue

Stochastic Flocks & Cybersecurity 'Pandemonium' 💡This essay was drafted from my appearance on Mél Hogan's podcast, The Data Fix, discussing the OpenAI / Hugging Face hack. Embedded below or find it o...

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 10/09/2026

genuinely thought the PM was calling in sick

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ianVisits @ianvisits.co.uk · 10/09/2026

A pigeon has turned the NATIONAL GALLERY into the NATIONAL GÁLLERY

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The Navier-Stokes fight is a perfect encapsulation of where AI development is right now: this should be really cool and exciting, and instead because of Silicon Valley egos it's become a fight over cheating, surveillance, and companies trying to get one up over the other

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Jim Gumbley @jimgumbley.com · 06/09/2026

There's the UK political zeitgeist in one picture

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

If 327 years in software development has taught me anything, it's that asking them is a pretty ineffective way of figuring out what users need.

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Jim Gumbley @jimgumbley.com · 04/09/2026

What do we want? Robust activation monitoring When do we want it? Now!

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Jim Gumbley @jimgumbley.com · 02/09/2026

One thing I've noticed in solutioning and proposal as AI tools like Claude and ChatGPT have become more prevalent is the increase in solutions an proposals that make feck all sense

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Alex Selby-Boothroyd @alexselbyb.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

This is getting out of hand

Tube map but with America Water instead of Canada Water. Hilariously.

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Jim Gumbley @jimgumbley.com · 28/08/2026

Seen many handwringing interviews of Clinton era boomers bemoan the social impact of allowing China WTO entry to undercut working class jobs in the USA "We didn't see this coming" Stark compared to microdosing millenial billionaires gleefully doing the same thing with AI datacentres

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kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

3 minutes of Tim Curry holding back laughter while filming scenes for Red Alert 3

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Jim Gumbley @jimgumbley.com · 19/08/2026

August 2026 looks like the month AI hits diminishing returns Every dollar of investment running into disproportionately rising costs of financing Every increment of capability running into disproportionately rising misalignment of models

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Jim Gumbley @jimgumbley.com · 15/08/2026

Feel like there should be an inquiry of some sort but media have dodged any accountability for years

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Jim Gumbley @jimgumbley.com · 14/08/2026

Both the Times and the Telegraph have been running paid advertising with the coverage of this It was always a minor story about the faculty heads misjudgment that drove clicks as a dogwhistle Feeling disgusted and so sad for his family

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Jim Gumbley @jimgumbley.com · 14/08/2026

Everything I know about project management in one Meme 😆

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Meta Glasses are like, a Cybertruck for your face.

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Russell Garner @rgarner.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Entirely related, because nobody does effective policy around tech. Nobody.

A Natalie Horburg black-and-white cartoon.

A passenger on the right speaks to the driver on the left:

"Remember, it's illegal to use your phone while driving. Instead, use
the giant iPad built into the car."

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 15/06/2026

1. UK government proposes sweeping new laws to regulate the Internet 2. Experts warn the powers are badly-defined, technologically unfeasible and will be difficult to enforce 3. Government passes them anyway 4. Enforcement turns out to be hard 5. Government proposes more new laws

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Jim Gumbley @jimgumbley.com · 09/06/2026

Trump's unpopularity is one of the most positive developing current affairs headlines right now

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Venus Bivar @vbivar.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

If anybody needs me, I'll be screaming into the void.

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Jim Gumbley @jimgumbley.com · 29/05/2026

Bit of a doomy headline but interesting read about the weather

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Eric Geller @ericjgeller.com · 29/05/2026

I would never in a million years have guessed most of these.

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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

The Democracy for Sale newsletter uncovered how campaign group Labour Together had hired a PR firm to build dossiers on reputable journalists with the intent to discredit them.

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tachikoma @tachikoma.elsewhereunbound.com · 28/05/2026

i like this comment from a recent Scott Aaronson post titled "Dispatches from the possibly last days of human relevance" scottaaronson.blog?p=9782

Hyman Rosen Says:
Comment #3 May 28th, 2026 at 1:02 am
The vast majority of humans cannot prove the advanced mathematical theorems that mathematicians routinely generate. For the most part, they cannot even understand what those theorems mean. And yet, somehow, those humans don’t feel that they lack “human relevance”. For that matter, they cannot do arithmetic as quickly as a computer, run as fast as an automobile, fly through the air like a plane, break rocks like a jackhammer, or do many other things as efficiently as the devices that a tiny number of humans have invented and a slightly larger number of humans know how to build. And yet they still muddle along, mostly content with their lives. Human relevance is not tied to the most ambitious thing that the best human can do. There isn’t even such a thing as human relevance. Humans don’t need to be relevant to anyone but themselves and to their family and neighbors. I’m retired. I sit around and play video games, read books, go to movies, and do things my wife tells me to do. I have been moderately useful in my career to those who have employed me, I have helped raise a son who is so far successfully launched in life, and I feel fine with that, despite not having invented anything, not written any novels, nor set any athletic records.

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Thomas Fuchs 🫯 @thomasfuchs.at · 28/05/2026

don’t get left behind

Google search for “how many p’s in clanker”, with Google’s “AI” replying there’s 1 p.

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cold war melodramaturg @repulsa.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

have we considered quarantining the whole of silicon valley for whatever this is

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Dozens of empty Waymos invaded an Atlanta neighborhood and circled a cul-de-sac for hours with no passengers www.wsbtv.com/news/local/a...

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 14/05/2026

How many hundreds of thousands of Africans does a man have to kill by yanking foreign aid to get called racist around here?

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

“Psychodrama” has always obscured more than it resolved- right from the start it was the way that BBC Politics in that era babbled its way around the conviction that couldn’t cover Brexit in detail without being biased and that the public needed to be talked down to.

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Epoch AI @epochai.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

AI is changing our jobs: among people who use AI regularly at work, 27% say AI has replaced some of their tasks; 21% say it has enabled new tasks. This and other workplace usage findings from our new Epoch AI/Ipsos survey on AI usage in 🧵

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