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Meanwhile, let's also remind people how the caveats have clearly been broken ...

Kosso @kosso.co.uk · 03/10/2026

Proud but disappointed to be the sole voice of dissent from this place, regarding the introduction by a company with some of the most egregious data and privacy violations in history launching physical versions of their cutesy Trojan bots for people to willingly carry around... #Muse #NoThanks

A screenshot from TechMeme showing overwhelming support on X/Twitter for what is essentially Meta's new Trojan Horse "personal agent", called Muse.

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Kosso @kosso.co.uk · 29/09/2026

Just realised that the Grok AI logo is a Black Hole. You'd probably have a better return throwing your money into one.

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Kosso @kosso.co.uk · 27/09/2026

Live from Kempsford ... 'Hits Radio' interviews SUV ...

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Kosso @kosso.co.uk · 25/09/2026

I LOVE this. But the CSS needs a tweak. Set border-radius to 999px to round-off the ends.

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Kosso @kosso.co.uk · 24/09/2026

I've had a couple. But mostly for the fun to be had shaving it off...

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Kosso @kosso.co.uk · 23/09/2026

This sort of sentiment about AI in engineering is just going to grow and grow ...

A recent post from a software engineer about AI ..

I am done with this shit. It is over.

The state of engineering right now is horrible. It has been half a month since I started a new role at a big company. Nobody knows anything here. The specs, code, tests, PRDs, tickets, resolution of those tickets, reports, etc., everything is made by Claude Code. Nobody on my team likes this. They are being forced to ship as much as they can. I have heard multiple times from higher management that pushing code is not a bottleneck, so why are we slow? People are working 12 to 13 hours a day just to press enter. Nobody is reading anything. Humans in corporate are doing nothing on their own. Everyone, literally everyone, from an L1 to an L7 engineer here is doing the same thing. Talk to Claude.

There is no sense of victory. Nobody is resolving bugs. In reality, nobody is thinking anymore. Everything is done by LLMs. It is so soul-sucking. I would not mind it, to be honest, if we were at least given the time to check out the code and see what is going where. But no, the goal is to just ship. No matter what happens.

— voxium (@v0xium)
Original post dated September 20, 2026.

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Kosso @kosso.co.uk · 21/09/2026

Indeed. Though Prospect is pretty big. I did try and see them at an even smaller venue a while ago. But ended up outside listening to them on the pavement through the window with a bunch of other people who failed to get tickets. :)

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Kosso @kosso.co.uk · 20/09/2026

A while ago I signed up to hear more about some new 'Tweet.app' thing. I just got an email describing the various pricing tiers, along with their names.. And it made me want to puke... No thanks.

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Kosso @kosso.co.uk · 20/09/2026

I do not own a football team. I am not a billionaire. And this is why the media doesn't ask for my opinion about the country I still live in and where I still pay taxes.

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Kosso @kosso.co.uk · 18/09/2026

“Residential Proxy Functionality” has entered the chat.. If you've heard the news about LG TVs "spying on you", they have just updated their Terms & Conditions for apps, including a new definition which should give them more power to remove or reject apps that do dodgy stuff with your internet ...

“Residential Proxy Functionality” means any functionality, technology, software, SDK, library, API, service, code, component, or mechanism that enables, facilitates, permits, or assists third parties to route, relay, proxy, tunnel, forward, retransmit, or otherwise transmit network traffic through an End User’s internet connection, IP address, network, device, or bandwidth for the benefit of any third party.

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Kosso @kosso.co.uk · 14/09/2026

Every page of every issue of Byte magazine on one page... byte.tsundoku.io While browsing around, I found an ad for "Palantir"!

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Kosso @kosso.co.uk · 13/09/2026

Primal Scream, Electric Bristol

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Kosso @kosso.co.uk · 12/09/2026

Cal? As in Henderson? I seem to remember Pauly being involved too, no?

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Kosso @kosso.co.uk · 10/09/2026

@mrjamesob.bsky.social Here's the man with the "blind panic" and an NHS walking stick...

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Kosso @kosso.co.uk · 09/09/2026

£1.5k - £2k for something that would inevitably get 'crunchy' after gathering little bits of crap in my pockets? No thanks.

An image of a forthcoming Apple device with a foldable screen.

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Kosso @kosso.co.uk · 09/09/2026

Looking at the rises in oil prices, thanks to Trump's pointless war, along with the fact that US oil reserves are at their lowest point since *1982*, then fuzz all that together with the AI bubble insanity, it really is starting to look like the USA is heading for a very, very bad time... and soon.

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Kosso @kosso.co.uk · 09/09/2026

And a response from the Alignment Science lead at Anthropic... xcancel.com/evanhub/stat...

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Kosso @kosso.co.uk · 09/09/2026

Reserves at the lowest it's been since 1982... www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/his...

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Kosso @kosso.co.uk · 09/09/2026

whatever next....? oh..

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Kosso @kosso.co.uk · 08/09/2026

@mrjamesob.bsky.social If anyone starts bleating at you about the Israeli sanctions, enjoy a free copy of the Balfour Declaration to beat them around the bonce with ... You're welcome.

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Kosso @kosso.co.uk · 08/09/2026

Just a quick reminder to the dolts bleating about sanctions against Israeli illegal settlements...

The Balfour Declaration, which gave Jewish Zionists a home... with some caveats...

"His Majesty's Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country."

Spelling it out quite clearly that the Israeli disgusting persecution of the Palestinians has been breaking this caveat for years.

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Kosso @kosso.co.uk · 07/09/2026

A lot of people. But it's not always so cut and dried. It depends on where you're looking from, or which department you're looking at.

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Kosso @kosso.co.uk · 06/09/2026

This is my earliest memory...

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Kosso @kosso.co.uk · 06/09/2026

By default it will automatically decide which date 'wins'. Now that can be overridden in the settings. I just found it incredibly useful to sort through a terabyte drive full of clips from various devices, going back years.

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Kosso @kosso.co.uk · 05/09/2026

I feel a bit dirty and ashamed... I got the evil robot to build me a useful Mac app, which lets me view all my videos from drones and bike rides etc. in a nice little calendar-style view. Just an idea I had today, so thought I'd see what the fuss was about. Works a treat. Took about an hour.

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Kosso @kosso.co.uk · 05/09/2026

West Midlands Police are aware of the incidents... "Anyone with any information should contact us on 101 quoting log number 924-050926"

West Midlands Police on Twitter/X: "We’re aware of a video circulating from the Reform UK Conference showing an incident with a protester. We haven’t received a complaint but would ask the woman to come forward. Anyone with any information should contact us on 101 quoting log number 924-050926"

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Kosso @kosso.co.uk · 05/09/2026

Despite this blatant assault on a woman at Reform's conference being all over the internet, along with a second incident with another woman being beaten with a crutch, our national broadcaster's news home page (or anywhere else) has no mention of them...