Reposted by Michael WilcoxDavid Coveney @davidcoveney.com · 15hHas the AIpocalypse arrived? Well, here's a story to make you itch: We've always been good at security and never had a breach that was down to our team. Some fifteen years ago we established a principle that now permeates through all Enterprise WordPress: don't trust PHP! 101
Reposted by Michael WilcoxRosie Holt @rosieisaholt.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Explaining to my mum why Danny Tommo is like Winston Churchill. Come see me on tour: rosieholt.seetickets.com/tour/rosie-h... 1740584
Reposted by Michael WilcoxRobert Llewellyn @bobbyllew.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I wrote a little thought piece about one of my teaspoons. It led down a very deep hole where we dig up iron ore. llewellyn.substack.com/p/dug-up-or-...llewellyn.substack.comDug up or Grown.That’s everything you’ve ever touched 2399
Reposted by Michael WilcoxSolomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 24/09/2026lol lol lol lol lol lol lol 913442929
Reposted by Michael WilcoxAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Room empties out at the UN as Netanyahu begins his speech. 1883285786979
Reposted by Michael WilcoxLittle Green Space @lgspace.bsky.social · 08/09/2026A single 400-year-old ancient oak produces 234,000 litres of oxygen a year while soaking up carbon dioxide, and can support more than 2,000 species of bird, insect, fungus, and lichen. Nature is amazing - we need more of it, not less. Please repost if you agree 🌳 7473204
Reposted by Michael WilcoxBart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves. 10381322828
Reposted by Michael WilcoxDavid Coveney @davidcoveney.com · 23/09/2026I'm in London tomorrow and my afternoon meeting has bailed on me at short notice. So if someone has a bit of space I can borrow or would like to have me on hand for some digital publishing or design PR advice then give me a shout! I have 4hrs! 001
Reposted by Michael WilcoxAlex Selby-Boothroyd @alexselbyb.bsky.social · 23/09/2026New belt-tightening indicator just dropped 34511
Reposted by Michael WilcoxBremain in Spain @bremaininspain.com · 23/09/2026This does not just apply to grandads Many of us will recognise these patterns in people we know who have fallen for online disinformation The vocabulary they use is the first tellverybrexitproblems.comSeven Signs Your Grandad Has Been Radicalised by FacebookIt happens slowly and then all at once, and the strange part is that the vocabulary changes before the opinions do. A man who has spent seventy years describing things in the plain English of a Suffol... 2146
Reposted by Michael WilcoxKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 23/09/2026Haven't seen a better AI explainer than this one (even if it somewhat overstates the AI safety stuff) www.instagram.com/reel/Ddlt1kR... 8240118
Reposted by Michael WilcoxEthan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Hey Claude, "Pick a problem or mystery that obsesses you and solve it as best you can & make a movie we can share on social media about it" So it took a crack at the Voynich Manuscript & failed. Then it made this movie, which is pretty interesting to watch and a good explainer. 812713
Reposted by Michael WilcoxManon Jacob @manonjacob.bsky.social · 17/09/2026🪫Not Death with a Norwegian accent commenting on mass programmed obsolescence... I just love everything about this. 218664
Reposted by Michael WilcoxAmanda @pandamoanimum.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Happy 5th anniversary to the time this happened over on that other place. 16939161
Reposted by Michael WilcoxJane @localnotail.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Feel like this should have more than 142K signatures by now - it's a simple thing but seems important in the face of the inhumanity of the far-right. 02311
Reposted by Michael Wilcoxkottke.org @kottke.org · 11/09/2026A late 90s guide to Super Metroid was written in monospaced type, fully justified with no double spaces or hyphens. “I just chose words carefully so that everything lined up on the right hand side.” [unsung.aresluna.org]unsung.aresluna.org“I just chose words carefully.” – UnsungA blog about software craft and quality 2226
Reposted by Michael WilcoxPaul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 09/09/2026Astrophotographer Adam (AJ) Smadi caught this image a few hours ago from Washington state. A thin crescent Moon, sunlight illuminating the rugged lunar surface. And 2,400 times farther away—and on the other side of the Sun—mighty Jupiter, and its moons Io (left) and Ganymede (right). 187165375083
Reposted by Michael WilcoxJane @localnotail.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Daniel Thomas / Danny Tommo has today marched his private army of blackshorts to Daily Mail HQ to demand a new house for his mum within 48 hrs, after they doorstepped her for a feature on him. Apparently he plans to blockade them + cry at them until they do Bet those lads are glad of the balaclavas 323895304
Reposted by Michael WilcoxMadeleine Sugden @madlinsudn.bsky.social · 09/09/202662k people have signed an open letter of support to the RNLI.act.38degrees.org.ukAn open letter in support of the volunteers and staff at the RNLIThis is a disgrace. Brave RNLI volunteers being called scum for risking their lives to save others at sea is just plain wrong. So I've signed an open letter of thanks for the RNLI letting them know th... 053
Reposted by Michael WilcoxDanny Fearns @dannyfearns.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Good morning Bluesky ☀️ This is one of the last coal powered sheep. The vast majority of UK sheep are now all electric ⚡️ 14172161755
Reposted by Michael WilcoxDeb Chachra @debcha.bsky.social · 23/08/2026This explainer out of Australia is genuinely useful background and analysis of what happened with the Canada-US trade deal last night. Note that it is extremely and delightfully sweary. Also there’s an appended glossary of Australian slang. ifloz.substack.com/p/king-carne...ifloz.substack.comKING CARNEY ACTIVATES KONG MODE WITH ZERO FUCKSCarney Reads the Clock Like a Pro Wrestler 992005769
Reposted by Michael WilcoxDreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Under fairground rules I think they've just won that yacht? 1339778
Reposted by Michael Wilcox852dude @852dude.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Bro. People are cool as fuck. 274164112327
Reposted by Michael WilcoxClimate News @climatenews.bsky.social · 11/08/2026People in Europe: if you’re watching the solar eclipse please remember this lesson from America: 312344
Reposted by Michael WilcoxNettlecake @nettlecake.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week. 17270842923
Reposted by Michael WilcoxSimon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Chart shows how people spend their time around the world. Source: buff.ly/3gDumW7 34213
Reposted by Michael Wilcoxkottke.org @kottke.org · 15/07/2026Contender for the most remarkably bonkers sports photo of all time: a 20-year-old Lionel Messi bathing a five-month-old Lamine Yamal (taken in 2007 for a UNICEF fundraiser). [kottke.org]kottke.orgLionel Messi Bathing a Baby Lamine YamalThese have to be some of the most remarkable sports photos of all time: a 20-year-old Lionel Messi bathing a five-month-old Lamine Yamal. Two of the best football players in the world, one a Barcelona lege 19523174
Reposted by Michael WilcoxCadaver Formosus is Already Spooky @cadaverformosus.bsky.social · 14/07/2026every now and then I have to remind myself of how visually looney tunes everything has gotten 31962272
Reposted by Michael WilcoxGood Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 28/06/2026Carbon capture lives like a dream in the heads of politicians who want to keep going with fossil fuels. Is there any evidence that it’s a reality? projects.propublica.org/why-carbon-… 811150
Reposted by Michael WilcoxStuart Houghton @stuarthoughton.bsky.social · 26/06/2026Pass this on. You never know who might need it and it could make a huge difference if someone is struggling for whatever reason 5288267
Reposted by Michael WilcoxRachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 25/06/2026I'm in the grip of about 10000 massive deadlines, so I've obviously spent this morning writing a newsletter about a topic that is completely and utterly tangential buttondown.com/justenoughin...buttondown.comThe Sports Car Theory of LLM AdoptionIf LLMs make decision makers feel stupid, maybe they'll stop using them? 65314
Reposted by Michael WilcoxMark Braggins @markbraggins.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Haha, nice one @privateeyenews.bsky.social ! 181414502
Reposted by Michael WilcoxHenry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 19/06/2026This is an embarrassing image for the UK. A self-respecting British fox should be dragging Binface's contents out over the stage 683416613
Reposted by Michael WilcoxJon Will Chambers @jonchambers.co.uk · 19/06/2026Where’s Andy Burnham going? 511338515
Reposted by Michael Wilcoxkottke.org @kottke.org · 09/06/2026CrankGPT. “Just a hand crank, a little computer, and a small stack of speech and language models running locally. Provided the electronics are kept dry and at a reasonable temperature, there’s no reason this thing won’t still work in a thousand years.” [squeezlabs.github.io]squeezlabs.github.ioCrankGPT — fully offline, human-powered local AIA local, voice assistant running on a hand-crank-powered single board computer. 615330
Michael Wilcox @mikeywil.bsky.social · 03/06/2026From the Quantum of Sollazzo newsletter: Le Baguette Index These developers have built an AI agent, called Brigitte, to call 5,173 boulangeries in 148 French towns to survey baguette prices (it doesn't get more stereotypically French than this, does it?), then visualised the results. 000
Reposted by Michael WilcoxRussell Garner @rgarner.bsky.social · 02/06/2026"Customers are buying trust, and the software is simply the place where they keep it."selfonomics.comWhy SaaS Will Outlive Your ObituariesThe Doomers are Burying the Wrong Thing 001
Reposted by Michael WilcoxBen Zaranko @benzaranko.bsky.social · 30/05/2026You see something similar if you look at bundled telecoms packages (e.g. broadband, TV and landline) or at ‘internet access provision’ (broadband). Prices jump each April, and the UK looks like an outlier. Quite striking! 48118
Reposted by Michael WilcoxBen Zaranko @benzaranko.bsky.social · 30/05/2026This chart is bonkers. I think there's two possible explanations for why the UK runs so far ahead of other European countries – neither of them good. And the annual April price jump speaks to a wider issue. For more detail, see my column in this weekend's Observer. observer.co.uk/news/busines... 36268113
Reposted by Michael WilcoxDr. David McBride (dwm) @dwm.me.uk · 24/05/2026This is a fairly spectacular illustration. isaiprofitable.comisaiprofitable.comIs AI Profitable Yet? 023
Reposted by Michael WilcoxJacob Aron @jjaron.bsky.social · 19/05/2026Ok I've designed an LLM prompt to make Google AI just give you a list of links. It's longer than you might think because it kept ignoring the instructions. This is efficient. This is The Future™ 512480627
Reposted by Michael WilcoxToby Miller @tobytram.bsky.social · 15/05/2026This evening’s surprise lovely find - this empty wooden sign, with a construction that, by mirroring paragraphs and pull quote sizes, give the impression of still having writing on it. A magazine page worth of text. 0153
Reposted by Michael WilcoxAlex Selby-Boothroyd @alexselbyb.bsky.social · 15/05/2026New merch just dropped (actually don't drop it) 2253