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Mark Kennedy @mrmonkington.bsky.social · 3h

I could really do with one of those tbh!

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Mark Kennedy @mrmonkington.bsky.social · 5h

It looks pretty bleak nationally though www.bennettschool.cam.ac.uk/wp-content/u... What would you do differently?

bennettschool.cam.ac.uk

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Mark Kennedy @mrmonkington.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Hoping with so much Ross Kemp on the telly we're gonna get some cracking #Kempfolds for the album

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Mark Kennedy @mrmonkington.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I think for the middle aged the benefits of AI automation aren't appealing cos you don't mind pottering about doing chores, paying a bill, mowing the lawn, walking to the shops, speaking to strangers, reading something properly, having your own ideas, responsibility, being alive, feeling love, etc

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John Herrman @jwherrman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

A lot of AI assistants seem to have been built around the assumption that the rest of the world is not actually real nymag.com/intelligence...

I wanted to hear about this weird new phenomenon from the other side. The Colorado plumber laughed and once again hung up the phone. The woman at the karaoke place was more patient but sounded confused:
Was I AI? Was I selling AI? Could she speak to a real person? No and no, I said, and yes: I was a cold-calling human being who wanted to hear about her experience getting cold-called by bots. (After failing to book a room with Muse, the customer dispatched another agentic solution for the job and claims to have gotten through.)
"Ah," she said. "Okay. We don't like AI calling our restaurant. We hate it." End of call.

There is something to this - computers really do work differently now and can be asked to handle tasks that used to require a human touch (or at least a cursor). But in addition to expanding the boundaries of automation, the agent-assisted power users of today are also mowing down soft and unsuspecting targets - websites, interfaces, services, and people who haven't decided how, or if, they want to respond to the replacement of customers, clients, and even friends with agents - with the advantages that come with deploying them first. Once everyone has, as Mark Zuckerberg describes it, an "exceptionally capable personal agent," does anyone?

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Mark Kennedy @mrmonkington.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I think you can apply Hanlon's razor a bit here

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Mark Kennedy @mrmonkington.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Imagining a little Martin discharging in a Duracell bunny. Do you have to put human batteries in alternating directions? Which end is +?

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Mark Kennedy @mrmonkington.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I think we're going to be seeing enclaved execution environments for desktop software, where your right to execute code is attested by the vendor online and the decrypted code isn't readable by other processes. Bit like what cloud VMs run on. It'll be shit!

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Mark Kennedy @mrmonkington.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Is this how that Tory MP felt before he choked on that tangerine?

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Mark Kennedy @mrmonkington.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It'll be nice to have 6 months of unicorn software (omg illustrator on linux!!) before we all become bio-batteries or whatever

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Mark Kennedy @mrmonkington.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Like, if AI is so smart why do we have to keep telling it what to do?

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Mark Kennedy @mrmonkington.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"online prediction market"?! Come on, it's a betting exchange, stop legitimising it by parroting their own marketing

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Mark Kennedy @mrmonkington.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Make some lunch for them too? If they don't show: extra lunch.

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 28/09/2026

Remember, Jenrick is not stupid. He's a trained lawyer, he knows the difference between police and court bail. He's just a turd.

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Mark Kennedy @mrmonkington.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Surely restaurants you call for a reservation are now in the minority? Also, instructing somebody/something else to book is as much work as booking, isn't it? Firmly solution needing a problem nonsense.

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Mark Kennedy @mrmonkington.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The fact there is an organic process that results in blue cheese never ceases to amaze

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Mark Kennedy @mrmonkington.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I'm going through all the kids' felt tips figuring out which ones still work 🤷

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Mark Kennedy @mrmonkington.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

You can try every day to make some small improvement to the world, and a handful of bastards will do a billion times more harm.

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Mark Kennedy @mrmonkington.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Oh no I meant 29½ etc but now my joke is ruined

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Mark Kennedy @mrmonkington.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I don't think that's fair at all!

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Mark Kennedy @mrmonkington.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Kids want their own society, not ours - I always take hope in that when things seem irrevocably shit

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Mark Kennedy @mrmonkington.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Currently on iPlayer and much better than Reacher

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Mark Kennedy @mrmonkington.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Except for the having access to $22m bit?

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Mark Kennedy @mrmonkington.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

asking "are they being an idiot for fun or profit, or were they just born that way?" is an important modern skill

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Mark Kennedy @mrmonkington.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I guess I bought this in 1993 and I have never bored of it, and yet it's still only a fraction of his best work

The back cover of a random John Coltrane compilation from the 90s. It shows the tracklist and Coltrane holding a sax (of course)

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Mark Kennedy @mrmonkington.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

It is surprisingly good fun listening to lots of new music trying to decide which album to review

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