Mike Taulty @mtaulty.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Yeah, sure, I'll trust this technology to book my flights, sort out my finances, etc. 🤣 020
Mike Taulty @mtaulty.bsky.social · 17/09/2026The number of times that companies mail me with a tracking link which...doesn't work. 🤷♂️ 010
Mike Taulty @mtaulty.bsky.social · 10/09/2026The other day, I asked the AI to explain how Passkeys work in a way that I could understand. It took me about 30 questions of increasing specificity to get to the point of getting coherent, consistent information. What always "puzzles" me is what happens when you don't know the questions to ask? 000
Mike Taulty @mtaulty.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Spam(ish) caller rings up to offer me the "opportunity" to save money on my energy tariffs. I ask "ok, what are your rates on electricity per kWh?" "I don't know Sir, I'll just see if I can look them up". 🤷♂️ 000
Mike Taulty @mtaulty.bsky.social · 08/09/2026"Non Working Royals" would be a great name for a band. 000
Mike Taulty @mtaulty.bsky.social · 04/09/2026At 08:06 on #r4Today the head of Centrica tells us that there isn't going to be a "material move" in energy prices due to any drilling in the North Sea. At 08:23 Richard Tice tells us that "Drill Britain Drill" ( what!? ) would reduce energy bills. So hard to know who to believe 🤣 0113
Mike Taulty @mtaulty.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Wishing I had one of these on the way home today as I watched the driver of the large Peugeot SUV who was managing to look up once in a while as they kept heading towards the back of my car while playing for mile after mile on their phone. ( the worst is when you switch lanes & they follow you! ) 110
Mike Taulty @mtaulty.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Keep hearing the term "sovereign data centre" and wondering what might be "sovereign" about it if the entire stack is owned and run from the USA. 000
Mike Taulty @mtaulty.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Is Netflix turning into Channel 5? Can't remember the last time there was a "must watch" show or film on Netflix. 000
Mike Taulty @mtaulty.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Just waiting on the announcement that there's a national shortage of colanders 😉 210
Mike Taulty @mtaulty.bsky.social · 07/08/2026I don't use (free) Spotify much but it always makes me laugh when the ad comes on telling me that I could have better quality, downloadable, ad-free music for their fee. ( And then I just switch to playing my own MP3 collection ). 000
Mike Taulty @mtaulty.bsky.social · 03/08/2026My car sends me a monthly report of all the places that it's been almost as though I hadn't been right there with it 🤣 000
Mike Taulty @mtaulty.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Asked CoPilot to write some Powershell for me. It spits out ~400 lines of code quickly and refines it nicely under direction but a quick read of the code flags glaringly obvious runtime bugs. I know everyone knows this but this feels like juggling with razor blades -> juggling with chainsaws. 000
Mike Taulty @mtaulty.bsky.social · 16/07/2026On a warm day, there's a subtle sign that I may have forgotten to add yeast to one of these 🤣 001
Mike Taulty @mtaulty.bsky.social · 05/07/2026There's an irony in most of the adverts that I hear on Spotify seeming to be made by Spotify to sell the idea of how powerful and easy it is to, erm, advertise on Spotify! ( including running the same ad right after itself ) ( although I'm not a big user of it so maybe I'm just unlucky ) 020
Mike Taulty @mtaulty.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Everywhere I look, this chap pops up advertising everything from crisps to global banking solutions. Make. It. Stop. 🤣 010
Mike Taulty @mtaulty.bsky.social · 30/06/2026I remember the first time I saw WhatsApp and decided that there was no way it could be successful without abstracting the user's phone number behind a username of some sort. Around 17 years and 3 billion users later it sounds like they're finally ready to listen to my advice 😉 010
Mike Taulty @mtaulty.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Photos is moving to File Explorer where it will show you a different, out-of-date set of photos to the ones that it shows you here 🤷♂️ 120
Mike Taulty @mtaulty.bsky.social · 18/06/2026In the near future there'll be work for someone (maybe AI) to revisit agentic systems and replace the AI with regular logic that runs on a CPU with a view to reducing operating cost. 😉 110
Mike Taulty @mtaulty.bsky.social · 12/06/2026This sounds about right for the SPCX market cap... 😉 000
Mike Taulty @mtaulty.bsky.social · 09/06/2026Wait. You mean that I can run some of my compute and AI on the device that I have in my pocket or on my desk and I don't necessarily need to call a massive datacentre for all of it? ( I seem to have spent my life watching this pendulum swing ) 🤣 010
Mike Taulty @mtaulty.bsky.social · 28/05/2026Breaking: South East Water rumoured to be rebranding to "South East Ltd" 😉 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukAbout 18,000 properties in Kent hit with water supply issuesSouth East Water is encouraging its customers to "use water for essential purposes only". 042
Mike Taulty @mtaulty.bsky.social · 27/05/2026Listening to Tony Blair, expert on artificial intelligence on #r4Today 🤣 010
Mike Taulty @mtaulty.bsky.social · 12/05/2026In the future, everyone will be Prime Minister for 15 seconds in a sequence that will repeat about once every 30 years. 010
Reposted by Mike TaultyJim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 11/05/2026we've done an FT deep dive on what a Reform government might look like and what their main policies - and policy disagreements - are right now: www.ft.com/content/93df...ft.comWhat would a Reform government do?As Nigel Farage targets national power, his policies are still tangled in ambiguity and impracticality 136522
Mike Taulty @mtaulty.bsky.social · 07/05/2026Not sure how you'd use AI to learn a subject if you weren't the type of person who questions everything. 120
Mike Taulty @mtaulty.bsky.social · 30/04/2026Is there a term for the algorithm lying to you or flattering you as a form of sales pitch? 210
Mike Taulty @mtaulty.bsky.social · 27/04/2026"Random gun man in USA doesn't shoot president" - not sure we need ongoing multi day coverage for this type of story #r4today 070
Mike Taulty @mtaulty.bsky.social · 21/04/2026Government doesn't know if it's pro or anti EVs - two stories side by side. 011
Mike Taulty @mtaulty.bsky.social · 21/04/2026Night time electricity rates going up 32% for me and day time by 10%. Now, whose fault might that be? 010
Mike Taulty @mtaulty.bsky.social · 19/04/2026Rarely watch #Kuenssberg but switch it on and within 5 minutes they switch to Scottish election coverage and...oh, look, it's Reform that gets the focus and Honest Bob shows up. 🤷♂️ 110
Mike Taulty @mtaulty.bsky.social · 16/04/2026Switched on the BBC News #bbcwato #wato where they are seeing if they can cause a food shortage by talking about a food shortage. 🤷♂️ (In the UK, you only have to say "shortage" to cause one - pasta, flour, petrol, loo roll etc). 000
Mike Taulty @mtaulty.bsky.social · 26/03/2026Thinking back to the time when I thought that the Phone Link app acting as an extension into Windows Explorer would stop all the problems with content on my phone not showing up on the desktop app. But, no...the explorer extension seems to be constantly "syncing" and the content is out of sync. 110
Mike Taulty @mtaulty.bsky.social · 20/03/2026Reminded of the classic "Some humans ain't human"...by this clip from today's FT. youtu.be/uIWotODqidE?... 010
Mike Taulty @mtaulty.bsky.social · 19/03/2026@theguardian.com Piece of feedback - you do an amazingly poor job of promoting the existence of the digital edition of the paper to subscribers. (although based on the reviews, maybe it's not such a win). play.google.com/store/apps/d...play.google.comThe Guardian Editions - Apps on Google PlayGet each day’s edition of The Guardian, in one simple, elegant app. 000
Mike Taulty @mtaulty.bsky.social · 19/03/2026Oh look, house insurance wants 42% more than last year for exactly the same thing. What a surprise... 000
Reposted by Mike TaultyAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/03/2026OSSOFF: Your statement says that as a result of last summer's airstrikes, Iran's nuclear program was 'obliterated.' Correct? GABBARD: Yes O: The WH stated war was launched to 'eliminate the imminent nuclear threat' G: The only person who can determine what's an imminent threat is POTUS O: False 635119433660
Mike Taulty @mtaulty.bsky.social · 12/02/2026He gets worse by the day... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukTrump revokes landmark ruling that greenhouse gases endanger public healthThe White House calls it the largest deregulation in US history, but environmentalists say it will prove costly for Americans. 020
Mike Taulty @mtaulty.bsky.social · 07/02/2026Only one letter separating a class act from a crass act. 010
Mike Taulty @mtaulty.bsky.social · 07/02/2026Lots in the news this week about Bezos and Amazon. (none of it good). 000
Mike Taulty @mtaulty.bsky.social · 04/02/2026@itvpeston.bsky.social Key question is was that a rat or a mouse that ran across the carpet during your interview with Kemi Badenoch tonight? 🐀 010
