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Writing about technology, artificial intelligence, human stupidity and rose-tinted tech nostalgia of a simpler time when computers did what you told them to do and not what a Silicon Valley billionaire thinks will make him even richer.

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Newslttrs @newslttrs.com · 08/09/2026
Remember that "AI" receptionist for GPs that couldn't understand Yorkshire accents? Well, it turns out it doesn't understand security or data protection either. floorjellyboot.infinityfree.io?i=1
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Newslttrs @newslttrs.com · 09/09/2026
Instead of improving the camera I wish Apple would improve the camera controls. I always end up missing a shot because I’m dicking about with fiddly touchscreen controls.
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Newslttrs @newslttrs.com · 09/09/2026
It’s taken forty years but I've just found out what the lyrics to Kyrie by Mr Mister are and what it means. Always assumed Kyrie was a girl’s name.
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 09/09/2026
Also, why is this basically written up as "quirky crowd make an embarrassing mistake" and not "violent racists form mob because Asian people use hotel"?
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Newslttrs @newslttrs.com · 09/09/2026
What’s a parent in grant?
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Newslttrs @newslttrs.com · 08/09/2026
Remember that "AI" receptionist for GPs that couldn't understand Yorkshire accents? Well, it turns out it doesn't understand security or data protection either. floorjellyboot.infinityfree.io?i=1
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Newslttrs @newslttrs.com · 10/07/2026
AI has lost all meaning newslttrs.com/ai-has-lost-... #ai #artificialintelligence #newsletter #writing #rant
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Meanwhile, not one of the groups so far known to have been orchestrating the violence in Belfast and Southampton has been banned as a terrorist organisation.
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Newslttrs @newslttrs.com · 27/03/2026
AI bots are "scheming in the wild". This supposed research report is based on some of the flimsiest research you're likely to see. #ai #artificialintelligence #scifi #llm #openai #chatgpt #claude buff.ly/4pEip8R
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Newslttrs @newslttrs.com · 26/03/2026
What harm does well-intentioned misinformation do anyway? buff.ly/n4V6EGb
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Newslttrs @newslttrs.com · 26/03/2026
"I've gotta hold on, gotta hold on tight Get middle age kicks and an early night" #MiddleAged #Music #TheUndertones #MiddleAgeASong #HashtagGames
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Newslttrs @newslttrs.com · 25/03/2026
Digging further into the carbon cost of emails, I take a look at the numbers that underpin the discussion. newslttrs.com/carbon-cost-...
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Newslttrs @newslttrs.com · 19/03/2026
Does having a "digital decluttering" of your old emails really help slow climate change? buff.ly/i6r0H7A
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Newslttrs @newslttrs.com · 23/02/2026
Really wishing that the me who lies awake at 1am developing a spectacular sci-fi novel in his head would communicate with the me who sits in front of the laptop the following day with a completely blank mind.
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Newslttrs @newslttrs.com · 23/02/2026
So sorry, man. My condolences seem so little but I offer them nevertheless.
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Newslttrs @newslttrs.com · 02/12/2025
Language translation is an actually useful application of AI #AI #multilingual #translation #languages #ArtificialIntelligence
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Language translation: an actually useful AI
I started writing this Newslttr in a hotel in Hong Kong where I was on a mixed working/chilling trip. Between the amazing cuisine and bustling street markets of this Chinese Special Administrative Reg...
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Newslttrs @newslttrs.com · 03/10/2025
Who wants to watch an AI actor read an AI script? newslttrs.com/who-wants-to... #ai #acting #TillyNorwood #scam #ArtificialIntelligence
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Who wants to watch an AI actor read an AI script?
There's been a lot of hype this week over the first so-called AI Actress, Tilly Norwood. Created by Xicoia, the AI division of the production company Particle6, Norwood has appeared in the AI-generate...
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Newslttrs @newslttrs.com · 18/08/2025
The AI proponents are trying to convince us that their creations can feel "distress" and that we should care for their "welfare". buff.ly/iOfXNuM
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Molly White @molly.wiki · 08/08/2025
aw that's nice, my library got some books for when the AI founders drop by
A children's book by Mo Willems titled "I Really Like Slop!", with an illustration of a pig in a chef's hat holding a bowl of green goop with flies around it and an elephant looking disgusted in the background
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Newslttrs @newslttrs.com · 08/08/2025
GPT-5 is alive, Grok's a perv and civilisation is probably going to collapse soon. Happy Friday! buff.ly/Ekr9OH2
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Newslttrs @newslttrs.com · 29/07/2025
Who broke the internet? And who can fix it again? newslttrs.com/is-the-inter... #web #internet #enshittification #CoryDoctoro #nostalgia #Meta #Google #Writing #IndieWeb #IndieDev
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Newslttrs @newslttrs.com · 25/07/2025
Living brain computers, North Korean spies and dodgy AI datasets aplenty in this Friday Wrap. newslttrs.com/friday-wrap-... #AI #NorthKorea #Technology #Netflix #Movies #ArtificialIntelligence #NaturalStupidity
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Friday Wrap : Volume Four
Living brain computers, North Korean spies and dodgy AI datasets aplenty in this Friday Wrap.
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Newslttrs @newslttrs.com · 24/07/2025
Zoom! Enhance! Trace his IP! What's your pet peeve when technology appears in TV shows? newslttrs.com/things-tv-al...
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Newslttrs @newslttrs.com · 18/07/2025
The latest AI and tech stories to catch my eye w/e July 18th 2025 newslttrs.com/friday-wrap-...
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Newslttrs @newslttrs.com · 11/07/2025
The second weekly round up of AI and other tech news stories from the past seven days. newslttrs.com/friday-wrap-...
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Newslttrs @newslttrs.com · 10/07/2025
How web development became a never-ending spiral into greater complexity and frustration. newslttrs.com/thank-you-fo... #webdev #web #javascript #react #vuejs #html
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Just Call Me Amanda🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛ @amandabf.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
I'm starting to take it personally that all these bands I listened to or saw perform when I was a teenager are having the audacity of re-releasing albums to celebrate "40 years!"
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Newslttrs @newslttrs.com · 10/07/2025
How web development became a never-ending spiral into greater complexity and frustration. newslttrs.com/thank-you-fo... #webdev #web #javascript #react #vuejs #html
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Newslttrs @newslttrs.com · 04/07/2025
A round-up of AI-related news from the web. newslttrs.com/friday-wrap-...
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Newslttrs @newslttrs.com · 24/06/2025
Sooner or later the current AI bubble is going to burst. What's going to happen when it does? newslttrs.com/when-the-ai-...
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Newslttrs @newslttrs.com · 08/06/2025
The wacky, wonderful world of 1980s computer magazine covers. How do you make those beige plastic boxes with cassette recorders and televisions for monitors look glamorous? #Retro #RetroGaming #RetroComputing #OldenDays #Nostalgia #1980s #Magazines
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Newslttrs @newslttrs.com · 08/06/2025
Artificial intelligence - because dogs love to bake cakes 😂 #Ai #ArtificialIntelligence #Dogs #Baking #ImageCreation
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Newslttrs @newslttrs.com · 04/06/2025
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TuW...
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Little + Large show Easter '86
YouTube video by Clive Knapper
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Newslttrs @newslttrs.com · 04/06/2025
Light entertainment you say? Like "Little and Large", you mean? genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/26ff60d760e0...
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Newslttrs @newslttrs.com · 04/06/2025
David Davis. BBC Midlands Today sports presenter and latterly FA Chairman or something. HTH.
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Newslttrs @newslttrs.com · 04/06/2025
#Nostalgia #1980s #Humour #Humor #Retro #RetroComputing
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The "glamour" of 1980s computer magazines
Ah, the 1980s! The decade of decadence. Suits with shoulder pads. Dance music workouts with Jane Fonda in leg-warmers. Home computers with rudimentary graphics and sound. *record scratch* Wait. Home c...
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Newslttrs @newslttrs.com · 07/05/2025
There's so much wrong in this article it's hard to know where to start. Seems like the journalist has taken a bunch of out-of-context quotes from computer scientists and sown them together to tell a story they don't understand #ai #ArtificialIntelligence #Enigma #AlanTuring #TheGuardian
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Today’s AI can crack second world war Enigma code ‘in short order’, experts say
Crowning achievement of Alan Turing’s codebreakers is now ‘straightforward’, according to computer scientists
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Newslttrs @newslttrs.com · 07/05/2025
I'm glad so many people are highlighting the nonsense in this article. I was beginning to think I'd gone mad.
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Newslttrs @newslttrs.com · 29/04/2025
Why is AI so popular when nobody wants it? newslttrs.com/why-is-ai-so... #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Enshittification #Hype #News #Tech
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Why is AI so popular when nobody wants it?
You'd have to be living on Mars to have avoided all the hype about AI over the past couple of years. Businesses have been trying to ride the wave of enthusiasm by adding artificial intelligence into a...
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Newslttrs @newslttrs.com · 17/04/2025
Have you forgotten The Chuckle Brothers also?
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Newslttrs @newslttrs.com · 11/04/2025
Don't forget to budget for your daughters' weddings too
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Newslttrs @newslttrs.com · 08/04/2025
Welcome to the world of tomorrow's television as seen from 1978 in this children's book that predicted the future. #television #nostalgia #futurism #retro #retrofuturism newslttrs.com/television-o...
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Television of the retro-future
How well did this 1978 book predict the future of TV?
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Newslttrs @newslttrs.com · 06/04/2025
newslttrs.com/in-the-1980s-we-also-downloaded-software-from-tv/ #nostalgia #TV #RetroComputing #Retro #ComputerLiteracy #BBC #Visicode #Amstrad #BBCMicro
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In the 1980s we also downloaded software from TV
Two fascinating techniques from retro TV land
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Newslttrs @newslttrs.com · 06/04/2025
newslttrs.com/yes-in-the-1... #retro #RetroComputing #Basicode #nostalgia #1980s #Sinclair #Vic20 #Commodore
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Yes, in the 1980s we downloaded games from the radio
So there I was, minding my own business, doom-scrolling my way through Facebook posts when I happened upon one that hit me straight in the nostalgia. A photo of a 1980s home computer, a cassette playe...
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Newslttrs @newslttrs.com · 23/03/2025
Planes that do mach 4. Personal genetic treatments. 1995 called: it wants its predictions back.
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Newslttrs @newslttrs.com · 22/03/2025
Back From The Future: 1995's predictions of 2025 life newslttrs.com/back-from-th... #futurology #future #predictions #1990s #2020s #2025 #technology #history
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Back From The Future: 1995's predictions of 2025 life
In 1995 three brave prognosticators set out to predict life in the 2020s. How did that work out for them?
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Newslttrs @newslttrs.com · 20/02/2025
Social media has always been home to clickbait, fake photos, tall stories and gullible chumps. And now, thanks to generative AI, you can have all those joys without any of the tedious creativity. newslttrs.com/i-put-my-hea... #AI #AIFakes #Fakery #Spam #Facebook #Grift #GenAI
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I put my heart and soul into this AI but nobody cares
Social media has always been home to clickbait, fake photos, tall stories and gullible chumps. And now, thanks to generative AI, you can have all those joys without any of the tedious creativity.
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Newslttrs @newslttrs.com · 13/03/2025
P-AI-perback Writer Artificial intelligence can write some plausible sounding stuff. But can it have an original idea? newslttrs.com/p-ai-perback... #AI #OpenAI #SamAltman #CreativeWriting #ArtificialIntelligence
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Newslttrs @newslttrs.com · 13/03/2025
P-AI-perback Writer Artificial intelligence can write some plausible sounding stuff. But can it have an original idea? newslttrs.com/p-ai-perback... #AI #OpenAI #SamAltman #CreativeWriting #ArtificialIntelligence
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Newslttrs @newslttrs.com · 20/02/2025
Social media has always been home to clickbait, fake photos, tall stories and gullible chumps. And now, thanks to generative AI, you can have all those joys without any of the tedious creativity. newslttrs.com/i-put-my-hea... #AI #AIFakes #Fakery #Spam #Facebook #Grift #GenAI
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I put my heart and soul into this AI but nobody cares
Social media has always been home to clickbait, fake photos, tall stories and gullible chumps. And now, thanks to generative AI, you can have all those joys without any of the tedious creativity.
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