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paulwalk @paulwalk.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2026

@neonbubble I just have the Pompey plus audio commentary and that was bad enough. Happy with the result though

paulwalk @paulwalk.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

"The true fruit of this century has little interest in coming to living-terms with innovations; it just greedily grabs them all as they come along. Only when it encounters something really big does it become aware of a social problem at all, and then, rather than make concessions, it yammers for […]

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paulwalk @paulwalk.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

This is exactly right (I wish I had written this!)

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paulwalk @paulwalk.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

Sitting in a conference plenary where a panel each takes a turn to state the obvious as though imparting a profound truth. I'm an hour into a 90 minute session and so far the only thing I have learned is a fun piece of Australian slang. At least no-one has said "human in the loop" so far...

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paulwalk @paulwalk.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

If I hear "human in the loop" one more time at this conference I may throw something...

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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever

A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 02/10/2026

Rate-limiting ArXiv is just one symptom of a massive vibe shift i can feel happening, toward slower more careful (but sometimes more ambitious) projects. If “sheer productivity” were a stock I would short it; it’s going to start looking like a negative.

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

NEW: Meet the real AI ‘rogue agent’: Lord Watson of Palantir. I am sick to the teeth of this current AI hype cycle & its perversion of language. The only thing going ‘rogue’ right now are AI boosters, a gullible & compliant press & a Labour Lord 1/ broligarchy.substack.com/p/meet-the-r...

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Meet the real AI “rogue agent”: Lord Tom Watson

A Labour leader is out of control. The world needs a containment strategy now

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Jon Udell @judell.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

"When I skim a chatbot’s response to a question about back pain, I’m intuitively testing its suggestions against my hard-won mental model for how to approach back pain. Could I have developed that if I’d had a robot leading my thinking all along?" The same dilemma in every domain: seniors who […]

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paulwalk @paulwalk.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

@mpe "Patients Know Best" sounds like a private sector, retail mindset leaking in - "customer is always right". Not always appropriate to a health context!

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paulwalk @paulwalk.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

I rely heavily on Zoom for work. I've been vaguely irritated by so-called "AI" features appearing and found myself frequently saying "no" to AI-related requests from the system. So I finally revisited the main settings for my account. There I found *32* separate, "AI"-related settings. I toggled […]

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Björn Brembs @brembs.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

Interesting initiative I just became aware of: #Peerreview is a finite resource, and every review invitation presents a choice about where our time goes. The Diamond Reviewer Pledge asks researchers to commit to reviewing at least one article a year for a #diamond #openaccess journal — free to […]

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paulwalk @paulwalk.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

It must take real dedication and practice to become such a complete cockwomble that you abuse the *volunteers* of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution. For shame :-( www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0j3912…

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paulwalk @paulwalk.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

@mike @carusb I have a deal with my business accountants - they take care of the income tax stuff for one director as part of the package. This is priceless as far as I'm concerned!

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paulwalk @paulwalk.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@lobsters/117217749… This is wonderful 😁 "British orthography is enforced during lexical analysis. Colour is the namespace for values of A Distinguished Colour. Color is evidence that the source has arrived without a proper education.... There are precisely […]

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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has unveiled a one-year ban on the use of student-facing generative AI across the city’s public schools through eighth grade, and restrictions on the use of the technology in high schools. “The tech industry wants us to believe that A.I.-powered early […]

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paulwalk @paulwalk.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

@mike the section on "Sexagesimal numbers"... 🤯

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paulwalk @paulwalk.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026

Number 2 son just back from Reading Festival told me how he really liked a band he saw there called "Geese". "Never heard of them" said I, "Do they play honky-tonk music?". I am very proud of myself for this. #dadjoke

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matdevdug @matdevdug.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026

If you say the words "align with stakeholders" to me, my brain immediately enters an almost zen like level of ignoring everything that is said after that.

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paulwalk @paulwalk.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026

Just received a spam email for, and I quote exactly, an "Executive Mini MBA in Artificial Intelligence (AI) Accelerator Programme". Yes, really 😂 I was already laughing about the notion of an "Executive Mini MBA" before I even got to the "Artificial Intelligence " part... I guess this is the […]

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paulwalk @paulwalk.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026

@petrichor Research Outputs. The "digital" is the norm so superfluous. And, as you say, "non traditional" is a weird negation of an entirely subjective qualifier. If people assume "Research Output" means a journal article then that's on them - and they will learn soon enough

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paulwalk @paulwalk.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026

I wish I could remove Slack from my working life... but there are too many communities I have to engage with there. I have been using it for some years and I still regularly get lost in its stupid navigation.

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tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026

RE: tldr.nettime.org/@tante/11711157531… You should cancel every subscription to a blog/newsletter whose "weiter" is now complaining about Anthropic's watermarking. Otherwise the only mark is you.

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paulwalk @paulwalk.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2026

I'm seeing commentary about people being upset about so-called "AI" services introducing "watermarks" into the text that they extrude. OK - good. But I'm not seeing much commentary about why these services are doing this. Presumably it's because they are worried about their outputs being […]

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paulwalk @paulwalk.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/08/2026

@neonbubble every metric was in Pompey's favour... except the only one that matters. Sigh.

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Crow @abbyjane.cloverdalelane.com · 14/08/2026

I think about this a lot.

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Mauv @ThatsMauvelous • 1d the machine refused to recognize my humanity until i professed to believe that a sign painted to look like a traffic light is indeed a traffic light.
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paulwalk @paulwalk.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026

I've now had the UK government emergency alarm on my iPhone 3 times this evening :-(

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paulwalk @paulwalk.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026

I have been a happy user of SublimeText for many years.... but I think Zed might have just won me over :-)

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paulwalk @paulwalk.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026

RE: toot.cafe/@baldur/117087462321815673 "The psychological and cognitive factors in LLM use are a growing field of serious research. One study found a significant correlation between confidence in AI output and belief in the paranormal."

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paulwalk @paulwalk.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026

Experimenting with Zed (zed.dev) - a text/code editor. Although it advertises itself with all kinds of so-called "AI" support, it includes a global "disable all AI features" toggle, which is encouraging. Without any of the "AI" features, it seems like a pretty capable editor. And it's […]

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paulwalk @paulwalk.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/08/2026

RE: beige.party/@TheBadStuff/1170474399… Yes - this is exactly how I feel about it too. It has revealed how so many people care so little about what they do. I find that almost unbearably depressing

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petersuber @petersuber.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 03/08/2026

New study: "#Preprints are increasingly treated as legitimate, autonomous objects of #citation independent of their later publication status." arxiv.org/abs/2607.25220v1 PS: I'm fine with this, and so are the authors of this study. I'm from the humanities, where it's common to cite […]

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paulwalk @paulwalk.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/08/2026

@tg have been using Current for some months now and very much appreciating it and the approach to relaxing into the flow. Occasionally I would like to simply click on a source and see what they've published lately, where "lately" would be defined by the existing lifespan for that source. I […]

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Neoliberalism in a nutshell. UEFA on FIFA's proposal: “The moment external investors acquire ownership interests ... football changes forever. Commercial return becomes a permanent obligation. ... Every decision is no longer driven by what best serves the game, but by what best serves shareholders.”

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paulwalk @paulwalk.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/08/2026

RE: newsie.social/@TheConversationUS/11… I think the corrupt and batshit crazy guy on the other side might be a factor too...

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paulwalk @paulwalk.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/07/2026

Not seen one of these before. I think it's a Privet Hawk-moth caterpillar

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