Reposted by Simon Boothtef @tef.bsky.social · 4hi've been saying "knowledge transfer is dead, people don't ask their coworkers questions anymore" for a while now, but honestly it's kinda funny that we're setting out to build a god and ended up with a tower of babel 37219
Reposted by Simon BoothNo Pun Included @nopunincluded.com · 2hEmbarrassing to mail this to press. Sad @spacecentre.bsky.social is cool with this. 14432
Reposted by Simon Boothtante @tante.cc · 51mI do feel a very similar kind of grief when I think about "AI" and what its usage does to our cultural expression and our collaborative infrastructures. 4467
Reposted by Simon Boothtante @tante.cc · 51mThere's a form of grief about the state of the climate, the species we killed with out actions, the damage we've done to the ecosystem. Grief about not what we "lost" but what we destroyed (often through negligence). 1466
Reposted by Simon BoothCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 12/10/2026"AI researchers are taking up smoking because they expect AI to cure cancer, says Palantir CTO"businessinsider.comAI researchers are taking up smoking because they expect AI to cure cancer, says Palantir CTOSome AI believers expect the technology to make smoking-related health risks like cancer a thing of the past, Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar said. 5191499390
Reposted by Simon BoothWilliam Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Having long been aware of those tech bros who read my work as utopian porn, where they’ve taken that doesn’t exactly surprise me. 12074191894
Reposted by Simon BoothDavid Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026 31128213997
Reposted by Simon BoothLance Parkin @lanceparkin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Tech employment. You can vividly see the collapses of the two Trump adminstrations as distinct archaeological layers. If you're wondering where the 'AI boom' in skilled tech jobs is, it's where it's always been: in the land of make-believe, you moron. 032
Reposted by Simon BoothPatricia Aas 🐢🏳️🌈 @patigallardo.bsky.social · 20/06/2026This collective LLM delusion is completely baffling to me. People are talking like truth, correctness, precision, performance, security… none of it matters anymore. Generating a lie is «good enough». Wtf is wrong with people? If correctness doesn’t matter, why would I pay you? A wrong answer is free 1121766
Simon Booth @percysnoodle.bsky.social · 26/09/2026AI is a tool for replacing workers. It won’t destroy the world with killer robots or nukes. But it might be the reason that the next Stanislav Petrov isn’t there. Happy anniversary. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_So...en.wikipedia.org1983 Soviet nuclear false alarm incident - Wikipedia 001
Reposted by Simon BoothElizabeth Sandifer @eruditorumpress.com · 15/09/2026The problem is that "while you weren't looking the tech industry was comprehensively taken over by a cult based around a piece of Harry Potter fanfic" is self-evidently an absolutely ridiculous claim that can't possibly have happened, which is a real problem given that it 100% did happen. 4429421012
Reposted by Simon BoothDr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social · 14/09/2026This is just a spectacular unintentional self-own 10065491389
Reposted by Simon BoothMatt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social · 14/09/2026It was exactly ten years ago today, on my 33rd birthday, that I posted this comic online. 485297737664
Reposted by Simon BoothTimnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 13/09/2026There are many many stories here. One of them, is that this is straight out of the tobacco & fossil fuel playbook. Have the same companies and billionaires fund "independent" institutes staffed by the same people, and "cite" their reports as "independent experts" showing "consensus."🧵 6220103
Reposted by Simon BoothGrant @syncingsinking.bsky.social · 10/09/2026This is just to say I have solved the open questions that were in your paper and which you were probably saving for your phd students Forgive me they were delicious so incentive-laden and followed so readily once your postdoc's drafts mysteriously found their way into my training data 4357115
Reposted by Simon BoothPavel @spavel.bsky.social · 11/09/2026If Hugo continues to grow at this rate, by 2030 he will no longer fit in the barn. By 2050 he will have grown to the size of Godzilla and could crush humanity. But if we let the Chinese grow their own Hugo first that would be bad. This is why we must invest 100 trillion dollars in Hugo immediately. 1450196
Reposted by Simon BoothAlice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Glaciers collapse, disasters ensue. And then we’re expected to ignore all that because we can make fun AI images and google can badly summarise Wikipedia. Seriously. AI - Fuck off. 391689283
Reposted by Simon Boothqntm @qntm.org · 08/09/2026Ah, those classic OpenAI ethical boundaries you hear so much about them not havingcims.nyu.edu 2514
Reposted by Simon BoothLance Parkin @lanceparkin.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Here's the third. www.bbc.com/news/article...bbc.comJive Bunny And The Mastermixers creator John Pickles dies at 84Tributes are paid to John Pickles, who formed the novelty pop act in Rotherham in 1989. 001
Reposted by Simon BoothUna Mullally @unamullally.bsky.social · 02/09/2026The battle to keep global heating from passing the agreed 1.5-degree threshold has been lost. This should be an era when human ingenuity works to save the planet from catastrophe. Instead the tech broligarchy is busy embarking upon ludicrous AI data centre “infrastructure” fuelled by coal and gas.irishtimes.comBattle to halt global heating at 1.5 degrees is lost - UNFocus must now switch to limiting extent of overshoot, says United Nations' climate report 10286154
Reposted by Simon BoothJoshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 02/09/2026“There’s a new Mr. Beast book.” You bolt awake in your workshop in Mainz. It’s 1450. You’re Johannes Gutenberg, and you’ve changed your mind. The future cannot come to pass. Your printing press must burn. 6979501450
Reposted by Simon BoothDanny 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 ⚡️ 14172121753
Reposted by Simon BoothDr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Optimist: the cup is half full Pessimist: the cup is half empty British cook or baker: for goodness sake, why can’t you give quantities for dry ingredients by weight? 411123182
Simon Booth @percysnoodle.bsky.social · 23/08/2026It is, and people need telling so. Anyway, people can turn of reskeets now. 111
Reposted by Simon Boothtef @tef.bsky.social · 21/08/2026MANAGEMENT: We're going to eliminate skilled worker roles and replace them with lower paid jobs supervising the machine. Although productivity and quality will suffer, it'll be worth it to ensure you're that little bit more disposable. PROGRAMMER: Good thing i'm an expert on talking to the machine 312617
Reposted by Simon Boothtef @tef.bsky.social · 20/08/2026PROGRAMMER: They keep talking about dead children, but none of them understand what a tensor is. They're not thinking about the future, where none of the bad things happen, and good things happen instead because I have these tools. GUN OWNER: Tell me about it. 116819
Reposted by Simon Boothtef @tef.bsky.social · 20/08/2026FRONTIER LABS: We turned up the sycophancy because it produces addictive behaviour, and had to turn it down because of all the lawsuits. We promise to find a good midpoint between revenue and psychosis PROGRAMMER: Thank god technology is neutral FRONTIER LABS: We're building a god, actually 222447
Reposted by Simon Boothtef @tef.bsky.social · 20/08/2026CAPITAL: We have invented a machine that can cross picket lines PROGRAMMERS: I bet this will give us four day weekends. The left need to get behind this. What else can it do CAPITAL: Psychosis! Deepfakes! Propaganda! Plagerism! Yaml! Todo Apps! PROGRAMMERS: Run those last two past me again 4548143
Reposted by Simon BoothNeil Miles @neilsmiles.com · 17/08/202629th August 1985 - An excited Michael Fish gets to deploy the rarely seen red number as the temperature gets up to an incredible 26 degrees in London! 511656711
Reposted by Simon BoothWillow @rockshrimp.bsky.social · 28/04/2026Every time I see someone talk about Claude I think about how they switched from female to male names as soon as they wanted the robots to seem like experts vs personal assistants. 11106973142
Reposted by Simon BoothBen Lesnick @banditloaf.wcnews.com · 15/08/2026It’s the role she was born to play! 231864355
Reposted by Simon BoothWoodo @woodo.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Lest we forget a guy just got hounded to death by the national media for what should have been an internal employee conduct matter regarding plagiarism in the same week Andy Burnham announced it's unavoidable & vital that young people be trained up in how to use an industrialised plagiarism machine. 123981
Reposted by Simon BoothPaul Bassett Davies @thewritertype.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Dear government, don’t send startling, high-pitched alerts about wildfires to ordinary people's phones. Send them to the CEOs of fossil fuel companies and make them impossible to switch off until they stop the destructive plunder that's contributing to climate change. 18495192252
Reposted by Simon BoothLawrence Miles @lawrence-miles.bsky.social · 16/08/2026"Minister for AI" is startling because it's a rare case of the Demonstrably Evil Thing getting the official title. Imagine a Minister for Diseases instead of Health, Illiteracy instead of Education, Propaganda instead of Culture, Euthanasia instead of Pensions, Russian Oligarchs instead of Housing - 1173
Reposted by Simon BoothBaldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 12/08/2026Because this is exactly what people in the tech industry are starting to sound like. 2506
Reposted by Simon BoothBaldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 12/08/2026If you lived in a world where smoking was returning in full force—through unethical, manipulative, and probably illegal tactics tobacco use was returning to 1960s levels—would you work within the tobacco industry to make it less bad? "Nicotine is an excellent ADHD drug so it can help accessibility!" 37624
Reposted by Simon BoothAnne @anneb.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Looking in the card section and this font seems a bit off. 6678141988
Reposted by Simon BoothGretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 09/10/2025Higgledy piggledy Timothée Chalamet Has a name meriting Endless design Much like his forerunner Benedict Cumberbatch: Hexasyllabically, Easy to rhyme 522938839
Simon Booth @percysnoodle.bsky.social · 07/08/2026I thought it had one of the highest proportions of intended comedy to actual comedy that I’ve ever seen in non-LD trek. (I think I laughed three times) 000
Reposted by Simon BoothMovies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 02/08/2026During the original Harry Potter boom, some librarians and academics expressed concern about kids wanting to read ONLY that. They were shouted down. "AT LEAST THEY ARE READING, THEY WILL GET A TASTE AND LOVE ALL READING SOON" Three decades on, I think we owe the librarians and academics an apology 226252
Reposted by Simon BoothDread and Rosie @rosiemund.bsky.social · 31/07/2026It'd be really fucked up if we made a machine that made you less empathetic & more angry & also made it quick & easy & safe to maim & kill people & then we made life really difficult for anyone not using the machine & called anyone saying it was fucked up extreme & unreasonable. That'd be fucked up. 0215
Simon Booth @percysnoodle.bsky.social · 31/07/2026TIL that Frybo and Farage were based on the same original character bsky.app/profile/fune... 030
Reposted by Simon BoothRoyal Astronomical Society @royalastrosoc.bsky.social · 27/07/2026The Royal Astronomical Society is shocked and dismayed to hear that the UK's iconic Jodrell Bank Observatory is at risk of closure amid a slew of catastrophic budget cuts. Read our full statement here: ras.ac.uk/news-and-pre... 8387182
Simon Booth @percysnoodle.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Just dropped a glass ramekin, which broke. When I saw that some of the glass might have gone into our kettle, I heard myself say out loud, “smashing”. Nobody else was there to see or hear it. 000
