Peter Hewitt @petehewitt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026"iconic meaty morsels" you may be interested in this @secondmentions.com 083
Peter Hewitt @petehewitt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026look, I know all of us outside the US hear way more US news than is healthy, and I try not to just post random links to US goings-on... but seriously, today's episode of What Is Even Happening Over There is one for the ages 001
Peter Hewitt @petehewitt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Enforce the laws! It's not complicated. If OpenAI staff commit crimes, treat them the same way as anybody else committing the same crimes. Whether they commit their crimes manually, or by using automated crime tools, is irrelevant. 000
Peter Hewitt @petehewitt.bsky.social · 20/09/2026This is an absolutely outstanding tweet in a great thread, do read up and down. People with tech backgrounds who are newly encountering a problem do tend to think themselves the first ever to really think about it. 010
Peter Hewitt @petehewitt.bsky.social · 20/09/2026There seem to be a lot of people who think that how any given frame reads visually is basically accidental, and that evocation - "does that look kind of like..." - isn't something that photographers really think about much. 021
Peter Hewitt @petehewitt.bsky.social · 19/09/2026100%. This has been planned out very precisely and deliberately. The composition of the frame and the way the light falls have been meticulously arranged to give exactly this effect. Whoever did this knows exactly what they are doing and on a technical level they're very good at it. 1211
Peter Hewitt @petehewitt.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Speaking with my photographer hat on, there is absolutely no chance - none whatsoever - that any aspect of this was accidental. This would have been carefully conceived and executed, which I think is the correct word here, to achieve precisely this effect. 020
Peter Hewitt @petehewitt.bsky.social · 19/09/2026I see Cadbury is trying to make Christmas eggs happen. 000
Peter Hewitt @petehewitt.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Nilay Patel got it exactly right when he talked about the epidemic of "software brain". 000
Peter Hewitt @petehewitt.bsky.social · 19/09/2026And when the economics guy says "When you look at the tasks where AI has made much progress, they are the ones where you have ground truth" you know he's partly thinking about Alphafold; but even on its own terms, the idea that protein structure actually has a "ground truth" is extremely shaky. 100
Peter Hewitt @petehewitt.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Everybody is making fun of this but bear in mind that in those days "patent medicines and soothing syrups" included stuff like laudanum and heroin. 000
Peter Hewitt @petehewitt.bsky.social · 16/09/2026(1) ask the White House for a big list of all the things that make it hard for them to get things done; (2) implement as many similar things as possible. 000
Peter Hewitt @petehewitt.bsky.social · 16/09/2026"Floundering is the worst of all possible worlds" is a great motto. You can't get by on loss aversion alone, in politics as in life. 020
Peter Hewitt @petehewitt.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Of course every court in the world is always overwhelmingly packed with supporters of the home player, but my word the crowd on Arthur Ashe is insufferable. 000
Peter Hewitt @petehewitt.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Zverev just plays the best American style tennis around at the moment, which makes it hard for American players trying to beat him. 000
Peter Hewitt @petehewitt.bsky.social · 02/09/2026thank you, I passed it round a few times and then ran out of energy 041
Peter Hewitt @petehewitt.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Deleted, obviously, maybe it was fake in the first instance, dunno. 1231
Peter Hewitt @petehewitt.bsky.social · 02/09/2026*shrugs* maybe it was a spoof in the first place? Idk 020
Peter Hewitt @petehewitt.bsky.social · 02/09/2026I got you. Don't know why it was deleted, maybe it's fake. 170
Peter Hewitt @petehewitt.bsky.social · 30/08/2026*cinema trailer voice* thsi summer how will fare nect whis 000
Peter Hewitt @petehewitt.bsky.social · 29/08/2026I vaguely remember hearing a presenter on some older-demographic radio station coming out with something along the lines of "...and that was a new song by a nice young lady called Taylor Swift". Anyway, let's check in with cinema news from The Economist. 000
Peter Hewitt @petehewitt.bsky.social · 28/08/2026For a while there I felt like I was getting more out of Claude but the last couple of days I've switched back to GPT {whichever is the highest one we've got}. 000
Peter Hewitt @petehewitt.bsky.social · 28/08/2026I've got through a *lot* of stuff with Copilot in the last couple of weeks. It is very good, provided you already know broadly what you're doing. 250
Peter Hewitt @petehewitt.bsky.social · 27/08/2026FWIW I've read quite a lot of his other books too and he's always worth reading - Perfect Exposure springs to mind, and maybe Fifty Paths - but there's nothing else quite as essential as Photographer's Eye really. 110
Peter Hewitt @petehewitt.bsky.social · 27/08/2026I've been taking the view that they need to develop a resistance to the psychological pressures and tricks the mobile and free-to-play games employ to drive engagement and extract payments, and they may as well do it on Roblox (and no they can't have 100 Robux to buy the golden pickaxe, or whatever) 140
Peter Hewitt @petehewitt.bsky.social · 27/08/2026My kids could be exploring my carefully-curated Library of Alexandria of the absolute pinnacles of videogame culture from the last forty-odd years, but mostly they don't. 000
Peter Hewitt @petehewitt.bsky.social · 27/08/2026100% agree. Maybe I'm out of touch, but everything popular on Roblox is the absolute dregs of empty-calories number-goes-up engagement-bait mobile game design, with meaningless "rewards" flashing everywhere instead of gameplay. 120
Peter Hewitt @petehewitt.bsky.social · 26/08/2026So... are we all migrating to Twitter, then? Maybe register your handle just to be on the safe side? 000
Peter Hewitt @petehewitt.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Incidentally, and semi-relatedly, my absolute favourite observation in that book is that you can carry your audience through unconventional technique and they will usually follow *as long as it looks intentional*. The minute they think something you've done is a mistake, though, you've lost them. 020
Peter Hewitt @petehewitt.bsky.social · 26/08/2026I think a lot about Michael Freeman's seminal instructional book The Photographer's Eye. For him, increased skill is more or less synonymous with increased control over the things in the frame and their mutual relationships and implications. Most of the book boils down to "intention is important". 220
Peter Hewitt @petehewitt.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Secondary consideration, but reading Dean's ramble there, I got the distinct impression of somebody who is massively overconfident in his own ability to write. If he'd got ChatGPT to write that for him, at least we'd have had sentences. 000
Peter Hewitt @petehewitt.bsky.social · 26/08/2026We need to consider the business model and financial situation of OpenAI with as minimal residue of sentiment as possible. Really sit with it, you know? Stare it coldly in the face. 110
Peter Hewitt @petehewitt.bsky.social · 25/08/2026As a schoolboy I was very Discworld and *extremely* They Might Be Giants, and yet somehow it took me decades to catch on to the 'We're Certainly Dwarves' joke in Soul Music. 050
Peter Hewitt @petehewitt.bsky.social · 23/08/2026for me quite a few of the Beethoven scherzos in particular really benefit from a frisson of danger, a feeling that the conductor and players are just barely holding on & not *quite* letting it spin out of control. People have been arguing forever about his tempo markings of course. 000
Peter Hewitt @petehewitt.bsky.social · 22/08/2026BBC News is not what it was, but the BBC still has the Proms, CBeebies, and Radios 3 and 4. 000
Peter Hewitt @petehewitt.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Stephen is of course entirely correct. There certainly was a time when the Proms were Tory-coded, but the arts parted company with the Conservative Party some time ago and these days they're not really on speaking terms. 130
Peter Hewitt @petehewitt.bsky.social · 18/08/2026I think his view boils down to (1) he himself is acutely, existentially sensitive to that 0.1% difference; and (2) EU bureaucrats are know-nothing barbarians, wholly ignorant of the sacred mysteries of User Experience, motivated mainly by jealousy of American technological supremacy. 000
Peter Hewitt @petehewitt.bsky.social · 13/08/2026The hill I will die on: post-launch content additions to games almost always end up feeling weird and unsatisfying, like if a film director kept going back to add extra scenes and change existing ones. Make the game and leave it be; improvements and additional content go into the sequel. 010
Peter Hewitt @petehewitt.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Bugs me - and I'm sure it bugs you too - that the ramp is perfectly aligned with the disc of the sun in the phone footage, and not in the long-lens shot that they've gone with. Did they compromise on that for the sake of getting the skateboarder centred, maybe? 010
Peter Hewitt @petehewitt.bsky.social · 13/08/2026On the other hand we had a Dualit kettle which was an overpriced kitchen ornament and ours stopped working inside three years. 010
Peter Hewitt @petehewitt.bsky.social · 13/08/2026I feel like a class traitor for admitting it but the Dualit way really is the only correct approach: set the dial by hand from zero every time you toast something. Once you can intuit the various parameters, within two weeks or so, it's perfect toast without fail. Impossible to go back. 110
Peter Hewitt @petehewitt.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Well, I got the big camera out in case the sky cleared, and guess what, it didn't. Now lightening again here. See you again in 30 years, or whatever. 000
Peter Hewitt @petehewitt.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Captured the magical moment of maximum coverage. 000
Peter Hewitt @petehewitt.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Behold, the miracles of the celestial sphere (clouds) 000
Peter Hewitt @petehewitt.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Wonder whether we're going to get clear skies for the eclipse! Oh wait, no, I don't wonder, because I'm in Belfast. 100
Peter Hewitt @petehewitt.bsky.social · 09/08/2026"Our analysis reveals just how much higher education has relied on international fees." "The economic impact of the decline in foreign students is laid bare by Sunday Times research." Heck of a lot of preening considering everybody with the slightest interest has been shouting about this for years. 030
Peter Hewitt @petehewitt.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Funny how Anthropic are hiring human experts for a project that is going to take five years to get anywhere, while also constantly telling us that The Singularity (TM) will be upon us any day now. 000
Peter Hewitt @petehewitt.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Looks like engagement bait probably? As opposed to a genuinely held terrible opinion, though I grant you it can be hard to tell. (There's basically nothing else on my X feed nowadays, the odd time I find it necessary to search for something on there.) 000
