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Peter Gasston

@petergasston.co.uk
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Londoner, digital technology enthusiast, generalist, humanist, protopist, left-of-centrist, not a futurist.

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Peter Gasston @petergasston.co.uk · 01/10/2026
And the Double Sided: www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHqP...
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Gboard 両面バージョン
YouTube video by Google Japan
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Peter Gasston @petergasston.co.uk · 01/10/2026
This is the latest in a series of unhinged design experiments from Google Japan; previous versions include the Rotary Dial: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgdW...
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Gboard ダイヤルバージョン / Gboard Dial Version
YouTube video by Google Japan
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Peter Gasston @petergasston.co.uk · 01/10/2026
Gboard Conveyor Belt version — what if you didn’t have to move your hands across the keyboard, but could just keep a hand still and wait for the key to come to you? www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAn3...
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Gboard くるくるバージョン
YouTube video by Google Japan
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Peter Gasston @petergasston.co.uk · 29/09/2026
May I invite Manus Cue (launched yesterday) into the conversation?
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Peter Gasston @petergasston.co.uk · 29/09/2026
Who did it best? OpenAI’s Dots vs. Manus’ Cue.
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Matt Muir @mattmuir.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Would you like an antidote to All The Politics? Would you like to know who has won the 2026 Tiny Award for the best small, non-commercial website of the past 12 months (and a small, handmade trophy)? YES YOU WOULD! Thanks to everyone who voted (thousands!), and see you in 2027: tinyawards.net/2026/
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Peter Gasston @petergasston.co.uk · 27/09/2026
At least you’re earlier than Google Slides, which STILL doesn’t support it.
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The Observer @theobserveruk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
AI Cities Index 2026 ✍️ Hannah Schuller bit.ly/4rC3Q3W
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AI Cities Index 2026 | The Observer
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Peter Gasston @petergasston.co.uk · 24/09/2026
Of everything just announced at #MetaConnect, I’m most excited about the new VR Glasses; I still believe in VR, and I’ve been waiting for the technology to make it more practical — and these look like a big step towards that. about.fb.com/news/2026/09...
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Introducing Meta VR Glasses: A Cinema, Courtside Seat, and Workspace in Just 100 Grams
We’re introducing Meta VR Glasses: a new era for virtual reality in a pair of glasses you can comfortably wear for hours.
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Peter Gasston @petergasston.co.uk · 23/09/2026
The (legacy / mainstream / established) media is 100% responsible for giving this thing oxygen.
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Peter Gasston @petergasston.co.uk · 21/09/2026
Tried to take some photos of the screen at an event today but, because I wasn't wearing my glasses, the only thing in focus was the big bald head in front of me.
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Peter Gasston @petergasston.co.uk · 21/09/2026
I missed most of the “10% chance that AI will kill us all” discourse (thankfully), but a core principle of scientific skepticism is that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence; I’ve yet to see any evidence presented, and in it’s absence I’d question who is making that claim, and why.
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Peter Gasston @petergasston.co.uk · 19/09/2026
Rural English place names are unbeatable.
Map showing “Slap Bottom”
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Peter Gasston @petergasston.co.uk · 16/09/2026
From ‘A Swarm of Blood Robots’, by @craigmod.com craigmod.com/essays/robot...
I don’t know what to say to folks who doubt the usefulness of these tools. There’s a reason companies are going bananas to build out more infrastructure — we are just at the start of the deployment curve, and those using them are acutely aware of the value. Today’s scale of use will look downright Lilliputian in a decade.

But the only way to understand their power is to use them (and stop reading hot takes on social media).
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Peter Gasston @petergasston.co.uk · 13/09/2026
Absolutely stunning how many experts in the domain of AI safety are on social media. 🙃
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P(aul) Frazee @pfrazee.com · 10/09/2026
Demand DCs use renewable energy. Demand access to open weight models. Learn how to use AI effectively to do things you couldn't otherwise. Dont fire strays at friends
a guy saying "fuck your slop" shooting at ai companies (who dont care). the bullet reflects back and hits a guy holding something syaing "hey guys check out this thing I made"
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Peter Gasston @petergasston.co.uk · 06/09/2026
He was just annoyed at himself for missing an earlier pass, according to Gary Neville.
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Nicole Hennig @nic221.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
DOJ Enters the AI Copyright Fight — and Mostly Gets It Right – Matthew Sag matthewsag.com/doj-enters-the… #AI #copyright
Text Shot: It told the court, in essence, that it should hold that training large language models on copyrighted works is fair use.
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Peter Gasston @petergasston.co.uk · 03/09/2026
There are a lot of blurred lines in there, but an attempt at a shared language is much more useful than just lumping everything under “AI”.
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Peter Gasston @petergasston.co.uk · 03/09/2026
They classify it broadly in three types: * Utility Techniques & Embedded AI (e.g. upscaling, denoising, rotoscoping) * Human Generative Workflows (artist-controlled pipelines, e.g. ComfyUI) * Machine Generative (largely prompt-based, less human control)
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Peter Gasston @petergasston.co.uk · 03/09/2026
A group of Hollywood bigwigs, lead by Kathleen Kennedy, have been meeting to discuss the impact of #AI. Their first public outcome: a framework of how to talk about its different applications to the craft, so that at least everyone is on the same page (I think this is important, too)…
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First Look: Hollywood’s Secret AI Talks Go Public. Here’s the Plan - The Ankler
Kathleen Kennedy quietly convened Oscar winners, actors, studio execs, Silicon Valley — and me. Now our first public framework draws a line in favor of human-controlled AI
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Peter Gasston @petergasston.co.uk · 02/09/2026
This makes me furious: while people are angrily venting about data centres and water, we’re losing thousands of millions of litres to leaks. Even using aggressive estimates, water leakage is over 100 times higher than data centres use. www.the-londoner.co.uk/why-thames-w...
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How Thames Water fell apart, according to its own engineer
‘It was all about selling things off. Sell, sell, sell’
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Peter Gasston @petergasston.co.uk · 01/09/2026
Spotted this ad for Google Gemini in London Bridge this weekend. Points for localisation (the strawberries in chocolate at Borough Market are a rip-off) and the call-to-action (“use a photo of this prompt in Gemini to try it”).
Sign on a billboard: I JUST SPENT £9.50 ON CHOCOLATE STRAWBERRIES, BUT THE KIDS WANT MORE FOOD. I NEED IDEAS FOR THE BEST BUDGET-FRIENDLY THINGS TO EAT AROUND LONDON BRIDGE FOR A FAMILY OF 5. HURRY... THEY ARE GETTING HUNGRY
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Matt Muir @mattmuir.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
We have whittled down all the nominations to our shortlist for the 2026 Tiny Awards! 11 of the most beautiful, interesting, heartfelt, weird, silly websites from the past year, for you to explore and enjoy and vote on - pick your favourite, vote for the winner, TELL THE WORLD! tinyawards.net/vote/
An image of the Tiny Awards logo with the word 'VOTE' underneath it
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Mike Caulfield @mikecaulfield.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Wrote a bit on how I agree with Masley that most concerns about data centers are driven by beliefs specifically about data centers (you should read that piece first) but added three notes mikecaulfield.substack.com/p/note-on-ma...
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Note on Masley’s “I think the data center backlash is mostly about data centers”
Three related points
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Andy Masley @andymasley.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I'm pretty unsure about what's causing the data center backlash, but after following it for over a year I lean toward the explanation that it's about data centers. Just finished this new post with my argument blog.andymasley.com/p/i-think-th...
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I think the data center backlash is mostly about data centers
It’s probably not your ideological thing, or mine. It’s about object-level claims about how data centers impact the communities where they’re built, many of which are wrong.
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Richard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
This is not just a problem for games
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Peter Gasston @petergasston.co.uk · 19/08/2026
“The default way many educated people think about the environmental effects of individual industrial buildings, which they believe is a morally serious and far-seeing way of questioning authority and fighting for the environment, often looks to me surprisingly childish and unserious.”
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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
These are two videos of an otter using a laptop on an airplane, generated by AI running entirely on my local computer, one in late 2024, and the other today. The first one took 20 minutes using Allegro, the latest 3 minutes using MiniMax H3, and includes sound.
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Peter Gasston @petergasston.co.uk · 16/08/2026
Another season of #PremierLeague football starts, and another season where @bsky.app is a genuinely dreadful place to follow it live. 48 minutes since the feed last updated, in which time we've had half time, a goal, and many subs.
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Peter Gasston @petergasston.co.uk · 16/08/2026
Has anyone done the ‘Quantum of Tzolis’ pun yet? #Arsenal
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Peter Gasston @petergasston.co.uk · 14/08/2026
“AI is just a fad, like NFTs and The Metaverse.”
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PM2.5 Kills ~9 Million People Each Year Worldwide @tkovach.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
A decade ago, Elon Musk called burning fossil fuels “the dumbest experiment in history." Now he owns a gas turbine company and has quickly turned into a fossil fuel tycoon.
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Elon Musk, the World’s Most Famous EV Pioneer, Is Now Leaning Into Fossil Fuels
SpaceX is planning a Texas natural gas plant to power a new chip facility, while gas turbines are already being used for campuses in Tennessee and Mississippi.
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Matt Muir @mattmuir.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Friday! Lunchtime! Links for when it's too hot to do anything but click (ie RIGHT NOW)! Web Curios! Share, enjoy, sweat, pray for the sweet release of death (or at least sub-30-degree temperatures)! webcurios.co.uk/webcurios-14...
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Google for Developers @developers.google.com · 13/08/2026
Introducing Gemini 3.7 Flash ⚡ It is our most intelligent workhorse model yet for coding and agents. It delivers better intelligence for complex workflows —all at the introductory price of $0.75/1M input tokens and $3.75/1M output tokens through the end of year. 🧵
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Peter Gasston @petergasston.co.uk · 13/08/2026
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Peter Gasston @petergasston.co.uk · 13/08/2026
Pangram gets my newsletter wrong consistently. I estimate that 15%-20% of it uses AI summaries; Pangram says 100% human.
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Peter Gasston @petergasston.co.uk · 10/08/2026
My newsletter, Tech Landscape, is a weekly curated selection of news about digital technology, social media, and online culture. New edition every Monday. techlandscape.substack.com
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Bluesky @bsky.app · 10/08/2026
v1.130 is live! Want to follow someone for their posts but not their reposts? Now you can — turn on "Hide reposts in feeds" for any account you follow.
A screenshot demonstrating how to hide reposts from an individual user: Go to their profile, tap the three-dot icon at top right, and select "Hide reposts in feeds" from the drop-down menu.
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Nicole Hennig @nic221.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
If anyone can create a great song, what makes me special? - Paul Smith www.linkedin.com/pulse/anyone-c… #AI #music
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If anyone can create a great song, what makes me special?
What if AI doesn’t make creativity less valuable, but exposes how much we've confused artistic value with rarity, mastery with meaning—and being special with actually mattering? There is something strange about the current anxiety over AI making music, and I think the easiest way to see it is to act
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Peter Gasston @petergasston.co.uk · 09/08/2026
I get unreasonably annoyed by headlines that include me in things I haven't done, like not giving Ariana Grande a break.
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Peter Gasston @petergasston.co.uk · 06/08/2026
From my experience of working in a large Google-using organisation, 3.6 Flash is more than enough for all but a handful of specialists, largely data and coders.
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Peter Gasston @petergasston.co.uk · 05/08/2026
#ArtetaOut
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Peter Gasston @petergasston.co.uk · 05/08/2026
There's also a burgeoning industry trying to create ‘taste’ for AI, e.g. tastelabs.com
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Taste Labs - The taste layer for AI
We're giving AI models and agents taste | Join our mission to end AI slop.
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Andres Guadamuz @technollama.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
GEMA v Suno: Another landmark AI copyright case from Germany While a lot of the attention in the AI and copyright space has gone to the hundreds of ongoing cases in the US, courts around the world have been tackling the question of copyright infringement already, with several landmark decisions…
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GEMA v Suno: Another landmark AI copyright case from Germany
While a lot of the attention in the AI and copyright space has gone to the hundreds of ongoing cases in the US, courts around the world have been tackling the question of copyright infringement already, with several landmark decisions taking place in Germany. We've had the LAION saga, but most importantly, the German collective society GEMA has been extremely busy litigating in this space, leading to a couple of landmark decisions, last year's…
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Peter Gasston @petergasston.co.uk · 05/08/2026
🤐 www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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AI-generated stories rated better quality than human-written ones, study finds
Researcher says simpler writing by AI is easier to read and digest, but this does not mean human authors are obsolete
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Peter Gasston @petergasston.co.uk · 04/08/2026
Reading this interview with new @bsky.app CEO and he says this: “It [Bluesky] doesn’t have algorithms.” So… how does the ‘Discover‘ feed work?
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Peter Gasston @petergasston.co.uk · 02/08/2026
By ‘interesting take’ you mean a highly speculative mashup of two entirely unrelated things?
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Andres Guadamuz @technollama.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Fahrenheit 451 or Rainbows End? AI, books, and copyright law One of my favourite science fiction novels is 'Rainbows End' by Vernor Vinge. The year is 2025 (yes, seriously), and the world is a mixture of the familiar and the bizarre. Advances in medicine allow older people to become mobile and…
technollama.co.uk
Fahrenheit 451 or Rainbows End? AI, books, and copyright law
One of my favourite science fiction novels is 'Rainbows End' by Vernor Vinge. The year is 2025 (yes, seriously), and the world is a mixture of the familiar and the bizarre. Advances in medicine allow older people to become mobile and youthful again, but these newly young old people are unprepared for the world in which they awaken, full of digital wonders and wearable tech, particularly augmented reality, which is everywhere.
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Peter Gasston @petergasston.co.uk · 30/07/2026
I wrote a thing about the current AI and books ‘scandal’ that’s rocking certain sections of social networks. petergasston.co.uk/ai-books-not...
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AI & Books: notes from a moral panic
The practice of AI companies using old books for training data provides a case study in how moral disinformation and misinformation spreads in a moral panic.
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