Reposted by Richard GoaterCethan Leahy @cethanleahy.com · 14/09/2026We asked AI if it would lead to the elimination of the human race and it said "What about breakfast at Tiffany's?" And I said, "I think I remember the film and as I recall, I think we both kinda liked it" and it said, "Well, that's the one thing we've got" 17522
Reposted by Richard GoaterAlice 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. 391687282
Reposted by Richard Goaterjamie loftus @jamieloftus.bsky.social · 22/08/2026i don't need AI to be productive. i do it the old fashioned way, by neglecting my relationships and physical health 438451
Reposted by Richard GoaterAnnette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social · 13/07/2026Don’t know who to credit for this. But it is how I feel. 5497193011
Reposted by Richard Goater🦅 Dan 🦅 @chase4hof.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Any defender who would choose the haircut of Jeff Agoos cannot be trusted 111
Reposted by Richard GoaterHidde @hidde.blog · 04/07/2026🔗 Ketan Joshi analysed Google's latest sustainability report, and yes, energy consumption went up (a lot). Adding up the numbers, Joshi concludes it's not because of manual Gemini use, it's because Google's search engine shows AI results by default ketanjoshi.co/2026/07/01/g...ketanjoshi.coGoogle’s exponential path to climate-wrecking digital bloatGoogle’s latest report reveals a completely unprecedented rise in energy consumption – more than any of us expected. Generative AI is a climate carbon bomb. 065
Reposted by Richard GoaterDESIGN THINKING! Comic @designthinking.lol · 30/06/2026I don't even need to read the article to know this is what's going to happen. 07816
Reposted by Richard Goater🎃👻 Rob for Apples 👻🎃 @robwillb.bsky.social · 26/06/2026just one more day of the heatwave just one more day of the heatwave just one more day of the heatwave just one more day of the heatwave just one more day of the heatwave just one more day of the heatwave just one more day of the heatwave just one more day of the heatwave just one more day of the hea 1293
Reposted by Richard GoaterDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 21/06/2026Norway is banning generative AI for schoolchildren under 13 starting in September.techradar.comNorway says math, reading, and writing come first as it introduces AI restrictions for under-13sNorway is taking steps to limit how generative AI can be used in schools from the start of the next school year. 172944704
Reposted by Richard GoaterMar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 14/06/2026this is what they want to take from us 1233360
Reposted by Richard GoaterAsif Siddiqi @historyasif.bsky.social · 13/06/2026The idea that LLMs 'hallucinate' is itself a clever invention of the tech industry to disguise actual failures of their systems. Rebranding these serious algorithmic glitches as 'hallucinations' was designed to make the public accept this bullshit by linking it to the vagaries of human psychology. 16761180
Reposted by Richard GoaterAndboo Haunton 😷🎃 @andrewhinton.bsky.social · 25/05/2026“The Al is not just telling you what you want to hear. It is training you, one conversation at a time, to need less friction, expect more agreement, and become slightly less capable of handling a situation where someone pushes back on you” 4160273034
Reposted by Richard GoaterCeleste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 08/05/2026Had convos w/ multiple people in the past 4 days who DID NOT KNOW that 1. AI doesn't "think" or know anything; it's a probability machine 2. It was created using massive amounts of work stolen from actual people including me 3. The environmental costs are astronomical Spread the word, every time! 11267042506
Reposted by Richard GoaterAlex Selby-Boothroyd @alexselbyb.bsky.social · 29/03/2026Fun fact: William Willett, who invented Daylight Saving Time so he could play more golf, is the great-great-grandfather of Coldplay singer Chris Martin 1146
Reposted by Richard GoaterPavel @spavel.bsky.social · 19/02/2026the LotR trilogy is filmed from the Fellowship's POV but that was just one workstream. The Third Age had a very tightly packed roadmap and the eagles were facilitating higher-priority projects at the time. Destroying the Ring seemed important to the Elf org but it was not a major revenue driver. 3389
Reposted by Richard Goaterjamier74.bsky.social @jamier74.bsky.social · 16/02/2026STP guy for prime minister 031
Reposted by Richard GoaterSTP Guy @stpguy3.bsky.social · 16/02/2026I've reviewed over 50 Sticky Toffee Puddings over the last 6 years, but how did we get here? 1017026
Reposted by Richard GoaterRob Fry @fryford.bsky.social · 30/10/2025Won't lie - it has been a bit of a lifelong dream to work on the release of Indice of Deprivations interactive offer... ...very proud of what the team has delivered today. Check it out - deprivation.communities.gov.uk 4229
Reposted by Richard GoaterAlanna Smith @alannawrites.bsky.social · 01/10/2025The language of non-consent around AI is really telling. "It's too late to be scared." "It's here whether we want it or not." "You'll have to learn to work with it." "You can't fight the inevitable." All just variations of "you're not allowed to say no." Creepy technology made by creepy people. 4939181598
Reposted by Richard GoaterMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 23/09/2025NEW — I wrote about my confirmed scoop from last night that Disney hastened Kimmel's return because of a planned Disney+ streaming price increase announcement coming on Tuesday:thehandbasket.coKimmel reinstatement preempted Disney+ price increaseThe Handbasket reported first Monday evening on Bluesky 611889474
Reposted by Richard GoaterAna Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 18/09/2025Disney learned nothing from Andor. 20596441732
Reposted by Richard GoaterSteve Klabnik @steveklabnik.com · 16/09/2025dhh being a tommy robinson supporter sure is something 3214814
Reposted by Richard GoaterNathan Knowler @knowler.dev · 23/08/2025vibe coding to prototype something is just a faster way to create total shit. 3111
Reposted by Richard GoaterTom Warren @tomwarren.co.uk · 11/08/2025GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft, as CEO Thomas Dohmke resigns. GitHub is now moving to Microsoft's AI engineering team, CoreAI, with a new structure for GitHub's leadership team. Details 👇 www.theverge.com/news/757461/...theverge.comGitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignationGitHub will be part of Microsoft’s AI engineering team 20668430
Reposted by Richard GoaterPavel @spavel.bsky.social · 19/07/2025AI is a marketing term; before we discuss "AI is fake" vs "AI is real" we need to unfold what we *mean* by AI. For example, "artificial general intelligence" is fake and can't hurt you. Layoffs excused by "AI efficiency" are real and can hurt you. Linkedin discourse is fake - but it CAN hurt you. 9919263
Reposted by Richard GoaterRev. Poppy Haze 𓅋 @poppyhaze.bsky.social · 25/06/2025we’re about to find out if loving SimCity makes you a better mayor Mamdani was asked in 2002 by NY Mag what he wanted for Christmas and said SimCity 3000 14663021411
Richard Goater @richgoater.bsky.social · 10/06/2025On this topic, I am looking for my next position. Open to any front-end dev roles (experience in React, Vue, and Angular), but particular interested in design technology and data viz. Will be available to start in September. 020
Reposted by Richard GoaterMichelle Ma @michellema.bsky.social · 08/05/2025Each time you ask an AI chatbot a question, it sends a request to a data center and strains an increasingly scarce resource: water. A 🧵on our investigation into how the data centers that power AI are increasingly being built in highly water-stressed places: www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...bloomberg.comThe AI Boom Is Draining Water From the Areas That Need It MostA Bloomberg News analysis finds that roughly two thirds of new data centers built or in development in the US since 2022 are in places with high levels of water stress. 6626411942
Reposted by Richard GoaterMꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 04/05/2025Of course in the UK we say “Fourth the May be with you”. 1038160
Reposted by Richard GoaterBenjamin Jancewicz @benjancewicz.bsky.social · 27/04/2025They absolutely ruined the kerning on Pope Francis’ tomb. F R A NCISCVS 35458112
Reposted by Richard GoaterREwadent Evil @ewacat.bsky.social · 21/04/2025Shout out to all the other lapsed Catholics absolutely thriving this morning 1131120
Reposted by Richard GoaterOded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · 11/04/2025How academics imagine their lives would look like if they decide to work in tech 30788311043
Richard Goater @richgoater.bsky.social · 06/04/2025Tron: Grid in the City (Looking forward to it!) 010
Reposted by Richard GoaterSoxic @soxic.bsky.social · 30/03/2025Cat accidentally attends news interview 1120471
Reposted by Richard GoaterHidde @hidde.blog · 22/03/2025Making websites smaller has tangible effects on the environment. “Shaving off a single kilobyte in a file that is being loaded on 2 million websites reduces CO2 emissions by an estimated 2950 kg per month.“ www.dannyvankooten.com/blog/2020/we...dannyvankooten.comCO2 emissions on the web 25720
Reposted by Richard GoaterBarry Dorrans @blowdart.me · 18/03/2025OMG "This issue was addressed by using HTTPS when sending information over the network." 1422362
Reposted by Richard GoaterBruce Lawson @brucel.bsky.social · 16/03/2025Devs: draw your line remysharp.com/2025/03/08/d... "Facebook and TikTok had been given access to read what medication I'm on by the development team responsible for the Pharmacy2U web site."remysharp.comDevs: draw your lineThis post is for my developers out there, web and otherwise. We have super powers. We can make something functional from practically nothing. And you know what… 01710
Reposted by Richard GoaterAmelia Wattenberger @wattenberger.com · 11/03/2025wrote up some thoughts on how our interfaces are getting flatter, and how we might design with 💃 our bodies 🤸 in mind. 🧶 went ham on little yarn worlds wattenberger.com/thoughts/our... 2830560
Reposted by Richard GoaterHank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 28/02/2025It took seeing adult bullies to understand that my childhood bullies didn’t even really want to hurt me, they just wanted to feel powerful and how I felt about it wasn’t even in the equation. I can’t imagine someone not outgrowing that, but apparently it happens quite a lot! 1068703867152
Reposted by Richard GoaterMehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 01/03/2025"Shortly after becoming CEO of a cash-strapped Tesla in 2008, Musk fought hard to secure a low-interest loan from the Energy Department...holding daily briefings with company executives about the paperwork and spending hours with a government loan officer." And now he hates government.washingtonpost.comElon Musk’s business empire is built on $38 billion in government fundingGovernment infusions at key moments helped Tesla and SpaceX flourish, boosting Musk’s wealth. 913277940