Reposted by Steve RiddleAlex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 13/09/2026"The AI industry reminds me of those serial killers who are desperate to get caught, so they keep sending notes to the police that read 'pLeAsE sToP mE'. But everyone just assumes they're doing it for attention." 1315736
Steve Riddle @riddsteve.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Really enjoyed this from the 3 Tynes podcast - lovely music and conversation substack.com/@3tynespodca...substack.comYaryna Kvitka: musician, artist and performer from UkraineToday, my guest is Yaryna Kvitka, a singer, artist and performer whose upbringing in western Ukraine has created a love of tradition in both folk music and her country. 010
Reposted by Steve RiddleStephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 11/07/2026I, a human, wrote and drew this cartoon with my human body and sent it to human art printers who printed it with their human hands and you a human (?) can now buy a ltd edition print of it in my shop! Link in bio 8406122
Steve Riddle @riddsteve.bsky.social · 11/06/2026Well that was both a weird as I'd hoped and as unnerving as I'd feared. I was probably more unsettled by the conversation with Carrie Quinlan than anything else. I do hope she's ok. Time to go back and listen to both series.. 111
Reposted by Steve RiddleNewcastle University School of Computing @computingnewcastle.bsky.social · 13/02/2026Is AI good for education? That's the question being considered in this recent From Newcastle podcast, with School of Computing's Phillip Lord and Dean of Postgraduate Research David Kennedy from @sagencl.bsky.social. 🎧 lnkd.in/eYmwuHfA #ArtificialIntelligence #FromNewcastle #HigherEducation 001
Reposted by Steve RiddleRichard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 18/02/20262026 basically 3024088010868
Reposted by Steve RiddleSimon Mayo @simonmayo.bsky.social · 15/12/2025My favourite movie line. Thank you Rob Reiner. 111004183
Reposted by Steve RiddleOdd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 10/08/2025Today is the 47th anniversary of this clearly unimprovable photo, from a story so absurd that it shouldn’t be true, but is: the day a team of workers from British Waterways pulled the plug out of the Chesterfield Canal, and all the water emptied out 612578938
Reposted by Steve RiddleK. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social · 28/06/2025The singularity is awesome 271207174329
Reposted by Steve RiddleDavenant 📸 @marcdavenant.bsky.social · 09/06/2025Study shows that relying on generative AI kills off your critical thinking skills. gizmodo.com/microsoft-study-finds-r…gizmodo.comMicrosoft Study Finds Relying on AI Kills Your Critical Thinking SkillsResearchers from Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon University warn that the more you use AI, the more your cognitive abilities deteriorate. 5299163
Reposted by Steve RiddleSteve Riddle @riddsteve.mastodon.org.uk.ap.brid.gy · 09/05/2025#DailyHaikuPrompt - lush Howway bonny lad Ham pease pudding, that's ma bait Geet lush stotty cyek #haiku Happy Geordie cliché haiku Friday 143
Reposted by Steve RiddleSteve Riddle @riddsteve.mastodon.org.uk.ap.brid.gy · 11/04/2025Sneaking in a few days in Dublin before heading back to work next week. Beautiful weather today for a train trip to Howth, walking on the cliffs for a couple of hours. The smell of that gorse.. #dublin #howth #cliffs #lighthouse #walking 041
Reposted by Steve RiddleHeard Island Government @heardislandgov.bsky.social · 03/04/2025Rico: “They’ll never know we exported anything from their science love shack.” Julian: “If the Albatross find out, this will blow back” Rico: “I say we green light.” Howard Lutnick: …. Rico: “We are currently clean on Opsec”. 1652273
Reposted by Steve RiddleJanel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 03/04/2025I have tariffed the penguins that are on Heard Island and which you were probably assuming did not export goods forgive me they were taking advantage of us so cunning and so cold 545286417006
Reposted by Steve RiddleFaculty of Science, Agriculture & Engineering @ Newcastle Uni @sagencl.bsky.social · 10/03/2025🚀 Join Dr. @aimafidon.bsky.social this week at our #PublicLecture as she explores the future of tech, innovation, and diversity in STEM! Don't miss this inspiring talk from a leading voice in technology and education ➡️ tinyurl.com/3kwebtze #WomenInSTEM #TechInnovation 022
Reposted by Steve RiddleDr Aisling Tierney @irishashyt.bsky.social · 03/03/2025Snippet from QAA Insights Conference focused on AI featuring great insights from Prof Mary Davis (Oxford Brookes) and Prof David Webster (University of Liverpool) 🤖 bilt.online/ai-compassio... #artificialintelligence #AI #highereducation #academia #qaa #academicintegritybilt.onlineAI, compassion and the future for HEHigher Education continues to face thorny challenges thanks to AI, as outlined at this week’s QAA Insights Conference. In one of the breakout groups titled “compassion in education” two speakers pr… 032
Reposted by Steve RiddleGlen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 28/02/2025Today's university in crisis is Kingston, which is cutting all the departments and subjects below, a savage retrenchment that won't even make them half of the £20m savings they need. Every day will be like this until something is done. 37043
Reposted by Steve RiddleSteve Riddle @riddsteve.mastodon.org.uk.ap.brid.gy · 27/02/2025An old friend will call Listen and remember then Book on the next train #DailyHaikuPrompt - friend #haiku #senryu 061
Reposted by Steve RiddleChaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 26/02/2025Spydere man Spydere Man Doth al things a spydere kan Sondrye webbes he kan weaven Thieves lyke flyes he kan cacchen Lo, anon cometh Spydere Man 111022231
Reposted by Steve RiddlePaul Greatrix @registrarism.bsky.social · 15/02/2025This is an extremely helpful review on @hepi-news.bsky.social of a book I didn't want to read before and definitely do not need to do so now. As @profstevenjones.bsky.social sharply observes "Why is it that only ‘cancelled’ academics seem to have media agents?" www.hepi.ac.uk/2025/02/15/w...hepi.ac.ukWEEKEND READING: Matt Goodwin's 'Bad Education' isn’t good scholarship, but does that matter? - HEPIIn Bad Education, Matt Goodwin makes the argument that Western universities have moved ‘sharply and radically to the left’ (p.51) over the last six decades, to the extent that diversity is now deemed ... 064
Reposted by Steve RiddleAlex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 02/02/2025“Is there any evidence that people with, to quote Trump, ‘severe intellectual and psychiatric disabilities’ can become air-traffic controllers? There's more evidence that they just end up President of the US.” @mrkennycampbell.bsky.social @pimlicat.bsky.social 1040689
Reposted by Steve RiddleSteve Riddle @riddsteve.mastodon.org.uk.ap.brid.gy · 19/01/2025#DailyHaikuPrompt - pebble A beach of shingle Retreating waves drag across Loud whispering stones #haiku #poetry 081
Steve Riddle @riddsteve.bsky.social · 09/01/2025Unexpectedly having a few days in That London, if we still call it that. View from Primrose Hill as the sun goes down, still unbeatable. 020
Reposted by Steve RiddleBylines Scotland @bylines.scot · 31/12/2024The UK government’s consultation on AI is not fit for purpose, seeking to benefit big tech at the expense of creative talents | Jennie Kermode @jenniekermode.bsky.socialbylines.scotStop, thief! Writers and artists deserve protection from AI developersThe UK government’s consultation on AI is not fit for purpose, seeking to benefit big tech at the expense of creative talents 28641
Reposted by Steve RiddleSteve Riddle @riddsteve.mastodon.org.uk.ap.brid.gy · 30/12/2024#DailyHaikuPrompt - December At last December Takes the hint and slips away Key under the mat #haiku 0133
Reposted by Steve RiddleSteve Riddle @riddsteve.mastodon.org.uk.ap.brid.gy · 16/12/2024Welcome to the world A new daughter, granddaughter This morning her first Breath - #dailyHaikuPrompt A very personal one this morning, but the prompt was just too perfect. So, just call me grandpa. Lily born just after 3am, mother and baby doing very well. 121
Steve Riddle @riddsteve.bsky.social · 13/12/2024It's a brand new podcast (episode) For twenty twenty (four) They Might Be Giants brand new album ... A fantastic, and surprisingly comforting, episode referencing a surprising number of songs that aren't actually on the album. Loved it. 1121
Reposted by Steve RiddleMarc Burrows @20thcenturymarc.marcburrows.co.uk · 09/12/2024I'm not saying that AI-written books are becoming a problem on Amazon, but here is the first page of a new book on the 1980 Iranian Embassy Siege. 501234491
Reposted by Steve RiddleMike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 06/12/2024“Taking Britain out of the Erasmus+ programme was a huge mistake. Labour must rejoin and accept the EU’s offer of a youth mobility scheme” 👏👏👏sussexbylines.co.ukBring back Erasmus+ and youth mobility in EuropeTaking Britain out of the Erasmus+ programme was a huge mistake. Labour must rejoin and accept the EU’s offer of a youth mobility scheme 321280380
Reposted by Steve RiddleAdam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 04/12/2024What Joe Bloggs (just normal men) are known as in seven different languages: 7. Joe Little Carrot (Slovak) 6. Otto Normalconsumer (German) 5. Wang Number Five (Mandarin) 4. Average Svensson (Swedish) 3. Name Nameson (Danish) 2. Mid-range Vasya (Russian) 1. Statistical Kowalski (Polish) 46569203
Steve Riddle @riddsteve.bsky.social · 30/11/2024Sad indeed. And "... perhaps the saddest part of the story will be the ending of the scheme which Windows had with young musicians, whereby they could rent an instrument out to see if it suited them before buying it…", absolutely - great scheme for violin rental when the kids were at school 020
Reposted by Steve RiddleDavid Quantick @quantick.bsky.social · 30/11/2024So... some years ago I made up a horse for a joke. And AI took me seriously. 819545
Reposted by Steve RiddleAlex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 28/11/2024Big fact-check on lots of the immigration lies being amplified today by the usual grifters. Please boost. 7208110
Reposted by Steve RiddleMarie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 22/11/2024I did it! I wrote up my Posting Middle Classes Theory, and tried to explain why I think Threads failed where Bluesky succeeded: youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/down-in-th... (free to read) 1412171406
Steve Riddle @riddsteve.bsky.social · 17/11/2024@icysedgwick.bsky.social congratulations, Dr! Enjoy the official ceremony bit 🎓 120
Steve Riddle @riddsteve.bsky.social · 16/11/2024Excellent starter pack, best I've seen so far. RIP Geoff. 010
Steve Riddle @riddsteve.bsky.social · 14/11/2024So this mastodon bridge thing is fun, I'm now following myself (my alter-ego over there is generally concerned with haikus, for which I make no apology) 020
Reposted by Steve RiddleGeorge O. Wood @gwood.dev · 14/11/2024Oh dear, Meta isn’t having a good day, is it? ground.news/article/eu-s...ground.newsEU slaps Meta with a nearly 800 million euro fine for engaging in 'abusive' Marketplace practicesEuropean Union regulators hit Facebook parent Meta with a fine of nearly 800 million euros on Thursday for what they call “abusive practices” involving its Marketplace online classified ads business. 011