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Rupert Goodwins

@rupertg.bsky.social
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Tech hack. Hacks tech. Was Prince Philip. Wrote firmware for Clive and Alan, wrote words for decades, now Register columnist and creative tech at Civic Digits. Quite blind. Music, history, radio, science. Only robots have to be binary: YMMV.

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Rupert Goodwins @rupertg.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Happy Equinox! open.spotify.com/track/7b8Oh5...
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Equinoxe, Pt. 4
Jean-Michel Jarre · Équinoxe · Song · 1978
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Rupert Goodwins @rupertg.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Also -- good luck Edinburgh itomorrow in the 12th European Tram Driver Championship in Warsaw! www.tramem.eu
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TRAM EM
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Rupert Goodwins @rupertg.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Gotta love discovery -- email between Microsoft and OpenAI appears in court, reveals LLMs as toxic kleptofest destruying all they touch. www.404media.co/doom-loop-op...
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‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft
"Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions."
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Rupert Goodwins @rupertg.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Morpho-functional innovations in Shibantan fossils fuel Ediacaran frond debates. Coffee and paleo-Youtube, show me a better way to start the day.
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Rupert Goodwins @rupertg.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Tried to find how to add TouchID to my Mac Mini sans the useless -- to me -- Magic Keyboard or Apple Watch. Apple: Fuck off, crip. You don't deserve biometric sec. Worse, caught myself muttering "I'm not going to burn any more tokens on this". AI Threat is more insidious than thought.
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Rupert Goodwins @rupertg.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Go on. You know you want to. open.spotify.com/track/3HVX5r...
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Ecstasies
Kian Ravaei, Benjamin Smolen · SPACES · Song · 2026
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Rupert Goodwins @rupertg.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Jammed in eye, bowmen sly, and ponies toddling For tonight I'm gonna slay old Harold Godwin Norman hordes flash their swords, make Saxons cry-oh Son of a gun, we'll have big fun on the Bayeux
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Rupert Goodwins @rupertg.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
What actually happened with the OpenAI/Hugging Face incident reads like an Iain M Banks novel, and not one of the lighter ones.. Just the opening chapter... youtu.be/u15N3l4RT80?...
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The OpenAI/Hugging Face attack, clearly explained
YouTube video by Dwarkesh Patel
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Rupert Goodwins @rupertg.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
If you've done nothing wrong, please send me £13 billion and we'll say no more about it.
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Rupert Goodwins @rupertg.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Ah, security. They've heard of it. nelson_hawhaw.wav www.youtube.com/shorts/GQoQk...
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Flock values their privacy. Oh well.
YouTube video by Benn Jordan
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Rupert Goodwins @rupertg.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Very good talk about creating reliable software -- yes, even in C, you crazy kids -- from SQLite inventor youtu.be/V_qzqY1bb7I?...
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Reliability Lessons From SQLite - Richard Hipp | SSW 2026
YouTube video by Software Should Work
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Rupert Goodwins @rupertg.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Yet to read the book. Already joining the fan club.
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Rupert Goodwins @rupertg.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
For some reason, the Spotify a\go is feeding me stoner pop, and I am not displeased. open.spotify.com/track/0C2jnJ...
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Slip Away
Lael Neale · Slip Away · Song · 2026
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Rupert Goodwins @rupertg.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Found an intense postpunk new wave funk and experimental band from New York, full of energy and invention and clearly a good thing. Also clearly, with no idea what theirname sounds like to British ears. can;t stop laughing. Could not wear the T-shirt. Sorry, Gorilla Toss. youtu.be/bqICL_EwlOo?...
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Guerilla Toss - Betty Dreams Of Green Men (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by DFA Records
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Rupert Goodwins @rupertg.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Two PR emails within five minutes, both startung EMBARGOED, which guarantees they are about companies I've never heard of doing things nobody cares about. One AI vertical rebranding snd snother with s product variation so tĥuddingly obvious it could be an Archers plot line? Oh boy. Right again.
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Rupert Goodwins @rupertg.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
If you have a third-party DNS server set up in your router, could you check on a DNS leak test site to see if your ISP is intercepting your DNS port 53 traffic and routing it to their servers anyway? I have Quad9, but Zen DNS seems to snaffle traffic unless I enable DNS-over-TLS.
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Rupert Goodwins @rupertg.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Plus, the cuts go a lot deeper. Disasterous for UK astronomy. www.youtube.com/shorts/5rcvB...
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Jodrell Bank gets funding cut in latest UK science funding announcement #shorts
YouTube video by Dr. Becky
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Rupert Goodwins @rupertg.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Jodrell Bank petition to keep funding the Lovell Telescope open. its annual budget is around a third of the House of Commons catering budget... www.change.org/p/save-jodre...
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Sign the Petition
SAVE JODRELL BANK – Protect a national treasure of science, heritage and inspiration
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Rupert Goodwins @rupertg.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
You do not turn off Jodrell Bank. Aux armes!
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Rupert Goodwins @rupertg.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Today's urgent task: design earbuds with a transparent mode that filters out the phrase 'picky bits' and replaces it with the preferable sound of a whining Labrador with explosive diarrhea.
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SpacePolicyOnline @spacepolicyonline.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Report from Spain's La Razon newspaper about the fires near Madrid threatening NASA's Deep Space Network facility near Robledo de Chavlea, which has been evacuated. No damage to the DSN as of when that was written, however. www.larazon.es/actualidad/f...
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El fuego arrincona la estación de la NASA de Robledo de Chavela
El avance de las llamas ha obligado a evacuar el municipio madrileño mientras los equipos de emergencia trabajan para proteger unas instalaciones clave para las comunicaciones con las misiones espacia...
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Rupert Goodwins @rupertg.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
This may have been the most shimmering misguided steaming travesty of a Prom ever perpetrated.
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Rupert Goodwins @rupertg.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
You do NOT vibrato Dowland, you tenor Visigoth.
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Rupert Goodwins @rupertg.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
One day. you're watching an early '80s documentary about radio telecoommunications in Norwegian, and a little gem of radiophonic music pops up that you can track to source, and you feel that the day has been won. youtu.be/wvczRu-bIJM?... youtu.be/zXWW4ZCu_To?...
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Radio and Telecommunications in Norway in the 80's. Sea, Aereo, Oil rigs and shore communications.
YouTube video by SPARKS what's going on? (An Italian R/O channel)
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Rupert Goodwins @rupertg.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Not unrelated, how had I missed The Riches? Their producer slips in a solo on this one, no prizes for guessing who and the prog link...https://open.spotify.com/track/3cPtZw0oqMEkKlGSF0SLkc?si=gUcy5LWCSTqCI0tNtSYQ1Q&utm_source=copy-link
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Rupert Goodwins @rupertg.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Last night's Prog Rock Prom was a lot more fun than I expected. Carl Palmer and Peter Hmamill shaking hands after the closing great gates of Kiev elp style was particularly good -two old men and a drum solo.
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Rupert Goodwins @rupertg.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Business concept: a chain of Catholic-themed bacon shacks called Corpus Crispy.
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Rupert Goodwins @rupertg.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Turns out that if you cancel federal tracing and controls on food contamination, your county enjoys a massive surge in three-week untreatable explosive diarrhoea, and nobody knows from whence the brown laser cometh. Happy birthday, America. youtu.be/DxGvCj-LFmM?...
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Cyclosporiasis parasite cases found in 31 states
YouTube video by CBS News
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Rupert Goodwins @rupertg.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Gbosrd on my Samsung tablet just shrank for no good reason -- again -- to unusable size. Had learned how to fix this from last time, but Settings has been reworked by a skilled sadist. Had to nuke and reinstall. Worst UX this year. Why, Google?
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Rupert Goodwins @rupertg.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Huge fan of public transport, abhor violence and try to practice compassion. However, having got home half an hour late after to missing my stop due to two rugtats' 100dB competitive whine-out of I wANT BOOBIE for 15 BLOODY MINUTES behind me on the bus, I'm in Club Ba'al's Learjet.
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Rupert Goodwins @rupertg.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Bungface Out! Binface In!
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Rupert Goodwins @rupertg.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Farage: I made Brexit happen, but the consequences are everyone else's fault. I am the most threatened politician, because milkshake. I'm going to talk a lot about my daughter, because it's bad to talk about my daughter. Worth five million quid of any crypto baron's ill-gotten.
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Rupert Goodwins @rupertg.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but with a CRISPR. www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
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‘There is no way to stop this’: ‘Biotech Barbie’ Cathy Tie on her mission to genetically modify babies
The Canadian entrepreneur has always pushed the boundaries of gene editing, once attempting to turn horses into unicorns. Now she is set on modifying human embryos – something her controversial ex-hus...
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Rupert Goodwins @rupertg.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
At the end of a typically trying payment process, Scottish Power actually had a Leave Feedback button. Which took me to an unrelated page. It's the hope that kills you.
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Rupert Goodwins @rupertg.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
My venerable father got one of his Bible limericks read out as part of the opener by Jack Dee on I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue just now. They seem to think he's dead. he's very not, so buy his books! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue - Series 85 - 4. Garden or Bedroom - BBC Sounds
Miles Jupp, Tony Hawks, Lucy Porter and Henning Wehn return to Cambridge.
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Paul Ockenden @ockenden.com · 29/06/2026
@rupertg.bsky.social - was that your dad who just got mentioned on ISIHAC?
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Rupert Goodwins @rupertg.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
With longwave now vacated across Europe, it should be declared a community experimental broadcasting band and thrown open. I may already have a transmitter that can do 198 KHz and a plan for Pirate Radio 4, but don't mind me. The rewolding pf wireless starts here!
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Rupert Goodwins @rupertg.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Don't know what's the deeper ponder - that the BBC has been on longwave for over a hundred years, or that I've been listening for comfortably more than half of that.
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Rupert Goodwins @rupertg.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Wham bam thank you ma'am...
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Rupert Goodwins @rupertg.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Very sad for Starmer the man, very glad for the demise of Starmer the PM. The Life of Brian exchange at the end of Burnham's swearing in - "He's not the Messiah!" - was the perfect glint of absurdity in the political psychodrama.
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Rupert Goodwins @rupertg.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Man is born free, but everywhere is in supply chains.
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Rupert Goodwins @rupertg.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Macbeth shall never vanquished be until / Great Birnam Wood to high Dunsinane Hill / Shall come against him.
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Rupert Goodwins @rupertg.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Love Digging Into China. Don't agree with all the logic, still a reliable jumping off point to look at Sino v Western issues. This one, about AI, energy and silicon, and the two economic structures, is a tad too credulous about US narratives, but a goood watch. youtu.be/d5jASMOK2hk?...
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The Silicon Fortress: Why the U.S.-China AI Race Will End Just Like the Soviet Union
YouTube video by Digging into China
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Rupert Goodwins @rupertg.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Meta blames massive porn torrent gobble on horny staff, not AI-nal insertions. Pull the other one, says judge. I'm not swallowing that. www.law.com/therecorder/...
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'Strains Credulity': Judge Rejects Meta’s Attempt to Dismiss Porn-Maker’s Copyright Suit | Law.com
A federal judge has rejected Meta Platforms Inc.'s attempt to dismiss copyright claims brought by adult film company Strike 3 Holdings, finding the technology giant’s attempt to explain how its IP add...
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Rupert Goodwins @rupertg.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Another marvel: the eradication of fatal cervical cancer through the HPV vaccine. Hundreds of women alive who would be dead. This is what we can do together in the service of truth, what we cannot do any other way. Also, fuck cancer.
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Rupert Goodwins @rupertg.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Whale necropolis discovered in deep sea chasm off Wstern Australia. Fresh whalefall ecossystems of unique creatures through to five million year old fossils. Marvel. youtu.be/55suVAg204o?...
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Deep-Sea Explorers Found Something We’ve Never Seen Before
YouTube video by 7 Days of Science
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Rupert Goodwins @rupertg.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Earworm - click at own risk. Not that you'll be able to avoid it once a few directors get it into their heads. open.spotify.com/track/7kWOlp...
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Three Blind Mice
Billy Fuller · Fragments · Song · 2026
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Rupert Goodwins @rupertg.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Weebles wobble but they don't fall down.
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Rupert Goodwins @rupertg.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
The upcoming Composer Of The Week on BBC Radio 3 is that prolific enigma that never collects their royalties, Anon. Can't wait.
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Rupert Goodwins @rupertg.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Every night this week, insomnia. Every day, builders in the flat upstairs a-drilling and a-sawing and a-hammerung. Sanity a fond childhood memory. At last, the weekend. Blessed somulent silence. At the harbour at the end of my wind, Leith Festival Gala. With a drum band. Who. Will. Not. Stop.
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