Reposted by Simon CravenNew-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Great moments in Scottish engineering history: James Watt tries to work out how his phone attaches to his selfie stick. 161451371
Reposted by Simon CravenAnil Dash @anildash.com · 29/01/2026If you are a person who works in social media, and your job requires you to manage an account on Twitter/X, please ask your boss, in writing, to verify that you are required as a responsibility of your position to be on a platform that knowingly creates and monetizes child sexual abuse material … 132456862
Reposted by Simon CravenHelen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 29/09/2026They are shutting this down by the end of the day. 131304285
Simon Craven @simoncraven.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Jet fuel (basically paraffin / kerosene) doesn’t “explode”. Something pretty energetic is needed to set it off 000
Reposted by Simon CravenJoel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026You could show more confidence as a country by putting AI nowhere near centre stage, and shouting that you won’t be taken in. That’s a confident move. Just like you would magic beans, or a perpetual motion machine, or Bagpuss’ Mouse Mill with the chocolate biscuits. 612226
Reposted by Simon CravenHetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Those who think AI is going to largely automate white collar jobs in the next couple of years don’t understand the nature of work - @sarahoconnorft.ft.com nails it www.ft.com/content/4aad... 716448
Reposted by Simon CravenAlex Morris @asjmorris.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Now seems as good a time as any to post the plasticine Frank Muir that I built for the ‘Amateur Frank Muir Modeller’ Viz ad back in 2006. 1439652
Reposted by Simon CravenDr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026This is quite cool. My university is the first organisation in the world to force Microsoft to allow us to turn off copilot summaries in Word 365, after a backlash against it from staff (including, very vocally, me). That cannot have been easy for our heroic IT people so hats very much off to them! 895439936
Reposted by Simon CravenEd Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/09/2026Based on my own reporting on OpenAI's audited financials from 2025, it appears that Anthropic was a worse business (at least in that year), spending $2.75 make $1 versus OpenAI spending $2.60 to make $1. So many people told me this company was "more profitable"! www.wheresyoured.at/exclusive-op... 21636137
Reposted by Simon CravenAppleInsider @appleinsider.com · 28/09/2026In a completely unsurprising turn of events, Meta's Muse AI is stealing Apple Messages, past and present, and uploading the contents to its cloud, even if explicitly told not to.appleinsider.comMeta's new AI agent blatantly ignores users permissionsIn a completely unsurprising turn of events, Meta's Muse AI is stealing Apple Messages, past and present, and uploading the contents to its cloud, even if explicitly told not to. 30398252
Simon Craven @simoncraven.bsky.social · 28/09/2026This is important. Public domain photography paid for by the taxpayer being denied to the public because of obsessions with DRM and doing ostensibly fashionable things with useless and financially non-viable tech-bro start-ups 000
Reposted by Simon CravenAstra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Forget grandiose talk of curing cancer - this is what AI is actually doing to healthcare. In the words of one cardiologist: “it’s bots fighting bots, agents fighting agents, a horrible dystopic future nobody wants to live in.” 282158855
Reposted by Simon CravenJared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes. 16892883060
Reposted by Simon CravenOtto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Liar. Small boat crossings peaked under Johnson in 2022 reaching 46,000 in 2022. In current year they are 18,565 and falling. Also prior to Boris Johnson's Brexit there were none. 23132681208
Simon Craven @simoncraven.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Thought at first the image was flopped, but no, the Ford badge on the nose does actually say Ford 000
Reposted by Simon CravenKatie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility 5776152105
Reposted by Simon CravenLuke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 26/09/2026Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all 7459752000
Simon Craven @simoncraven.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I had one of these back when I did a daily 90 minute each way rail commute in and out of London. This was ofc long before lightweight laptops and 3G mobile so you had to sync to your PC at each end. It was a superb piece of industrial design, and incredibly useful for its time 162
Simon Craven @simoncraven.bsky.social · 25/09/2026let's buy Dorothy L Sayers' weird old motorbike which, surely, when started in JUST the right way will carry us off through the early-autumn mists into a 1920s Lord Peter Wimsey novel... 000
Reposted by Simon CravenRafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 24/09/2026tech ceos are openly salivating about the idea of kids losing basic literacy and numeracy. this tells you pretty much all you need to know 8931268
Reposted by Simon Cravenglastomichelle.bsky.social @glastomichelle.bsky.social · 24/09/2026It is so lovely to see my Equinox image in today's national press. I don't earn a lot of money from it but it does all count and is also quite exciting if I am honest to see my work published. Glast day of Summer did make me laugh a bit though 😂 431209148
Reposted by Simon CravenClara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 24/09/2026We just dropped a bombshell investigation into ChatGPT's role in the Tumbler Ridge mass shooting. Incredible reporting from @markfollman.bsky.social that will have far-reaching effects...hopefully: www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0...motherjones.comChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation revealsOpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre. 271467748
Reposted by Simon CravenToby Nangle @tobyn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This chart suggests yes! Hyperscalers ARE crowding out the US Treasury! 3131
Reposted by Simon CravenRyan Shirlow @ryanshirlow.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Many years ago, when we all lived in York, I had a single enormous BranFlake that had filled the entire packet. I kept it in the fridge for a very long time, so I could look at it every day and show it to people, to expand their minds as to what was possible. The world of experience. 3143
Reposted by Simon CravenJess Nevins @jessnevins.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Hi-- My wife is selling off her dad's collection of cameras and camera accessories. Her dad kept them in excellent to excellent-to-mint condition. These are all for a vintage Nikon S2. If you're interested in buying anything, e-mail me at jjnevins@ix.netcom.com Thanks! 117977
Reposted by Simon CravenAdam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 23/09/2026The British right has now descended to the point where 'the England team are not English' is becoming the consensus position 4031410315
Reposted by Simon CravenSteve Chambers @planningtransport.co.uk · 23/09/2026She was named after a character on a US TV show. Could not get more English. 151
Reposted by Simon CravenYour Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 23/09/2026hey everybody, welcome to my youtube channel! Please be sure to hit like and subscribe! In this video we'll talk about what you can do when there's a chainsaw wielding maniac hot on your tail! but first let's take a look at how chainsaws work 416323
Reposted by Simon Cravenfilm-authority.com @film-authority.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Screening at 9.05pm tonight on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social, Scandal is a 1989 political drama which reflects on the Profumo affair and the impact of his sex-scandal on the British establishment. It's a smart and underrated movie; 5 out of 5 #TPTVsubtitles #TPTV film-authority.com/2026/01/24/s...film-authority.comScandal - film-authority.com[…] More 6468
Reposted by Simon CravenJames Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Genuinely: this is pointless unless you're a constituent and his team should, rightly, hit delete immediately or simply tell you to email your MP. Do email your MP tho - particularly if theyre Labour 1718138
Reposted by Simon CravenBrian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Autumn poem just dropped. 11433135
Reposted by Simon CravenColin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I really am rather fond of Corydon Bell’s cover for a 1937 edition of Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein”. 47621
Reposted by Simon CravenSteve Gale @stevewg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Colley Hill, Surrey: coffee break from birding the steep scrub. Love the plaque on the bench I’m sitting on 4397261234
Reposted by Simon CravenEmma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 22/09/202620 seconds of Dave the robin relaxing near the bird café-he knows he’s well hidden from cats & sparrow hawks & is *very* well fed and watered. He’s basically at a birdy spa day rn…🪶 Also v relaxing for your brain, as footage of appealing animals & birds alleviates anxiety in humans… 318326
Reposted by Simon CravenCharlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 22/09/2026bear with me but... wouldn't it be wild... if the head of the British Library had ever been... a librarian?? 1013420
Simon Craven @simoncraven.bsky.social · 22/09/2026True, and add to the list of unsupported growth engines: UK creative industries 161
Simon Craven @simoncraven.bsky.social · 21/09/2026It’s taken a long time for the WH press corps to discover its spine, but at last it has, and this is a very welcome pushback 000
Reposted by Simon CravenJoanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Turned down last week: 2 festivals with no budget for speakers 1 writing course with no budget for teachers 1 film project with no budget to option the book - plus they wanted me to write the screenplay. For free. Don't do it, kids. Don't work for free. Because to them, what's free is worthless. 532021402
Reposted by Simon CravenChristina Martin @christinamartin.bsky.social · 14/09/2026I'm a 99p Kindle weekly deal. Tell all your non dead friends! www.amazon.co.uk/Get-Ahead-Be... 117440
Reposted by Simon CravenSimon Craven @simoncraven.bsky.social · 18/09/2026This is ROARING ahead on views, biggest opening couple of hours we have had for ages! Check it out, before YouTube runs out of electrons 022
Reposted by Simon CravenJim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 18/09/2026my brilliant colleague @robertshrimsley.bsky.social on the threat from Elon Musk’s X platform www.ft.com/content/f270... 6428081167
Reposted by Simon CravenMax B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @maxbrockbank.com · 18/09/2026Worried about AI Robots? All you need is more ram, and a dogged determination to overcome. 482246859