Adam @spad.uk · 01/10/2026My memory is a collection of poorly-structured markdown documents now. Not because of AI, I'm just really disorganised. 110
Adam @spad.uk · 01/10/2026I read this as Danny Kruger multiple times and was trying to work out what specifically about him you were referencing. 000
Adam @spad.uk · 27/09/2026This must be a tiny number of people each year, it all feels so pathetically performative, but just keeps on ratcheting things into worse and worse places. 050
Reposted by AdamJ. Michael Straczynski @straczynski.bsky.social · 18/09/2026A while ago I mentioned that Bruce Boxleitner and I were helping Warners with the launch of their Babylon 5 YouTube channel. As part of that, the first of three brand new half-hour-plus interviews/discussions between me and Bruce will go online on Monday. www.youtube.com/@Babylon5youtube.comBabylon 5You’ve arrived at Babylon 5, the last, best hope for peace. A neutral station standing at the crossroads of galactic powers, where ambassadors, soldiers, traders, and dreamers all have a stake in the ... 13659169
Adam @spad.uk · 13/09/2026He's stopped predicting dates and basically admitted he was way too optimistic about how long people would keep throwing hundreds of billions of dollars at a loss-making product that almost nobody is willing to pay for unsubsidised. 101
Adam @spad.uk · 30/08/2026Also all Star Trek prison cells that you can escape from during any of the many regular power fluctuations 020
Adam @spad.uk · 22/08/2026It's not like the water companies are doing anything useful with bill payers' money so might as well use it for educational programs. 010
Adam @spad.uk · 20/08/2026They could overview her for it, I'd be fascinated to know if she realises she's culture secretary. 0140
Adam @spad.uk · 17/08/2026Yeah, they're suffering a short uptime but it'll be resolved soon enough 021
Adam @spad.uk · 12/08/2026Given that it's the same guy who fronts that C4 "documentary" about whether ADHD is all made up, and has a regular column in the Mail, it's not surprising at all. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Pem... 040
Adam @spad.uk · 12/08/2026I would assume a lot of "what does it mean if", "assuming that", "what next for Count Binface after" etc. with the common words pulled out into trending text 120
Adam @spad.uk · 11/08/2026@molly.wiki wrote a great post a couple of years ago about migrating her work from Substack to Ghost (self-hosted, they do offer hosted options) www.citationneeded.news/substack-to-...citationneeded.newsMigrating from Substack to self-hosted Ghost: the detailsI migrated Citation Needed from Substack to self-hosted Ghost. Here is exactly how I did that. 000
Adam @spad.uk · 22/07/2026OpenAI admit to having abysmal security and compliance processes and gave an LLM prompted to hack websites access to the open internet. 2102
Adam @spad.uk · 21/07/202630 years from now: "Oh you mean the cursed piss statue guy? Yeah everyone's heard about him." 000
Reposted by AdamJ. Michael Straczynski @straczynski.bsky.social · 13/07/20261/ Starting today, with #Babylon5 "Sleeping in Light," I will be uploading a metric ton of my TV, film and comics scripts to create a digital archive for fans, followers, academics and folks with too much time on their hands. Information here: jmichaelstraczynski.substack.com/p/introducin...jmichaelstraczynski.substack.comIntroducing JMS Online Script ArchiveAn Ongoing Repository for My TV, Movie and Comic Scripts 1218555
Adam @spad.uk · 13/07/2026No, but I remember Gran Tourismo on the PS1 having a scratch and sniff disc that smelled vaguely of tyres 010
Adam @spad.uk · 04/07/2026Surprisingly honest of them to show how even brief usage of Gemini degrades your faculties to the point that you have to ask it for help with whether or not to share a document with someone. 010
Adam @spad.uk · 25/06/2026Genuinely I think if it had been happening, and went ahead in this weather, people would have died. 000
Adam @spad.uk · 20/06/2026Ironically this is *also* what learning IT/computer engineering is about. The space moves so quickly that knowledge is transient, you have to understand the underpinnings in order to keep up. I'm already seeing people I work with lose that ability due to reliance on AI tools to think for them. 020
Adam @spad.uk · 17/06/2026Labour was hammered in the Gun Barrels. It was chiseled out of Mr Egg It was forged at the roundabout on the bypass that collapsed into a sinkhole that one time 030
Adam @spad.uk · 16/06/2026My concern really was for the smaller platforms that can't just chuck billions into fines. The OSA notably didn't have any carve-out for small/non-profit/hobbyist platforms and hit them all equally with the age requirements. This will start with big platforms, but will likely expand over time 100
Adam @spad.uk · 16/06/2026You may be right and the bigger platforms at least just view it as a cost of doing business (keeping users hooked on their platform), but that means there's a good chance they don't really make any meaningful changes. It's not like the govt is going to impose actual penalties beyond piddly fines 100
Adam @spad.uk · 16/06/2026Sure but that's different, if you *know* what's going into a feed because it's human-curated that's obviously much safer than providing people with user-generated content. I'm not talking about e.g. Amazon trying to flog you another TV after you buy a TV. 100
Adam @spad.uk · 16/06/2026Right but if you're legally liable for anything you publish in an algorithmic recommendation feed, you're not going to take the risk of having one. 100
Adam @spad.uk · 16/06/20265 is a really terrible idea. 2 is a bit silly and very annoying, but not actively harmful. The rest are fairly sensible, though I have concerns that 4 would kill all kinds of discovery/recommendation features that *aren't* brain-melting addiction loops. And as always, what counts as social media? 110
Reposted by AdamMolly White @molly.wiki · 08/06/2026I've been running Follow the Crypto since 2024. Today I'm relaunching it as Tech Influence Watch, expanded to cover AI political spending alongside crypto. They’ve spent more than $400 million this election cycle, and now you can follow it in close to real time. influence.citationneeded.newsinfluence.citationneeded.newsTech Influence WatchTracking cryptocurrency and artificial intelligence industry influence on 2026 elections in the United States. 14942399
Reposted by AdamMarsh Davies @marshdavies.bsky.social · 01/06/2026GOLD TEETH has launched! It's a piratical TTRPG set in a cursed version of the Age of Sail, with 350 pages of briny phantasmagoria, colonial terror and nauseating seafood. It's part Master & Commander, part Blackadder, left to ripen in the sun like a beached porpoise. teethrpg.itch.io/gold-teeth 19525167
Adam @spad.uk · 20/05/2026Rootlessless www.spad.uk/posts/rootlesslessspad.ukRootlesslessYou’ve got to love Docker’s approach to updates; 29.5.0 changed the default rootlesskit driver from slirp4netns to gviso... 000
Adam @spad.uk · 12/05/2026For the love of god stop trying to ban kids from social media and actually regulate social media. It's such a pathetic cop-out that fails to address the myriad problems sites like X and Facebook are causing while cloaking it in "but we're protecting the children". Bollocks you are. 010
Adam @spad.uk · 09/05/2026Also fair, they show you all the stuff but don't elaborate on *how* any of it can be used. It's been done better - albeit with worse aesthetics - elsewhere. 000
Adam @spad.uk · 09/05/2026People may not ultimately care that some data broker has enough info to track your commute and knows everyone you associate with and where you hang out in the evenings, but it's probably good to make them aware it's happening. 120
Adam @spad.uk · 09/05/2026The information isn't the issue per se, like you say a lot of the time you're logged in anyway or just aren't bothered. The bigger issue is the fingerprinting and cross-site tracking it allows that enables really quite scary levels of profiling of things like where you travel and who you know 231
Adam @spad.uk · 07/05/2026Multiple people turned away from my polling station for not having ID in the ~5 minutes I was there. Really great for democracy. 000
Adam @spad.uk · 05/05/2026I mean also because a bunch of his party's candidates for local council made anti-Semitic social media posts in the wake of a series of attacks on Jewish people in recent weeks. It's overblown by the largely right-wing press, but it's not just "because he criticizes Israel". 030
