Tobias Wood @spinicist.bsky.social · 20/03/2026They made that decision to specifically be greedy. It's covered in Doctorow's book and literally is the definition of enshittification. 021
Tobias Wood @spinicist.bsky.social · 27/11/2025Submit a paper claiming Tylenol *cures* autism to the same editor, wait for it to be published, then for Trump and RFK to do their thing. I wish I was joking. 020
Tobias Wood @spinicist.bsky.social · 16/01/2024Places this has happened: 1. Stockholm Airport 2. On a bus in the middle of Rome 3. Halfway up an Alp 4. A rural swimming pool My phone is blessed and I'm keeping it forever. 090
Tobias Wood @spinicist.bsky.social · 16/01/2024Time to become a Luddite arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024...arstechnica.comWould Luddites find the gig economy familiar?Luddites were hardly the anti-tech dullards historians have painted them to be. 020
Tobias Wood @spinicist.bsky.social · 03/01/2024I've done a Microsoft keyboard connected to a Mac with a remote Linux desktop. And I found the ~ key. Eventually. After I traded my soul. 130
Tobias Wood @spinicist.bsky.social · 02/01/2024Skunk Anansie said it best youtu.be/jhADx1BWgvE?...youtu.beSkunk Anansie - Yes It's Fucking Political ( NPA 06 01 1997 ) 010
Tobias Wood @spinicist.bsky.social · 29/12/2023@garius.bsky.social I think your Uber For Crisps idea has been surpassed 020
Tobias Wood @spinicist.bsky.social · 27/12/2023Because the Tories fired all the the tax inspectors 040
Tobias Wood @spinicist.bsky.social · 24/12/2023Boxing Day: The Rematch A sequel to en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_S... seen as you specified Bautistaen.m.wikipedia.orgFinal Score (2018 film) - Wikipedia 000
Tobias Wood @spinicist.bsky.social · 23/12/2023Mandate that bank balances must be stored as signed 32 bit integers 091
Tobias Wood @spinicist.bsky.social · 16/12/2023I'm sure the university has rules about lecturing with live animals 010
Reposted by Tobias WoodJohn Bull @garius.bsky.social · 08/12/2023I see Kingston Uni are doing another round of 'necessary' job cuts on the teaching side. If I were a big paper journo, I definitely wouldn't be submitting an FOI asking if they'd been giving senior staff interest free home loans to relocate to Kingston. That would be an insane thing for a uni to do 34215
Tobias Wood @spinicist.bsky.social · 24/11/2023Check out www.neoscan-solutions.com as well. No helium whatsoever thanks to high temperature super conductors. Still a way to go before your average clinical 1.5T uses this tech but super exciting. 030
Tobias Wood @spinicist.bsky.social · 22/11/2023The subtle details the AI has got wrong here are the stuff of nightmares 010
Tobias Wood @spinicist.bsky.social · 22/11/2023Bitcoin is back up to 30k, I have no idea why. Until that finally drops to near zero, the whole show will keep rolling 😔 220
Tobias Wood @spinicist.bsky.social · 22/11/2023Because humans are tightly wound balls of anxiety who overweight the risk they need to make a 500 mile trip in the next 15 minutes. 010
Tobias Wood @spinicist.bsky.social · 22/11/2023I appreciated the dig at Musk but my inner pedant couldn't let it go 100
Tobias Wood @spinicist.bsky.social · 22/11/2023Wheatus played Hertford recently, and the venue had fun with it. 020
Tobias Wood @spinicist.bsky.social · 22/11/2023So has SpaceX, 4 times and counting. (I don't like Musk, but I have massive respect for SpaceX's collective technical achievements) 220
Tobias Wood @spinicist.bsky.social · 19/11/2023Yet another thing I did not have on my 2023 bingo card 010
Tobias Wood @spinicist.bsky.social · 10/11/2023First Elon nerfs Twitter now Google have turned the Youtube app into a TikTok clone. Do. Not. Want. 000
Tobias Wood @spinicist.bsky.social · 06/11/2023Well, sometimes the -70 freezer gets unplugged by the cleaner or the MRI chiller goes nuts but then security is *phoning* you and that's fine. If it's an emergency, e-mail is totally the wrong medium. 120
Tobias Wood @spinicist.bsky.social · 05/11/2023If he'd called it Deep Thought I would have called the nearest Vogon and informed them the plans for the Hyperspace Bypass were now routed through Musk's house 110
Tobias Wood @spinicist.bsky.social · 05/11/2023This is exactly why work email at weekends is a bad idea. I've done the same. Commiserations. 120
Tobias Wood @spinicist.bsky.social · 01/11/2023If I could do one thing to improve my life right now it would be to magically stop people sending me screenshots of code instead of copy pasting it 😔 010
Tobias Wood @spinicist.bsky.social · 25/10/2023I hear you. There used to be a website that would bulk delete Tweets for you, no idea if Elon has nerfed it 000
Tobias Wood @spinicist.bsky.social · 25/10/2023I'm leaving my account there so a bot can't squat on my username. Justifying things to yourself is easy when you try 🙃 130
Tobias Wood @spinicist.bsky.social · 25/10/2023I thought Nature papers were supposed to teach us things we don't know? 🙄 010
Tobias Wood @spinicist.bsky.social · 23/10/2023Forgive my cynicism, but I hear the words "completely seamless" in tech and I'm just itching to find out how many seams they're hiding on the other side. 010
Tobias Wood @spinicist.bsky.social · 23/10/2023I haven't read those blogs but if it's "a tech demo" they are playing with fire. The number of people who will be happy if they have to sign up again for the real thing will be very small indeed. 100
Tobias Wood @spinicist.bsky.social · 23/10/2023I'm being fussy, but that says Compute rather than Data, which breaks the analogy. Compute is the refinery. (I'm in pedantry mode again) 000
