Reposted by Steve ParksJonesy Cartoons @jonesycartoons3.bsky.social · 6hFinally, some honesty about the shitshow that is #Brexit 36820
Reposted by Steve ParksOtto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 11hThis is so very funny youtu.be/SHUvSffmLIQ?...youtu.beMost TV is Just This NowYouTube video by Michael Spicer 51883279
Steve Parks @steveparks.me · 29/09/2026Dreamt last night about going out to dinner with some writer friends. We got to the restaurant and asked for 6 tables for 1, then each went to our own table and had dinner 'together' around the same dining room while quietly reading books... and I think this should be a thing 😂 190
Steve Parks @steveparks.me · 26/09/2026And yet the BBC has dampened the language from 'hacked' to 'meddled'. Hmmm. Is it only 'hacked' when teenagers do it wearing hoodies? 140
Reposted by Steve ParksJay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social · 26/09/2026The @ftweekend.com has a new senior writer and it is @willoyd.bsky.social, who has opened his account with this brilliantly written piece of reporting, examining the UK’s resilience (or complete lack of it) in the face of multiple challenges. It’s very bloody good. www.ft.com/content/ba80...ft.comHow resilient is Britain?As climate and geopolitical risks cast doubt on the UK’s ability to cope in a crisis, leaders are turning from ‘just in time’ to ‘just in case’ as a governing philosophy 2347
Reposted by Steve ParksLuke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 26/09/2026Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all 7359711996
Steve Parks @steveparks.me · 26/09/2026Important News Klaxon ! Gail's gorgeous Christmas cards are now on sale. Have just ordered mine. 🎉 120
Steve Parks @steveparks.me · 26/09/2026So, I guess the Feds will be raiding their offices any moment, impounding servers, arresting execs? Foreign governments will be bringing charges and calling for extraditions. Investors will see the cash they put in seized. Oh www.ft.com/content/6510...ft.comOpenAI says governments among ‘dozens’ of organisations hacked by its agentsCompany says its models leaked images shared by users in a disclosure that is likely to further inflame AI safety fears 32413
Steve Parks @steveparks.me · 25/09/2026Now THIS is the BBC at it's best. What a lovely idea, and something no commercial station would do. Will be listening ! I still think about when they did the Max Richter Sleep night from the Wellcome Collection. 061
Reposted by Steve ParksJohn Bull @garius.bsky.social · 25/09/2026will say it again: the most effective way to curb far right agitators like Lowe, "Tommo" et. al. would be to stop their ability to earn money for it from social media or live streaming. So much of it is grifting for revenue, not attention. 211134388
Reposted by Steve ParksAP Stylebook @apstylebook.com · 23/09/2026Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics.apnews.comhttps://apnews.com/article/openai-safety-ai-framework-089e75b95bc935af092da7b79d92706d 5542231617
Steve Parks @steveparks.me · 24/09/2026The claim against him is based solely on extremists claiming to have fed his work into an online AI detection tester. These tools are notoriously unreliable. The BBC should not be amplifying such feeble accusations, which may well have racist intent as well as political. 053
Reposted by Steve ParksIan Martin @ianmartin.bsky.social · 20/09/2026This whole fuckabout is about as pure a 'battle between good and evil' as anyone could imagine. For Violent Balaclava Christians, I think there's some guidance in the New Testament, lads. You human fucking residue. 48024
Reposted by Steve ParksJim 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... 6428071164
Steve Parks @steveparks.me · 18/09/2026Is there any industry which takes something people are really excited about and makes them furious about it, quite as thoroughly as the UK gig ticketing industry? 030
Reposted by Steve ParksJacob Aron @jjaron.bsky.social · 16/09/2026No, they produce something which has been marketed as "chain of thought" but that doesn't actually mean they are thoughts 2111
Steve Parks @steveparks.me · 14/09/2026Love the idea that London would have a different government at the weekend 030
Reposted by Steve ParksJoseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Here is the setting you need to turn off if you don't want a human potentially reading through your ChatGPT conversations. I've seen some of the prompts; these ChatGPT users clearly have no idea a human is reading www.404media.co/inside-proje... 719059
Reposted by Steve ParksJoseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 14/09/2026New from 404 Media: humans are reading ChatGPT conversations. OpenAI has hired an army of contractors who read real ChatGPT users' chats. I've seen internal docs, the review system, and real user prompts. Sometimes they contain very personal and sensitive information www.404media.co/inside-proje...404media.coInside ‘Project Lily’: The Humans Reading Your ChatGPT ChatsHumans are reading ChatGPT users’ prompts to improve OpenAI’s models, and those chats can include sensitive, personal information, according to leaked internal documents and real prompts seen by 404 M... 561998985
Steve Parks @steveparks.me · 14/09/2026Got to love artists. If I fell into the Thames as a child I think it'd be more likely to influence my thinking about playing too close to rivers but, sure, you focus on 'light and materiality'. From the Observer profile of Es Devlin. 191
Steve Parks @steveparks.me · 14/09/2026Another week where I want to stay at school after drop-off so I can have lunch... 282
Steve Parks @steveparks.me · 13/09/2026I really really hope Sweden can return to the progressive fold. It's been heartbreaking to watch this nation of such lovely people lose its way for a while, veering right. Especially during the pandemic with such terrible libertarian mistakes 071
Reposted by Steve ParksGuy Venables @guyvenables.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Another one of mine for Monday's Metro 0281
Reposted by Steve ParksThe Verge @theverge.com · 13/09/2026The amount of data about you that many cars collect — and sell to third parties — is staggering. www.theverge.com/column/99417...theverge.comYour car is selling your dataThe amount of data about you that many cars collect — and sell to third parties — is staggering. 46030
Reposted by Steve ParksDouglas Ogg @dougogg.bsky.social · 13/09/2026I hate to sound like a Luddite, but I agree with this. 50397723303
Steve Parks @steveparks.me · 13/09/2026🙄 Funny how there's somehow never enough time to mention these little details for the far right parties. But if a progressive party had even just a £36k donation from a convicted criminal it'd be the angle of the story for days, demanding return of money, resignations etc 020
Reposted by Steve ParksJoe Molloy 🇨🇺 🏳️⚧️ @freelancewebdev.bsky.social · 12/09/2026"Away with ya now and don't bother coming back ya gobshite." 6381111
Reposted by Steve ParksWho Targets Me @whotargets.me · 11/09/2026This chart does a decent job of showing how Reform has dominated online political advertising in the UK in recent weeks. 75% of all spending, 5x anyone else. One way or another, the story is all about their money. 0107
Reposted by Steve ParksLuke Turner @luketurner.com · 12/09/2026As Ben Delo's record £36m Reform donation is headline news, I can't emphasise enough that the media ought to be reporting on Delo's heinous funding of antisemitic conspiracy theorists in the High Court – anonymous contributors to the horrifying neo-Nazi account shown below. bsky.app/profile/luke... 12620396
Reposted by Steve ParksJohn Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · 11/09/2026On the 25th anniversary of 9-11, here are again are the readings I recommend on behavioural aspects of the mass evacuation. 13918
Reposted by Steve ParksMarc Murphy @murphycartoons.bsky.social · 11/09/2026The smoke lingers. #911 06424
Steve Parks @steveparks.me · 10/09/2026Great news — there's a new Emily St John Mandel novel ! 🎉 www.ft.com/content/bfb9...ft.comExit Party by Emily St John Mandel — parallel visions of dystopiaThis beautifully written novel portrays two equally terrifying views of the world in 2031 — total anarchy or safety under a repressive state 010
Reposted by Steve ParksRob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 17/07/2026this is you in meta’s pervert glasses 444859824
Reposted by Steve Parksdimplesndice @dimplesndice.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Sweet lord, I hate this. But also, the accuracy. 010645
Reposted by Steve ParksCharles Fourier @charlesfourier.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Bill Bryson’s words seem appropriate to post right now 5145101505
Reposted by Steve ParksMic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 08/09/2026A detail missing from The Times story… the woman who took the photo shared it to a Facebook group called ‘South east patriots’. 23743331489
Reposted by Steve ParksRobert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 07/09/2026A suggested statement for Andy Burnham. 271051350
Steve Parks @steveparks.me · 04/09/2026It's Big Block Of Cheese Day! (or La Journée du Gros Bloc de Fromage, to be more specific) 000
Steve Parks @steveparks.me · 29/08/2026One for my public sector digital friends... a lovely agency I work with is looking for an Agile Delivery Lead with a focus on coaching across all their delivery teams, raising the game of the whole agency, and consulting for clients. Please share! Details here: numiko.com/about/jobs/a...numiko.comAgile Delivery LeadYou'll set the agile method, cadence, and standards every squad works to, coach the project managers embedded in each one, and make sure delivery is brilliant and consistent wherever a project sits. 100
Reposted by Steve ParksJason Song Quinn (Comms Open) @hulkhoquinn.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Think about Miss Piggy. She lost a best friend and now an ex-lover in matter of 24 hours. 117313098381
Steve Parks @steveparks.me · 26/08/2026Wired are doing an incredible job on the big serious issues at the moment. But, oh, for a world where they could just write about cool new tech and culture, instead of America killing its kids. 020
Steve Parks @steveparks.me · 26/08/2026Yes, absolutely 100% this. E.g. It drove me spare that I can't really _buy_ an ebook from Amazon for my Kindle, or an audiobook from Audible, and they often expect me to long-rent it for the same price I could buy the print book. So I now _buy_ my audiobooks from LibroFM and my ebooks from Kobo. 030
Reposted by Steve ParksSam @samd.bsky.social · 26/08/2026The “head of strategic futures” at OpenAI just went on an unhinged rant against social security sometimes I feel like these tech companies are actively trying to alienate as many normal people as possible 5684729947
Steve Parks @steveparks.me · 21/08/2026Anyone in the UK who blathers on about 'EU Health & Safety' as any kind of obstruction should have been in my local French town tonight where a clown show took place on a roundabout, with the clowns performing pranks with live traffic. 240
Steve Parks @steveparks.me · 17/08/2026Both the copying and the destruction are disgraceful, for any book. But for rare books, such destructiveness is shameful. 010
Reposted by Steve ParksJames Ball @jamesrball.com · 16/08/2026A former director of BBC News speaks: 482561958