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Tom Morris @tommorris.org · 26/09/2026

`sudo kill -9` is actually murder said some very clever people.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026

Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.

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Tom Morris @tommorris.org · 16/09/2026

New blog post: What has Athens to do with Palo Alto? A fun little romp through the sophistry of techno-theology, with reference to the deeply unserious attempts to encode ethics into autonomous vehicles. tommorris.org/posts/2026/w...

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What has Athens to do with Palo Alto?

Weird AI cultists are not serious people. Laughing at them is good for the soul.

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Tom Morris @tommorris.org · 29/08/2026

In the software development process, ideas you can't explain to an experienced professional are usually considered bad. Dedicated slop enthusiasts often waste tens of thousands of dollars pursuing bad ideas never letting their incompetence give them pause. These are their stories. *dong dong*

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Tom Morris @tommorris.org · 26/08/2026

I have a radical idea: just send a summary email. See also: the GCSE grades reporting app. Could have just been an email. Almost every time a school or university needs to tell a student or parent something, just use email. To their address, not a special institution-specific address.

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Tom Morris @tommorris.org · 22/08/2026

I appreciate the subtext of “MBA degrees are just as deliverable by a random number generator as a business school lecturer”.

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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 07/08/2026

This is one aspect of the problem. Litigants in person use AI to generate often excessively lengthy pleadings and submissions that can seem superficially plausible but which require to be sifted through minutely to identify what is real. It’s common for LiPs not fully to understand what they submit.

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Tom Morris @tommorris.org · 06/08/2026

We're definitely journalists, except "you have full editorial rights" which is definitely a thing that journalists with integrity do when it comes to article subjects.

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absolute horses @jcoglan.com · 03/08/2026

oh really, can you not build reusable automations on top of things with unpredictable behaviour? whomever could have etc

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Dr Neil & Mr Price @drneil.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

It’s really starting to grind me down

The Barney/Moe’s Tavern meme

“Default AI features” Barney being kicked out
“Finding how to turn it all off in the settings” -satisfied Moe

Third panel Barney coming in behind “software update”

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Theo Priestley @theopriestley.net · 28/07/2026

Fucking hell as if receiving automated rejection letters for jobs wasn't bad enough.

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Tom Morris @tommorris.org · 25/07/2026

New blog post: on how to approach AI-based "we made a thing that's so scary it could destroy everything" claims with some goddamn skepticism. tommorris.org/posts/2026/t...

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The invisible dragon discovered magical security vulnerabilities but they go to another school

Hey, at least being haunted by demons was metal AF.

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badly drawn boo! 🎃👻🧛🏼‍♀️ @soapachu.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

perfect dead drop 10/10 no notes (the shrouds really make this)

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Tom Morris @tommorris.org · 17/07/2026

For those who missed it, a brief explanation of how OpenAI lost their EU trade mark.

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Tom Morris @tommorris.org · 16/07/2026

Generally when someone doesn’t answer my texts I don’t go and complain to a journalist for the FT. Get over yourselves. You don’t deserve a special hotline to power.

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Tom Morris @tommorris.org · 15/07/2026

New blog post: a rather quick translation of the OpenAI CJEU trade mark decision from lawyerese to nerdish, because I'm seeing lots of otherwise intelligent-seeming people not understanding it. tommorris.org/posts/2026/e...

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European court lawsplains trade marks to Sam Altman

Court reckons ‘open’ means… something.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

No hell too hot. www.sunjournal.com/2026/07/13/i...

The little girl was still in Bluey pajamas.

No older than 3, she was trying to smell the flowers.

At her side, a pink rolling bag.

Her father, Joan Sebastian Guerrero, had just been fatally shot and yanked from a car he’d been driving. Now, he lay handcuffed in the street, where he would remain for five hours.

“You took her dad, you took her dad!” a woman nearby yelled, according to Cecelia Humiston, 22, who witnessed the interaction in Biddeford on Monday morning.

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OneBGS - Bethesda Game Studios Union @bethesdaunion.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Unfortunately, HR made our office manager take this down almost immediately. They said because it's in a common area, it had to be removed. We've used common areas for many things as a team, including fan works, but HR seems to believe that a Celebration of Service is inappropriate.

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Tom Morris @tommorris.org · 27/06/2026

Libraries without books in them? Nah, how about a Reflecting Pool where you're not allowed to do any reflecting?

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Tom Morris @tommorris.org · 17/06/2026

"Why would you want news and information on the radio?" asks the British Broadcasting Corporation

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Tom Morris @tommorris.org · 15/06/2026

In addition to ensuring algorithm-free websites, His Majesty's Customs and Excise will be diligently ensuring that nobody enters the country with copies of TAoCP or CLRS to protect the nation's children from backtracking, recursive mergesorts and B-trees.

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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

I’m going to scream

NHS staff ‘too afraid of pro-Palestine activists to support Palantir’
Former health chief says colleagues have been followed down the street and heckled as ‘genocide supporters’ for working on data platform

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Tom Morris @tommorris.org · 11/06/2026

Everyone kept telling me I needed to use AI coding tools, so I gave it a go (using only local/free tools). There were some good bits, some howlingly bad bits, and some potential lessons for making (non-AI) development better. tommorris.org/posts/2026/a...

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A trip report into agentic coding

A personal exploration of herding code-generating robots

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Tom Morris @tommorris.org · 08/06/2026

If you want to use up someone's OpenAI/Anthropic API credits to get legal advice that you probably shouldn't follow, have at it.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

As a principled libertarian, I'm going to ignore the government persecution of E. Jean Carroll and write another piece about the NYU students who don't like Jon Haidt.

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Tyler Kingkade @tktk.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

An NBC News investigation finds dozens of examples of criminals imitating ICE to rob and attack people www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

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Jacob Aron @jjaron.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Always good to have your response to a consultation immediately ready to go. Suggests you've definitely engaged with the results of the consultation and that the entire thing wasn't a waste of time.

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Tom Morris @tommorris.org · 25/05/2026

In Britain, adulthood is a domain specific random number between 14 and 30. You can’t buy cigarettes but you can join the armed forces. You can vote but you aren’t allowed on social media. It’s all very coherent.

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Tom Morris @tommorris.org · 25/05/2026

The warmup act is a talk by the Washington Generals on how to succeed at basketball, and afterwards you get to watch Elon Musk play Path of Exile 2.

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Tom Morris @tommorris.org · 24/05/2026

If content creators set up a union, they could demand a few hours each week to read a book.

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Tom Morris @tommorris.org · 24/05/2026

Having your lawyer be a robot that tells you that everything you do is a really great idea, and justifies it with made up bullshit… truly, should work out great. No notes.

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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

I simply cannot stress deeply enough that if I am dictating text to a computer, and I say "Hi", and the computer writes down "I hope this finds you well" instead, I am going to delete every trace of that software from my machine and then hunt down every single person responsible for creating it.

Screenshot of a Facebook advert for Wispr Flow

Text reads:

You said "hi". The email you wrote said "I hope this finds you well."

Speak naturally, get clean polished text. You can still add 'kind regards' if you must.

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jesse, head of endorsement deals at BOOingo Wireless @killgoldfish.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

my gf works corporate and is on a training about AI and there's a word cloud for "what do you use AI for." the largest word by far is "Nothing" and the trainer is PISSED

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Tom Morris @tommorris.org · 19/05/2026

Quite hard to save for your pension when you are paying off someone else's mortgage.

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Tom Morris @tommorris.org · 19/05/2026

When BlueSky was down, the fediverse kept chugging. It’s almost as if one of them is a meaningfully decentralised network and the other is a pile of vibecoded shit run by people who constantly make bad decisions.

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Tom Morris @tommorris.org · 14/05/2026

Apparently, the ICO should have created a brand new genAI-specific FOI exemption without Parliament delegating them the power to do so...? (The ICO guidance seems unremarkable: AI-generated information is information. Information held by public authorities is FOI-able, unless it is exempt. Duh.)

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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mady.cat · 04/05/2026

So @safety.bsky.app has no problem with people repeatedly harassing and humiliating trans rape victims, but a blocklist that is helping trans people block people who participate in such behavior is against the rules. Got it. So much for "choose your own moderation."

Hi there,

Your Bluesky account (@mady.cat) has created a list called "weird transphobes and racists who aren't worth your time" that may violate our Community Guidelines. We've temporarily hidden this list from other users because it contains one or more of these issues.

Harmful language such as insults or slurs

Unverified claims

Appears intended to shame or abuse users

• Links to inappropriate off-platform content

We strive to make Bluesky a respectful place for everyone, and we appreciate your help in maintaining that environment. If you'd like your list to be visible again, please update it to follow our guidelines, then email moderation@blueskyweb.xyz to let us know you've made changes.

Alternatively, please email moderation@blueskyweb.xyz if you wish to appeal this decision.

Bluesky Moderation Team

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Saoirse Ní Chiaragáin @miseryvulture.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

I love how every CEO nowadays is a k-holed dork in a leather jacket.

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Tom Morris @tommorris.org · 29/04/2026

Turns out the "I did my own research (on some rando Facebook or Telegram group)" approach to jurisprudence works about as well is it does for immunology and software development.

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Skylar MacDonald @skylar.lol · 28/04/2026

I know it’s How Party Politics Works and all but it sure is a hell of a thing to rest your counterargument against boozing in Parliament on “there are only like three people who actually decide how votes go, so the rest of them can be drunk without causing meaningful impact”

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

i’ve worked in tech more than 20 years. it has never been more ridiculous.

exchange on X

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We hired a junior developer to write the simple code, so we don't have to spend a ton of money on tokens for those basic/primitive tasks

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Great, so now we're optimizing LLM costs by inventing employees again.
Full circle innovation.

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Tom Morris @tommorris.org · 22/04/2026

This is the kind of brain you need to transcend writing code and become a senior manager.

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Tom Morris @tommorris.org · 09/04/2026

People who stuck around after mecha-Hitler started producing sexual abuse imagery might not represent the brightest and best.

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