Reposted by Calumtef @tef.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Film-Noir Author: In my book I invented the Toontown Freeway as a cautionary tale. Robert Moses exiting a time machine: At long last, we have created the Toontown Freeway from classic sci-fi novel Don't Build The Toontown Freeway. 513119
Reposted by Calumtef @tef.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Operations Skills: PRIMARILY KAFKA AND CASSANDRA BUT I CAN MAKE ANY SORT OF PREDICTION AND HAVE IT IGNORED BY ANY TYPE OF BUREAUCRACY 513731
Reposted by Calumtef @tef.bsky.social · 20/08/2026hello from beautiful sunny and rainy edinburgh 1302
Reposted by CalumJosephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 23/10/2025Never forget that time Sam Neill gave a quote about murder that was so beautifully kabonkers, we all assumed it was a Clickhole bit initially 47100032894
Reposted by CalumThe Onion @theonion.com · 22/06/2026U.K. Weighs Social Media Ban Of Everyone Except Old Men Who Grow Big Vegetables theonion.com/u-k-weighs-social-medi… 402563390
Reposted by CalumTrinket @trinketbirdy.bsky.social · 13/06/2026No seriously they're stuck in a shit pub being yelled at by Fatboy Slim 553301747
Reposted by CalumCool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 09/06/2026Some heroes don't wear capes 7553451425
Reposted by CalumMaggie Serota @maggieserota.bsky.social · 31/05/2026If I were an action hero, this is what I’d say to the bad guy before the kill shot. 125137022066
Calum @zootm.bsky.social · 23/05/2026I am fairly sure I know people who know San Francisco, please send me suggestions if you have them 100
Reposted by CalumNeil Slorance @neilslorance.com · 08/05/2026Just enjoying this before the regionals kick in 2533
Reposted by Calumabsolute horses @jcoglan.com · 19/03/2026also: a lot of tech people have always had a very narrow and reductive idea of what other jobs involve, a phenomenon that genAI has now extended to their own jobs 0234
Reposted by CalumDane Owens @owendanes.bsky.social · 10/03/2026Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now 216256696911
Reposted by CalumBooks That Burn @booksthatburn.com · 07/03/2026A delightful site! youraislopbores.me 08641
Reposted by CalumEd Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex.bsky.social · 06/03/2026The House of Lords Digital & Communications Committee just published their report on AI, copyright & the creative industries, and their conclusions could not be clearer. 🧵 1/5 121548876
Reposted by Calumpaul khruangbin (Dan Lehner) @danlehner.bsky.social · 06/02/2026the Spectator accidentally recycled a subhed from a previous day’s article about Tehran 10069811538
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Reposted by Calumjneen @jneen.ca · 04/02/2026every once in a while i am reminded that sudo has a logo, a fact which i had blissfully forgotten 2389
Reposted by CalumMusicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 20/01/2026I just woke up from a nap and somehow while I was asleep, everyone on the bus has figured out we are not going to the right place 15213625083
Reposted by Calumtef @tef.bsky.social · 16/01/2026“Every line of code is written without reason, maintained out of weakness, and deleted by chance.” Jean-Paul Sartre’s Programming in ANSI C 17417
Reposted by CalumJames Vincent @jjvincent.bsky.social · 27/12/2025another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls 9444684614406
Reposted by Calumtinybaby @tiny.baby · 20/12/2025folks they are almost out of ai assistant names. there are not many left 34873120
Reposted by CalumAnne Hedonia @elephantsaxophone.bsky.social · 08/12/2025Introducing the Cool S, For Her™ 301589291
Reposted by CalumAnil Dash @anildash.com · 17/10/2025Okay, for the folks who asked: here's the majority AI view, writing up the reasonable, thoughtful view on AI that the vast majority of people in tech hold, that gets overshadowed by the bluster and hype of the tycoons trying to shill their nonsense. anildash.com/2025/10/17/t... Please share!anildash.comThe Majority AI View - Anil DashA blog about making culture. Since 1999. 381119486
Reposted by CalumJohn Scary Name Cullen @nellucnhoj.bsky.social · 30/11/2023shapes in the sky 14899177
Reposted by CalumMegan Fox @glassbottommeg.bsky.social · 20/09/2025Things were better when computer was in room. Now everywhere is computer. This is bad. Computer should never have escaped room. 4650741386
Reposted by CalumDEI Speedwagon @myrrlyn.net · 07/09/2025“c gets you close to the machine” is the kind of sentence that lands very differently after working in a factory you’re not supposed to be close to the machine! that’s where the finger munchers are! 1342158
Reposted by Calumapenwarr @apenwarr.ca · 08/09/2025So fun to watch programmers as they find out for the first time what happens when you employ programmers 2543
Calum @zootm.bsky.social · 23/08/2025I have just today discovered that podcasts can be chapterised, and that apparently @scwpod.bsky.social is painstakingly broken into chapters with often-joke names 031
Reposted by Calum👻BOOryan BlessDeAd🎃 @bryb.bsky.social · 17/08/2025I don't know why this lad is building a subterranean city for cats, but I'm all for it. 893093096
Reposted by Calum⚠⚡Ellie-lectra @trysdyn.voidfox.com · 15/08/2025"I'm gonna dump all my pent up angst and infodump material into a blog post about Itch/payment processing" I say to myself. It ends up like a million words, oops. but well, I got it out of my brain: voidfox.com/blog/payment...voidfox.comPayment Processor Fun 2025 -- Making Your Own MSP 11357191
Reposted by CalumMatthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 12/08/2025Instead of regurgitating the bromide that LLMs are just "autocomplete on steroids" (even by people who know better), maybe we can actually engage in some public education. The problem with genAI is better expressed through a classic computer science concept, known as SYMBOL GROUNDING. 🧵 35845293
Reposted by CalumMary Kenney @marykgames.com · 23/07/2025it does not matter how good you make your game’s block/parry system; I will not use it. My defense is “punch more.” I cannot be taught 5674472329
Calum @zootm.bsky.social · 11/07/2025I scored 14/28 on jsdate.wtf and all I got was this lousy text to share on social media. Don’t know whether to be proud or ashamed to get halfwayjsdate.wtfnew Date("wtf")How well do you know JavaScript's Date class? 030
Reposted by CalumMETR @metr.org · 10/07/2025We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers. The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't. 11968702993
Reposted by CalumEmily Joy Allison @emilyjoyallison.bsky.social · 10/07/2025This morning I read the phrase "the nazification of grok" and I wished for an extended moment to be a medieval peasant with no knowledge of any of this. Just give me a wheelbarrow and a 40 year life expectancy 313811
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