Sam Michel

On the other hand, Claude told me today it couldn’t tell the time and I might be better off Googling that 🤷

Bathwick is for training. Brassknocker is for the elite.

This instinctively feels correct.

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Absolutely loving Small Prophets, it’s training a lot of will power not to binge it all in one go. Just what the world needs right now. Funny, beautifully observed whimsical. In fact Detectorists and Small Prophets are the balm to the dopamine rollercoaster of doom scrolling.

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"To Do" list of events for any creative industry types in the UK (and anyone fancy travelling to the UK)

moltbook - a Stanford prison style art experiment for LLMs?

See also: security nightmare, stochastic parrots, cryptoscams

One of those slightly ‘get it in the neck from all sides’ positions but @artscouncilengland.bsky.social is looking for a new Chair. £60k / 2 days a week
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What makes this even more challenging is how poorly “influencer” work maps to regular jobs / careers with only a small percentage able to do it full time, with many slogging away as a side hustle. I’d guess a substantial chunk of the economic value is likely invisible to existing economic analysis.

We tried to find this data when doing background research for @beyondconference.org - there’s little info aside from YouTube and TikTok’s funded studies from Oxford Economics. We worked out a methodology for a more general measurement but no funding available to support the research.

Tried this with my son.

I got a eye roll and a “Oh Dad”

“People keep telling me what Bondi was about…”

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The weekend: The campaigning duo who helped get workers two days off As the weekend celebrates its 179th anniversary, meet the Greater Manchester pair who helped create it.

See also: Robert Lowes and his campaigns in Salford, Manchester, UK. Also organised labour. 1843. They now run a festival to celebrate called We invented the Weekend. www.bbc.com/news/uk-engl...

Traitors. So good. But possibly the least helpful bit of scheduling in modern history. How am I supposed to convince over tired kids they can watch it on catchup without hearing spoilers at school 🤯

The digital disconnect: taking digital social policy seriously - Power to Change In our next essay, Rachel Coldicutt explores the urgent need for a community-centred approach to technology policy in the UK. From WhatsApp-powered communit ...

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Something something blockchain 😂

100% read this and thought it was a fantastic initiative for Chesterfield UK, then twigged that was the US. Still I bet a Latino market would go down a treat over here!

I haven’t played with it yet, but isn’t this the main thang for ChatGPT’s Codex tool? Feels like a mix of the two would be ideal.

100% The reason AI doesn’t help productivity 😬

Worth looking at how Quebec are approaching this. They’re looking at laws to compel manufacturers to including PBS buttons on remotes as well.

Kids away on a school trip. Kidmin pressure off? Nope. That Duo Lingo streak won’t preserve itself. 🙄

This would be a great introduction to the scientific method for kids.

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Taking some small advantage from the dog’s 6:30am Sunday wake up call!

Dog really needs to work on his hide and seek game.

Poor love’s just lost his motor in the multi-storey.

This’ll help

So true. If your writing has an Oxford comma and “delves” a lot, I smell a ChatGPT.