Now we know why we’re asked to prove we’re human more and more frequently when accessing online resources. Hidden costs of AI.
12.03.2026 06:28
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Now we know why we’re asked to prove we’re human more and more frequently when accessing online resources. Hidden costs of AI.
Exit Jolyon, pursued by a fox...
The wildlife scene I want to see on banknotes:
Respect!
Artificial food attracting Willow Tits to fixed spot 20+ times per hour, overstimulating their hoarding instinct with endless food. Never happens with natural food sources. Makes Willow Tits very predictable for birders- and Sparrowhawks, which need to get lucky just once to wipe out this territory.
Yet another example of parasitic AI makers of slopware enshittifying public resources for everyone, and creating wasteful "work", gumming up tech staff who're meant to be serving the public rather than managing massive bot scraping & extraction
We like this map a lot too - it's not quite geographic, not quite diagrammatic, but somehow it all works nicely.
(though we're not old enough to remember it back in the day, no, absolutely not...)
You might have heard the news about wildlife appearing on UK banknotes ... well ... I have a plan!! Thank you to Nick Cope for his wonderful Hugh (the hedgehog!) - have a read and a share and let's get hedgehogs where they belong!
hughwarwick.substack.com/p/prickly-ba...
Come and join us for Sarah's seminar next Tuesday - sign up now to attend in person and online.
This echoes what all my day digital libraries/tech services homies have been saying. The AI bots are breaking everything good about the Internet.
I know! Such a lovely story!
Huzzah !
"My first thought when I found out its origin was that I would like to return it to an institute where it could be studied by all...My grandfather would be proud to know, as I am, that the coin is coming back to Leeds."
Lovely. ❤️
#Archaeology #Treasure #Detecting 🏺
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Good.
Some British newspapers now seem more interested in pleasing American readers than reflecting British opinion.
➡️ Watch Page 94, the Private Eye podcast: youtu.be/m8kyoyGdCQY
Up for a two day visit to Boston Spa to talk and see all things newspaper. Go to check into our hotel in York and find we’re opposite the old Yorkshire Herald building.
In 1939, on the outbreak of the Second World War, fearing the effects of air bombing, Britons killed hundreds of thousands of their pets.
In 2026, in Dubai, British migrants fleeing the war with Iran are abandoning their animals in their thousands.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
We are still discovering new mammal species..
Ancient Cypriot jug with a figurine on the shoulder
Horse or bull
What a thrill to see this unusual variation on an ancient Cypriot jug with a figurine on the shoulder at Hastings Museum and Art Gallery @notjustabattle.bsky.social Originally interpreted as a bull, restoration makes him look more like a horse - a fantastical winged beast at any rate.
The answer. Or the question. Both surreal.
What is everyone doing.
This cannot be real.
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...(Fellow detectorist, 500 metres away, speaking on phone):
'Over there, Tom...that group of small mounds...could be possible hoards, not ant hills...try jumping up and down on them to see......oh dear'.
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...(Fellow detectorist, 500 metres away, speaking on phone):
'Over there, Tom...that group of small mounds...could be possible hoards, not ant hills...try jumping up and down on them to see......oh dear'.
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Are there any UK WW2 minefields still to neutralised?
Most of Blue Sky Archaeology & History know the ideal candidate to investigate...
@tessmachling.bsky.social @durotrigesdig.bsky.social @mattpope.bsky.social @pittsmike.bsky.social @ianwaites.bsky.social @andyrpglevum.bsky.social & others
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Are there any UK WW2 minefields still to neutralised?
Most of Blue Sky Archaeology & History know the ideal candidate to investigate...
@tessmachling.bsky.social @durotrigesdig.bsky.social @mattpope.bsky.social @pittsmike.bsky.social @ianwaites.bsky.social @andyrpglevum.bsky.social & others
Old Winchester Hill, photo from earlier today. This hillfort was used as a mine clearance testing site in the decades following World War 2, and was only declared "safe" in the early 2000s.
There’s an E Grinston listed here, as translating a book in 1614. Worth searching archive.org though it is quite random and can’t really tell the difference between Grinston & Grimston!
archive.org/details/bim_...
The passage concerns the commission for the 1619 Lord Mayor's Show, which was won by Middleton. Very annoyingly, the decision was taken by committees which have left no record 🙃
Going by the email from my sons school this morning....
Surely...
