Will Goring

@AggroBoy
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Professional software guy with a lifelong love for LEGO, dinosaurs, LEGO dinosaurs and science.
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ChatGPT 5 is worse for me than 4. Its context use is noticeably worse; it forgets things you told it a message or two ago, which is infuriating. Plus side is that the creepy sycophancy seems mostly gone but to compensate, they’ve dialed the clickbait-y follow up suggestions to eleven.

All around more frustrating and irritating and not obviously more capable.

Still 1 week left to buy tickets to DinoCon!
See: https://www.dinocon.co.uk/
I will be there all weekend and taking part in the palaeoart panel discussion on Sunday 17th.

#DinoCon #Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #Birds #Pterosaurs #Reptiles #MarineReptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology

Hackers in 2003: "Hey look, I hooked up my fridge to the internet!"

Hackers in 2025: "phew, finally got my fridge off the internet! 💪"

So I don’t know if this is because I’ve aged out of it happening often or a comment on the times, but wow it really throws me now when someone I know gets married and changes their name.

In the final analysis I think the real thing I’ll never forgive Elon for is chasing everyone off Twitter and making them fill LinkedIn with their bullshit political takes instead.

I never thought I’d miss the days when it was all nonsense growth hackers and terrible career advice, but - unsurprisingly - blatant racism is actually worse.

Like, seriously, I’m just trying to keep an eye on what companies are hiring in my area; I don’t need a bigoted rant from some dude I worked with 20 years ago.

Why #Ao3 was down yesterday:

You know, I could write a whole blog post about this—and I might—but I think we need to start addressing the very likely possibility that the *entire thesis* that “UI should get out of the way” and “apps should focus on content” is wrong.

Apps aren’t just for looking at photos or videos. They’re for navigating through these things, organizing them, editing them. The tools to do those things should not get out of the way. They should be clearly defined and separate from the content.

In which I realize, with grim resignation, that I have to have a Take on the Sex Wars: https://jude-doyle.ghost.io/this-is-how-you-lose-the-sex-wars/
This Is How You Lose the Sex Wars

Trying to pick a pathway through forty years of the ugliest conflict in feminism.

Jude Doyle
This is very aggressively (perhaps too aggressively) stated, but he's absolutely right. People are all worried their ideas are gonna be "stolen", and my friends, I can assure you that won't be the problem.
Diego Luna guest-hosts Kimmel and talks about immigration, saying of the US and Los Angeles: “This place is a powerful example of what’s possible, of what can be achieved when we put empathy first.” https://kottke.org/25/06/diego-luna-guest-hosts-kimmel-talks-immigration
Diego Luna Guest-Hosts Kimmel, Talks Immigration

Diego Luna is guest-hosting Jimmy Kimmel Live this week and for his first monologue, the Mexico native spoke about immigration a

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