Geoff

@GeoffHale
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Suddenly middle-aged, over weight and obsolescent. Interests: #cats #intranet #diet

I don't want this important news to go unnoticed: the National Library of Scotland's Access team have given names to collection trolleys including: Trolly Parton, George Orwheel, Wheeliam Shakespeare, Daphne du Trollier, Rene Descart, Cart Cobain, JRR Trollkein, Cart Vader, and Mary Wheelstonecraft.

Via @cawston.bsky.social's https://cawston.ghost.io/weeknotes-12-monsters-only/

Weeknotes #12: Monsters Only

A week of interesting chats, admin churn and unexpected tribulations. What happened this week? Monday began with a useful chat with one of our Board members about a large-scale AI roll-out across a multi-national organisation. Initial scepticism has been replaced by seeing dedicated agents delivering huge time savings. Context is

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RE: https://mastodon.social/@SteveRudolfi/116279083767770070

If one definition of evil is its wanton destruction of everything that is good and whole in the world, then Google is an active agent of evil.

It is setting out to destroy the world wide web and steal the livelihood of everyone who builds and depends on the web.

I honestly don't know how to mobilise normies to care about and stop this evil. It probably seems too niche and incremental until it's too late.

Oh yeah, and in the UK an ex-Google exec is now running the BBC. . .

My books cartoon for this week’s @[email protected]

Mildlife update.

First sighting this year of an ice cream van.
No mating call, but plumage looked in good order and moving at speed.

Soon be summer.

#Mildlife #Daft

@mcc

Happy New Orbit!

Happy Birthday !

You all should read this fantastic post by @onepict about how, largely, AI people just can't leave us the fuck alone. But I'm noticing more and more and more that they get super mad when they wanna shove their #AI creation at you and you simply say, no thanks. That's it. No extra bashing, just, no thanks, and they get super offended. https://dotart.blog/cobbles/ai-and-that-guy-at-the-bar #AIHype #LLM
AI and that Guy at the bar

In tech we've always had evangelists, weither it's for FOSS, or Blockchain or now AI. It's a natural thing to do. You have a tech you'r...

cobbles

@spacemagick

50 years of hearing it wrong!

@spacemagick

I always thought it was "reverse the positron flow"?

I figured I should make this into a poster. A4 size, but can easily be scaled to fit onto Letter size, for you non-standard Americans out there.

Reuse encouraged, public domain!

#AltText #Accessibility