Mark Scourse

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#Birmingham, work in aerospace manufacturing, run at #parkrun, play in #moselele
Mark ScourseJun 11, 2023
James GleickJun 10, 2023

An astonishing fact about the present moment in technology:

Google—which began by doing one thing, and did it better than anyone else, and used that one thing to become a giant company, richer and more powerful than almost any other entity on earth—has lost its ability to do that one thing.

#Google https://hachyderm.io/@confluency/110491848831123193

Adrianna Pińska (@[email protected])

Content farms have basically eaten the first two to three pages of a typical Google search. This morning I was trying to find information about the relative safety of different space heater designs, and 95% of the results were long, rambly bullshit posts written by Jim Smith the Extremely Real Engineer Man for AllAboutSpaceHeaters.com and filled with Amazon affiliate links. Wow, AI is going great. I can't wait to see how this amazing technology will help humanity next.

Hachyderm.io
Mark ScourseJun 10, 2023
Oaklands #parkrun this morning. Tired after bike-swim-bike yesterday evening so only at the last minute decided to actually run rather than walk with the six-year old. Already quite warm, took it easy. #264
Show threadMark ScourseJun 7, 2023
@billheywood @dsacer You could maybe have had this 'debate' ten years ago. It's utterly irrelevant now. The economics and the auto market has chosen #evs and economics of scale mean that even if you wanted #ice (why?) in a few decades you won't be able to buy one. Where are you going to fill it up? At what cost? Who's going to maintain it?
Show threadMark ScourseJun 7, 2023
@AnarchoNinaWrites all independent thinkers, it's just a coincidence that they all believe exactly the same things
Mark ScourseJun 6, 2023
David Penfold May 29, 2023
When I said butter, I actually meant ghee. I should have clarified
Show threadMark ScourseJun 5, 2023
I was the victim of a splitting train in a foreign country
Mark ScourseJun 5, 2023
+ve epic German kebab
-ve S-Bahn has confused me and now I'm in the wrong Stadt
Mark ScourseJun 4, 2023
@pauliehedron @moliver I wonder if you could also use a large volume of water as a heat reservoir? So it could serve multiple uses, alongside gravity storage, also chuck solar heat in there
Show threadMark ScourseJun 4, 2023
@TheBreadmonkey @john1954moi rest assured that running a 5k at all probably puts you top 10% of the population 😀
Show threadMark ScourseJun 4, 2023
@TheBreadmonkey @john1954moi 100% = World record for gender & age https://support.parkrun.com/hc/en-us/articles/200565263-What-is-age-grading-