@paulwalk

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Technical consultant and developer, working with Web technologies to support open access to research.

Lives in Frome, UK.

#openaccess #opendata #scholcomm #coarnotify #pompeyfc

Personal websitehttps://www.paulwalk.net
Business websitehttps://www.antleaf.com
Football ClubPortsmouth

Another step closer to the Right To Roam in England :-)

https://www.paulwalk.net/2026/opening-up-the-land-registry/

Opening Up the Land Registry

Paul Walk's Website
A man used LLMs to generate hundreds of thousands of "songs", then used bots to stream them billions of times, to collect $8m in royalties. https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/north-carolina-man-pleads-guilty-music-streaming-fraud-aided-artificial-intelligence-0 Is there a better metaphor for late-stage capitalism than burning resources to make songs that are never listened to, then steaming them to robots that will never hear them, ad infinitum?

Experimenting with `human.json` - a protocol to declare your allegiance to the human race ;-)

https://www.paulwalk.net/2026/experimenting-with-human.json/

(hat tip to @cogdog )

Experimenting with `human.json`

Paul Walk's Website

I just concluded a decade long experiment. I had a USB flash drive in a jar buried in my back yard since 2015. I dug it up, plugged it in and it suffered no data loss after 11 years idle underground.

It's a usless experiment but everyone needs hobbies.

Google search keeps getting worse. Such a shame - I vividly remember seeing Google search for the first time - it was such an exciting development then. Now, it's kinda embarrassing how low it is sinking.. https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/03/20/google-search-is-now-using-ai-to-rewrite-headlines
Google Search Is Now Using AI to Rewrite Headlines

Link to: https://www.theverge.com/tech/896490/google-replace-news-headlines-in-search-canary-coal-mine-experiment?view_token=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJpZCI6IjI0Q05IV0dlS3EiLCJwIjoiL3RlY2gvODk2NDkwL2dvb2dsZS1yZXBsYWNlLW5ld3MtaGVhZGxpbmVzLWluLXNlYXJjaC1jYW5hcnktY29hbC1taW5lLWV4cGVyaW1lbnQiLCJleHAiOjE3NzQ0NzIwOTAsImlhdCI6MTc3NDA0MDA5MH0.3exwHWG6qdR5YeFLjzS1qvUy3tgfASQhbFZDTbHrkKE&utm_medium=gift-link

Daring Fireball

I see the whole "dancing robot" thing is going great in Silicon Valley.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/weQSGxUGTDI

#robotrevolution #robots

Satire? People who pay for X don't do satire.

Using LLMs to generate your site content, like articles, is short-term opportunism, assuming it even appears in conventional search results and AI surfaces.

Long-term thinking is human-generated content. Both people and whatever answer engine we end up using will ultimately prefer a human's take.

So, while everyone invests their time and money in AI, I'll continue to invest mine in human-created content, and all that entails.

the mythical machine month