I'm convinced whoever is responsible for Microsoft Teams has never tried communicating with another person online outside of email... And certainly not working with more than 1 organisation at a time...

Still wondering if @lizrandell.bsky.social was enjoying the sea, or just dreaming of escaping me at the weekend...

After watching various Youtubers doing up run-down properties, we checked out one potential DIY project at the weekend...

Nick Offerman

Nanoraptor@nanoraptor.danamania.com · 2w ago

You suddenly get a narrator describing your life and there’s no way to turn it off - everyone can hear it. While shopping, at work, at home, with friends - the voice narrating your every move goes on. Who do you hope is the voice of this narrator?

And this is what we've come to - a font that's human-readable but not exactly relaxing to read. But that currently defeats AI... I guess it's handy for secret personal messages (which you shouldn't be putting online anyway - assume all online content is public, always) www.mixfont.com/ghost-font

Ghost Font: The Anti-AI Font Only Humans Can Read

An anti-AI font that can be read by humans but not leading AI models. Type your text below, then download and share the video clip containing your message.

mixfont.com

Wouldn't be so bad, but they're potentially also destroying them to comply with a previous legal ruling... www.404media.co/ai-companies...

AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They're Free of AI Slop

ISBNdb, a company that sources printed books for AI companies to turn into training data, tells clients “the optics problem is real.”

404media.co

So this is why Google came out with that billions of clicks from AI features - the NY Times was working on a piece named "Google Is Building an A.I. Fence Around the Internet It Once Championed" - Google was trying to get ahead of it www.seroundtable.com/google-ai-se...

Google Says It Sends Billions Of Clicks To Web Through AI Search

Nick Fox, Google's head of search, said on Friday that Google's AI Mode and AI Overviews - its AI search features - send billions of clicks to websites every week. He said Google Search overall is st...

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Techmeme@techmeme.com · 2w ago

Google's AI Search is endangering the open web; Cloudflare: between June 2025 and April 2026, human traffic to sites of businesses in many industries fell ~40% (Kate Conger/New York Times) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

🚨TODAY, the UK removed people aged 75–79 from routine Covid vaccine eligibility. While countries like Canada continue offering vaccines to higher-risk groups, the UK keeps narrowing access. Policy choices have consequences! #ClinicallyVulnerableAwarenessDay <19th July>

Seen a couple of posts today that have really annoyed me about AI/Marketing. Not because the actual information is wrong, but the headlines are so misleading and are guaranteed to be taken the wrong way, negatively impacting people. Is everyone going full 'tabloid' to get attention now?

It's the hope that kills you...

Interesting fact ahead of the match tonight - football was introduced to Argentina by Isaac Newell, from my hometown of Strood. And a certain Lionel Messi started out playing for Newell's Old Boys club... Hopefully that won't come back to bite us tonight.

The thing that hit me most about the MCR gig at Wembley was the sense of belonging and coming together shared by most of the 80,000 or so people there. People dressing how they wanted, sharing their music passion, and finding their tribe. Not automated, scheduled, 'reversion to the mean' AI

A much longer explanation that I could manage to justify why I still have all my physical media... www.indiewire.com/features/com...

Physical Media Matters, Now More Than Ever

From Sony's new removals to Netflix's old originals, here's why physical media, Blu-rays, DVDs, and film preservation matter more than ever.

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Just about recovered from watching My Chemical Romance at Wembley on Saturday. An amazing show, a wonderful chance to take my son to his first stadium concert, and a great crowd and atmosphere all day.

Here's what the landlord lobby don't want you to know: If rents went down by 20%, renters would save £2400 a year. The government would save £2 billion a year. And landlords would still make 4.5 times as much profit as the average business.

There's useful stuff hidden in there, but it's important to balance reality against the hype...

Terry Van Horne AKA Webmaster T@terryvanhorne.bsky.social · 4w ago

HYPE around AI is getting to the annoying point. Agentic web is likely years away from users ACTUALLY DOING what the hype masters want them to do now. Does nobody remember it took Mobile literally years to take majority of search? HUMANS ARE CREATURES OF HABIT seems as an industry we've forgotten?

My first, and main, memory of Ann Widdecombe was her campaign to get Garbage Pail Kids banned in the late 1980s... Primary school me was not impressed. And was very much correct in his opinion.

A lot of people are sharing some articles complaining about 20mph limits. And while it's inconveniently right at the top of 2nd gear/too low for 3rd, it's hardly difficult, especially around schools and built up areas... But there's also an easy solution for boy racers - more cheap track days...

Well, I was doing a reasonable job of working, looking after the house and caring for someone post-op... So as a reward I now have a massive horsefly bite on my leg... No good deed and all that.

Out of soft drinks 24 hours before our official shopping day... Currently trying to work out the best time to nip to the shop without melting en route...

There's strong correlation between my increased AI usage, and spending my downtime watching/reading about people tinkering with old cars/bikes, house/garage restorations, photography etc...

Imagine if Excel or Word launched now for the first time - social networks would be packed with Excel-hype bros promoting their courses on pivot tables and every ad on Youtube would be a SAAS promising amazing spreadsheet integrations...

I use AI a fair bit for work. It's helpful a reasonable amount of the time. When I'm not working, it'd be nice to hop onto social media without endlessly hearing about it, or having every Youtube ad pushing the same AI tools multiple times in every video.

As someone who loves history and motorsport, one of the best things about sim racing is being able to drive projects like this - getting a bit of the experience of driving a pre-war car around a vintage track adds so much to reading about the drivers and teams of those eras...

OnlineRaceDriver@onlineracedriver.bsky.social · 4w ago

You can now race an infamous pre-war motorsport venue with a free remastered update of the 1937 Tripoli Circuit by Sergio Loro/ THL / Historic Sim Studios It's available now for the original Assetto Corsa... www.onlineracedriver.com/2026/07/07/f... #SimRacing #AssettoCorsa #AssettoCorsaMods #ORD

Fanatec has announced a new licensing partnership with Nissan, with at least one new sim racing wheel set to be announced later in 2026 Will it be a GT-R replica? A Fairlady Z replica? Or a Nissan Micra wheel? www.onlineracedriver.com/2026/07/07/f... #SimRacing #Fanatec #ORD #Nissan

Two MPs have been murderered in the last 10 years but Nigel Farage claims AGAIN to be the most attacked politician in modern times

The FIA F4 Esports Global Championship returns on iRacing for 2026, sponsored by Moza Racing. And anyone can be invited to take part by finishing in the top 10 of the Americas, Asia-Pacific or Europe F4 series during 2026 Season 3. www.onlineracedriver.com/2026/07/07/m... #ORD #SimRacing #iRacing

For anyone dealing with multiple clients, I wonder if the increased capacity due to AI is offset by the cognitive problem of constantly switching between them...

Now that we've sorted getting under-16s off social media can we tackle the other major problem? Where's the ban for middle-aged people talking nonsense about how they battled into school whatever the weather, how they were tougher in their day, we had hot days back then, everything was better etc?

If you are near-ish to Kent and like citizen science and like EELS, please enjoy this free online training session that will allow you to participate in volunteer eel-monitoring fieldwork throughout the summer!