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Michael Wilcox

@mikeywil.bsky.social

Not for profit advocate. Digital Transformation for ISTD. Kent-based. Graecophile, accidental olive farmer, sailing in and around The Swale (and more)

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David Coveney@davidcoveney.com · last wk.

Has the AIpocalypse arrived? Well, here's a story to make you itch: We've always been good at security and never had a breach that was down to our team. Some fifteen years ago we established a principle that now permeates through all Enterprise WordPress: don't trust PHP!

Little Green Space 🐝@lgspace.bsky.social · last mo.

A single 400-year-old ancient oak produces 234,000 litres of oxygen a year while soaking up carbon dioxide, and can support more than 2,000 species of bird, insect, fungus, and lichen. Nature is amazing - we need more of it, not less. Please repost if you agree 🌳

Mature oak trees with bare branches in an autumn woodland
Bart⚓️@bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 3w ago

The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.

David Coveney@davidcoveney.com · 3w ago

I'm in London tomorrow and my afternoon meeting has bailed on me at short notice. So if someone has a bit of space I can borrow or would like to have me on hand for some digital publishing or design PR advice then give me a shout! I have 4hrs!

Bremain in Spain@bremaininspain.com · 3w ago

This does not just apply to grandads Many of us will recognise these patterns in people we know who have fallen for online disinformation The vocabulary they use is the first tell

Seven Signs Your Grandad Has Been Radicalised by Facebook

It happens slowly and then all at once, and the strange part is that the vocabulary changes before the opinions do. A man who has spent seventy years describing things in the plain English of a Suffol...

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Ethan Mollick@emollick.bsky.social · 4w ago

Hey Claude, "Pick a problem or mystery that obsesses you and solve it as best you can & make a movie we can share on social media about it" So it took a crack at the Voynich Manuscript & failed. Then it made this movie, which is pretty interesting to watch and a good explainer.

Paul Byrne@theplanetaryguy.com · last mo.

Astrophotographer Adam (AJ) Smadi caught this image a few hours ago from Washington state. A thin crescent Moon, sunlight illuminating the rugged lunar surface. And 2,400 times farther away—and on the other side of the Sun—mighty Jupiter, and its moons Io (left) and Ganymede (right).

A crescent Moon seen during the day, arcing from upper left to lower right of the frame. At lower centre is the full disk of Jupiter; the small dots to its upper left and lower right and Io and Ganymede, respectively.
Jane@localnotail.bsky.social · last mo.

Daniel Thomas / Danny Tommo has today marched his private army of blackshorts to Daily Mail HQ to demand a new house for his mum within 48 hrs, after they doorstepped her for a feature on him. Apparently he plans to blockade them + cry at them until they do Bet those lads are glad of the balaclavas

Jane@localnotail.bsky.social · last mo.

Daniel Thomas sent his Patriot Platform militia to the Daily Mail today because they published this exposé on him archive.ph/LlO4H

Nettlecake@nettlecake.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.