AI is like a moral panic in reverse. An amoral mania. www.reddit.com/r/TrueAnon/c...
From the TrueAnon community on Reddit
Explore this post and more from the TrueAnon community
reddit.com
Gaz Shaw
@gazshaw.co.uk
Web and IT troubleshooter. MA from @icshc.bsky.social, MBCS at @wearebcs.bsky.social, formerly of @insplacemanagement.bsky.social. Salford fan. — 👨💼 linkedin.com/in/gazshaw 🔮 medium.com/@gazshaw 🧑💻 gazshaw.co.uk 👹 salford.leaflet.pub
i don't like to police genre, but it's not dark academia unless somebody gets squished in one of these bad boys
The most terrifying enshittification I've discovered has been learning that Microsoft Word documents no longer auto-save if you are not saving them to one of their own proprietary cloud services. I'm slapping control-S like it's 1999.
noted: have you seen the price of Raspberry Pis?? dbushell.com/notes/2026-0... the PC and self-hosted hobby is dead, guess who ruined it 🫠
Notes – 05:12 Tue 4 Aug 2026
Notes – 05:12 Tue 4 Aug 2026
dbushell.com
Every realistic option to base our transportation system around is better and cheaper than cars/personal vehicles.
Publicity drawing for Forton services on the M6 near Lancaster, 1963.
A really interesting article on what can be done to reinvent and revise the high street. And, yes, it requires an active state backed up by resources
Today is World Wide Web Day Lived half of my life with it & half without it. Life is easier but not always better Certainly without it we would not have this poem by Brian Bilston. The footnote explains how the poem was created Shakespeare sitting alongside Love Actually #poetry #poemoftheday
Want to learn more about the women of the Odyssey? This is where to start! From ancient epics to Buffy and Beyoncé, meet the women of Greek myth and discover how their stories have been shaped over time. Pandora’s Jar is 99p on Kindle.
You’d expect The Odyssey to be epically timed, but what of the snappier film adaptions of Homer’s epic poem? @leaflet.pub
The NOdyssey
The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958) 1 hour 28 minutes Nostos: the Return (1989) 1 hour 24 minutes
90mins.leaflet.pub
Update: Google just sent me a statement saying it is “rolling back” this AI feature that let anyone make completely bullshit satellite images. Comes after our demos of the tool and those from OSINT researchers. One of the worst AI tools I’ve ever seen bsky.app/profile/jose...
Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 5d agoNew from 404 Media: Google Earth has introduced an AI feature that lets anyone fabricate completely bullshit satellite images. In our own tests, we added a “bomb blast and crater” to an area of Los Angeles. This is a misinformation time bomb, will 100% be abused www.404media.co/google-earth...
Might have to start logging back in again.
The Simpsons Drinking Bird Pressing F5
ALT: The Simpsons Drinking Bird Pressing F5
static.klipy.com
Tits McGee@scientits.bsky.social · 6d agoOh my God, this is not a drill - LinkedIn has added 'seems like AI slop' as an option on posts Genuinely thought it was a joke until I clicked on a few posts
![Drop down menu from a LinkedIn post offering the following options
Save
Copy link to post
Embed this post
Unfollow [person]
Not interested
Seems like AI slop
Report post](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:yvbszlkc7d75ixkid5g2zmw7/bafkreig2m5jumwszgmrdm2l76jcdnnja3nr5pvaos4x4l4avb2rl5rzh2q)
My entire life I’ve never called it the FIFA World Cup. I’ve always called it the World Cup. Fans don’t give a shit about FIFA. If national teams showed up for a World Cup tournament not held by FIFA we would all watch it. World Cup is the brand. FIFA is nothing.
I played sweeper in the primary school team. Yes, we played a sweeper system at 10 years of age. And I can only think we did so solely because of Franco Baresi, and how much he was revered. A player in his own class.
Simon Kirk@slowe76.bsky.social · 5d agoGreatest defender ever.❤️🖤 Franco Baresi, iconic former Milan and Italy defender, dies aged 66 www.theguardian.com/football/202...
You wait ages for a bus and then...! #ThrowbackThursday this week takes us to 1982, and the Pope's visit to Manchester. Buses were used extensively (to the joy of drivers paid overtime) for transport to and from the site in Heaton Park.
film you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. hard mode: no star trek, star wars, lotr, marvel, disney, or ghibli.
Spaceballs: The GIF Comment
Alt: Spaceballs: The GIF Comment
static.klipy.com
David Bushell 🪿@dbushell.com · 6d agofilm you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. hard mode: no star trek, star wars, lotr, marvel, disney, or ghibli.
Recommending an episode of Syntax.fm with Dan Abramov if you want to better understand atproto.
Understanding AT Protocol
I've been playing around with AT Protocol. The posts on this site are now published to standard.site, and I've written a (very basic) WordPress plugin to display posts from my PDS on the Now page of this site. As a developer, I've spent a good chunk of my working life building apps that stored things...
rachelandrew.co.uk
Funded PhD: Civic Imaginary civicimaginaries.gla.ac.uk/funded-phd-o...
» Funded PhD Opportunity: Exploring Civic Feelings and Emotional Governance in Place-Based Policy
this four-year project brings together communities, policy makers, researchers and artists to ask what being civic means in the United Kingdom right now
civicimaginaries.gla.ac.uk
What a job! Put me down for the next one. www.theguardian.com/food/2026/ju...
Scoop of the year! We taste-test 99 of 2026’s most unusual ice creams, from the unbeatable to the unlickable
From olive oil to matcha, soy sauce to sage and onion stuffing, there’s a frozen designer dessert out there to tickle even the most jaded palate. Here’s the best – and worst – of what’s on offer in Br...
theguardian.com
Sad too to hear today of the death of puppet master Ronnie Le Drew. Long time operator of Zippy for 'Rainbow'.
Terrible news. Aside from learning more about the universe, we're not going to get much economic growth by cutting science funding. (If only we had a Prime Minister who was interested in supporting the north, and Manchester in particular, who could stop this.) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Jodrell Bank's Lovell telescope faces axe in science cuts, BBC understands
Astronomers warn it would tear the heart out of UK science, and leave a generation untrained.
bbc.co.uk
All 106 Beefeater restaurants will shut for good on Thursday, September 10. metro.co.uk/2026/07/26/m...
Major UK restaurant chain confirms closure date for all 106 locations
A closure date has been announced.
metro.co.uk
do I know anyone (or anyone who knows someone) who works on a email marketing/newsletter solution that can help me move from my current subscription? Yesterday - the drag/drop ordering no longer works in Safari/Chrome/Firefox. Today - a last minute change means any open/clicks are screwed (again).
July's blog post is now up: ‘Popular “football music” of our time’, inspired by a chance discovery in the loft, the FIFA men's World Cup, and the sad news of Kevin Keegan's death #football #music #nostalgia #worldcup #thistime martinpolley.co.uk/2026/07/27/2...
‘Popular “football music” of our time’ – Martin Polley, Sports Historian
martinpolley.co.uk
Rest in peace Bill Oddie, the subject of one of the most deranged football supporter chants known to man or woman. "Bill Oddie, Bill Oddie, rub your beard all over my body" www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZre... The man himself was very game about it www.readingfc.co.uk/news/2015/ap...
Reading vs West Ham 31/03/12 - Upton Park half time BILL ODDIE
YouTube video by Jorge Clay
youtube.com