Wow, @doctorow.pluralistic.net's The Bezzle is an absolutely cracking read. Thoughtful, thought-provoking and hugely fun! Looking forward to catching up on Marty Hench's other adventures. After years of not really reading fiction it's great to be back :)

Recently discovered @naomialderman.bsky.social's amazing books. Just finished The Future (after starting with The Power) and what an emotional rollercoaster! I feel like I need a break from books just to process it... (Will not be taking a break :)

Use My Foreskin As A Shower Cap It's 6:00AM

Is there a word for coming across a GitHub repo you made a bunch of contributions to years ago and going down a rabbit hole of just browsing and remembering fun times?

Well, hardly ever.

This is the quietest month I've had, possibly ever. I have a favour to ask, if you like my work, could you please give it a share to help it get in front of more people? Thank you :) #watercolours #birdart 🪶

It's my birthday this Friday (17th) so I thought I'd have a little sale, just because :) From now up until midnight on Sunday (BST) there'll be 17% off all orders, no codes to add, it automatically applies at checkout 🥰 #watercolours #birdart 🪶

Finally! Someone who shares my kink!! 😂

swearclock ⌚︎@swearclock.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Peg Me Up The Perineum With A Hard-Boiled Ostrich Egg And Call Me John Major It's 8:00AM

Our beautiful floofy friend Toffee was taken from us today, by a driver who didn't even stop. To the woman who brought him in to the vet: 🙏 To the driver: I don't know your situation but if I hit someone's pet, I'd sure as hell stop and try to help. 💔

Just made my kids day by letting them choose one each ♥️♥️

Georgina Kent@georginadoodles.bsky.social · 6mo ago

My Super Seconds Sale is now live, and it'll be live all weekend. There's lino prints, art prints and a few originals all marked down by around 75% :) Here's some of the work that's included: www.georginadoodles.com/collections/... #linoprint #watercolours #birdart

IMO the worst mistake people make trying to AI-proof their career is dropping everything to learn AI. It's like dropping out of math to study how to push calculator buttons really fast. The skill cap for AI is going to be your understanding of the underlying subject, not how good you are at prompts.

New AIWeirdness post: ChatGPT will apologize for anything, including stuff that didn't happen. It's not reflecting on stuff it did wrong, it's improv. www.aiweirdness.com/chatgpt-will...

Guys guys guys, I found the archive of the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures (it's not an achievement, they've not hidden them) - you can watch every single one since they started televising them in the 60s: www.rigb.org/christmas-le... I love watching them every year, now I can see them all!

Watch the Royal Institution CHRISTMAS LECTURES archive

Watch all the Royal Institution CHRISTMAS LECTURES back to 1966, when the lectures were first televised.

rigb.org

#kirkcaldy #fife

Ooooh, if this can be integrated into the azurerm #terraform provider, could make for faster plans? I have a stack that regularly hits throttling reading 100+ certs from a key vault ... #azure #infrastructureascode #azurerm techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/AzureGo...

Announcing General Availability for Azure Resource Graph (ARG) GET/LIST API | Microsoft Community Hub

ARG GET/LIST API delivers 10X higher throttling quotas to callers compared to ARG query unlocking a more scalable, resilient way to perform resource lookups...

techcommunity.microsoft.com

www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...

What AI doesn’t know: we could be creating a global ‘knowledge collapse’ | Deepak Varuvel Dennison

The long read: As GenAI becomes the primary way to find information, local and traditional wisdom is being lost. And we are only beginning to realise what we’re missing

theguardian.com

Absolutely chilling. Thanks for this research. Hopefully some soul-searching happening at Microsoft to figure out how this was allowed to persist for so long.

Dirk-jan@dirkjanm.io · 12mo ago

I've been researching the Microsoft cloud for almost 7 years now. A few months ago that research resulted in the most impactful vulnerability I will probably ever find: a token validation flaw allowing me to get Global Admin in any Entra ID tenant. Blog: dirkjanm.io/obtaining-gl...

#cyanotype on cotton, my first attempt. I'm really surprised at how well the solution works on this fabric - it seems quite colourfast, too.

Spectacular ad placement under Edith Pritchett's typically excellent cartoon in @theguardian.com today.

Hmm. This might have actually benefited from an AI copy-edit. Glad to hear humans will 'keep staying in the loop', whatever that means... #azure

Quickest way to reliably find business logic flaws is to change your mindset: You're not looking for bugs, you're hunting for assumptions. Somewhere out there, a dev assumed no one would ever do *that*. So be the first person to do it. #bugbountytips #cybersecurity

Spectacular #dumyat hill race tonight in #stirling. Thanks to everyone involved!

If you're in the market for a used laptop, you could do a lot worse than a Dell Latitude 7290. 16GB RAM, 256SSD, Thunderbolt 3 for well under £200. Runs Win 11 nicely, if that's your thing.

Great day of First Responder training yesterday with @nccgroupinfosec.bsky.social This should be mandatory for IT professionals. #infosec #cybersecurity

This analogy really... unzips the problem. Next let's look at the effect of regular flushing on queue length 😂

Marc Brooker@marcbrooker.bsky.social · last yr.

It's widely known that sharing a queue across multiple servers, rather than queue-per-server, often helps reduce latency and improve utilization. But when is one queue better? In my new blog post, I look at one case: different classes of work. Read it here: brooker.co.za/blog/2025/03...

50Kg radiator fell off the wall this week. Turns out it was held on with 4 of these. I don't think they even went through the plaster... #diynightmare

I can't put my finger on it, but I'm finding the prose style of the most recent Claude Sonnet is significantly less clunky and 'AI-seeming' than other models. From Simon's examples here I'd say this includes GPT-4.5. I just find Claude's output more readable (I also prefer its pelicans :)

Simon Willison@simon.fedi.simonwillison.net.ap.brid.gy · 2y ago

Wrote up my first impressions of the new GPT-4.5 - it's quite slow, VERY expensive and doesn't appear to be a notable leap forward from GPT-4o or o3-mini https://simonwillison.net/2025/Feb/27/introducing-gpt-45/