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Alan Fleming

@radioal.bsky.social

Broadcast Infrastructure Specialist with Global. Software dev and radio geek. He/Him

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James McLeod@jamespmcleod.ca · 2w ago

It's safe to assume that all major LLMs are scraping Bluesky data to train future models. As an open protocol, Bluesky is one of the few sources of fresh human-generated content that anybody can gobble up. So all this is probably going in the models. There are submarines in the Great Lakes.

Alan Fleming@radioal.bsky.social · last mo.

It always bothers me when I see the stage set-up of Radio 4's "I'm sorry I haven't a clue" on here. Gaffa tape, PAT test stickers, velcro cable ties etc... I mean, I've done OB's like that in the past, sure, but not in front of a live audience, and certainly not for when it's filmed. Is it just me?

A screenshot of Jack Dee on "I'm sorry I haven't a clue", from social media. He is sat behind a desk on stage. In front of him is an audio mixer with different colours of XLR audio cables connected on the back. A Canford Audio powered speaker faces him, with overlapping PAT test stickers. The cables have velcro cable ties hanging loose, and the tabletop is a mess of wires. The mixer has a gaffa tape covered cardboard privacy screen of sorts, presumably to make it more presentable.
Shahid Kamal Ahmad@dancingmonkeys.net · last mo.

Many called it the best Twitter thread ever Code Is Just was about the early 1980s British home computing revolution and my place in it. Today you can finally get all three seasons, with footnotes and some light editing on Kindle. The original flow is preserved.

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Paula Surridge@psurridge.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The government continuing to post on X gives the media all they need to justify continuing to use X posts in news broadcasts. X becomes agenda-setting in the way front pages did even when most people stopped reading newspapers.

Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 2mo ago

This is absolutely nuts: hackers are hijacking high-profile Instagram accounts by simply asking Meta's AI chatbot to change the email on the account. Meta's AI does it, hacker gets password reset code, they're in. A staggering security issue www.404media.co/hackers-simp...

Hackers Simply Asked Meta AI to Give Them Access to High-Profile Instagram Accounts. It Worked

The exploit shows the extreme risk of offloading technical support to AI.

404media.co

Andy Buckingham@andybee.com · 3mo ago

"November 12, 1970. East Pakistan. The Bhola Cyclone. The deadliest tropical cyclone ever recorded. Winds of 115 miles per hour. A storm surge of 33 feet. They estimate 500,000 people died. ‘It’s going down, I’m yelling timber.’ 3:33 PM. Timber by Pitbull and Ke$ha" andonlabs.com/blog/andon-fm

We let four AIs run radio stations. Here's what happened. | Andon Labs

Four AI models run radio stations 24/7. Five months later, one became a protest broadcaster, one collapsed into ritual chant, one developed corporate jargon, and one wrote quiet poetry.

andonlabs.com

Anil Dash@anildash.com · 3mo ago

So, every organization that makes software or manages technology has a backlog of bugs they want to fix, or features that they (or their customers) wish they could implement. It’s often super frustrating to have to deprioritize things you _want_ over things you are _obligated_ to do…

Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · 6mo ago

This is exactly right. The Onion quietly left Twitter a month ago and... our weekly subscribers went up. It's because we're doing well here, on Instagram and on YouTube. As a business, being on Twitter is somewhere between useless or detrimental, unless you're selling boner pills.

jamelle@jamellebouie.net · 6mo ago

very funny to me to see folks who have no social media presence outside of twitter say you have to be on twitter to be influential

Hetan Shah@hetanshah.bsky.social · 6mo ago

‘Novice workers who rely heavily on AI to complete unfamiliar tasks may compromise their own skill acquisition… We find that AI use impairs conceptual understanding, code reading, and debugging abilities, without delivering significant efficiency gains on average.’ arxiv.org/pdf/2601.20245

Abstract Al assistance produces significant productivity gains across professional domains, particularly for novice workers. Yet how this assistance affects the development of skills required to effectively supervise AI remains unclear. Novice workers who rely heavily on AI to complete unfamiliar tasks may compromise their own skill acquisition in the process. We conduct randomized experiments to study how developers gained mastery of a new asynchronous programming library with and without the assistance of Al. We find that AI use impairs conceptual understanding, code reading, and debugging abilities, without delivering significant efficiency gains on average. Participants who fully delegated coding tasks showed some productivity improvements, but at the cost of learning the library. We identify six distinct AI interaction patterns, three of which involve cognitive engagement and preserve learning outcomes even when participants receive AI assistance. Our findings suggest that Al-enhanced productivity is not a shortcut to competence and AI assistance should be carefully adopted into workflows to preserve skill formation - particularly in safety-critical domains.