Jane McCallion

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I do like waking up to good news

Just checking the weather

Be ungovernable

Nom nom nom nom

*nodding* the elves will take it to the hall of the mountain king and protect it

Can we not call it Black October, though?

holy shit this is actually brilliant

Any time someone mentions "automation" I find myself thinking of the short story "There will come soft rains" by Ray Bradbury. I'm probably thinking about an automated house with no occupants three times a day or more, with some respite at the weekend.

let's just do all the cves at once, so we can patch all our stuff in one go

Finally the Bank of England has given us low interest rates x

Our website is currently down while we resolve the same PHP issues that are affecting so many other sites. But we're fine, emotionally. And the museum is still open. There's even a scone with your name on it.

I'm at the NEC today. Why not follow along with my live blog www.itpro.com/software/liv...

The first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead: www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/micr...

The BBC has explained itself astonishingly poorly. It plays pretty fair, and is upstanding about creators’ rights, within an industry increasingly modelled on Silicon Valley piracy culture / filesharing. It’s at a disadvantage. It needs defending. It needs to be clear about its work.

Government support for drilling at #Jackdaw takes a wrecking ball to any pretence of UK climate leadership & pours fuel on an overheating world - and for what? It’s equivalent to just 2 months of UK gas demand, creates just 27 direct jobs & has *no* impact on energy bills🧵1/4

Sooo, have we started spelling the FTSE the footsie? Of has the wealth management fund that dropped an email in my inbox this morning got themselves rather confused?

They’re all trying to find the guy who did this

Glad I watched this to the end for the ignominious retreat.

Legs & Co. was established as a partnership in 1869, when John James Legs and his wife Mary Ann opened a shop at 173 Drury Lane in Covent Garden, London #TOTP

“Defibrillator” in ten languages: 1. Defibrillator (German) 2. Defibrillator (Dutch) 3. Defibrillator (Hindi) 4. Defibrillator (Igbo) 5. Defibrillator (Indonesian) 6. Defibrillator (Samoan) 7. Defibrillator (Swahili) 8. Defibrillator (Yoruba) 9. Defibrillator (Afrikaans) 10. Hjertestarter (Danish)

Actually wild salmon travel upstream each year and farm chickens

no offence but why is the British public being asked about my medical diagnosis, would it also like to check out my ankles and my elbows to decide whether I really have hypermobile joints, should I cough on them next time I have a cold so they can confirm that I'm ill

Tired: buying expensive peak train tickets. Wired: buying an advance ticket for 1/3 the normal price Inspired? Buying an advance ticket for 1/3 the normal price then buying so much coffee I may as well have come in on the later, more expensive train 🫠

Tired: buying expensive peak train tickets. Wired: buying an advance ticket for 1/3 the normal price Inspired? Buying an advance ticket for 1/3 the normal price then buying so much coffee I may as well have come in on the later, more expensive train 🫠

Loads of big tech companies saw their shares slide yesterday as concerns over the sustainability of the AI business model continue to rise. Barclays and Gartner are both sounding the alarm on profitability, adding their voices to warnings from Bain & Co earlier this month

A definite sign of ageing is that you cannot impress me with "over 20 years" anymore. Am I expected to think this sauce is ancient, because it's as old as Nelly Furtado's Maneater?

⚡️ 'This cannot be a coincidence' — Ukraine's Starlink access restricted without warning, Zelensky adviser says. Ukraine relies on Starlink to operate its mid-strike drones in Russian-occupied Ukraine.

While watching my teenage fashion become popular again has largely been a really weird experience, I can't express how happy I am that funnel neck coats are *finally* in again. Now excuse me while I blow and obscene amount of money on a single garment...

yes I think a horse-drawn wehrmacht armed primarily with bolt action rifles would easily conquer the entire mass of africa, not get wiped out in a matter of days by Egypt's professional 21st century air force

As Gerwig's The Magician's Nephew is set in the 1950s rather than the 1900s, it means The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe will need to be set in the 1990s. Instead of the children escaping the Blitz, I posit that they're attending Oasis's legendary Knebworth gig instead

Man in a gilet stood on platform 12 gives up on reading the display and asks ChatGPT out loud if he is on the right platform for his train. I don’t want to be dramatic about it but Eratosthenes figured out the circumference of the Earth using a stick and knowledge of a distant well.

They literally tried this before and it didn’t work www.itpro.com/infrastructu...

Zut alors!

four years ago I posted this image of paleontologist Jan Smit looking at rocks and his son-in-law replied with something even better

Australopithecus 3 million years ago:

This a million times. People of colour being dragged on to debate maniacs about imaginary labels & race science is an abomination. proper ‘how German are you’ Nazi shit Note that people like me with white migrant parentage never asked to defend our identity Englishness. Is. A. Made. Up. Thing

I'm sorry, but the audiobook of Gromit's autobiography should be marked as "read by the author" and then just be 8hrs of silence.

I wish I'd known I could get really crazy about Elizabeth Fry coming off the fiver in 2016. Wasted opportunity for banging on pointlessly about an invented psychic injury.

Indulging in a bit of Burnhamania over at ITPro

Now THIS is how you write a story. Devastating.

Hegseth recently watched Treehouse of Horror IX, eh?

It's actually a bit nippy, which seems good.