Kev Durber

Kev Durber

@keypickles.bsky.social

Web developer, England.

143 followers1K following83 posts

Wordle 1,885 X/6* ⬜🟩🟩⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 Well that's annoying.

Football and podcasts are two examples of amazing human creations that have - so far - managed to resist the relentless pursuit of making them profitable to the point of destroying everything that's great about them.

The YouTube algorithm has never been particularly good for me but it seems worse than ever now. The videos it's recommending now are bizarre, and loads of them are from a decade or more ago. Has AI broken that too?

I skip them, I block the artists, I tick the negative button. Nothing works. I just do not know how to tell the Spotify algorithm that I don't want to listen to songs I know played by brass bands. They're in almost every discovery playlist.

Two decades of Arctic Monkeys eh. It was launched a few days before I left the UK to go travelling for a couple of years and their first album became a big part of the soundtrack of that trip. Great memories of them being played on Triple J as we drove around Australia.

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Nelson Mandela's Long Walk To Freedom - The Text Adventure. "Look" The road ahead is long. What now? "Walk" You so far have completed 0.0001% of your walk to freedom, what now? "Walk" You so far have completed 0.0002% of your walk to freedom, what now?

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I have not personally used X/Twitter for some time now. It was already an unpleasant place prior to its takeover by Elon Musk but since his acceptance of hate speech and anonymous online abusers, it has become utterly unusable.

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Replying to @thestudyofwar.bsky.social

2/ There are no provisions in the reported peace plan in which Russia makes any concessions, and ISW continues to assess that accepting Russian demands would set conditions for renewed Russian aggression against Ukraine.

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As Adrian Smith, President of the Royal Society said earlier this year: "There have always been attacks on science, but today there are genuine concerns that we may be turning our backs on research and the values of calm, evidence-based debate and decision-making.

Great investigative work here.

Sohan Dsouza@sohandsouza.info

And many are made and pushed from abroad by foreign operators using farmed and monetized social media accounts, making money off domestic nationalists as cash cows or paid infops. I've written about this here: sohandsouza.substack.com/p/radio-fake...