Nick Lockwood

iFixit has a CT scan of the Duo mechanism that’s failing a bad batch of hinges seems to be failing and puncturing the screen. I’d love to be a fly on the wall for the meetings and calls tracking down the origin and cause

Interestingly enough, it *does* block most ads from TV Tropes: something that ad blockers seem to have been struggling to do since the website keeps finding ways to block the use of the website when using an ad blocker. I can’t recommend this web extension enough.

"shortbread" implies the existence of "longbread"

I asked Astra to unredact a name/email that had been poorly redacted (one row of pixels on the top of one copy, one row showing on the bottom of another.) I put it into Codex and asked it to find the font, and brute-force the letters until it found a match. I didn’t expect much. It took 10 minutes.

Social media loves talking about how everything is getting worse. But what’s something that you’ve seen get _better_ in your lifetime?

Input Prompts is the largest collection of glyphs covering a wide range of input devices and platforms. It's also completely free and public domain. 🎮 I want it to be even better though so looking for feedback; what's missing? what can be improved? kenney.nl/assets/input...

I feel seen

Visiting Italy; we saw a pigeon and my daughter goes "A pigeon! We have those back on Earth" 🤣

Although we think of the far-right as nationalists, they are not sincere patriots. They are a movement that would entirely welcome a foreign occupation as long as it purged 'their' country of its impurities.

Eldest just referred to her siblings as "tweedle dumb and tweedle dumber" 🤣

terrific profile of Marc Andreesen. Turns out most of the stuff he's big mad about never happened. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Apple HomeView: unprecedented levels of "what are we even doing here"

Facebook be like "hey, we have a firehose of misogynistic bullshit waiting for you, but you'll have to download the app" I'm good, thanks

It's perfectly possible to run ads in a legal and ethical manner, but the problem is that ad companies have *zero* incentive to do so. 8.5 million euros is *nothing*. It's pocket change. As long as they make more money by breaking the law than they lose from fines, they'll keep doing it.

Sad news for cinephiles: Tilly Norwood has been killed in a Ukrainian drone strike.

“Why don’t more women report sexual assaults?”

I feel like "screamer-colada" would have been the better choice here

The reason AI is so bad at philosophy is because it’s been trained on all the articles in philosophy journals

If anybody says "kibibyte" to me I reflexively punch them straight in the nose. Then I apologize and thank them for clarifying. Then I punch them again

There's growing experimental evidence¹˒²˒³˒⁴ that LLMs are unusually good at talking people out of entrenched false beliefs and conspiracy theories. ¹ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39264999/ ² pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41179846/ ³ sciety.org/articles/act... ⁴ connecticut.adl.org/resources/re...

Like, every so often, someone comes rushing out to say 'I think we invented AGI' and, if that were true, the next words out of your mouth ought to be "and so we now have moral obligations towards this new being we created" and somehow that is not generally what I see comes next.

Hey, I’m just asking questions. Ignorant questions, bigoted questions, questions that have been repeatedly answered for many years. Sorry, but I’m not listening to answers right now; I’m far too busy asking questions. It’s called being intellectually curious.

Stop putting off that thing you wanted to do

I'm not convinced that iOS 27 has solved the legibility problems

Russia has bombed a school basically every single day this week, so for those people who say "if this was happening in Ukraine, it would be on the front pages every day", how many times have you seen that on the front page of even one of your national newspapers this week? Zero.

fun — write macos shortcuts in code rather than having to use the GUI like a psycho github.com/electrikmilk...

That “super intelligence” executive order was another insider grift, this time to sell “.si” domains - they bought the domains over the summer. x.com/adamscochran...

With thanks to @oisin@mastodon.ie

I don't understand this product line

A rare case where I have sympathy with Amazon. The Kindle store, like everything on the internet with an open submission form, is getting absolutely *hammered* by AI spam. It's a platform-killing problem if unaddressed.