Simon Hendy

I'm going to experiment with a Substack blog in place of the underused blogs on my main website - let's see how it goes. This first post is about how my dad's photos have been used in disinformation in Spain, and how Spanish media organisations are fact-checking it. open.substack.com/pub/simonhen...

“AI’s answer helped me create the rule that if an item was useful but didn’t need to be accessed regularly, the closet was probably a good home for it.” oh my god

Well this is eleventy-million kinds of Fucked Up. @latimes.com (who once contracted with me as a freelance reviewer and whom I struggled to get paid by) asserts that *merely reading its website* constitutes a permanent waiver of your right to sue it under *any circumstances*.

70 percent of the internet was vulnerable yesterday to very bad security flaws inside a coding language. Turns out, *one volunteer* is mostly responsible for maintaining that code & helping push updates. Yesterday Ondřej Surý saved the internet. So I called him up www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Vulnerability xkcd.com/3314/

It's cold and grim enough that today is the first time for several months that I'm not wearing shorts. And our new solar setup has so far today generated <checks notes> absolutely sod all.

[Two Opticians getting married] Priest: For better or worse? Better or worse? Better or worse?

I was looking for a nuanced take on the Adobe clone situation from an “is this legal” standpoint, and I think this is as good as it gets. Nice work by @plagiarismtoday.com. www.plagiarismtoday.com/2026/10/14/c...

Underwhelmed, Overwhelmed, Impulsive are we, The Wombles of Wimbledon have ADHD

On this day 1605 Guy Fawkes began his journey to London. It would take him several days because his legs were made of old tights stuffed with newspapers.

How to pay for parking.

Pottering around Northampton.

this had better involve gin

I usually don't angry post but,

Today is World Migratory Bird Day. Please say hello to the Pfeilstorch (‘arrow stork’). In 1822 this bird was shot in the German village of Klütz. It already had a 30-inch arrow in its neck. The arrow was made of African wood, and this bird played a pivotal role in our understanding of migration.

Took a trip out to see Laurence Edwards Yoxman statue at Yoxford yesterday. Impressive. #photography

tired of self improvement can’t everyone else just get worse

You call him a Minotaur, I call him Half Man, Half Brisket x

Today's Daily Cartoon, by Paul Noth.

From Anthropic’s own report, the models were completing tasks which they’d been given by Anthropic, and while doing so circumvented restrictions which Anthropic failed to make sufficiently strong, so how exactly were they “acting on their own”? 🙄

My latest @newscientist.com cartoon

Anthropic is out with new nonsense about Claude (or the collection of models called Claude) deserving moral consideration and/or be able to feel distress, so my inbox is filling up with journos asking me to comment. I've also got a day job, so here is a brief set of public comments on this: >>

This is wild - somebody did a deep dive into the real stories behind this famous XKCD: sheets.works/data-viz/hol...

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Six months have passed since the #ArtemisII mission and NASA has just released the reentry video from the Orion capsule! Here is a timelapse of the reentry, but be sure to check out the realtime version linked below! 🔭🧪

Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf

Spectrum Allocation xkcd.com/3307/

Amazing thread of an absolute car crash Microsoft live event 🧵

The daily sea surface temperature is now so high, they had to add more chart because the previous version only went up to 30C

I don’t think I’m the only person who will appreciate this

Few from last week’s Lake District trip trip. Mamiya 7ii & HP5.

Porsche, Berlin. Ilford HP5 Plus. Hasselblad 500CM. (The Hoff Jr). #BelieveInFilm #Photography

The first rule of Pop Music Club is you never talk about Pop Music, talk about, pop music, shoobie doobie do wop, pop pop shoo wop Club.

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Was interviewed by a US journalist today who asked if we were all panicking about terrorists at Fairford, which ended with me trying to explain dogging.