Neil Fazakerley
@neilfaz.bsky.social
Content and service design and strategy. Plus occasional nonsense.
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![4-panel vertical comic. (1) 100 Years Ago [two people standing next to bicycle with small car nearby] PERSON 1: It’s too dangerous riding a bike with these cars around. I should get a car, too. (2) 50 Years Ago [two people between smaller car and bigger car] PERSON 2 with short hair: Small cars are less safe in collisions with larger vehicles, so I should get a bigger one. (3) Today [two people between big car and even bigger car] PERSON 1: Everyone has huge SUVs now. If I don’t get the biggest one, I’m putting my family at risk. (4) Soon [two people next to large armored car with spiked clubs attached] PERSON 2: If I don’t install more whirling spike clubs, I’ll be destroyed by all the other drivers who...](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreiby6can6k76yzfmv2czxs4pu2l7zie7bqbrpswi7h3ifmiadkuqvu@jpeg)
I hope this tanks Ray Ban’s brand.
Today in #404DeepDive: People are modding Meta Ray-Bans to spy on you. Already, there are videos with millions of views of men using the glasses to film massage workers, asking for happy endings. What's Meta's response? @evystadium.bsky.social has more.
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November 11, 2025 at 8:11 PM
I hope this tanks Ray Ban’s brand.
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Today in #404DeepDive: People are modding Meta Ray-Bans to spy on you. Already, there are videos with millions of views of men using the glasses to film massage workers, asking for happy endings. What's Meta's response? @evystadium.bsky.social has more.
More here: podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/p...
More here: podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/p...
November 11, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Today in #404DeepDive: People are modding Meta Ray-Bans to spy on you. Already, there are videos with millions of views of men using the glasses to film massage workers, asking for happy endings. What's Meta's response? @evystadium.bsky.social has more.
More here: podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/p...
More here: podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/p...
The BBC and the NHS might need colossal reform but god we’ll miss them if that’s used as an excuse to dismantle them.
November 10, 2025 at 1:04 PM
The BBC and the NHS might need colossal reform but god we’ll miss them if that’s used as an excuse to dismantle them.
This BBC crisis worries me more than it should on the surface. Because it implies our key institutions are already more captured by the far-right / MAGA than it looks.
November 10, 2025 at 7:41 AM
This BBC crisis worries me more than it should on the surface. Because it implies our key institutions are already more captured by the far-right / MAGA than it looks.
You know you’re a shit leader when you can’t even resign over the right thing.
November 9, 2025 at 11:34 PM
You know you’re a shit leader when you can’t even resign over the right thing.
Delighted with the New York result. But New York is not Clacton any more than London is Clacton.
November 5, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Delighted with the New York result. But New York is not Clacton any more than London is Clacton.
Now watching. Crikey this dialogue is pacey. I’m exhausted!
November 2, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Now watching. Crikey this dialogue is pacey. I’m exhausted!
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Long shot (mainly due to how little engagement I get on here), but I'm looking for freelance writers with an interest, or specialism in, classical music.
If you are one, or know one, please give me a shout.
If you are one, or know one, please give me a shout.
October 30, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Long shot (mainly due to how little engagement I get on here), but I'm looking for freelance writers with an interest, or specialism in, classical music.
If you are one, or know one, please give me a shout.
If you are one, or know one, please give me a shout.
Last outing for this street name warning.
October 30, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Last outing for this street name warning.
Eww the Bluesky app icon has gone horrible.
Important news given everything else in the world is fine.
Important news given everything else in the world is fine.
October 29, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Eww the Bluesky app icon has gone horrible.
Important news given everything else in the world is fine.
Important news given everything else in the world is fine.
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Is the TV presenter who asks whether an unambiguous racist is a racist or not, himself a racist or a just a shameless opportunist willing to help launder racism for clicks and views?
Is the Reform MP who says she’s driven mad by TV adverts full of Black & Asian people a racist or realist? How many migrants would the Tories expel? & should the UK be selling fighter jets to Türkiye?
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#Peston
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#Peston
October 27, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Is the TV presenter who asks whether an unambiguous racist is a racist or not, himself a racist or a just a shameless opportunist willing to help launder racism for clicks and views?
Is the TV presenter who asks whether an unambiguous racist is a racist or not, himself a racist or a just a shameless opportunist willing to help launder racism for clicks and views?
Is the Reform MP who says she’s driven mad by TV adverts full of Black & Asian people a racist or realist? How many migrants would the Tories expel? & should the UK be selling fighter jets to Türkiye?
Join LIVE at 9PM on X & YouTube or on ITV1 at 1045PM 📺
#Peston
Join LIVE at 9PM on X & YouTube or on ITV1 at 1045PM 📺
#Peston
October 27, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Is the TV presenter who asks whether an unambiguous racist is a racist or not, himself a racist or a just a shameless opportunist willing to help launder racism for clicks and views?
Hall of fame entry in the shit toilet signs category.
I did once unfortunately walk into Dukes instead of Duchesses in a pub. It was instinctive at the time but with hindsight I realise it was unlikely they would have had a loo just for me 😳
October 26, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Hall of fame entry in the shit toilet signs category.
Trump’s childish pettiness has no bounds.
Open the page. Scroll down to the timeline. Go through the timeline.
It’s… shocking
It’s… shocking
The White House Building
Every president since John Adams has occupied the White House, and the history of this building extends far beyond the construction of its walls. From the Ground Floor Corridor rooms, transformed from...
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October 24, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Trump’s childish pettiness has no bounds.
AI slopping Brad Pitt into Daniel Kaluuya’s body in a movie about white people stealing black people’s bodies is 🧑🍳💋👌
I don’t know if there’s a more perfect illustration of the utter fucking nonsense that creative pollution by AI will produce than this choice to illustrate the power of Paramount’s new “localization” and “customization” technology by face-swapping Brad Pitt into the lead role of GET OUT
October 23, 2025 at 6:54 PM
AI slopping Brad Pitt into Daniel Kaluuya’s body in a movie about white people stealing black people’s bodies is 🧑🍳💋👌
“No, I don’t see any need to pay for a designer”
Local legislator displays the importance of kerning
October 22, 2025 at 6:07 PM
“No, I don’t see any need to pay for a designer”
But what if I *like* cultural incoherence? Cultural coherence sounds terribly dull.
Sunday Times interview Tory "rising star" Katie Lam
She is clear she wants lots of legal migrants to be told to "go home" so as "to leave a mostly but not entirely culturally coherent group of people"
(The interviewer suggests she is scrapping ILR or stripping people of it)
She is clear she wants lots of legal migrants to be told to "go home" so as "to leave a mostly but not entirely culturally coherent group of people"
(The interviewer suggests she is scrapping ILR or stripping people of it)
October 19, 2025 at 9:03 AM
But what if I *like* cultural incoherence? Cultural coherence sounds terribly dull.
I can’t say ‘this’ enough times for this ⬇️.
LLMs are amazing. They can do amazing things. But they’re useless-to-dangerous for the things most people are using them for.
Let AI solve complex drug discovery problems and whatnot. Don’t use them as friends or therapists or encyclopaedia.
LLMs are amazing. They can do amazing things. But they’re useless-to-dangerous for the things most people are using them for.
Let AI solve complex drug discovery problems and whatnot. Don’t use them as friends or therapists or encyclopaedia.
More than *anything* the people who actually know how technology works, who actually build things, wish that people would treat LLMs like every other technology, and be normal about them. Don't build a religion about them, don't force them on people, don't ignore the problems. Just be normal.
October 17, 2025 at 5:31 AM
I can’t say ‘this’ enough times for this ⬇️.
LLMs are amazing. They can do amazing things. But they’re useless-to-dangerous for the things most people are using them for.
Let AI solve complex drug discovery problems and whatnot. Don’t use them as friends or therapists or encyclopaedia.
LLMs are amazing. They can do amazing things. But they’re useless-to-dangerous for the things most people are using them for.
Let AI solve complex drug discovery problems and whatnot. Don’t use them as friends or therapists or encyclopaedia.
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I may or may not walk five hundred miles
And I may or may not walk five hundred more
Just to be the man who may or may not have walked
a thousand miles to fall or not fall down at your door
- The Disclaimers
And I may or may not walk five hundred more
Just to be the man who may or may not have walked
a thousand miles to fall or not fall down at your door
- The Disclaimers
February 5, 2025 at 3:47 PM
I may or may not walk five hundred miles
And I may or may not walk five hundred more
Just to be the man who may or may not have walked
a thousand miles to fall or not fall down at your door
- The Disclaimers
And I may or may not walk five hundred more
Just to be the man who may or may not have walked
a thousand miles to fall or not fall down at your door
- The Disclaimers
It always comes down to this in the end.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced in a post on X Tuesday that ChatGPT is officially getting into the fuckable chatbots game, with “erotica for verified adults” rolling out in December.
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ChatGPT’s Hail Mary: Chatbots You Can Fuck
As recent reports show OpenAI bleeding cash, and on the heels of accusations that ChatGPT caused teens and adults alike to harm themselves and others, CEO Sam Altman announced that you can soon fuck t...
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October 14, 2025 at 9:47 PM
It always comes down to this in the end.
I’m so tired
Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies
Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon
Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies
www.scientificamerican.com
October 14, 2025 at 4:57 PM
I’m so tired
@timclare.bsky.social hugely enjoying your book! And delighted to see my pet deck (merfolk) get a mention alongside @tolariancommunitycollege.com in the CCG chapter 🧜
October 11, 2025 at 10:41 AM
@timclare.bsky.social hugely enjoying your book! And delighted to see my pet deck (merfolk) get a mention alongside @tolariancommunitycollege.com in the CCG chapter 🧜
Go home Merriam, you’re drunk.
Here’s a primer on ‘primer.’
It’s pronounced ‘PRIMM-er’ if you mean “a small book” or “a short informative piece of writing.”
It’s pronounced ‘PRY-mer’ if you mean “an initial coat of paint.”
It’s pronounced ‘PRIMM-er’ if you mean “a small book” or “a short informative piece of writing.”
It’s pronounced ‘PRY-mer’ if you mean “an initial coat of paint.”
October 10, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Go home Merriam, you’re drunk.
Perfect summary, 10/10 no notes.
Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
October 8, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Perfect summary, 10/10 no notes.