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Writing about technology, artificial intelligence, human stupidity and rose-tinted tech nostalgia of a simpler time when computers did what you told them to do and not what a Silicon Valley billionaire thinks will make him even richer.
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Who wants to watch an AI actor read an AI script?

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#ai #acting #TillyNorwood #scam #ArtificialIntelligence
Who wants to watch an AI actor read an AI script?
There's been a lot of hype this week over the first so-called AI Actress, Tilly Norwood. Created by Xicoia, the AI division of the production company Particle6, Norwood has appeared in the AI-generate...
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October 3, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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The AI proponents are trying to convince us that their creations can feel "distress" and that we should care for their "welfare".
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August 18, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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aw that's nice, my library got some books for when the AI founders drop by
A children's book by Mo Willems titled "I Really Like Slop!", with an illustration of a pig in a chef's hat holding a bowl of green goop with flies around it and an elephant looking disgusted in the background
August 8, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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GPT-5 is alive, Grok's a perv and civilisation is probably going to collapse soon. Happy Friday!
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August 8, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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Who broke the internet? And who can fix it again?
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#web #internet #enshittification #CoryDoctoro #nostalgia #Meta #Google #Writing #IndieWeb #IndieDev
July 29, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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Living brain computers, North Korean spies and dodgy AI datasets aplenty in this Friday Wrap.
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#AI
#NorthKorea
#Technology
#Netflix
#Movies
#ArtificialIntelligence
#NaturalStupidity
Friday Wrap : Volume Four
Living brain computers, North Korean spies and dodgy AI datasets aplenty in this Friday Wrap.
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July 25, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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Zoom! Enhance! Trace his IP! What's your pet peeve when technology appears in TV shows?
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July 24, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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The latest AI and tech stories to catch my eye w/e July 18th 2025
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July 18, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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The second weekly round up of AI and other tech news stories from the past seven days.
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July 11, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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How web development became a never-ending spiral into greater complexity and frustration.
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#webdev #web #javascript #react #vuejs #html
July 10, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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I'm starting to take it personally that all these bands I listened to or saw perform when I was a teenager are having the audacity of re-releasing albums to celebrate "40 years!"
July 9, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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How web development became a never-ending spiral into greater complexity and frustration.
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#webdev #web #javascript #react #vuejs #html
July 10, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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A round-up of AI-related news from the web.
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July 4, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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Sooner or later the current AI bubble is going to burst. What's going to happen when it does?
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June 24, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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The wacky, wonderful world of 1980s computer magazine covers. How do you make those beige plastic boxes with cassette recorders and televisions for monitors look glamorous?

#Retro #RetroGaming #RetroComputing #OldenDays #Nostalgia #1980s #Magazines
June 8, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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Artificial intelligence - because dogs love to bake cakes 😂

#Ai #ArtificialIntelligence #Dogs #Baking #ImageCreation
June 8, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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#Nostalgia #1980s #Humour #Humor #Retro #RetroComputing
The "glamour" of 1980s computer magazines
Ah, the 1980s! The decade of decadence. Suits with shoulder pads. Dance music workouts with Jane Fonda in leg-warmers. Home computers with rudimentary graphics and sound. *record scratch* Wait. Home c...
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June 4, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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There's so much wrong in this article it's hard to know where to start. Seems like the journalist has taken a bunch of out-of-context quotes from computer scientists and sown them together to tell a story they don't understand #ai #ArtificialIntelligence #Enigma #AlanTuring #TheGuardian
Today’s AI can crack second world war Enigma code ‘in short order’, experts say
Crowning achievement of Alan Turing’s codebreakers is now ‘straightforward’, according to computer scientists
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May 7, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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Why is AI so popular when nobody wants it? newslttrs.com/why-is-ai-so...

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Enshittification #Hype #News #Tech
Why is AI so popular when nobody wants it?
You'd have to be living on Mars to have avoided all the hype about AI over the past couple of years. Businesses have been trying to ride the wave of enthusiasm by adding artificial intelligence into a...
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April 29, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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Welcome to the world of tomorrow's television as seen from 1978 in this children's book that predicted the future. #television #nostalgia #futurism #retro #retrofuturism

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Television of the retro-future
How well did this 1978 book predict the future of TV?
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April 8, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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#nostalgia #TV #RetroComputing #Retro #ComputerLiteracy #BBC #Visicode #Amstrad #BBCMicro
In the 1980s we also downloaded software from TV
Two fascinating techniques from retro TV land
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April 5, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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#retro #RetroComputing #Basicode #nostalgia #1980s #Sinclair #Vic20 #Commodore
Yes, in the 1980s we downloaded games from the radio
So there I was, minding my own business, doom-scrolling my way through Facebook posts when I happened upon one that hit me straight in the nostalgia. A photo of a 1980s home computer, a cassette playe...
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April 5, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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Planes that do mach 4. Personal genetic treatments.

1995 called: it wants its predictions back.
March 23, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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Back From The Future: 1995's predictions of 2025 life

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#futurology #future #predictions #1990s #2020s #2025 #technology #history
Back From The Future: 1995's predictions of 2025 life
In 1995 three brave prognosticators set out to predict life in the 2020s. How did that work out for them?
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March 22, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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Social media has always been home to clickbait, fake photos, tall stories and gullible chumps. And now, thanks to generative AI, you can have all those joys without any of the tedious creativity.

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#AI #AIFakes #Fakery #Spam #Facebook #Grift #GenAI
I put my heart and soul into this AI but nobody cares
Social media has always been home to clickbait, fake photos, tall stories and gullible chumps. And now, thanks to generative AI, you can have all those joys without any of the tedious creativity.
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February 20, 2025 at 10:20 PM