Niall H
@niall-redh.bsky.social
Climber, engineer, chemical red-head, voracious reader, fan of games (video and TTRPG, mainly). Occasionally sarky. Uses he/him. Likes red.
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DELL EXEC: Consumers are “not buying based on AI. In fact I think AI probably confuses them more than it helps them understand a specific outcome."
@pcgamer.com #CES
www.pcgamer.com/hardware/del...
@pcgamer.com #CES
www.pcgamer.com/hardware/del...
Dell seems to be the first to realise we don't actually care about AI PCs
"What we've learned over the course of this year, from a consumer perspective, is they're not buying based on AI."
www.pcgamer.com
January 6, 2026 at 11:26 PM
DELL EXEC: Consumers are “not buying based on AI. In fact I think AI probably confuses them more than it helps them understand a specific outcome."
@pcgamer.com #CES
www.pcgamer.com/hardware/del...
@pcgamer.com #CES
www.pcgamer.com/hardware/del...
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As many of us begin Christmas meal prep, allow me to share the advice that my ER nurse sister puts in the chat every year:
A dropped knife has no handle. Jump away. Let it fall. You can pick it up and wash it.
A dropped knife has no handle. Jump away. Let it fall. You can pick it up and wash it.
December 24, 2025 at 6:31 PM
As many of us begin Christmas meal prep, allow me to share the advice that my ER nurse sister puts in the chat every year:
A dropped knife has no handle. Jump away. Let it fall. You can pick it up and wash it.
A dropped knife has no handle. Jump away. Let it fall. You can pick it up and wash it.
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When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.
Seems like it's worth posting this one again.
Why Do Historians Still Have To Go To Archives?
Why do historians go to archives? Hasn’t everything already been digitized?
contingentmagazine.org
December 22, 2025 at 1:40 AM
When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.
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Absolutely nobody asked for this BUT
English Anglican cathedrals that have burned down, fallen over, and sank into the swamp: a thread.
English Anglican cathedrals that have burned down, fallen over, and sank into the swamp: a thread.
December 18, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Absolutely nobody asked for this BUT
English Anglican cathedrals that have burned down, fallen over, and sank into the swamp: a thread.
English Anglican cathedrals that have burned down, fallen over, and sank into the swamp: a thread.
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I don't think I've ever captured a Northern Cardinal in flight in quite this way. I love the way the sunlight sets his wings aglow! 🥰🥰🥰 #Cardinals #CentralPark #birding
December 17, 2025 at 2:06 PM
I don't think I've ever captured a Northern Cardinal in flight in quite this way. I love the way the sunlight sets his wings aglow! 🥰🥰🥰 #Cardinals #CentralPark #birding
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if going four times over budget is what is necessary to make it safe, then you budgeted wrong
December 15, 2025 at 12:31 PM
if going four times over budget is what is necessary to make it safe, then you budgeted wrong
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The cultural impact of Rob Reiner cannot be understated. Legend isn't big enough a word. It goes to 11. You can't handle the truth. As you wish. I'll have what she's having. I'm your number one fan. You guys wanna see a dead body? The very idea of a bucket list. The West Wing.
All from his movies.
All from his movies.
December 15, 2025 at 3:51 AM
The cultural impact of Rob Reiner cannot be understated. Legend isn't big enough a word. It goes to 11. You can't handle the truth. As you wish. I'll have what she's having. I'm your number one fan. You guys wanna see a dead body? The very idea of a bucket list. The West Wing.
All from his movies.
All from his movies.
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I took a detour to the edge of the city to take a picture of these amazing sundogs over Winnipeg caused by ice crystals blowing around in the sky.
December 12, 2025 at 9:34 PM
I took a detour to the edge of the city to take a picture of these amazing sundogs over Winnipeg caused by ice crystals blowing around in the sky.
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i like these home details designed for pets
IG meredithsterninteriors
IG meredithsterninteriors
December 11, 2025 at 7:31 AM
i like these home details designed for pets
IG meredithsterninteriors
IG meredithsterninteriors
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Searching for a new litterbox and dying laughing at this cat who looks like a toilet astronaut.
December 7, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Searching for a new litterbox and dying laughing at this cat who looks like a toilet astronaut.
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There’s a bit more to this story! The college barges were the precursor to the college boathouses you see today: they were used for viewing and drinking, sure, but also changing, land training, and equipment storage.
They’re a remarkable bit of Oxford and rowing history- short thread incoming
They’re a remarkable bit of Oxford and rowing history- short thread incoming
Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of @ox.ac.uk's barges which used to be moored along the Thames, or Isis, in Oxford
Ideal platforms for the drinking of Pimms and general larking about, whilst more sporty types rowed
If you like this image, please retweet it - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm
Ideal platforms for the drinking of Pimms and general larking about, whilst more sporty types rowed
If you like this image, please retweet it - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm
December 8, 2025 at 8:54 AM
There’s a bit more to this story! The college barges were the precursor to the college boathouses you see today: they were used for viewing and drinking, sure, but also changing, land training, and equipment storage.
They’re a remarkable bit of Oxford and rowing history- short thread incoming
They’re a remarkable bit of Oxford and rowing history- short thread incoming
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Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of @ox.ac.uk's barges which used to be moored along the Thames, or Isis, in Oxford
Ideal platforms for the drinking of Pimms and general larking about, whilst more sporty types rowed
If you like this image, please retweet it - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm
Ideal platforms for the drinking of Pimms and general larking about, whilst more sporty types rowed
If you like this image, please retweet it - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm
December 8, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of @ox.ac.uk's barges which used to be moored along the Thames, or Isis, in Oxford
Ideal platforms for the drinking of Pimms and general larking about, whilst more sporty types rowed
If you like this image, please retweet it - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm
Ideal platforms for the drinking of Pimms and general larking about, whilst more sporty types rowed
If you like this image, please retweet it - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm
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Mike Austin has released much of the source code behind Level 9, the British text-adventure company. This includes their A-code compiler, the source for Knight Orc and other games, and documentation.
github.com/MikeTheTechi...
github.com/MikeTheTechi...
GitHub - MikeTheTechie/Level9-Public
Contribute to MikeTheTechie/Level9-Public development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
December 2, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Mike Austin has released much of the source code behind Level 9, the British text-adventure company. This includes their A-code compiler, the source for Knight Orc and other games, and documentation.
github.com/MikeTheTechi...
github.com/MikeTheTechi...
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I just don't need to know what the Telegraph has written about Dungeons & Dragons. It's a newspaper for people who are frightened of samosas.
November 30, 2025 at 12:15 PM
I just don't need to know what the Telegraph has written about Dungeons & Dragons. It's a newspaper for people who are frightened of samosas.
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just showed our 12yo the original mission: impossible and realised that, as it’s nearly 30 years old, this was roughly equivalent to my mother having shown me north by northwest around the time mission: impossible first came out
November 26, 2025 at 3:20 AM
just showed our 12yo the original mission: impossible and realised that, as it’s nearly 30 years old, this was roughly equivalent to my mother having shown me north by northwest around the time mission: impossible first came out
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I want to be able to mark emails neither read nor unread, but another, secret third thing.
November 25, 2025 at 10:46 AM
I want to be able to mark emails neither read nor unread, but another, secret third thing.
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
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Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
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[Johnny Cash enlisted in 1950, and ended up in West Germany, listening to code transmissions from the East.]
I keep my ears wide open all the time.
I keep a watch for Russkies on the Rhine.
I mind the dots and dashes that go flyin'.
When I'm at Mainz
I watch the lines.
I keep my ears wide open all the time.
I keep a watch for Russkies on the Rhine.
I mind the dots and dashes that go flyin'.
When I'm at Mainz
I watch the lines.
November 20, 2025 at 1:54 PM
[Johnny Cash enlisted in 1950, and ended up in West Germany, listening to code transmissions from the East.]
I keep my ears wide open all the time.
I keep a watch for Russkies on the Rhine.
I mind the dots and dashes that go flyin'.
When I'm at Mainz
I watch the lines.
I keep my ears wide open all the time.
I keep a watch for Russkies on the Rhine.
I mind the dots and dashes that go flyin'.
When I'm at Mainz
I watch the lines.
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I think the book that just fundamentally rewrote my sense of what a book could be is Italo Calvino’s “If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler”, a book you should absolutely know nothing about before reading it for the ideal, maddening experience
performative reading, lack of reading skills, nobody's reading anymore -- NO!
tell me about a book that changed you
for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
tell me about a book that changed you
for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
November 12, 2025 at 1:56 AM
I think the book that just fundamentally rewrote my sense of what a book could be is Italo Calvino’s “If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler”, a book you should absolutely know nothing about before reading it for the ideal, maddening experience
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So there's this thing called the Exeter Book, it's a codex from 1072 that's basically some rich guy's mixtape of Old English poetry. The interesting thing is it's heavily water damaged in the back half so the closer you get to the end of the book the more and more of each page is just missing
November 10, 2025 at 8:20 PM
So there's this thing called the Exeter Book, it's a codex from 1072 that's basically some rich guy's mixtape of Old English poetry. The interesting thing is it's heavily water damaged in the back half so the closer you get to the end of the book the more and more of each page is just missing
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Oxford’s first female doctor has been commemorated with a plaque at 89 Iffley Rd. Dr Elizabeth Baker was also known for riding a bike given to her by William Morris. The new plaque is on St Hilda’s College accommodation, opposite a plaque to Roger Bannister.
www.st-hildas.ox.ac.uk/news/dr-eliz...
www.st-hildas.ox.ac.uk/news/dr-eliz...
November 9, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Oxford’s first female doctor has been commemorated with a plaque at 89 Iffley Rd. Dr Elizabeth Baker was also known for riding a bike given to her by William Morris. The new plaque is on St Hilda’s College accommodation, opposite a plaque to Roger Bannister.
www.st-hildas.ox.ac.uk/news/dr-eliz...
www.st-hildas.ox.ac.uk/news/dr-eliz...
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A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
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This morning I laid a wreath of red and white poppies at Bristol’s #RemembranceSunday service. Every November, I choose to wear both a red and a white poppy: red to help those who have been affected by war, and white to work for peace.
November 9, 2025 at 12:15 PM
This morning I laid a wreath of red and white poppies at Bristol’s #RemembranceSunday service. Every November, I choose to wear both a red and a white poppy: red to help those who have been affected by war, and white to work for peace.