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Peter Gasston
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Londoner, digital technology enthusiast, generalist, humanist, protopist, left-of-centrist, not a futurist.
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What a night in the #ChampionsLeague. A win for #Arsenal, a hammering for Liverpool, and Spurs briefly thinking they’re good and then being reminded they’re shit.
November 26, 2025 at 9:55 PM
“Kane just felt the arm and *lost his balance*”, says the commentator. 👀 #Arsenal #ARSBAY
November 26, 2025 at 8:36 PM
No Gabriel.
No Gyokeres.
No Havertz.
No Jesus.
No Ødegaard.
No problem.
#Arsenal #ARSTOT
November 23, 2025 at 6:24 PM
That chomping sound you hear is people who said we should have sold Trossard in the Summer eating their words. #Arsenal #ARSTOT
November 23, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Make that 4. Feed still hasn't refreshed. It should be buzzing.
We scored three goals since my feed last refreshed. @support.bsky.team
Once again, @bsky.app completely useless for accompanying live sports. ~20 minute wait for feed to refresh.
October 21, 2025 at 8:29 PM
We scored three goals since my feed last refreshed. @support.bsky.team
Once again, @bsky.app completely useless for accompanying live sports. ~20 minute wait for feed to refresh.
October 21, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Gabi at the back, Gabi in attack #Arsenal #ARSATM
October 21, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Once again, @bsky.app completely useless for accompanying live sports. ~20 minute wait for feed to refresh.
October 21, 2025 at 8:03 PM
That sound you hear is all the sports journos frantically rewriting their reports. Sorry we spoiled your narrative. #Arsenal
September 28, 2025 at 5:40 PM
@bsky.app @support.bsky.team Terrible performance for following live sports. The feed of my team took over 10 minutes to update at best, almost 30 minutes at the end of the game. Missed all the best talking points, really disappointing.
September 28, 2025 at 5:35 PM
People (rightly) bring up Her when talking about our current relationship with AI assistants, but Ex Machina deserves more attention. It raises the idea that *even if we’ve been explicitly shown that something is a machine*, we might still believe it’s conscious. Clear parallels to “AI psychosis”.
September 22, 2025 at 12:57 PM
“Martinelli is finished, we should have sold him” — a genius. #Arsenal
September 21, 2025 at 5:27 PM
STICK YOUR WHISTLING UP YOUR ARSES.
#ATHARS #Arsenal #ChampionsLeague
September 16, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Someone run stabilising software on this ref cam, please. #ARSNFO #Arsenal
September 13, 2025 at 12:04 PM
At this stage of the season, at a place like this, the result is more important than the performance. #Arsenal
August 17, 2025 at 5:28 PM
First VR of #Fortnite S6E4. Hardly a classic, but they all count.
August 15, 2025 at 8:30 PM
The Man Who Invented Motion Pictures is one of the best books I’ve read lately. The story of the invention of cinema and the processes of #innovation. You can listen to the audiobook, read by the ace Paterson Joseph, on BBC Sounds (free in the UK) for the next 24 days.
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August 15, 2025 at 10:43 AM
A substantial portion of the press has lost its mind over AI. I know you can't fully expect impartial reporting from an industry which sees the technology as an existential threat, but the result is that reasonable and important critique is drowned out by hysteria.
August 11, 2025 at 12:41 PM
It’s summer in the UK, which means it’s fruit season. If you’re able, get yourself along to your local farm shop or market and buy anything you can get your hands on. Today I bought cherries, strawberries, and greengages, delicious and fresh off the plant. To hell with your Dubai chocolate.
August 10, 2025 at 9:06 PM
OpenAI says ChatGPT has ~500 million weekly active users. Google says Gemini has ~450 million monthly active users. And still people will tell you that LLMs are useless because they tried them once and were disappointed.
July 25, 2025 at 11:54 PM
There’s a trend of using a machine-readable (JSON) format for writing Veo prompts, as it supposedly provides greater control. But does it? Or is natural language better? I put it to the test.
Is JSON prompting effective? (No.)
I noticed a trend of people saying that to get better results from Google Veo you should write prompts using more complex, machine-optimised (JSON) formatting; the one that looks something like this: "shot": { "composition": "four-way split-screen (2×2), full-body head-to-toe eye-level, 35 mm", "camera_motion": "static", "film_grain": 5 } That didn't seem right to me because at the core of Veo is a large language models; it comprehends natural human language, so structuring the prompt in machine readable code felt like it would make no difference at all.
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July 24, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Reposted by Peter Gasston
I’ve spent the last three months investigating how genomics can prevent and overturn miscarriages of justice - particularly in the case of mothers accused of murder. The Lab Detective, new four part podcast series from @theobserveruk.bsky.social released today. Do listen lnk.to/thelabdetect...
July 22, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Content, community, and coincidence

These two stories, saved next to each other in my feed reader, are directly related: From Content and Community, by Ben Thompson: So, are existing publishers doomed? Well by-and-large yes, but that's because they have been doomed for a long time. People using Al…
Content, community, and coincidence
These two stories, saved next to each other in my feed reader, are directly related: From Content and Community, by Ben Thompson: So, are existing publishers doomed? Well by-and-large yes, but that's because they have been doomed for a long time. People using Al instead of Google or Google using Al to provide answers above links - make the long-term outlook for advertising-based publishers worse, but that's an acceleration of a demise that has been in motion for a long time.
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July 22, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Every six months or so there’s a freakout over poorly worded terms of service updates and you’d think that a) companies would be aware of this and be clearer in their language, and b) consumers would not immediately catastrophise, but sadly these things never happen and likely never will. #DropBox
July 15, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Veo 3 is just effortlessly brilliant at this type of content. #AIVideo #Veo3
July 15, 2025 at 9:50 PM