Kieran Nee

Started writing "NP", but tbh, it appears to have been, as I haven't touched Bsky since this interaction back in October.

Totally get the concern around the genLLM, and as I mentioned, do share it, but also can see why it can be so appealing to many. It's an understandably scary time for creatives.

Please read the post, note the public concern and choose not to lecture a stranger. Telling people they “need to” do something from a position of zero meaningful connection rarely has an impact. While I appreciate your concern and indeed share it, public condescension rarely has a +ve effect.

Simultaneously addicted to "AI" Soul covers of songs from other genres and terrified for the future of music being highly personalised, stale retreads based purely on what's come before, without any creative spark.

This. Why on earth would you willingly expose all your online usage to a company that within the last six months has made chats users thought were private publicly searchable never mind the PI risks?

Modern nurseries keeping you updated with your child's day via app updates is mostly awesome, but damn do I get jealous of my son literally every day when I see the message "<name> had a nap of 2 hrs 43 minutes".

Yes, yes it does. I got really used to git workflows & reviewing styles so am regularly flip-flopping between wanting to point out "This review is massive" and reminding myself that it's because it can be the fastest way to get into a massive P4 stream. Still, could be SVN, CVS or VSS...

Mediatonic founder launches new group of studios under the banner Skeleton Crew Skeleton Crew will consist of a slate of new companies, plus the existing teams at Payload, Brightrock and Mythwright.

Mediatonic founder launches new group of studios under the banner Skeleton Crew

Using Swarm for code reviews more than I have in ages and returning to my overriding thought about it that it's my least favourite code review tool.. Not even the best code review tool I recall using for Perforce and the other one was over 15 years ago.

This genuinely might be my favorite NIN album and as someone that's been a fan for most of my adult life that's saying something.

I'm sure it's peer pressure, wonder if I could organise facetimed dinner time with his nursery friends 🤔

Does anyone else love their kid's nursery but have a fundamental mistrust of literally anything they say, purely because of the food they claim your child eats lots of that they won't touch a morsel of ANYWHERE ELSE?

Liars! Lovely, lovely liars!

Such a mild example of "Adult money", but incredibly excited at having just ordered the first 21 of the Discworld series from World of Books for only around £75 (pre-loved books ftw!).

I gave most of my books to charity when I moved to London about 8 years ago, and finally have the space 🎉.

New hill to die on:
- We need a Tron film every 15 years or so to deliver an absolute banger of a soundtrack

Less fussed about actually watching the film this time, (Jared Leto? Really?). But damn am I enjoying the soundtrack.

Douglas Barrowman and Michelle Mone's company, PPE Medpro, has just been ordered to refund the Government £122m from a PPE contract.

There are two very odd things about PPE Medpro that may affect the odds of the Government ever getting that £122m...

Thread:

@MorePerfectUS U.S. billionaires reached a record breaking $7.6 trillion in wealth as of September 2025, an increase of $4.7 trillion in the less than eight years. Most of that wealth hasn’t been taxed and won’t be taxed under our current system — per @4TaxFairness .

This is why everything sucks. It's not trans people. It's not immigrants. You are being robbed blind before your eyes and those same people also own all the tech and media networks to tell you that the cause is not them

This is 100% the right thing to do, couldn't endorse more 👏

Amazing how happy I am doing literally anything with code as long as I have a reliable form of source control.

Realised yesterday that not having it gives me low-grade anxiety that I usually don't notice is because of not having backups.

If you see this, quote the energy you bring to Bluesky

Pet hate:
- Retail websites who's filters don't actually work

Genuinely one of the many things that have gotten worse on the internet over time and that LLMs are really good at replacing 🤦‍♂️

Keeps working for them, so I guess yes? For a definition of "good" anyway.

Don't get me wrong, protecting children is important, but that's not what this act truly enables. It enables governmental control and censorship, it reduces the World in WWW to "world but if you look at something we disagree with, we'll know and it will be used against you".

It's years behind tech

Image of Bluesky saying "the laws in your location require you to verify you're an adult to access certain features".

Oh, look

Dreading the impact of the UK's online safety act and how likely it is to enable:
- Long-term censorship,
- Detailed tracking of what people have viewed,
- A raft of identity scams caused by inadequate data protection or legit appearing ID requests

All in all, fuck the UK MPs that voted for it

Looting at Thames Water

Net assets in 1990, £1,329m;
2024, £1,301m;
2025, £359m negative - liabilities exceed assets

NO shareholder investment since privatisation?

Dividends £10.4bn.

Can't rebuild water services without ending privatisation.

Water Commission didn't spot looting,

I suspect that fact that the vast majority of LLM users don’t seem to have received this (really very simple!) message is because the AI companies have a vested interest in us not understanding it. “ChatGPT is smart, it just makes mistakes sometimes” is much more marketable than the truth.

The 'Millionaire Exodus' the UK Media Told You About Never Actually Happened The equivalent of 30 stories a day were published about an exodus of wealthy people that a new study finds was "non existent"

The ‘Millionaire Exodus’ the UK Media Told You About Never Actually Happened

The equivalent of 30 stories a day were published about an exodus of wealthy people that a new study finds was "non existent"

bylinetimes.com/2025/06/10/t...

A screenshot of an Epic Games blog post that reads: Fortnite comes to Nintendo Switch 2 on June 5. In some places, that’s TODAY. In other places, it’s just one more sleep! Let’s get right into what you want to know: 60 FPS! Higher resolution (2176x1224 docked, 1600x900 undocked) Greater view distances (See more things in the distance!) Higher-quality textures, higher-quality shadows, and higher-quality water rendering (nice water) Clothing physics enabled The Replay system is here — relive your best Battle Royale matches from another perspective! Capture video clips using the Capture button GameChat* supported — stream your Fortnite gameplay with up to three other friends For the hardcore tech folks: full “desktop” renderer, high-detail geometry, distance field ambient occlusion in docked mode, shadow casting point lights, high-quality effects Mouse controls supported with Joy-Con 2 (Starting June 7)

Epic confirms the upgrades coming to Fortnite on Switch 2, including 60fps performance, support for GameChat, and mouse controls (!)

Plus, you get a free emote for logging in before March 31st next year: www.fortnite.com/news/fortnit...

Someone else said something very similar to this the other day, but.

It really burns me that our (millennials') generation was legally terrorized for like, downloading Radiohead discographies

But we're supposed to be ok with billionaires stealing human intellectual output in its entirety bc AI

Nice idea! Been a while since I needed though

The new General Physics systems are well worth a look, they really bring a whole new way for players to interact with UEFN games.