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So I read this anildash.com/2025/10/22/atlas... about OpenAI capturing all your information for. ChatGPT's memory.

Then I read this doublepulsar.com/microsoft-bu... about Microsoft doing the same in Windows.

**sigh**

Not thought about it till recently, but glad to see that my thesis (it's not thinking without emotion & it's not emotion without physical interaction) was not too far removed from his.

John Searle obituary American philosopher whose Chinese Room thought experiment rebuts the idea that computers can think as humans do

Missed this: www.theguardian.com/world/202...

My essay about the Chinese Room was the best thing I did at university, many years ago.

Fuck the App Store.

"The sole purpose of Eyes Up is to document and preserve evidence of abuses of power by law enforcement …" Mark's response adds.

Apple then replied and said the ban remains in place, according to another email Mark shared.

www.404media.co/apple-banned-...

Ritual & its Consequences: book summary I like how they make the title sound like ritual is a problem. Our culture believes that, I liked to believe it, and so the book is more appealing. (book on amazon, pdf excerpt) The book is not abo…

"Modern anthropologists look at a ritual from the sincere perspective, seeking explanations, like that the movements and words exist for a reason… With a ritual attitude, it's different… We do these things together in order to do things together"

This sounds interesting

jessitron.com/2025/10/05/ri

Outside In: the return Recently I've returned to "outside in" style development. This used to be really popular ten to fifteen years ago, but kind of vanished. I suspect the reason for this is because it's a style of development that does not fit when your application is split across multiple code-bases - not

Going outside in (again)

theartandscienceofruby.com/ou...

Also never forget Cheryl’s legal testimony, which got her acquitted: “I’m not a racist, I would have hit her anyway”

All the songs I really liked were off Ten. What an album.

Daughter mentioned St Trinians which made me think of Sarah "Hardcore" Harding so now I'm making everyone listen to Girls Aloud

Europe again Ole Ole #NFFC

If I can't trust the leadership of Rails and I can't trust the people who look after Ruby (I'm not sure but it looks that way), maybe I should return to the only other language that ever made sense to me: small-js.org/Home/Home.html

I quite like Liquid Ass (in some places) on my phone but I'm not putting it on my Mac yet. And Liquid Ass on ipadOS pisses me off (as does the windowing).

rakhim.exotext.com/benjamin-b...

'These "Guess Stops" will be staffed by special agents known as Guess Stop Officers, or "Guess-Stop-O" for short.'

www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i...

Best Club Content Creator – Premier League Finalists 2025 - Football Content Awards Read more…

Vote for me! (please)

Our little podcast has been nominated for an award: footballcontentawards.com/bes...

We don't do the "loud blokes down the pub" thing that lots of fan podcasts do; we don't make any money off it (well I think we got £20 each last year) so I'd really appreciate your vote #nff

2am has come again, it's time to leave this paradise,
I hope the chip shop isn't closed, cos their pies are really nice,
Eat it in the taxi queue, stand in some else's spew,
Wish I had lipstick on my shirt instead of piss stains on my shoe

For the flag wavers 🇬🇧🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧🇬🇧

Last night's music listening reminded me that there's no better description of life in Britain than the Specials.

Swap 2am for 4am and pies for shawarma and not much has changed in 45 years…

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I also first saw it on a clip of some Korean TV show where the set is the inside of a school and everyone is wearing school uniform. But the female singers are all teenagers and the male presenters are all in their 30s or older.

It is very very creepy.

I have the music from Lisa from Blackpink's "crab dance" in my head.

This is not good

"I once saw a dog knock over a jug of Apple Tango with his erection … I've never been able to fully enjoy an outdoor picnic since"

I'm going to see Johnny Vegas' Ideal (live) soon. It was a very funny sitcom.

But what I'm most looking forward to is seeing Emma Fryer. In Ideal she played Tania, who was great.

But her best role was Janine in Phone Shop.

Apparently Warwick Castle has a trebuchet.

I think that deserves a visit … now who to throw?

Wrestling - the announcers

At the wrestling again

The Software Engineers Paid to Fix Vibe Coded Messes Linkedin has been joking about “vibe coding cleanup specialists,” but it’s actually a growing profession.

https://www.404media.co/the-software-engineers-paid-to-fix-vibe-coded-messes/

"we clean up after vibe coding"

Most of my first freelance jobs were rebuilding spreadsheets or Microsoft Access apps that someone had built and had become unwieldy and unfit for purpose.

Apart from how easy it is to g

My daughter (who was 6) says she can't remember anything about 9/11.

I've always liked Anil Dash's annual posts about it though:

GPT-5 Thinking in ChatGPT (aka Research Goblin) is shockingly good at search “Don’t use chatbots as search engines” was great advice for several years... until it wasn’t. I wrote about how good OpenAI’s o3 was at using its Bing-backed search tool back …

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/6/research-goblin/

"As with all things AI, GPT-5 search rewards intuition gathered through experience … If it's something I'm certain it won't be able to handle then even better! I can learn from watching it fail."

https://crankysec.com/blog/modern/

need to deliver some report that makes no sense? Tomorrow? Just toss some Word file onto Sharepoint and enjoy 3-4 weeks of peace while people try to figure out how to access it.

Buy: poos Sell: wees Very important!

A note I found stuck to my wall.

My kids are (chronologically) adults, you know.

https://kottke.org/25/08/refusing-to-choose-is-a-choice


You can say "all are welcome," but if wolves and sheep are both welcome then you're only going to get wolves …

Refusing to choose is a choice. It's a choice in favor of the people who prey on others and who refuse to acknowledge the humanity

Font of the day: handmadefont.com/shop/oniotyp...

(made with real onions)

Funny how a blonde haired, blue eyed Danish guy remembers the 80s differently to me.

I remember it as a time of sneaking around, avoiding violence because of my skin colour.

I do remember Sabrina though - she "fell out" on Top of the Pops.

And I'd take Clueless over 80s films any day.