Andrew Keedle

Yeah fair

I can forgive them(ish), but those prices! 😮

Thanks. A smidge 😁

Yup. Debating whether to pay the £15 for Now TV to watch it. Made the mistake of watching the Carabao cup... 😞

Sorry to hear how difficult things have been. Everytime you get up and brush your knees off you are giving yourself a chance and you are in control of that. 🤗

A bright, sunny, low-angle photo shows a red and white plastic construction barrier standing in front of a line of light-colored metal railings. The barrier is centered, blocking the sidewalk entrance. Behind the railings is a roundabout with a central, planted island. Two cars, a red hatchback on the left and a white SUV on the right, are driving on the road around the roundabout. Trees and a clear blue sky are in the background. The photo has a slightly vintage, film-like appearance.

Vignettes of Ipswich

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A dramatically low-angle, vertical shot looking straight up at a streetlamp mounted on a textured, light-colored building wall. The wall's surface is rough and slopes up and away from the camera. The central feature is a dark, vertical metal pole that runs from the bottom of the frame up into the top, where it supports a small, yellowish streetlamp head. This pole is recessed into a deep, dark vertical channel or groove in the wall. A yellow and black tag, marked "150" and "16 2117," is visible at the very bottom, attached to the pole. The top third of the image is a bright blue sky with scattered white clouds.

Vignettes of Ipswich

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Hehe. Got a way to go yet. Popped into LCE in Colchester the other day. I didn't realise how tiny it was. It's cute, but...

Lush! #weljel

oh yes!

A slightly low-angle, medium shot of a partially covered parking area beneath a modern, two-story building. The upper level features white siding and a continuous band of rectangular windows. The ground level is a concrete lot with a covered section supported by thick white pillars. The covered area has a dark asphalt floor with faded white lines marking parking spots, like "G1" and "G2". The back wall is red brick with a single white door visible in the center. To the right, there are large, louvered white doors. The lighting is slightly shadowed under the overhang, with two exterior wall sconces mounted above the pillars.

Vignettes of Ipswich

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#winning

You mean its NOT Friday? 😢

A slightly low-angle photograph captures a cluster of large commercial waste bins in an asphalt service area next to a brick building. The most prominent bin is a large blue Veolia bin marked "CARDBOARD ONLY," standing next to a slightly smaller dark blue IBC bin and a brown bin. A black bin stands on the far left. The bins are on wheels, and some scattered trash is on the ground. A metal railing surrounds a raised landing leading to the reddish-brown brick building.

Vignettes of Ipswich

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Print of a comic strip by me who is Stephen Collins. The imagery of the comic starts off with a single electron and then each panel zooms out one step - first to the microchip, then the OLED screen, then the iPhone, the person holding the iPhone, and onwards Script: An electron, forged in the first fire of the Big Bang Courses through a deeply intricate maze of transistors and diodes mined with unfathomable ingenuity from our planet’s deep geological past and assembled from all over the world Into a device perfected through centuries of technological evolution to perform a beautifully synchronised pixel dance on an OLED screen in an intricate moving pattern of shifting light [Show a phone screen with an Instagram post featuring Ryan Gosling and bearing the legend:] WATCH RYAN GOSLING EAT A PASTY FOR THE FIRST TIME! whose choreography is powered by an global information network of unknowable complexity which is specifically tailored to the interests of the being observing the screen who is a member of the most advanced species on Earth [Show a shlubby looking GUY idly looking at the Ryan Gosling/sausage roll Instagram reel on his phone while sitting in his pants and a stained t-shirt and eating a massive bag of crisps] with a brain perhaps more capable of reconfiguring these signals into conscious thought than any other for billions of miles around [Guy has a thought]: “Mmm…" in this endless, silent void. [Pull back to show the Earth as a tiny blue dot among the stars with a thought bubble coming from it] "… I want a pasty.” [ends]

new print now in my shop!

An electron's journey ✨

(Link in bio)

It does look interesting. It seems to have everything I would want. Will follow with interest.

Yup. I've left the IT industry twice because of it. Once when it was on the horizon and I thought I wasn't bright enough. Second time when it was here and I knew I wasn't dumb enough.

A dramatic, worm's-eye view of a modern, low-rise building and a large, leafy tree. The building's upper story is dominated by a long row of rectangular windows with white frames, set into a textured grey facade. The tree, with its dark, rough trunk partially covered in ivy, stands to the right, its bright green canopy sprawling over the top of the frame. The sunlight filtering through the leaves creates a dappled effect. The contrast between the concrete architecture and the vibrant natural elements is striking. A small part of a person's head, possibly taking a photo, is visible at the bottom center.

Vignettes of Ipswich

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AI of a Thousand Faces What happens now that AI is everywhere and in everything? WIRED can’t tell the future, but we can try to make sense of it. Behold: 17 readings from the furthest reaches of the AI age.

Anyway, there's a lot more in the piece, which is part of @wired.com's AI issue www.wired.com/ai-issue/

Thanks to @harmancipants.bsky.social for the edits, @brbarrett.bsky.social for commissioning (we actually planned to do this one ages ago) and @katie-drummond.bsky.social for helming.

Ordered it this morning when I got the email 👌

AI Is the Bubble to Burst Them All I talked to the scholars who literally wrote the book on tech bubbles—and applied their test.

There's been endless talk about an AI bubble, but less about exactly how, why, and how much it's a bubble. So I turned to the framework put forward by scholars Brent Goldfarb and David A. Kirsch, authors of "Bubbles and Crashes," for assessing tech bubbles.

Spoiler: On a scale of 1 to 8, AI is an 8

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

A high-angle, symmetrical shot down the length of a vast, empty industrial warehouse or depot. The long, concrete floor has zebra crossings and a large white circle with the number five painted in the foreground. A high, vaulted ceiling with exposed wooden trusses and large skylights runs the entire length of the building, providing bright, natural light. On the left, a wall of large glass windows reflects the light, while the right wall is brick with tall, narrower windows and a door near a fire extinguisher. A few vehicles are visible far in the distance, centered under the skylights. The perspective creates a strong sense of depth and scale.

Vignettes of Ipswich
Bus Depot

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A comic from 2022 I think, Halloween week - here's the script: The scene is a darkened woods, at night. All is depicted in dingy blues and purples. In a lonely moonlit clearing we see a CABIN. its windows are dark, clearly unoccupied. A lone figure runs towards it, from the trees. Closer in on them now - we see they are terrified. The race for the door of the cabin, desperately trying to enter. They rattle the door, frantically. It is locked. They look behind them. We see the darkened, black trees of the woods. In amongst the forest, we see the black silhouette of a figure. It walks closer. Closer still. Closer - and now we see it is holding a chainsaw. It emerges into the light, slowly the shadow lifts from its face. It is wearing a mask. The victim silently screams in a rictus of horror. This can't be happening, no, no, no. Closer, closer now it lifts the chainsaw high above its head as it speaks: MURDERER: This murder is brought to you by MeUndies. VICTIM: What? MURDERER: If you're like me you'd kill for comfortable underwear - VICTIM: Sorry - VICTIM: Are you... doing a *podcast*? MURDERER: I knoooww... It's such a cliché Everybody's got one these days! VICTIM: But I thought you were trying to murder me? MURDERER: Indeed! I'm a true crime podcaster driven mad by having to change gear between horrific human tragedy and adverts for MeUndies. MURDERER: So just tap in offer code I'M BEING MURDERED with your bloodied, trembling hand for 20% off some pants! MURDERER: Now, back to the murder- [he revs up his chainsaw again] [ends]

Posting old halloween comics, #2

Paul Graham documented the waiting rooms and corridors of unemployment offices in Thatcher’s Britain in 1984/5.

“You just saw that this system was at breaking point and somehow needed to be brought to people’s attention.”

A view through a chain-link security fence shows a small, vintage-style red and yellow "Tokens" booth in the foreground, angled to the left. Behind it, a larger fairground attraction, possibly a carousel, with ornate yellow and red trim is partially visible. The scene is set on a pebble beach, with metal barriers surrounding the fair area. In the background, the ocean horizon is visible under a blue sky with white clouds. The fence creates a dominant grid pattern over the image, giving it a unique, restricted perspective.

Zoltar

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