Don Richards

It's our favourite conference event in the calendar, and this year, we have the honour of hosting it @BritishLibrary! Fantastic Futures 2025 covering all things AI for Libraries, Archives and Museums begins THIS WEEK! sites.google.com/view/ai4lam/... #ff2025 #ai4lam

Just to be clear, this isn’t my field at all. I’m mostly just a curious bystander tossing out half-baked thoughts based on very basic knowledge of the topic.

I follow. Launch emissions can be reduced with better rockets, but once satellites are in orbit their reentry mass is fixed. I’m curious how much reentry byproducts this adds to the upper atmosphere and what it means for ozone and climate, seems like we need more studies as constellations grow. 🤔

AI generated image of a Starlink satellite in space floating over the planet.

It just occurred to me that there is roughly ≈ 4,600+ metric tons of SpaceX satellites in the sky. These are expected to have a lifespan of roughly 5 years. A quick search and all I'm seeing researchers modeled the release of 10,000 tons of aluminium oxide annually by 2040. Is this enough? #starlink

Screen shot of my first time using Kdenlive and it's turning out to be amazing. Dam.

When you don't trust live demos for a presentation at a conference so you record the demo and add a comment to your slides
> This Live demo was brought to you by an MP4 file on my desktop. Enjoy!

YouTube video by John Hammond cybersecurity just got f***ed

This is pure insanity. Not really my field but wow. youtu.be/itbsfeqrRY4?... #cve #wtf

Screen shot of Github commits on Traefik's Github repo saying "Sorry, they won" as a commit message.

Traefik’s automatic wildcard certs once made setting up dev environments a breeze but now it seems they’ve lost the certificate integration battle. What does that mean for users? “Sorry, they won” isn’t the commit message anyone wants to write. #traefik #certs #ssl #letsencryptfail

Another update from ChatGPT? Interesting 03-mini. #03-mini #openai #chatgpt

Screenshot of the popup message that comes up when the user toggles Perplexity pro.

Wow Perplexity, you just got my attention. #Perplexity #ai #chatbots

Person holding a glass hard drive

Project Silica uses quartz glass for indefinite storage. Based on this article I speculate it could enhance AI by ensuring data integrity and helps build more sustainable infrastructure for AI development. Towards Sustainable Cloud Archival Storage in Glass - doi.org/10.1145/3708...

Screenshot image of Claude complaining about how the current chat is at the maximum limit allow.

On my very first prompt today, Claude hit the max limit... on a paid account 😅.
Alright, back to ChatGPT I go if you can’t handle the heat, I know who can. 🔥

Anyone else bouncing between AI tools like it’s musical chairs? 😂 #claude

AI still lacks “common” sense, 70 years later What’s obvious to people still isn’t always obvious to machines

An intelligent person may express something simply when they deeply understand a topic. Another expert would see this as a sign of mastery, while the same comment from a child wouldn’t be seen as advanced knowledge. The issue is that AI doesn’t take this “common sense” approach in interactions.

I'm liking the new layout for ChatGPT.

This is so true