Edward The Geek

We don’t need AI training sponsored by the tech firms selling it. We need AI education to help people understand what it can’t do, and what dangers lie ahead if you entrust your life to it

Meanwhile Shabana Mahmood plans much more extensive surveillance powers in the U.K….

Day after day in Minneapolis, ordinary people have pulled out their phones and documented ICE & Border Patrol's actions, often in the face of threats and tear gas. They showed the world the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti. But what happens when the camera is in ICE’s hands? 1/11

This is one of the reasons we should be *very* wary of things like digital ID, extended facial recognition and AI policing. These are tools we should not put in the hands of fascists.

Also chatbot: 'The person on the end appears to be no stranger to a good meal, are you sure that a Large pizza is enough?'

After, of course, reading the Privacy Policy and seeking consent of everybody that they are happy for their image to be shared....

The local telephone exchange that serves the Heald Green area of the Manchester director area is called "Mercury" because the letters HEA were already in use for HEAton Moor, so MERcury was used instead because HG - the initials of Heald Green - is the chemical symbol for the element mercury.

Another map site that we've become aware of, and really like is bustimes.org. It's literally a live map of all buses in Ireland and Great Britain, their location, their route, timetable, and how close they are to being on time. Have a look, and see if you agree!

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Love this song, the film geek in me tries to name all the sources of all the quotes.

It's only a murder of crows if there's probable caws

Twas the night before Christmas, and throughout the land
The sleeping arrangements were carefully planned
Down in the kitchen, a picturesque scene
A mattress, a pillow, a washing machine

I fully endorse this statement.

A reminder that Father Christmas travels by train when in the UK...

www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-n...

KDP S10 E14: Be Cringe Live Free It’s the Grand Finale, time to review the winners and the people who won without winning. Ellie is joined by a bumper crop of pod friends - AJ, Asha, Ewan, Elliot, Jo and Mark. Do *you* remember Icons

The final #KeepDancingPodcast is here! Featuring Amber's LinkedIn profile, Alexis's core muscles and release the numbers, cowards!

Also, a big thank you to everyone who's listened to our ramblings this year, you're brill <3

#Strictly #SCD

I would say that it was purrfect.

Douglas Adams: I created a satirical thing called Genuine People Personalities for the robots in books, so a door can tell you how happy it is to open for you

Amazon: We have implemented Genuine People Personalities, so a door can tell you how happy it is to open for you

@edwardthegeek.bsky.social

Great Western Railway NOTICE. It is forbidden for vagrants, beggars, itinerant musicians and females of doubtful reputation to enter these premises.

FFS, just go ahead and ban ALL the best people, why don't you.

Covid fraud and error cost taxpayers £10.9bn, report will say A lack of anti-fraud controls in Covid support schemes is expected to be highlighted in the report.

Instead of dialing up Big Brother to 11 on benefits claimants to try and save £1.5bn, why not just work harder on recovering this www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

As somebody who loves the Blues Brothers band, sad is the news that Steve Cropper has died.

I just said the same to @monsterofcoffee.bsky.social #totp

Happy birthday Tilly

Isn't this just turning into the Y2k bug, but without the absolute deadline?

Teletext mockup/art inspired by yesterday's Cloudflare outage. P100 Teletext 100 Nov18 14:00:13 Internal server error Visit Cloudflare on p799 for more info. 2025-11-18 14:00:13 UTC Pixel art of a TV with bunny-ear aerial with a green tick, a TV transmitter with a red tick, and a PC with a green tick. You, TV: Working London, Cloudflare: Error Teletext, Host: Working What happened? There is an internal error on Cloudflare's network. What can I do? Please try again in a few minutes. Cloudflare Index

A (horrible) alternate reality, inspired by yesterday.
#Cloudflare #Teletext #TeletextArt #Art

I totally agree with this. Take the time to look after yourself. Also here if you want to talk.

Extract from a map showing an unbuilt urban motorway through the South East London suburb of Mottingham. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database rights (2017) used under the terms of the Open Government Licence http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/

Arriving this week, after an eight year wait... the Ringways Map. Our Ringways pages will finally be joined by a high resolution map showing the entire city with its urban motorway network. Stand by for fireworks! In the meantime you can revisit our Ringways pages here: www.roads.org.uk/ringways

The lost Lego still washing up after 28 years - BBC News From dragons to wands, pieces lost from a cargo ship in 1997 continue to wash up around the world.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...