Neil Major

If a human told you things that were correct 80% of the time but claimed, flat out, with absolute confidence, that they were correct 100% of the time, you would dislike them & never trust a word they say. All I'm really suggesting is for people to treat chatbots with that same distrust & antagonism.

I always thought it was one day good, two days very bad (botulism). Day old rice does taste better and I believe Chinese takeaways use it for that reason?

Even if you own the original?

Al-generated content has surpassed human-written articles Graph

Your universe is a photocopy of a photocopy of a…
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The next time people complain that user research just slows things down, show them this towering monument of hubris. Quite staggering.

It’s not a good time to be an artist but if you’re curious about music it’s a great time to be a fan.

our economy is currently being propped up by the promise of billions of fully autonomous robot butlers coming in a year or so

The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band on Blue Peter (black and white still).

In this month’s antidote to the algorithm, Tim Burrows steps into the outer reaches of the music scene of his Essex seaside hometown and tries to get back before the tide turns

Organic Intelligence XLIX: Southend (Avant) Rock

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I'm going to call all instances of AI 'Clippy' from now on to save time. Follow me for more tips.

#AI
#ItLooksLikeYoureWritingALetter

Where’s the Pretzel Logic cover 😉

mmrytok it's mmrytok

I like Mmrytok but I wish it had date stamps. Here's today's entry...
treblekicker.mmrytok.com

Au contraire. It made Champagne and fizz cheaper... 🍾 🥂

I would just tick the box to say yes and explain when you get in front of a person

Is that because you went to school in France? Assume there’s something equivalent?

it's simple really

Orbital
In Watermelon Sugar
In Praise of Shadows
Any of the 33 1/3 books
Capitalist Realism
Sea State
Laser Writer II
The Medium is the Massage
No One is Talking About This

Like the Laffer Curve, the idea that adding VAT to private school fees would price out the people who want to pay to make sure their kids don’t get educated with povvos turns out to be bullshit. In a sensible world this news would lead to absolutely rinsing the top 0.1% of earners for 75% income tax

We know that adding car lanes to roads just attracts more cars. We should now try the opposite: take away car lanes, widen pavements, add segregated cycle lanes. We'll find that bigger cars become less attractive and more people walk and cycle. Win for everyone.

“Co-designing meaningful payslips. Co-hosted by Laura Parker, creator of Accessible Numbers and Nexer Digital. When: Wednesday 30th April. 12 - 2pm.”

Hello, I’m trying to make payslips meaningful for people who struggle with numbers and financial information. Want to help?

Accessible financial information is a human right.

Thanks to @nexerdigital.bsky.social for co-hosting the event with me.

events.teams.microsoft.com/event/619b58...

Copyright and Artificial Intelligence This consultation seeks views on how the government can ensure the UK’s legal framework for AI and copyright supports the UK creative industries and AI sector together.

UK WRITERS: You need to fill in this consulation. Govt is very clearly looking to an opt-out model of rights licensing that puts all the burden on creators instead of profiteers. It's long and boring but this is important.

www.gov.uk/government/c...

Britain’s net zero economy is booming, CBI says Green sector growing at triple the rate of the UK economy, providing high-wage jobs and increasing energy security

This stuff is going to get more and more difficult to ignore or discount. I can't think of any other lever to pull for growth right now. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Wasn’t this the technology that a year or two ago wasn’t going to be possible till the end of the decade? Green tech continuing to be ahead of expectations…

Nicole Kidman with the John Cage appreciation

"Anyone who thinks the way to head off the tide of fascism is by limiting the range of political choices to either fascists or pro-business neoliberal technocrats is dooming us to fascism." . - David Graeber

The problem of Labour now being the Starmer-Party in a few words.

And DON'T think "keep up with" means news all the time.

Unless it's a hurricane or bomb warning, NOBODY needs breaking news, let alone "rolling" news. Once or twice a day checking in is enough. Constant info-blast and layers of commentary = burn-out.

You might expect that one of the world's biggest media organisations admitting to illegal practices in accessing private information about a member of the royal family and a government minister would be front page news across the board, but apparently not.

The Doomscroll Industrial Complex: How Anxiety Became a Business Model We need to talk about the doomers and the attention economy they’ve built. Not because they’re entirely wrong — from climate change to political extremism, a lot of their concerns are valid — but beca...

Yeah I think this nails it. Even if things are getting worse (debatable), there's money in the doom scrolling. www.joanwestenberg.com/the-doomscro...

Capital gains tax should be the exact same as income tax. Same rate, same thresholds. We'll throw the rich a bone by allowing double zero rate allowances but that's it. Overnight the country's finances would be fixed and the vast majority of us wouldn't feel any impact.

Brilliant quote from @warrenellis.ltd.web.brid.gy at about Meta's changes...

"For some fields of work, it’s considered a privilege to not have to use social media. ...Perhaps, for the elites, social media is something that happens over there, where you can’t see it, where the Other People are."

Maybe older. People my age are only on it to share pics of their kids with their boomer parents.