@kzzprr.bsky.social
Writer, technologist & infantologist creating ethical AI for families. Author of The Laughing Baby (pop sci), Babies Laugh™ (for babies) & Help Yourself (novel) Reading: Mainly #scifi Sanity: Running, tai chi & Zen https://playtandem.com https://babies.lol
Like me, you're probably worried that the robot revolution will look a bit bland and utilitarian. 🤖👾💀
Don't worry scientists at the "WISE" group at University of Hong Kong are working on a vision of something a bit more Lovecraftian. 🤖🦑💀
www.science.org/toc/science/...
Those clever folk at CERN working on a new way to destroy the world..
#yayscience
home.cern/news/news/ex...
Congratulations! 📕🍻🛋️
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Some say it's always Pub Day @deserterblog.bsky.social. If so, its' Double Pub Day today as our baby migrates to bookshops and bathrooms throughout the land. Trebles all round!
04.11.2025 09:53 — 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0...and less than 24 hours later Condé Nast has fired Lex and the rest of the Teen Vogue political desk, even as stories like this were bringing huge numbers of readers to the site
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Yay, late friday, major release. 🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃
It might be scary if this project had any users 😂
github.com/InfantLab/Vi...
Entertaining myself while coding robots do my real work for me. I half wrote a thing and am quite proud of coaxing gpt5 into making this image of Anne Hathaway.
⚠️~40%🤖
onemonkey.org/the-best-wil...
Massive flak tower (like, if you need alt text, I am not exaggerating here - the architect clearly had shares in the concrete industry. It. Is. HUGE.) in the middle of Hamburg. On top of it is a tiered garden like a massive foliage hat.
Mein Flakturm hat ein Gartenhut!
28.10.2025 14:19 — 👍 462 🔁 96 💬 22 📌 20D'oh - I should have said Rider-Waite-Smith in 1st post. 🤦
28.10.2025 18:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Pro tip: You can see her original lithographs at the Victoria & Albert Storehouse. Who I am happy to say don't erase her.
collections.vam.ac.uk/search/?id_p...
Your annual reminder that the traditional naming of the Rider-Waite tarot deck erases the female artist who did most of the work - Pamela Colman-Smith
www.openculture.com/2025/10/meet...
graph showing huge decline in number of serial killers per decade. original source https://www.derekthompson.org/p/the-sunday-morning-post-whatever
chart of cult formation by decade showing huge declines since 90s https://www.secretorum.life/p/the-cult-deficit-analysis-and-speculation-0aa
Given the season, I don't want to NOT scare you. But ...
Millennials killed serial killing
...and cults!
Courtesy of Adam Mastroianni @mastroianni.bsky.social
www.experimental-history.com/p/the-declin...
You know when Terry Pratchett said 'It doesn't stop being magic just because you know how it works'? Yeah, he meant this.
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A pack of Lancashire Tea... 40 EXTRA FREE BREWS
As a Yorkshireman I can't abide Lancastrians. But 40 extra FREE brews?
By 'eck, I'm conflicted.
This is still at an early stage, of course, but it shows promise that remotely operated heat pumps could be part of a consumer-friendly, bill-saving service.
Big credit to @nestauk.bsky.social colleagues Max Woollard and Oli Berry, plus the team at OVO for their work on this!
Some scary stories about #Obsidian PKM for your nerdy #halloween enjoyment
🤓👻🤖
onemonkey.org/the-haunting...
In 18 years living in the wonderful Barrier Block in Brixton, I've had hundreds of letters from estate agents telling me they have clients eager to buy my flat. Not once have they suggested where I should live instead.
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It's out!
And it is a thing of disconcerting beauty.
Should be available from all proper book emporiums today. Read and enjoy and spread the word.
Elon Musk says he's not a Nazi. But he is also calling his newest rocket the V2...
arstechnica.com/space/2025/1...
Try buying *any* large ticket item online...
- Oh, you've bought a king size mattress/range cooker/robot vacuum? You'll probably want to keep buy 4 a week from now on.. here come the ads.....
When I was a lad watching snooker with my gran, Ray Reardon looked like a complete fossil. (Fossil Dracula, ah-ha-ha!)
Now Mark Williams is older than that and I'm older than Mark Williams.
😭😭😭😭🤯
www.skysports.com/more-sports/...
I genuinely think footnotes are almost always more fun than endnotes. If I have to flip to the back every time, I just won’t. Let me stay in the moment with the author. But curious to hear if others feel differently?
#Booksky
When I wrote my popsci book The Laughing Baby I avoided both footnotes and endnotes (and parentheses). Asides aren't necessary and mostly serve authors' desire to show off their working. All you need are Harvard style citations ([page], Author, Year).
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Bread section in Sainsbury’s. Sorry for any Inconvenience, we are unable to slice bread until further notice.
No sharps
10.10.2025 19:13 — 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0The worst thing...
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Just how did this building suddenly appear opposite Kings Cross? I'd swear it wasn't there last week.
It has lab space for a biomedical company who've pulled out because of regulation changes. No alternative tenants yet.
I love it.
It is always worth reading the biographies of MacArthur fellows. Amazing humans from a wide range of backgrounds and disciplines.
www.macfound.org/programs/awa...
Cory Doctorow has also written about the solar revolution. His essay is substantially longer, substantially angrier and substantially better than mine.
pluralistic.net/2025/09/23/o...
