Sam Michel

100% The reason AI doesn’t help productivity 😬

Worth looking at how Quebec are approaching this. They’re looking at laws to compel manufacturers to including PBS buttons on remotes as well.

Kids away on a school trip. Kidmin pressure off? Nope. That Duo Lingo streak won’t preserve itself. 🙄

This would be a great introduction to the scientific method for kids.

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Taking some small advantage from the dog’s 6:30am Sunday wake up call!

Dog really needs to work on his hide and seek game.

Poor love’s just lost his motor in the multi-storey.

This’ll help

So true. If your writing has an Oxford comma and “delves” a lot, I smell a ChatGPT.

Rather lovely projection mapping to celebrate VE Day.

The Assembly review: The only show in which an interview with Danny Dyer could move you to tears - in the right way As a middle-aged man with some 'life experience' behind him, I tend to cry at the drop of hat. And let's say there were a lot of titfers being spilled during ITV's new celebrity interview show The Ass...

The Assembly on ITV is such a tremendous bit of telly. The emotion the group gets from their interviewees is quite something.

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Me too. Saw one of the episodes a few years back and it’s aged very well.

Absolutely this. Less worry about a hangover and more on how a bottle disappears so quickly once it’s been opened. I think something in the production process means it, ehem, evaporates more quickly!

Wonder Panic.

A brilliant phrase that sums up so much about AI. I didn't know where it came from until this week. H/t to artist Alan Warburton, you should check out his video: theodi.org/news-and-eve... a brilliant thought piece on what AI means for the creative industries.

That nagging feeling your line manage me is peering over your shoulder at work…

I’m hoping this is all sorted and I’ve just missed the memo. 😳

And whilst I’m at it, this needs to apply to account linking. Yeah, it’s great that you can use a single (hash, if only it was just one) service to login, but could this apply to settings so we don’t have to deal with SSOs, MFAs just to get to the parental controls?

For the love of, well simplicity, can we have a standard for parental controls? Preferably accessible via API with super secure access. It’s so frustrating having to dig around in endless menus on dozens of platforms to try and provide a vaguely safe environment for the small ones in the household.

Semi serious. Marshmallow journey. Bear with: soft, squishy, sweet and comforting. But then, also sticky, cloying and troublesome when it comes to edge cases or weedling bits out of your teeth.

And now back to more serious answers…

Fab innit. If you haven’t seen the pilot with Michael Sheen, it’s equally brilliant.

Similar figures for ROI on public investment in the creative industries more widely. The success of Creative Industries Clusters Programs and Audience of the Future Challenge confirmed this.

😍🥲🥰
this is giving us all the feels ❤️

Surely this demand a LinkedIn post outlining 5 valuable business lessons you’ve learnt from this notification 🫠

Me to my children: “Boys, question EVERYTHING.”
Also me to my children: “Because I SAID SO.”
#consistency

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Introducing 4o Image Generation When OpenAI first announced GPT-4o [back in May 2024](https://simonwillison.net/2024/May/13/gpt-4o/) one of the most exciting features was true multi-modality in that it could both input _and_ output ...

OpenAI's new multi-modal image output, added to
GPT-4o and ChatGPT this morning, finally gave me the selfie with a bear I've always wanted simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/25/...

Spring has definitely sprung, at least temporarily.
Let's not forget this is the UK, so driving rain and sleet within hours is also just as likely.
Pretty flowers to take your mind off <waves arms around> *everything*

Wild garlic.