Tim Deeson

my new ai device will sit in a beer garden that backs onto a small river and drink three to five pints on a sunny late summer afternoon for you, leaving you free for more meetings and business calls

I’m planning to visit (and do a broader trip) next year, any recommendations appreciated!

😀, I’m glad you enjoyed it. I’m a big fan of pretty much all of his stuff. I’m watching The Yellowstone at the moment actually, which isn’t anywhere near as well written but has some similar scenery

[AI Agent Diaries] Thinking Fast and Slow About AI Agent Development Using Daniel Kahneman's "Fast and Slow" framework to recognise the traps our mind sets ourselves when working on AI projects.

“System 1, as Kahneman calls it, is fast, instinctive, and emotional. System 2 is more deliberative, rational, and effortful.

When it comes to AI, we often allow System 1 to lead us down the wrong path.”

open.substack.com/pub/agentsde...

You could have seen that coming, it’s a known aspect of social media, shouldn’t have been a big surprise.

/s

*taps screen* a little advert.

From Feb I have some space for paid consulting/writing/speaking work - helping organisations navigate and understand the tech policy landscape (💣💥), doing AI ethics reviews, and general all-purpose strategic comms and problem solving. www.rachelcoldicutt.com

The biggest problem in tech isn’t lack of problems to solve, or products to build.

There’s plenty to do.

It’s the stranglehold a small cadre of uber-wealthy VCs hold over funding, and, in particular, the fact they’re all delusional narcissists living in a world composed of self-flattering lies.

Opportunity from one of the most sussed society & AI experts put there. Responsible industry should snap it up.

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Inadvertently bought a coffee in the Capital One version in the US

I can’t read the whole article as it’s members only but the part I can understand read doesn’t explain why Google would give it an enhanced ranking recently?

Unless that was part of the deal for training data access? Replenish the well.

I feel like this is definitely a change since the LLM era began, I hadn’t noticed whether there was a relationship between there being a Gemini answer or not.

Is it prompting Reddit activity that it can then harvest to fill the gap?!

Apple Intelligence is very Apple but not very intelligent | Stuff Like its rivals, Apple’s artificial intelligence has nailed the artificial bit yet doesn’t exhibit much actual intelligence – but that doesn’t mean it’s not worth using

www.stuff.tv/features/app...

Yes 😂, I’ve been surprised how terrible and pointless it is. If the processing is on device then I don’t even see the benefit to them if it’s not collecting training data.

It's December! That means it's time for my Great Present Ideas thread!

If you are a small creator, maker or shop who does cool gift things, reply to this post with:

- Images
- Description
- How to buy

And I will push you.

Everyone else, repost this and buy cool things to support peeps at Xmas!

The honest amongst us will admit we were secretly waiting for some variation of this message

If you're interested in the European startup ecosystem—maybe because your a startup founder, and investor or a tech person working in that space — I highly recommend you read this report.

www.stateofeuropeantech.com/chapters/exe...

All good, I’m enjoying the blogs!

Screenshot of ads including "No Pills, Just Thrills"

The ads I get on the bottom of the Follow.it email are a gold mine 😅😂. Another blog I subscribe to has used them for a a year or two and it's seemed pretty reliable 🤷‍♂️

Do you know if these are technically still in force? 😅

East London skyline with sun rising over it

East London sunrise

This is interesting. It actually makes you listen :) It falls apart a bit as you move away from the original recommendation but I like it.

Concrete clickbait: next time you share a spomenik photo, think about what it means Photos of Yugoslav monuments known as spomeniks are often shared online, exoticised and wrenched from context. But now, argues Owen Hatherley, it is…

a friend shared this essay on the decontextualization of communist and anti-fascist monuments for the sake of clickbait, and I think it’s incredibly important. if you’ve ever shared images of the various Spomeniks in Yugoslavia, this is a must read:

www.new-east-archive.org/articles/sho...

What I've learned after a year of serious Substacking How to fix... James O'Malley.

What I've learned after a year of serious Substacking (FREE TO READ):

takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/substackin...

Terence Eden’s Blog Regular blogging by Terence Eden.

This post got me started on a deep dive on your blog back catalog 😀

There seems to be a bug on your “Continue reading ->” links here shkspr.mobi/blog/

They take me to arbitrary posts, the post title takes me to the correct place though

I interviewed Google's James Manyika about how far AI will transform the workplace - and whether chatbots and AI summaries will undermine the web on.ft.com/3X9FGyL

Scalpers Work With Hackers to Liberate Ticketmaster's ‘Non-Transferable’ Tickets Scalpers have reverse-engineered how Ticketmaster creates tickets, and are now generating and selling them on their own parallel infrastructure.

This is wild: Ticketmaster introduced 'non-transferrable' tickets, so resales would have to happen on its own platform (further monopolization). Now scalpers have worked with hackers to reverse engineer the barcodes, makes them transferrable www.404media.co/scalpers-are...

Green Jellyfish: the story of a multi-million pound R&D Tax Credit scam Tax lawyer Dan Neidle has estimated that R&D Tax Credit advisory firm Green Jellyfish submitted at least £100 million of fraudulent R&D claims in little over 3 years. But how did Green Jellyfish…

How did Green Jellyfish create a £27m business based on tax fraud? Paul Rosser has the full backstory: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/green-jellyfish-story-multi-million-pound-rd-tax-credit-rufus-meakin-9nfte

Such a good story it's like a writing prompt for a responsible AI MA. At least 2 possible essays:
(a) which UK high street retailer would you trust to deliver cloud services and why?
(b) do Lidl use gen AI to create the packaging for their own-brand versions of well-known products?