Colin

Don't blindly trust what AI tells you, Google boss tells BBC Sundar Pichai candidly acknowledged concerns about inaccurate answers generated by Google's models.

BBC News - Don't blindly trust what AI tells you, says Google's Sundar Pichai - then why the fuck are Google giving AI responses that are probably wrong in search over real accurate information on dedicated websites?

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Struzan by himself

RIP the legendary Drew Struzan (1947-2025) 😩

Even though we were expecting the news any day now, it makes me very sad. What an artist.

Tommy Robinson police stop at Channel Tunnel unlawful, court hears The far-right activist was charged under the Terrorism Act over an incident at the Channel Tunnel in July 2024.

With so many people basing their understanding of news stories on headlines, this kind of one sided summary is dangerous.
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Okay then, Google: tell us what to do | The future of entertainment websites Google's search results are, sadly, damaging lots of websites. What does Google actually want? And is it what a human being would want?

Entertainment websites are disappearing, or having to double down on clickbait etc to keep going. A few thoughts, and a presumably futile request to Google for some guidance.

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Google Discover just casually dropping the BBC News Pidgin version of this story in my feed is definitely a vibe.

This was inevitable the moment she went out and said there’s no place for transphobia in the party in response to Adnan’s transphobia. One of em had to be pushed out and it wasn’t gonna be him was it

Unbelievable that the first chance of a party that could actually deliver a more tolerant country and they've basically blown it before they started 😔

Reform will be very happy to see this happening.

MY DOCTOR

Goodnight, I’m hoping to wake up to a slew of posts from anti-woke “comedians” who have spent years complaining about cancel culture and the oppression of free speech, defending Kimmel and condemning the F.C.C.

Unless it was only an issue when you wanted to make jokes about the trans community?

A Love Letter to the ZX Spectrum Next When I first unboxed my ZX Spectrum Next KS2, it felt like opening a time capsule. Yet this was not a relic. It was not a yellowed keyboard…

I'm a bit excited about getting another Speccy next! medium.com/@colin.p0/a-...

Coincidence Versus Craft: The Decline of Structured Storytelling in Star Trek and Doctor Who Television science fiction has always thrived on the balance between expansive world-building and character-driven narratives. Two of the…

It's been a while since I last wrote anything about TV but something has been bugging me enough to actually put some words together... medium.com/@colin.p0/co...

😂

Is she playing the author?

I mean this seems like a legitimate question from @annaturley.bsky.social

I keep forgetting Bluesky exists. I'm back again!

Led By Donkeys have got Fartrage's number.

How to keep your phone safe from Emergency Alerts.

Steps to secure your iPhone 1. Search your settings for 'emergency alerts' 2. Turn off 'Severe alerts' and 'Emergency alerts' 3. If this does not work, contact your device manufacturer.

Steps to secure your Android: 1. Search your settings 'emergency alerts' 2. Turn off 'Severe alerts' and 'Emergency alerts' 3. On Huawei devices running EMUI 11 or older, search your settings for ‘emergency alerts’ and turn off 'Extreme threats', 'Severe threats', and 'Show amber alerts' 4. If this does not work, contact your device manufacturer.

Other mobile phones and tablets: Depending on your software version or phone manufacturer, emergency alert settings may be called different names. They could be called 'wireless emergency alerts' or 'emergency broadcasts'. You can usually find these settings in one of the following ways. - Go to 'message', then 'message settings', then 'wireless emergency alerts', then 'alert' - Go to ‘settings’, then ‘sounds’, then ‘advanced’, then ‘emergency broadcasts’ - Go to ‘settings’, then ‘general settings’, then ‘emergency alerts’ Then turn off ‘severe alerts’, ‘extreme alerts’ and ‘test alerts’.

If you have a secret or hidden phone, the government's Emergency Alerts could reveal your device, even if it's on silent or do not disturb.

The government is testing emergency alerts on Sunday 7 September. If you're worried this could reveal a phone, you can follow this guide to turn off the alerts

I'm still smarting from being told, in my TDF days, that there was no space at a screening only to read the next day that there were a dozen Empire journalists there having a jolly.

Independent publications were and are the future of journalism and should be nurtured, not excluded.

The fact that Film Stories, despite being the most important grassroots film publication, gets ignored like this is a loss to the UK film industry on every metric possible.

The day Google dropped their "Don't Be Evil" motto was the start of the end for the independent internet 😕

Turn it off. Stop using it. Turn it off. Stop. Stop. Stop.

If every time I was wrong about something, a gallon of precious water was boiled into the sky, my neighbourhood got polluted and someone lost their job, people would stop asking me things.

@johnmu.com @searchliaison.bsky.social Hi - this is looking like it is becoming a serious issue - more and more articles are having their canonicals overridden and then being removed from Google's indexes.

Doctor Who... First time in a long time that I'm not entirely sure how I feel about what might be coming next...

The second season of The Orville has a run of episodes that beat all of Trek other than DS9 at its peak. Seth MacFarlane may not have the gravitas to lead but the writing and production values are pretty much perfect and it does a much better job than modern Trek in tackling difficult issues.

I Have Finally Figured Out Why Star Wars Fans Hate "Broom Boy" So Much Leave "Broom Boy" alone

Of all the criticisms I've seen of TLJ I've never seen anyone complain about this - basically an article about a situation that doesn't exist... collider.com/star-wars-la...

Inflation is up because of rising household bills - which are rising because of inflation - it's a self-fulfilling cycle that ensures those with money keep getting more from those that don't. Companies blame larger than inflationary price rises on the inflation they're creating anyway.

Pretty much describes Star Trek Into Darkness in its entirety.

fwiw, (which isn't much) I was the one who caught the Elaine tweet before he deleted it, and got the screenshots out. my most successful twitter post by a factor to at least x1000

Started watching The X Files on Paramount+. Five minutes in it's already had two picture breakups and I'm on my second ad break.

Ad supported streaming is the worst iteration of TV viewing models so far. Worst of all worlds.

Fireman Sam in space 😂