'Responding to change' is impossible when all you do is work through items on a giant to-do list. #NoBacklogs

Here's a fun AI story: a security researcher noticed that large companies' AI-authored source-code repeatedly referenced a nonexistent library (an AI 'hallucination'), so he created a (defanged) malicious library with that name and uploaded it.

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A.I. photos are flooding social media and contributing to an Internet where we can't believe what we see.

Spotting A.I. 📷s is an important media literacy skill.

It takes a few seconds to spot a fake and stop the spread of disinformation. Let's learn how! 🧵(1/5)

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The Welsh Revenue Authority is looking for an experienced Product Manager. It is a small, exceptionally friendly organisation that is doing interesting work with devolved taxation. /cc Julia civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/index.cgi?…

Good thread. The way I say it is: 'A component is defined by what it _does_, not by how it does it or what it contains.'

Utterly abhorrent South West Water is trying to gag local residents by making them sign non-disclosure agreements.

Yep in an attempt to shut up local protesters SWW is trying to buy them off by offering money in exchange for silence.

FFS! Ofwat???!!! 🤬

thetimes.co.uk/article/clean-…

I’ve noticed more and more development teams without frontend developers.

Anyone else?

If you really want people to be excited about returning to the office, you need to turn the office into a place where people want to go. Some open-office hellhole is not that. Pretty much all offices need to be redesigned from the ground up, both to be more friendly and to…

Over on LinkedIn I just saw someone with the title 'Sr. Jira Administrator'! 😭😱🙄 If you need a full-time position to manage an 'Agile' tool, I'd suggest picking a different tool.

'Water firm drives 240 truckloads of sewage a day through town ‘to pump into sea’.'

Yep, you read that correctly.

Whatever next South West Water

inews.co.uk/news/south-wes…

Upto 28% of your water bill services water company debt.

Money borrowed to pay dividends.

No new reservoirs built since 1989. Sewage dumped in rivers.

Customer bills up by inflation+40%. Companies want more from captive customers.

Daylight robbery.
theguardian.com/money/2023/dec…

If you stole a box of baby milk from Tesco, your first interview would be under police caution. And then there's this.

Its official! The hottest year on record - by a country mile.

And likely the hottest year since the last (Eemian) interglacial 120,000 years ago.

God only knows what 2024 will bring.

'Thames Water scraps plan to become net zero by 2030.'

TW have also admitted they're not going to complete 105 sewage upgrades which they are legally obliged to delivery by 2025 at a cost of £1.134bn, your money.

And the regulators do what exactly?

telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/…

8. Anyone who breaks this consensus can be isolated as an “extremist”. That’s the label I was given by senior editors at the BBC.
Because I advocate violence? No.
Because I want to overthrow democracy? No.
Because I feel we should clearly identify uncomfortable realities? Tick.

1. I’m very grateful for the response to my appearance on Question Time, but also puzzled. I felt that in all cases I was simply stating the bleeding obvious.
Is this now so rare in public life that it becomes an event when someone does it?
The grim truth seems to be: yes. 🧵

Investing in software development based on an up-front estimate is like investing in stock assuming that you'll get a specific return. Doesn't work that way. Sorry.

WARNING (& help needed).

Many people sending me the rampant promoted (ie X being paid) scam tweets oft saying 'Martin Lewis best money making tip for Christmas revealed'

The scammers are pro-actively blocking me in advance, so I can't help (and its only X who has the power).…