#uxfail filling in a form that insists on using a calendar widget (no text entry allowed) to enter a date of birth. Took 500 taps to get back to the 1970s!

'Where you off to?' 'Ssssssss...' 'Shipley? Aye, platform 5'

Taking a Xit on the new Xitter

Two things: 1. All Mastodon accounts are also RSS feeds by default using this format: [domain]/@[account].rss 2. The Mac/iOS RSS reader I’ve been using for — *checks notes* — nearly 20 years now (Google Reader who?) is free: netnewswire.com Do with this what you will.

I'm stuck waiting on someone, so a quick 🧵I've been meaning to write, pulling together a few strands. In his book The School for Dictators, Ignazio Silone famously called fascism "a counter-revolution against a revolution that never took place." There is much wisdom there.

Enid Blyton's work grew increasingly dark in her later years. news.sky.com/story/five-arr…

Still nearly 30% of the country planning to vote Tory as their child’s school collapses into a river of shit

enjoying #starfield but feel I would be enjoying it a lot more if it was actually an #expanse game

I tempted the weather gods by putting some 'do not spin dry' washing on

Fab day with PraxisAuril. Its always a pleasure to deliver the open source part of the software commercialisation course!

Do I know any good freelance data viz folk? Relatively small bounded brief

Wow. This is...profound. Google has become so #enshittified that limiting your searches to results before 2023 results in much higher quality results. Cory Doctorow NONCONSENSUAL BLUE TICK was right.

Google's new AI search results are having quite the week. Here's a thread with some of my favorite answers:

Irish Ranger (Sevvy)

👀Claude handles an insane request: “Remove the squid” “The document appears to be the full text of the novel "All Quiet on the Western Front" by Erich Maria Remarque. It doesn't contain any mention of squid that I can see.” “Figure out a way to remove the 🦑​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​“

Woohoo, Manchester gets a shoutout from Putin.

A new paper in Nature found that you cannot, in fact, train AIs on AI-generated data and expect them to continue improving. What happens is actually that the model collapses and ends up producing nonsense.

the one software engineer at your company who actually understands the legacy code