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Neil Young @elderpegasus.bsky.social · 1h

That's how bad this is. People are even considering a *Mac*

At least it's not Linux...

Neil Young @elderpegasus.bsky.social · 1h

Have been having to explain this mess to relatives whose PC can't take win11.

Wonder how many forced to replace a perfectly working device will consider other ecosystems?

Dan Thornton @danthornton.net · 2h

It's an unecessary cost, an e-waste problem, a security issue, and a pain in the backside.

I've used one of the routes to extend support for my desktop, but I either need to replace the motherboard, do a workaround, or switch to Linux. All take time and effort.

www.404media.co/the-end-of-w...

The End of Windows 10 Support Is an E-Waste Disaster in the Making

In an example of egregious planned obsolescence, as many as 400 million computers will soon hit the waste stream.

www.404media.co

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Neil Young @elderpegasus.bsky.social · 5h

This does a really good job of explaining the fine detail of why the whole thing "feels off".

dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 6h

NEW

Trying to make sense of the nonsensical decision to drop the Chinese spying prosecutions

How the positions of neither the CPS nor the government stand up to scrutiny

By me

emptycity.substack.com/p/trying-to-...

The more one knows about this case, the more confusing it becomes.

The CPS insists on further evidence it does not require, and the government insists it could not give that evidence, even though it could.

Neither side makes sense, and together they make no sense absolutely.

Neil Young @elderpegasus.bsky.social · 21h

The labour party is a racist party. There's no hiding from it now.

Not all labour MPs are necessarily racist, but they're shoring up a leadership team who are.

BBC News - Migrants will need A-level standard English to work in UK
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Migrants will need A-level standard English to work in UK

The tougher rules will come in force in January as part of wider plans to cut immigration.

www.bbc.com

Neil Young @elderpegasus.bsky.social · 22h

Join the brotherhood.

James Ball @jamesrball.com · 1d

“But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.”

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Neil Young @elderpegasus.bsky.social · 22h

This is some kind of anti-achievement in GameDev. Fascinated to see what has managed this (and how)

Yahtzee Croshaw @yahtzeecroshaw.bsky.social · 23h

Today marked a new first: the first time I ever literally fell asleep while playing a video game. Won't say what it was, for now, but it won't be getting high marks, I tell ye that

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Neil Young @elderpegasus.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, one can have a majority for "change" without a mandate for any specific change.

See also: Brexit

Neil Young @elderpegasus.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, either the AA or their insurers were clearly open to the possibility of operator error - that thread should have been followed.

Neil Young @elderpegasus.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, it's hard to say for sure but operator error from an unfamiliar driver is a simple explanation. Paper would have ideally spoken to the AA about that possibility.

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Neil Young @elderpegasus.bsky.social · 1d

The hilarious implication is that hallucinations are somehow intended output. 🤣

Neil Young @elderpegasus.bsky.social · 1d

So relieved your internet started working in time for you to post cat pics.

(That sounds really insincere. I promise it isn't!)

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Neil Young @elderpegasus.bsky.social · 1d

You don't need an excuse to post Daphne pics, nevermind adorable baby ones!

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Neil Young @elderpegasus.bsky.social · 1d

Welcome back to the 21st century!

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Neil Young @elderpegasus.bsky.social · 2d

B movie end scroll vibes.

Dan Rebellato @danrebellato.bsky.social · 3d

The bold font seems to me vaguely threatening.

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Neil Young @elderpegasus.bsky.social · 2d

I hadn't thought of this; digital cameras should make this easier as well. TV shouldn't just be short form serial films, they should be TV, and make the most of the medium, and this is a good example of that.

Andrew Orton @andreworton.bsky.social · 2d

The death of multi-camera TV: a thread. I know most of you will know the technical parts of this (and may have read it in the other place) but bear with me. 1/ 🧵

A shot from the studio rehearsal of Doctor Who: The Daleks' Master Plan episode 'Volcano', showing several actors ont he TARDIS set, with various video cameras around the scene.

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Neil Young @elderpegasus.bsky.social · 2d

None of the chasers would look out of place stepping out of a blue police phone box.

Neil Young @elderpegasus.bsky.social · 3d

Good thread on problems with outsourcing your feeds.

Reminded me of this,on a similar theme...

youtu.be/QEJpZjg8GuA

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Neil Young @elderpegasus.bsky.social · 3d

The issue isn't just that the shills overlook stuff like this, it's that they have no decent solutions for it. This is feature-not-bug stuff (even though it's arguably an unintended side of a feature), so it's debatable if it even could be truly fixed.

Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 3d

this is sociopathic behaviour and I think we need to treat it as such! just because something has become easy to do doesn't mean it has become less creepy, or more acceptable!

Neil Young @elderpegasus.bsky.social · 3d

The "blaming civ for people being uneducated" argument yesterday was somewhere between hot dog guy and offensive, but this is a genuine brain fart that's observable in the wild.

I think the issue isn't games, it's people applying the wrong model

Conor Sewell @ccsewell.bsky.social · 3d

You see this (unsurprisingly) a lot in the tech space - in particular the view that something must be inevitable if you put enough work into the “prerequisite”.

Eg: if we pour enough resources into developing LLMs, we will surely eventually create AGI.

Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 3d

Completely agree with this - there is a lot of terrible policymaking where you can see the direct echo of “this guy played a lot of Civ as a child and teen”.

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Neil Young @elderpegasus.bsky.social · 3d

Machine learning is a genuine area for progress, so there is absolutely AI outside the bubble; the risk is that getting damaged if the bubble bursts too spectacularly.

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Neil Young @elderpegasus.bsky.social · 3d

That there is an AI bubble is pretty much irrefutable now - the only grounds for disagreement are over its scope. Certain uses, genAI in general, or something wider?

BBC News - 'It's going to be really bad': Fears over AI bubble bursting grow in Silicon Valley
www.bbc.com/news/article...

A tangled web of deals stokes AI bubble fears in Silicon Valley

Some are worried that the rapid rise in the value of AI tech companies may be a bubble waiting to burst.

www.bbc.com

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Neil Young @elderpegasus.bsky.social · 4d

Unsolicited Slick pic

Character of Slick from Starlight Express

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Neil Young @elderpegasus.bsky.social · 4d

This is a good article about two serious problems - undervaluing of education and teaching, and misuse of AI.

AI grading tools can get in the flippin' sea, and one provided by a firm also doing AI detection software is just loathsome.

John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 5d

I strongly urge everyone to not just read this warning from @marcwatkins.bsky.social, but heed it, and be vocal and forceful pushing back against using AI to grade student writing. This must be anathema if we're going to have a world where learning means something. substack.com/inbox/post/1...

The Dangers of using AI to Grade

Nobody Learns, Nobody Gains

substack.com

Reposted by Neil Young

Tracy King @tracyking.bsky.social · 4d

Primary schools are doing this. Makes me feel sick. To remove individualised insight into a pupil’s progress and skills at such a formative age is lunacy.

Dr Surekha Davies (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 4d

Vital words on why educators should push back against using plagiarism-slop machines for grading: "grading written responses is messy by design. It’s also one of the most human activities we can do within teaching." 1/2

John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 5d

I strongly urge everyone to not just read this warning from @marcwatkins.bsky.social, but heed it, and be vocal and forceful pushing back against using AI to grade student writing. This must be anathema if we're going to have a world where learning means something. substack.com/inbox/post/1...

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Neil Young @elderpegasus.bsky.social · 4d

Younger child had GCSE computer science the other day that used genAI to "check" one of the answers. I've been anguished by her CS homework many times, but that was particularly awful.

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