Thomas Baekdal
@baekdal.bsky.social
Author, Professional Writer, Magazine Publisher, and Media Analyst.
Me... predicting the future in 2008 ;)
December 1, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Me... predicting the future in 2008 ;)
I'm casually contemplating if I should watch Lord of the Rings tonight... I never watched it. Back when the movies came out, I got so annoyed that I had to wait for 2 and 3 that I decided to wait until they had all been released, and then I forgot all about it.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mf0...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mf0...
Lord of the Rings + My Cat
YouTube video by OwlKitty
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November 30, 2025 at 7:12 PM
I'm casually contemplating if I should watch Lord of the Rings tonight... I never watched it. Back when the movies came out, I got so annoyed that I had to wait for 2 and 3 that I decided to wait until they had all been released, and then I forgot all about it.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mf0...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mf0...
There is something really distracting about being able to track package deliveries in real-time .... ;)
November 30, 2025 at 3:42 PM
There is something really distracting about being able to track package deliveries in real-time .... ;)
Newspapers: Temu is bad, the products are not safe. there are so many scams, and here are all the chemicals in products via Temu that violates EU regulations.
Also newspapers: See these ads from Temu.
Also newspapers: See these ads from Temu.
November 30, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Newspapers: Temu is bad, the products are not safe. there are so many scams, and here are all the chemicals in products via Temu that violates EU regulations.
Also newspapers: See these ads from Temu.
Also newspapers: See these ads from Temu.
So what are you doing on a Saturday evening? Watching a movie, enjoying time with friends, cuddling with your partner?
Me? ... oh, you know, building the 'subscribe' page for my new site ... (I need a life...)
Me? ... oh, you know, building the 'subscribe' page for my new site ... (I need a life...)
November 29, 2025 at 8:39 PM
So what are you doing on a Saturday evening? Watching a movie, enjoying time with friends, cuddling with your partner?
Me? ... oh, you know, building the 'subscribe' page for my new site ... (I need a life...)
Me? ... oh, you know, building the 'subscribe' page for my new site ... (I need a life...)
Me: Busy with a deadline
My brain: Cool, I will help by giving you a headache so that you can really feel how how you are working
My brain: Cool, I will help by giving you a headache so that you can really feel how how you are working
November 29, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Me: Busy with a deadline
My brain: Cool, I will help by giving you a headache so that you can really feel how how you are working
My brain: Cool, I will help by giving you a headache so that you can really feel how how you are working
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Emma does a great job debunking this BS claims. A further point is that's kind of incredible to see so many UK newspapers side with millionaires when most of the readers they need to reach live on low salaries and benefit from better funded public services
Wow - this guy must be really, REALLY bad with money if an extra £208 per month will “ruin” his retirement.
Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph
Because this does NOT add up!
No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies…
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Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph
Because this does NOT add up!
No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies…
🧵1/9
November 29, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Emma does a great job debunking this BS claims. A further point is that's kind of incredible to see so many UK newspapers side with millionaires when most of the readers they need to reach live on low salaries and benefit from better funded public services
Google: Let's give the voices for our voice assistant the name of colors... just to, you know, make things so utterly confusing that nobody have any idea what to do.
November 28, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Google: Let's give the voices for our voice assistant the name of colors... just to, you know, make things so utterly confusing that nobody have any idea what to do.
Happy moment today. This Coal Tit flew into my big windows last week, and was not moving for almost an hour. I took it inside to protect it, hoping it would recover. It did, and then it flew away. Today, it came back, eating happily from my bird feeders 🙂
November 28, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Happy moment today. This Coal Tit flew into my big windows last week, and was not moving for almost an hour. I took it inside to protect it, hoping it would recover. It did, and then it flew away. Today, it came back, eating happily from my bird feeders 🙂
Always ask yourself this: Why would the public pay for articles that you didn't put any effort into writing?
November 25, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Always ask yourself this: Why would the public pay for articles that you didn't put any effort into writing?
A new study from Gallup shows that, in the US, the lowest amount of people ever now drink alcohol. Just 54% of the public says they drink alcohol.
Fun fact. I stopped drinking alcohol in 2003, and I have not had any wine, beer or anything similar for more than 20 years.
Fun fact. I stopped drinking alcohol in 2003, and I have not had any wine, beer or anything similar for more than 20 years.
November 25, 2025 at 9:25 PM
A new study from Gallup shows that, in the US, the lowest amount of people ever now drink alcohol. Just 54% of the public says they drink alcohol.
Fun fact. I stopped drinking alcohol in 2003, and I have not had any wine, beer or anything similar for more than 20 years.
Fun fact. I stopped drinking alcohol in 2003, and I have not had any wine, beer or anything similar for more than 20 years.
I see a lot of my friends from UK talking about how the 'budget' is tomorrow. I can only assume you mean the European Space Agency budget meeting? ;))
November 25, 2025 at 8:41 PM
I see a lot of my friends from UK talking about how the 'budget' is tomorrow. I can only assume you mean the European Space Agency budget meeting? ;))
I had to rescue a bird today. This one flew into my big windows and didn't move at all (but it was breathing). So, I took it inside to recover, and after about an hour, it woke up again and started to move around. And after a few more minutes, I could take it back outside where it flew away again.
November 24, 2025 at 1:26 PM
I had to rescue a bird today. This one flew into my big windows and didn't move at all (but it was breathing). So, I took it inside to recover, and after about an hour, it woke up again and started to move around. And after a few more minutes, I could take it back outside where it flew away again.
Can I just say that kitchen sinks should always be big enough to hold your oven sheet pan ... I mean... why isn't this a rule!
November 23, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Can I just say that kitchen sinks should always be big enough to hold your oven sheet pan ... I mean... why isn't this a rule!
What happens if you ask an AI to think about the future of news, and then question that thinking, leading it to create a new prompt (on its own), and then use that prompt to take it to the next level of thinking?
Well, I just tried that ;) ... and it was scary:
claude.ai/share/e1e1c0...
Well, I just tried that ;) ... and it was scary:
claude.ai/share/e1e1c0...
Iterative newspaper business model innovation
Shared via Claude, an AI assistant from Anthropic
claude.ai
November 23, 2025 at 3:04 PM
What happens if you ask an AI to think about the future of news, and then question that thinking, leading it to create a new prompt (on its own), and then use that prompt to take it to the next level of thinking?
Well, I just tried that ;) ... and it was scary:
claude.ai/share/e1e1c0...
Well, I just tried that ;) ... and it was scary:
claude.ai/share/e1e1c0...
I just realized that it has now been more than a year since I left Twitter/X ... and I I really don't miss it. Sure, old Twitter was good (back before it became X and everything turned to shit), but for the past year, I have genuinely not even thought about Twitter.
November 23, 2025 at 10:33 AM
I just realized that it has now been more than a year since I left Twitter/X ... and I I really don't miss it. Sure, old Twitter was good (back before it became X and everything turned to shit), but for the past year, I have genuinely not even thought about Twitter.
I buy all my groceries online, and usually this works great. Except today where all the frozen goods came defrosted because they forgot to put enough dry ice in the box. (they of course apologized and returned the money + gave me a gift card for the inconvenience).
November 23, 2025 at 9:52 AM
I buy all my groceries online, and usually this works great. Except today where all the frozen goods came defrosted because they forgot to put enough dry ice in the box. (they of course apologized and returned the money + gave me a gift card for the inconvenience).
What the actual... one of my tweets from 2017 (that caused Google to change on of their emojis) is suddenly being used to explain their focus on AI ... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
www.businessinsider.com/sundar-picha...
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Google CEO Sundar Pichai's X post about cheeseburgers is the ultimate AI flex
A funny burger tweet illustrates Google's AI comeback, showcasing strong spatial reasoning and image-generation improvements.
www.businessinsider.com
November 23, 2025 at 1:27 AM
What the actual... one of my tweets from 2017 (that caused Google to change on of their emojis) is suddenly being used to explain their focus on AI ... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
www.businessinsider.com/sundar-picha...
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@aexm.bsky.social
www.businessinsider.com/sundar-picha...
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@aexm.bsky.social
There is a weird thing with all the image AIs that, when you ask it to create a stylistic version of an image of yourself, it somehow manages to always change the face in such a way that it looks like a different person. I mean, it's so very close... but also not quite right ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
November 22, 2025 at 11:44 PM
There is a weird thing with all the image AIs that, when you ask it to create a stylistic version of an image of yourself, it somehow manages to always change the face in such a way that it looks like a different person. I mean, it's so very close... but also not quite right ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I came across a media executive who said that, in the future, we will make journalism for AI. No...just no! No matter what the trend is, your focus is always to make journalism for your audience.
This doesn't mean we can't use AI to do things in a smarter way. But keep your eye on the ball!
This doesn't mean we can't use AI to do things in a smarter way. But keep your eye on the ball!
a man with a beard has the words you stay focused on his face
ALT: a man with a beard has the words you stay focused on his face
media.tenor.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:23 AM
I came across a media executive who said that, in the future, we will make journalism for AI. No...just no! No matter what the trend is, your focus is always to make journalism for your audience.
This doesn't mean we can't use AI to do things in a smarter way. But keep your eye on the ball!
This doesn't mean we can't use AI to do things in a smarter way. But keep your eye on the ball!
Over at my LinkedIn page, I just wrote about how I have burned out on any news about the USA: www.linkedin.com/posts/baekda...
Can we talk about something? I'm a media analyst, and I spend an enormous amount of time looking at newspapers and magazines every day, but ... I have completely and utterly burned out on any news...
Can we talk about something? I'm a media analyst, and I spend an enormous amount of time looking at newspapers and magazines every day, but ... I have completely and utterly burned out on any news rel...
www.linkedin.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Over at my LinkedIn page, I just wrote about how I have burned out on any news about the USA: www.linkedin.com/posts/baekda...
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🧪 A new AI agent successfully bypasses 99.8% of survey bot detectors. By simulating human keystrokes and typos, the tool demonstrates how easily synthetic respondents can poison scientific data and manipulate polling results.
#AcademicSky
#AcademicSky
A Researcher Made an AI That Completely Breaks the Online Surveys Scientists Rely On
We can no longer trust that survey responses are coming from real people.”
www.404media.co
November 20, 2025 at 4:55 PM
🧪 A new AI agent successfully bypasses 99.8% of survey bot detectors. By simulating human keystrokes and typos, the tool demonstrates how easily synthetic respondents can poison scientific data and manipulate polling results.
#AcademicSky
#AcademicSky
Heh... my new site loads in 42 ms... That's the entire site, including getting all the data from the database, checking login, running security, processing the headers, building the html, rendering the page, etc.
I mean, Google.com takes 142ms to load.
I mean, Google.com takes 142ms to load.
November 20, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Heh... my new site loads in 42 ms... That's the entire site, including getting all the data from the database, checking login, running security, processing the headers, building the html, rendering the page, etc.
I mean, Google.com takes 142ms to load.
I mean, Google.com takes 142ms to load.
I made my first website back in 1997, and back then, things were simple. You just made it to the most used display size and that was it. But now we have to make it responsive so that it works on every screen.
I mean, it's not difficult. It just means that everything takes 50x longer!! 😐
I mean, it's not difficult. It just means that everything takes 50x longer!! 😐
November 20, 2025 at 2:44 PM
I made my first website back in 1997, and back then, things were simple. You just made it to the most used display size and that was it. But now we have to make it responsive so that it works on every screen.
I mean, it's not difficult. It just means that everything takes 50x longer!! 😐
I mean, it's not difficult. It just means that everything takes 50x longer!! 😐