Phil M0OFX
@philpem.bsky.social
Software preservation, electronics, software and ham radio, maker of things. The kid who liked to take things apart and never grew out of it.
Mostly active on https://digipres.club/@philpem
Mostly active on https://digipres.club/@philpem
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vanity fair knew exactly what it was doing
December 17, 2025 at 1:04 AM
vanity fair knew exactly what it was doing
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Hey! Are you gifted in piecing together game data? I'm going to need help during this live stream today! I'm putting raw EPROMs in a public folder, but need help piecing them together. Systems are NES, GEN, SNES, GB, GG, Jag. There are new unreleased games here! www.youtube.com/live/RJwR8jX...
Let's Dump Mystery Prototype ROMs - Again!
YouTube video by The Video Game History Foundation
www.youtube.com
December 17, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Hey! Are you gifted in piecing together game data? I'm going to need help during this live stream today! I'm putting raw EPROMs in a public folder, but need help piecing them together. Systems are NES, GEN, SNES, GB, GG, Jag. There are new unreleased games here! www.youtube.com/live/RJwR8jX...
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✨ Cat + Christmas tree: What could go wrong? ✨
🐆 @frostbitefox.bsky.social
📸 @hom.ph
#furry #furries #fursuit #fursuitmaker #holidays #ChristmasTree #snep
🐆 @frostbitefox.bsky.social
📸 @hom.ph
#furry #furries #fursuit #fursuitmaker #holidays #ChristmasTree #snep
December 17, 2025 at 4:17 PM
✨ Cat + Christmas tree: What could go wrong? ✨
🐆 @frostbitefox.bsky.social
📸 @hom.ph
#furry #furries #fursuit #fursuitmaker #holidays #ChristmasTree #snep
🐆 @frostbitefox.bsky.social
📸 @hom.ph
#furry #furries #fursuit #fursuitmaker #holidays #ChristmasTree #snep
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Wait so Disney buys stock from OpenAI and OpenAI pays Disney in stock to license its characters? Amazing
Sources: Disney's Sora deal is entirely in OpenAI stock rather than a cash licensing fee; Disney has the option to buy additional stock beyond the $1B stake (Bloomberg)
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
December 16, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Wait so Disney buys stock from OpenAI and OpenAI pays Disney in stock to license its characters? Amazing
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He's having a drink - you only live twice -
Shaken not stirred, with a twist and some ice
Santa Bond is coming to town
Shaken not stirred, with a twist and some ice
Santa Bond is coming to town
December 16, 2025 at 9:26 AM
He's having a drink - you only live twice -
Shaken not stirred, with a twist and some ice
Santa Bond is coming to town
Shaken not stirred, with a twist and some ice
Santa Bond is coming to town
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Brutal (but fair) Guardian headline today
Only 3% of respondents to the UK government’s consultation on AI & copyright supported their unfair plan to hand AI companies people’s work for free.
95% said AI companies should license training data.
🧵 1/2
Only 3% of respondents to the UK government’s consultation on AI & copyright supported their unfair plan to hand AI companies people’s work for free.
95% said AI companies should license training data.
🧵 1/2
December 16, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Brutal (but fair) Guardian headline today
Only 3% of respondents to the UK government’s consultation on AI & copyright supported their unfair plan to hand AI companies people’s work for free.
95% said AI companies should license training data.
🧵 1/2
Only 3% of respondents to the UK government’s consultation on AI & copyright supported their unfair plan to hand AI companies people’s work for free.
95% said AI companies should license training data.
🧵 1/2
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I would kill a Tuvix for this.
I begged them to let me hire some weirdos to write some Lower Decks EU novels with saucy covers and they said no.
So can we get Star Trek novels set after the series like authors did during the wilderness period.
I would love a Discovery, Prodigy, Lower Decks novels continuing the adventures of those characters. Definitely an Enterprise G novel.
#StarTrek
I would love a Discovery, Prodigy, Lower Decks novels continuing the adventures of those characters. Definitely an Enterprise G novel.
#StarTrek
December 16, 2025 at 9:33 AM
I would kill a Tuvix for this.
Weird to see the Lib Dems and Greens on top in a poll. Not wrong, just not what nearly 40 years teaches you to expect.
Latest party leader net favourability ratings, December 2025
Kemi Badenoch: -26
Nigel Farage: -35
Keir Starmer: -54
Zack Polanski: -6 (49% DK)
Ed Davey: -10 (38% DK)
yougov.co.uk/politics/art...
Kemi Badenoch: -26
Nigel Farage: -35
Keir Starmer: -54
Zack Polanski: -6 (49% DK)
Ed Davey: -10 (38% DK)
yougov.co.uk/politics/art...
December 16, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Weird to see the Lib Dems and Greens on top in a poll. Not wrong, just not what nearly 40 years teaches you to expect.
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A Fairy Tail Of Stourbridge Junction
December 16, 2025 at 9:48 AM
A Fairy Tail Of Stourbridge Junction
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"Anyone who works in the games industry can identify that our art form is being sold for parts to make a few people a lot of money. And they don’t care about the games. They don’t care about the art. They just want their money."
@alyssamerc.bsky.social
@alyssamerc.bsky.social
‘Our industry has been strip-mined’: video game workers protest at The Game Awards
Outside the lavish event, workers called out the ‘greed’ in the industry that has left games ‘being sold for parts to make a few people a lot of money’
www.theguardian.com
December 15, 2025 at 3:38 PM
"Anyone who works in the games industry can identify that our art form is being sold for parts to make a few people a lot of money. And they don’t care about the games. They don’t care about the art. They just want their money."
@alyssamerc.bsky.social
@alyssamerc.bsky.social
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As part of our project to preserve the history of Sega Channel, we have recovered OVER 100 new Sega Channel ROMs, including the legendary lost game Garfield: Caught in the Act - The Lost Levels.
Read more: gamehistory.org/segachannel/
Read more: gamehistory.org/segachannel/
December 15, 2025 at 7:00 PM
As part of our project to preserve the history of Sega Channel, we have recovered OVER 100 new Sega Channel ROMs, including the legendary lost game Garfield: Caught in the Act - The Lost Levels.
Read more: gamehistory.org/segachannel/
Read more: gamehistory.org/segachannel/
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As a kid I thought AI was going to be cool af.
Instead we get Mickey Mouse whispering to kill yourself, The Mona Lisa giving crypto investment advice and your long dead nan reciting passages from Mein Kampf.
Instead we get Mickey Mouse whispering to kill yourself, The Mona Lisa giving crypto investment advice and your long dead nan reciting passages from Mein Kampf.
December 16, 2025 at 8:51 AM
As a kid I thought AI was going to be cool af.
Instead we get Mickey Mouse whispering to kill yourself, The Mona Lisa giving crypto investment advice and your long dead nan reciting passages from Mein Kampf.
Instead we get Mickey Mouse whispering to kill yourself, The Mona Lisa giving crypto investment advice and your long dead nan reciting passages from Mein Kampf.
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can you imagine having even a fraction of the money pumped into ai bullshit but instead you get to R&D something actually fucking useful and which doesn't exist exclusively to extract wealth from creatives and those who enjoy creative works.
Grrrr... PEOPLE AREN'T RUNNING OUT OF IDEAS, WEALTH INEQUALITY IS PREVENTING CREATIVE PEOPLE FROM REALISING THEIR IDEAS, GOODNIGHT!
December 16, 2025 at 10:03 AM
can you imagine having even a fraction of the money pumped into ai bullshit but instead you get to R&D something actually fucking useful and which doesn't exist exclusively to extract wealth from creatives and those who enjoy creative works.
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Recently published figures showing a huge drop don't take into account new restrictions introduced by this government. So further falls are very likely.
To give one figure from the post in August 2023 we gave out 18,300 health/care worker visas. Last month it was just 600.
To give one figure from the post in August 2023 we gave out 18,300 health/care worker visas. Last month it was just 600.
December 16, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Recently published figures showing a huge drop don't take into account new restrictions introduced by this government. So further falls are very likely.
To give one figure from the post in August 2023 we gave out 18,300 health/care worker visas. Last month it was just 600.
To give one figure from the post in August 2023 we gave out 18,300 health/care worker visas. Last month it was just 600.
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It's been sitting in inboxes for some time (I wrote this 18 months ago).
ukandeu.ac.uk/immigration-...
ukandeu.ac.uk/immigration-...
Immigration is falling but the economic cost may be high - UK in a changing Europe
Jonathan Portes analyses the latest immigration figures from the Home Office and Office for National Statistics.
ukandeu.ac.uk
December 16, 2025 at 9:12 AM
It's been sitting in inboxes for some time (I wrote this 18 months ago).
ukandeu.ac.uk/immigration-...
ukandeu.ac.uk/immigration-...
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New post just out:
"The Overshoot"
Net migration is collapsing, and will fall further over the coming years. We could even have net emigration.
What does that mean for the country and the political narrative as we head towards the next election?
(£/free trial)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...
"The Overshoot"
Net migration is collapsing, and will fall further over the coming years. We could even have net emigration.
What does that mean for the country and the political narrative as we head towards the next election?
(£/free trial)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...
The Overshoot
What happens to politics, and the country, as net migration collapses?
open.substack.com
December 16, 2025 at 8:46 AM
New post just out:
"The Overshoot"
Net migration is collapsing, and will fall further over the coming years. We could even have net emigration.
What does that mean for the country and the political narrative as we head towards the next election?
(£/free trial)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...
"The Overshoot"
Net migration is collapsing, and will fall further over the coming years. We could even have net emigration.
What does that mean for the country and the political narrative as we head towards the next election?
(£/free trial)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...
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✨Kobold Advent Calendar - Day 15: Shooting Star ✨
- Look! Do you think that's Santa everyone's talking about?
- Nah, I think Santa's a Dragon!
- Do you think he'll come for us this year?
- Look! Do you think that's Santa everyone's talking about?
- Nah, I think Santa's a Dragon!
- Do you think he'll come for us this year?
December 15, 2025 at 2:46 PM
✨Kobold Advent Calendar - Day 15: Shooting Star ✨
- Look! Do you think that's Santa everyone's talking about?
- Nah, I think Santa's a Dragon!
- Do you think he'll come for us this year?
- Look! Do you think that's Santa everyone's talking about?
- Nah, I think Santa's a Dragon!
- Do you think he'll come for us this year?
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Absolutely summarises my approach to forcibly "licensing" my copyright to LLMs.
I don’t want 0.0000001p. That doesn’t help.
I want you to fuck off.
I want you to fuck off.
December 16, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Absolutely summarises my approach to forcibly "licensing" my copyright to LLMs.
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Slovakia rewrote its Constitution to erase rights for LGBT+ people and reject international human rights protections. The EU has opened an infringement procedure – but stronger action depends on us. Add your name now. a.allout.org/s/v0qyx/
Defend equality and LGBTI+ lives in Slovakia
Slovakia rewrote its Constitution to erase rights for LGBT+ people and reject international human rights protections. The EU has opened an infringement procedure – but stronger action depends on us. A...
a.allout.org
December 16, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Slovakia rewrote its Constitution to erase rights for LGBT+ people and reject international human rights protections. The EU has opened an infringement procedure – but stronger action depends on us. Add your name now. a.allout.org/s/v0qyx/
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Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
December 15, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
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If it's Labour Together staging a coup, we can be sure the leader they insert - sorry put forward after a very democratic consultation, will be just what the country needs.
December 8, 2025 at 12:40 PM
If it's Labour Together staging a coup, we can be sure the leader they insert - sorry put forward after a very democratic consultation, will be just what the country needs.
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Well I guess I am no longer upgrading Calibre
December 7, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Well I guess I am no longer upgrading Calibre
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If there's an oracle in my game, and her name is Paige...
hashtag old uk folk laughing noises
hashtag old uk folk laughing noises
December 8, 2025 at 12:18 PM
If there's an oracle in my game, and her name is Paige...
hashtag old uk folk laughing noises
hashtag old uk folk laughing noises
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Digging through some old screenshots and found these photos I took of Loch Lomond in Scotland and then recreated in MS Flight Simulator.
December 8, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Digging through some old screenshots and found these photos I took of Loch Lomond in Scotland and then recreated in MS Flight Simulator.