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mark thompson @markposts.bsky.social · 1h

This is a 'listening to old Radio 1 Live Lounge' post

mark thompson @markposts.bsky.social · 1h

Feel like, as a society, we need to give a big boost back to 'really good live/stripped-back covers of songs'

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Alexander Abnos @anabnos.com · 2h

Hello! The Guardian is expanding our American soccer coverage. In the US, we're hiring:
• Reporters
• Asst. editor
• Audience editor
• Social video producer
• Sports biz reporter
These are all full-time, permanent, union positions.
www.theguardian.com/gnm-press-of...

The Guardian announces plans to expand its global soccer coverage ahead of 2026 men’s World Cup in North America

Combination of seven new roles, including six in the US, spanning sports and business coverage, visuals, video and more

www.theguardian.com

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Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 12h

the most delightful version of logging on to see what news you've missed

Dr Ramsdell, whose phone had been on airplane mode when the Nobel committee tried to call him, told the BBC's Newshour Programme that his first response when his wife said, "You've won the Nobel prize" was: "I did not."

To which Ms O'Neill replied that she had 200 text messages that suggested he had.

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mark thompson @markposts.bsky.social · 21h

Just asked Claude Code to check an error and it looked up something and went, and I quote, "HOLY CRAP!"

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mark thompson @markposts.bsky.social · 21h

I'd be really fascinated in seeing how things play out in a world where stable diffusion hits in 2019 and ChatGPT isn't til 2025, or vice versa. Although I have a vague sense that there's a crossover in the technology powering that I'm not properly grasping

mark thompson @markposts.bsky.social · 22h

Question that came to mind earlier - is it total coincidence that language models and image generation models got really good around the same time? Is there a possibility that we could've been stuck on one of them for another decade before the breakthrough?

#AI #genAI #AISky

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mark thompson @markposts.bsky.social · 22h

HR meme but one guy is 'vibe coding' and one is 'being Management on your own project'

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mark thompson @markposts.bsky.social · 22h

darn, this ruins my attempt to use 'prompt coding' instead of 'vibe coding'

Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 1d

Vibe coding is irresponsibly building software through dice rolls, not caring what code is produced

What about when engineers at the top of their game use AI tools responsibly to accelerate their work?

I propose "vibe engineering"!

simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/7/v...

Vibe engineering

I feel like vibe coding is pretty well established now as covering the fast, loose and irresponsible way of building software with AI—entirely prompt-driven, and with no attention paid to …

simonwillison.net

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mark thompson @markposts.bsky.social · 1d

Tech/LLM bsky - has the pace of things slowed down a bit recently?

I remember (though might be misremembering) when agents were hot on the heels of RAG which was fairly hot on the heels of good LLMs full stop. The *concepts* seem to have mostly settled now?

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mark thompson @markposts.bsky.social · 1d

Tech/LLM bsky - has the pace of things slowed down a bit recently?

I remember (though might be misremembering) when agents were hot on the heels of RAG which was fairly hot on the heels of good LLMs full stop. The *concepts* seem to have mostly settled now?

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mark thompson @markposts.bsky.social · 2d

The only newsletter/blog in town to ask the hard questions nobody else is asking, like "Is Gianni Infantino Nick Fury?"

mark thompson @markposts.bsky.social · 2d

Couldn't really find a through-line for some interesting football data/tech industry things, so I just stuck them in a grab-bag

www.getgoalsideanalytics.com/fifa-uefa-vr...

It's a grab bag

FIFA and UEFA acting as smart stewards, VR on TV, and 21st century job ads - a grab bag of recent interesting things.

www.getgoalsideanalytics.com

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mark thompson @markposts.bsky.social · 2d

Bits on
- Big Acronym acting like proper stewards of the game
- VR on TV (and why its success is down to seeing it as an editorial tool, not as 'fancy tech')
- Job ads are getting better?

www.getgoalsideanalytics.com/fifa-uefa-vr...

It's a grab bag

FIFA and UEFA acting as smart stewards, VR on TV, and 21st century job ads - a grab bag of recent interesting things.

www.getgoalsideanalytics.com

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mark thompson @markposts.bsky.social · 2d

Couldn't really find a through-line for some interesting football data/tech industry things, so I just stuck them in a grab-bag

www.getgoalsideanalytics.com/fifa-uefa-vr...

It's a grab bag

FIFA and UEFA acting as smart stewards, VR on TV, and 21st century job ads - a grab bag of recent interesting things.

www.getgoalsideanalytics.com

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mark thompson @markposts.bsky.social · 3d

As it stands, Spurs are 3rd on a +1 goal difference after 5 games

Barclays Women’s Super League bot @barclayswslbot.com · 3d

A quiet afternoon so far

BWSL HT
West Ham 0-0 Aston Villa
London City Lionesses 0-0 Liverpool
Tottenham Hotspur 1-0 Brighton
Leicester City 0-0 Everton

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Tuffy @smtuffy.bsky.social · 3d

We’re really going to have to restructure some privacy laws so this horseshit doesn’t record people who don’t consent.

Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 3d

"Their aim is to create a palm-sized device without a screen that can take audio and visual cues from the physical environment and respond to users’ requests."

Sounds shit but what do I know

on.ft.com/4mOC7bY

OpenAI and Jony Ive grapple with technical issues on secretive AI device

[FREE TO READ] ChatGPT maker is working with former Apple design boss to launch a palm-sized personal assistant next year

on.ft.com

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mark thompson @markposts.bsky.social · 4d

Calling this Chelsea men's defensive performance 'the fly trap'. They're just hanging around and then sticking right to the Liverpool players right when Liverpool don't want them to

#epl-live

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mark thompson @markposts.bsky.social · 4d

Seeing a replay of a goal where a fifth of Anthony Taylor's face enters frame every few seconds reminds me that, in FIFA's tech incubator-type innovation scheme, one of the specific things they're currently looking for are TV-grade refcams

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mark thompson @markposts.bsky.social · 4d

Huge two days of WSL results. United holding Chelsea to a draw and City beating Arsenal means the top of the table is

Chelsea: 13 points
City: 12
United: 11
Spurs (game in hand): 9
Arsenal: 8

mark thompson @markposts.bsky.social · 4d

Not the central point of this goal, but there are so many strong right-backs in the WSL, Casparij is a legit both-ways full-back now

Barclays Women’s Super League bot @barclayswslbot.com · 4d

F̶o̶x̶ Bunny in the box 🐇

#ManCityWomen #BarclaysWSL

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mark thompson @markposts.bsky.social · 4d

Fizzed a cross-field pass from right halfspace to the left-back on her weaker foot like it was nothing. And part of the reason she had space to do so was because she'd popped into the right space to receive the pass-after-the-pass #wsl-live

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mark thompson @markposts.bsky.social · 4d

Yui Hasegawa is a build-up cheat code
#wsl-live

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mark thompson @markposts.bsky.social · 4d

🎶having fun
isn't hard
when you've got matplotlib and claude code 🎶

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mark thompson @markposts.bsky.social · 4d

I mean, I understand why but I'm also caught by surprise that "the North American World Cup, in timezones 5-8 hours different to the UK, might have matches at 'inconvenient' times for the UK timezone" is a headline being pushed at me by big outlets

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mark thompson @markposts.bsky.social · 4d

I'm kinda confused why the 2026 World Cup kick-off times has been A News Story headlined as 'after midnight kick-off times! [for European timezones]'

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