Mark Keating
@shadowcat-mdk.bsky.social
UK born Writer, photographer, dreamer, art lover, occasional rants, MD @ Shadowcat Systems. Father of 3 humans, and 1 pet, husband in training. Probably too many photo posts and random silliness. More at mdk.me.
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It wasn’t “architects” risking their lives to bolt those girders together. Several blue collar workers *died* during their construction of the Empire State Building.
It’s *our* lives the AI tech bros are risking.
It’s *our* lives the AI tech bros are risking.
December 12, 2025 at 7:25 AM
It wasn’t “architects” risking their lives to bolt those girders together. Several blue collar workers *died* during their construction of the Empire State Building.
It’s *our* lives the AI tech bros are risking.
It’s *our* lives the AI tech bros are risking.
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They're all going to end up collapsing. Paramount, Netflix/Warner, Disney, the whole lot of them.
December 11, 2025 at 7:06 PM
They're all going to end up collapsing. Paramount, Netflix/Warner, Disney, the whole lot of them.
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Little Green Canal
One of those scenes that has the car screeching to a halt, crazed photographer grabbing bits and pieces in a mad dash to capture the moment before it twists away and is gone.
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Twizel, New Zealand
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#Aurora #SouthernLights #Nightscape #EastCoastKin #Scape
#bucketlist #BestWork
One of those scenes that has the car screeching to a halt, crazed photographer grabbing bits and pieces in a mad dash to capture the moment before it twists away and is gone.
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Twizel, New Zealand
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#Aurora #SouthernLights #Nightscape #EastCoastKin #Scape
#bucketlist #BestWork
December 11, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Little Green Canal
One of those scenes that has the car screeching to a halt, crazed photographer grabbing bits and pieces in a mad dash to capture the moment before it twists away and is gone.
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Twizel, New Zealand
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#Aurora #SouthernLights #Nightscape #EastCoastKin #Scape
#bucketlist #BestWork
One of those scenes that has the car screeching to a halt, crazed photographer grabbing bits and pieces in a mad dash to capture the moment before it twists away and is gone.
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Twizel, New Zealand
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#Aurora #SouthernLights #Nightscape #EastCoastKin #Scape
#bucketlist #BestWork
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"You shouldn't make art for the money" buddy I'll take it one step further and say we shouldn't have to labor for capital at all but in the meantime pay an artist
December 11, 2025 at 7:02 PM
"You shouldn't make art for the money" buddy I'll take it one step further and say we shouldn't have to labor for capital at all but in the meantime pay an artist
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MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported?
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
December 11, 2025 at 4:22 PM
MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported?
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
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Charlie Brooker asking the important questions (whether or not somebody has heard of me)
www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/b...
www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/b...
![The main villain across Black Mirror is AI. At this moment in time and at the current pace AI is accelerating, how terrified are you of it?
Ying Yang. There’s two fronts that you’re looking at it. One is the professional end in front of the industry and what it means for creativity. And the other is, are we going to get terminated — is that happening? Do you know Ed Zitron?
I don’t think so.
You should look him up. He’s extremely cynical about LLMs [Large Language Models] and chatbots and stuff like this. He is convinced this is a massive bubble. There’s a lot of that thought going on at the moment that the LLM side of things is a kind of bubble that’s brewing — and how useful are they, really? For somebody who does a show that is worrying out loud a lot of the time about unforeseen consequences of amazing inventions, I can catastrophize with the best of them very quickly. And I can also, sort of think — I can see the value in these things if they’re used correctly as tools, basically. I can see the value in a tool creatively. I can see the value in a tool that a human being is deploying in that way. I can see the value in the tools in Photoshop. It’s when is when people go, “Oh, well, take your hands off the keyboard, walk away” — I don’t see who that’s for.
The thing that worries me about, like AI imagery — you feed the screenplay into it, and it pumps out a whole movie — is a smaller concern than: “Oh God. Society will crumble because we’ll just be flooded with misinformation.” That scares me more on a deeper animal level than the industry things. But the industry stuff worries me too. … I flip-flop between cautious optimism — or at least thinking — “Maybe this is just a big bubble and it’ll all go away,” and thinking, “Oh, we’re fucked.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qc6xzgctorfsm35w6i3vdebx/bafkreihhvdt7zukixvqvoryswtwjwufcxf5ra5rdbdpkzmyavafyv2hwbm@jpeg)
December 10, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Charlie Brooker asking the important questions (whether or not somebody has heard of me)
www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/b...
www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/b...
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Amazon is making money off AI copies of books - and putting the onus on authors to prove they’ve been plagiarised.
Honestly, just stop buying books from Amazon. Get them from an actual bookshop or order them from a reputable book supplier like bookshop.org
www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
Honestly, just stop buying books from Amazon. Get them from an actual bookshop or order them from a reputable book supplier like bookshop.org
www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
Amazon Is the World's Biggest Online Book Marketplace. It's Filled With AI Knockoffs
Authors say Amazon's knockoff book problem is leaving them frustrated — and making the internet worse in the process.
www.rollingstone.com
December 10, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Amazon is making money off AI copies of books - and putting the onus on authors to prove they’ve been plagiarised.
Honestly, just stop buying books from Amazon. Get them from an actual bookshop or order them from a reputable book supplier like bookshop.org
www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
Honestly, just stop buying books from Amazon. Get them from an actual bookshop or order them from a reputable book supplier like bookshop.org
www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
Mengele Healthcare: "Because You're Perfect"
December 10, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Mengele Healthcare: "Because You're Perfect"
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It says a lot about how out of touch with reality this Labour government are, that they think people are overweight because they are eating too much in restaurants.
December 8, 2025 at 5:34 PM
It says a lot about how out of touch with reality this Labour government are, that they think people are overweight because they are eating too much in restaurants.
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December 9, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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Had an idea for an indoor dog park and recreation area. Gourmet dog treats for sale and refreshments for the humans.
I’ll call it There’s Shit Everywhere And The Whole Place Smells Like Urine And Bleach.
I’ll call it There’s Shit Everywhere And The Whole Place Smells Like Urine And Bleach.
December 8, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Had an idea for an indoor dog park and recreation area. Gourmet dog treats for sale and refreshments for the humans.
I’ll call it There’s Shit Everywhere And The Whole Place Smells Like Urine And Bleach.
I’ll call it There’s Shit Everywhere And The Whole Place Smells Like Urine And Bleach.
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December 9, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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The Thing (1982, John Carpenter)
December 9, 2025 at 2:27 AM
The Thing (1982, John Carpenter)
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And yes, you will need to do some input scubbing and write a couple REST calls to talk to the LLM, but I couldn't care less if that's a small amount of extra work for the programmer. You program the field once, your customers use it a million times. There's no justification.
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December 7, 2025 at 1:53 AM
And yes, you will need to do some input scubbing and write a couple REST calls to talk to the LLM, but I couldn't care less if that's a small amount of extra work for the programmer. You program the field once, your customers use it a million times. There's no justification.
6/7
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That's trivially easy to check with a less-than. The worst case is something like an honorific on a name. If all you do with that is print it out when the name is printed, let your customers call themselves whatever they want. I just don't see what problem we're solving.
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December 7, 2025 at 1:53 AM
That's trivially easy to check with a less-than. The worst case is something like an honorific on a name. If all you do with that is print it out when the name is printed, let your customers call themselves whatever they want. I just don't see what problem we're solving.
2/7
2/7
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did… did the dog write this recipe
December 6, 2025 at 6:22 PM
did… did the dog write this recipe
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bugs bunny was literally the first guy in drag i ever saw but ok
December 6, 2025 at 1:55 AM
bugs bunny was literally the first guy in drag i ever saw but ok
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December 4, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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4th December, 1965:
"Doctor Who: The Daleks' Masterplan - The Traitors". #DoctorWho
"Doctor Who: The Daleks' Masterplan - The Traitors". #DoctorWho
December 3, 2025 at 10:35 PM
4th December, 1965:
"Doctor Who: The Daleks' Masterplan - The Traitors". #DoctorWho
"Doctor Who: The Daleks' Masterplan - The Traitors". #DoctorWho
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Everyone thinks they have the best dog, and none of them are wrong.
December 4, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Everyone thinks they have the best dog, and none of them are wrong.
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*whispers*
Hey, writers.
Come here.
No, closer.
Okay, here’s a thing I always try to remember:
You can write 24 utterly straightforward words and some people will read only 18 of them, and in the wrong order.
And nothing on earth you ever do will fix that.
Hey, writers.
Come here.
No, closer.
Okay, here’s a thing I always try to remember:
You can write 24 utterly straightforward words and some people will read only 18 of them, and in the wrong order.
And nothing on earth you ever do will fix that.
December 3, 2025 at 9:30 PM
*whispers*
Hey, writers.
Come here.
No, closer.
Okay, here’s a thing I always try to remember:
You can write 24 utterly straightforward words and some people will read only 18 of them, and in the wrong order.
And nothing on earth you ever do will fix that.
Hey, writers.
Come here.
No, closer.
Okay, here’s a thing I always try to remember:
You can write 24 utterly straightforward words and some people will read only 18 of them, and in the wrong order.
And nothing on earth you ever do will fix that.
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I’ve brought back the ‘80s BASIC type-in mag, but for HTML!
It’s a glossy, professionally-illustrated thing with 10 genuinely interesting programs, great gift for computer nerds (but you don’t need any coding experience)
vole.wtf/doctype/
It’s a glossy, professionally-illustrated thing with 10 genuinely interesting programs, great gift for computer nerds (but you don’t need any coding experience)
vole.wtf/doctype/
December 3, 2025 at 11:55 AM
I’ve brought back the ‘80s BASIC type-in mag, but for HTML!
It’s a glossy, professionally-illustrated thing with 10 genuinely interesting programs, great gift for computer nerds (but you don’t need any coding experience)
vole.wtf/doctype/
It’s a glossy, professionally-illustrated thing with 10 genuinely interesting programs, great gift for computer nerds (but you don’t need any coding experience)
vole.wtf/doctype/
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Great idea
I’ve brought back the ‘80s BASIC type-in mag, but for HTML!
It’s a glossy, professionally-illustrated thing with 10 genuinely interesting programs, great gift for computer nerds (but you don’t need any coding experience)
vole.wtf/doctype/
It’s a glossy, professionally-illustrated thing with 10 genuinely interesting programs, great gift for computer nerds (but you don’t need any coding experience)
vole.wtf/doctype/
December 3, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Great idea