LinkedIn really is a place for great engagement when you share something there that captures imaginations. The blog post I wrote about em dashes and shared on LinkedIn has some terrific comments - and over 20,000 views. Wow! In just three days bit.ly/4o49Fn2
We’re just past mid-November. Christmas Day is still five weeks away. Yet all I hear on the radio is Christmas songs. Some neighbours have already put up their decorations. Supermarkets and department stores are full-on with Christmas. Let’s hear it again from Noddy:
Cloudflare error trying to load ChatGPT. Could it be connected with the reported “massive Cloudflare outage”? www.itpro.com/infrastru…
We’re intermingling two very different dramas: alternating between the first season of Poirot from 1989 on ITVX, and The Beast In Me that premiered on Netflix last week. Chalk and cheese but each excellent TV
This is crazy. I have #Chrome running on #Windows11 with four tabs open on a handful of news and social websites - and Chrome is consuming just over 5 gigs of memory according to the Task Manager. Wtf?
“Last week, an environmental disaster took place on Camber Sands beach, on what could turn out to be an unprecedented scale…” www.theguardian.com/environme…
Er… Boris Johnson Liz Truss Rishi Sunak? youtu.be/_lwf_MA4M…
The revelations in the 20,000 pages of Epstein info released in the US yesterday are astonishing. Politico has done a good job with what they call “the 9 most shocking,” unsurprisingly all US-relevant. UK stuff will emerge sooner or later bit.ly/3WPxAvA
This letter in @thetimes today is the most credible comment about the latest #BBC crisis from anyone I’ve seen so far.
“Quite simply, we’re creating AIs that are always working in service of the human” – Mustafa Suleyman, Microsoft AI. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/0…
Really not sure what to make of “ghost posts” on Threads - posts that disappear after 24 hours. Either a super-convenient way to share casual, ephemeral chat with friends, or an invitation to spam everybody with unfiltered ephemeral chat, aka spam. How do you see it? bit.ly/4hvPVXO
We watched “The House of Dynamite on Netflix. A gripping tale with a dystopian taste although I thought it was a credible story of what might be. A peculiar ending but that didn’t take away from the storytelling. Terrific cast, great production. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Ho…
King Charles needs to move rapidly on this now to demonstrate his ability to resolve this crisis. Stripping his brother of all his privileges would be the right move. Then send him into exile. bit.ly/3Jnk9zK
Well, that didn’t last long… www.bbc.co.uk/news/live…
Call Inspector Clouseau! news.sky.com/story/lou…
This 👉 “King Charles and Pope Leo are to become the first British monarch and pontiff to pray together at a church service since the Reformation in the 16th Century.” www.bbc.co.uk/news/arti…
Many examples of what you can do with Sora to create high-quality video are truly extraordinary. Yet most I see are too perfect, too unnaturally good, in a way that diminishes the impact. Plus, when you see the ‘Sora’ watermark, your sense of awe vanishes, knowing it’s not a real image. My 0.02 🙂
The #OpenSea pivot from #NFT to crypto: “the battle-worn startup has expanded from NFTs to become a one-stop shop for trading all cryptocurrencies across 22 different blockchains” bit.ly/4qc18AO