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Dr Sarah Brand @sarahgailbrand.com · 1h

Babies won’t be allowed to be born in the UK until they have a post graduate degree in Physics.

The Independent @the-independent.com · 11h

Migrants will need A-level standard English to work in UK

www.independent.co.uk

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Matt Round @mattround.com · 1h

Latest announcement comes across as very Zuckerberg, very “fuck all this careful bullshit we’ve been doing”

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Matt Round @mattround.com · 1h

OpenAI’s strategy is very clear, it’s trying to get people - especially young people - so reliant on its products intellectually & emotionally (& now sexually!) that going without them becomes unthinkable. And they need signs of that strategy working to keep the funding flowing in

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Jacob Aron @jjaron.bsky.social · 3h

Is there a bigger downgrade than OpenAI going from "we're building the machine god" to "the computer is horny now"?

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Matinee Mode @matineemode.bsky.social · 4h

Take a few minutes to appreciate Drew Struzan creating the original artwork for THE PHANTOM MENACE. Truly a master at work.

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · 3h

i don't have the words to emphasise how seriously bad things are gonna get

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Matt Round @mattround.com · 2h

The mag’ll be for sale early next month
Happy to consider it for inclusion if it’s usable & getting there, I’m looking at various tutorials, game-making things, etc & will try to pick stuff that feels most like an interesting next step for anyone looking to make their own things

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Matt Round @mattround.com · 2h

Ah that looks really interesting; what’s missing/broken that makes you uncertain about promoting it?

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Scarred For Life @scarredforlife.bsky.social · 8h

Final Destination had nothing on British public information films.

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Matt Round @mattround.com · 8h

Yep, and on top of bit depth some also had an even harsher cutoff where colours got pushed to black/white, that ruled out subtle pale gradients on a couple of projects I was involved in

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Matt Round @mattround.com · 8h

Unfortunately that’s far from being the stupidest thing I’ve had to do to address client feedback & get a project approved

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Matt Round @mattround.com · 8h

Doing some colour profile adjustment & it’s reminded me of the time I had to change a web site’s colours because the client company’s IT dept had bought everyone terrible monitors and they wouldn’t accept it looked right for the rest of the world

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Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 2d

www.worldofmoose.com/products/ape...

Cartoon of a social gathering. A man is talking to a vampire. The man says "Welcome, Count Dracula. Would you like a small aperitif?". The vampire replies "No, I think mine are just the right size".

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Matt Round @mattround.com · 11h

I’d like to see a courtroom series for all of his cases, see how many fall apart under scrutiny

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the wicker mang @mangmangmang.bsky.social · Aug 14

People are always rightly pointing out that Warhammer contributes more to the British economy than the fishing industry, but the problem is that there just aren't very many folk songs about Warhammer

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Matt Round @mattround.com · 12h

Spam folder just gave me a laugh

Re: Let's Redesign Your Website Vole.Wtf for the Modern Era !

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Matt Round @mattround.com · 12h

Yeah, I’m always wary of pouncing on stuff wrongly but there are definite details that often feel off, sometimes it can be a simple mismatch where quality of different aspects is weirdly inconsistent

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Matt Round @mattround.com · 12h

I do feel bad for artists who happen to have a very similar style

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Matt Round @mattround.com · 12h

I don’t really recall seeing it much pre-AI, I suppose it’s basically the bland average of a cluster of popular styles

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Matt Round @mattround.com · 13h

Amazing how this style of cartoon and typography (and the yellowish tinge) have become so strongly associated with AI

Caspar @caspar01.bsky.social · 15h

Found on LinkedIn in a post about 'the AI rivers of gold drying up'

That robot's having a piss, isn't it?

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Matt Round @mattround.com · 13h

FFS, covid jab’s been cancelled due to supply issues

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Matt Round @mattround.com · 13h

I might still include it though, it’s in the spirit of “make fun little interactive things"

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Matt Round @mattround.com · 14h

Something tackling really simple JS interaction (no React/node/etc, no formal coding stuff) would be good to have
Or a service that makes it easy to make little apps/games, I think they’ve all shut down or pivoted to AI though

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Matt Round @mattround.com · 14h

Ugh yeah, no way it’s infringing but if someone with money wants you to take it down then it’s not about the law, it’s about how much hassle you’re willing to go through

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Matt Round @mattround.com · 14h

I’d like to include some “next steps” web dev resources in type-in mag, I’ve got these three, any others that are similarly good/fun/interesting and unspammy?
htmlforpeople.com
natureofcode.com
divided-we-fall.therobinlord.com

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